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Kalk

About Me

Created by P. Heinen and A. Hussenot in 1987, Kalk is originally a performer band who produces themselves during art exhibitions. After several experiences on stage as a duet, the band grows up with the apparition of some musicians and gives concerts. In those times Kalk ocsillates between industrial music and accoustic experimentations. The meeting of P. Heinen, A. Hussenot and J. Becker in 1994 opens new prospects and the band takes an electronic turn. The band mixes the influences of each one and organise their first totally electronic concerts. Kalk plays during several local events such as Nemesis (Butte de Mousson, France, 54), next to Jack De Marseille in September 1994, or at Inductions at the Zenith (Nancy, France, 54) next to Carl Cox, Laurent Garnier and Jeff Mills in July 1995, this party allows them to play in front of thousands of people for the first time.
After that A. Hussenot left the band, Kalk signs its first titles on the compilations of the label RKG (Paris, France), appears at some concerts (as on the musical channel MCM during the show Zoom² ) and signs a remix of “Trapped” from Colonel Abrahams. The duet signs its first EP (Akasha) on the label Brif Records in 98 and chooses a more mobile live formula which allows them to play at L’Enfer in Paris.
The meeting of the New-York Singer Mandel Turner allows the band to produce his second EP (Kalk EP) which will know an international success. Kalk becomes resident at the Rex Club in Paris for the Brif’in parties and is remixed by the famous Mateo & Matos on the compilation “I love Aline”. Today, Kalk owns its own production studio and at the same time as the production of club orientated stuff, they’re working on multimedia experimentations, such as the project KM devellopped in June 2002 by A. Hussenot.


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Member Since: 07/11/2006
Influences: Erik Satie, Augustus Pablo, Brian Eno, Serge Gainsbourg, Roy Ayers, Duke Ellington, Gil Scott Heron, Brian Jackson, John Cage, ESG, Blind Willie Johnson, Thelonious Monk, Oval, Lee Perry, Jimmy Smith, The Velvet Underground, Claude Debussy, Skip James, Walter Carlos, Gustav Malher, The JB's, Colette Renard, Johnny Cash, Robert Ashley, Parliament, Oum Kalthoum, Kurt Weil, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Earth Wind & Fire and Brer Soul, Prince Jammy, Robin Rimbaud, Alan Lomax, Nino Rota, Jackie Mittoo, Moodyman, The Clash, Sun Ra, Pierre Schaeffer, Lil Louis, Charles Mingus, Tony Gatlif, James Chance & The Contorsion, Dj Spooky That Subliminal Kid, Kool And The Gang, Byron Lee & The Dragonaires, Ulan Bator, Buddy Rich, Tom Tom Club, Juan Atkins, Nick Drake, Bessie Smith, Devo, Mulatu Astatke, André Jolivet, Ron Trent, Ennio Morricone, David Bowie, Ahmad Jamal, The Specials, Seu Jorge, Screaming Jay Hawkins, Curtis Mayfield, Spacemen 3, Big Mama Thornton, King Tubby, Gyorgy Ligeti, Cannonball Adderley , Boris Vian, Jim O'Rourke, Marvin Gaye, 13th Floor Elevators, Louis Jordan, Carl Craig, Kraftwerk, The Roots, Nico, Metal Urbain, Tower Of Power, Experimental Audio Research, Charles Earland, John Coltrane, Gogol 1er, Django Reinhardt, Black Uhuru, Johnny Thunders, Camille St Saens, The Meters, Liquid Liquid, Silver Apples, B52's, Larry Heard, Joe Gibbs & The Professionals, Derrick May, Charlie Parker, The Sex Pistols, RZA, The Skatalites, Masters At Work, Tom Waits, Philipp Glass, Fela Kuti, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Bela Bartok, Nina Simone, Esther Phillips, The Cramps, Gabriel Fauré, Jeff Mills, The Stooges, Marcia Griffiths, Mouse On Mars, Donald Byrd, Einsturzende Neubauten, Explosions, and so many others that it would be too long to list... could be considered as major influences.
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Record Label: Unknown Indie
Type of Label: Unsigned

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