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NICOLAS KINSKI

The sharp edge between darkness and concrete

About Me

I won't go in to where I was born and how I got impressed with musicians, and all of such life's triviality. I am a German avant-garde artist whose aim it is to capture the fascination for the city of Berlin - or any terribly interesting city anywhere - in sounds that go way beyond the traditional songstructures. Though sober and repetitive, my songs are never logical, always - as the French so beautifully say - 'contraire'.
My music itself is like an itinerary of Berlin and an intense diary of my life at the same time. Hear and feel a bruised, crazed city at night, champagning with noises and voices on sidewalks, in underpasses, partybunkers, bridges, overcrowded streets, populated with the strangest people you'll ever meet. Influences so profound, dark, gripping songs write themselves around them. I am Nicolas Kinski. Hope you like my music.
DISCOGRAPHY
Ausruf (2003) - ShitRecordings
Weltmeister (2005) - Bunk'r Records
Zignal (2007) - Bunk'r Records/Vavah Voombaah
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Member Since: 12/5/2006
Band Website: Keiner bis jetzt
Band Members: Nicolas Kinski
voice & electronics

Kurt Mueller
percussion & noizzz

Hannelore Brückner
artwork

Bernd Gruendel
guitar, banjo, mandoline (on live-concerts)
Influences: 7 Day Garage - Clinic Strap - Lady Mondschein - Fad Gadget - Dopplereffekt - Stilled Memories Of Sunken Boats - Ampersand - Ausweiss - Mogwai - Low - Beirut Love - Carl Kessler - PJ Harvey - 76th Avenue - Laibach - Das Berlin - No Bunker - Font 31 - Laux & Chavaux - Kamikaze - Sidewalk - Julie Smitten - Unter Welle - The Specimen - und many more
Sounds Like: A drizzly novembernight. Empty streets. Concrete. Loneliness. Ex-dances with former sweetgirls in packed basement clubs. Blossom lips on my cheeks. Atmosphere.

As an artist, I am on a permanent quest for new, interesting, exceptional and experimental sounds and noises, new ways of understanding the everflowing, ongoing pulse of both life and death. I try to be a pebble, thrown in a tuesdayafternoon pond, to capture the feeling and the sound, and to watch the waves broaden, the circles widen. In a way I am an explorer, set to travel on darkened citystreets that are filled with memories, emotions and wandering thoughts.
Record Label: Bunk'r
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Atmozphere

Artists such as myself are rarely influenced by something so vulgar as fashion, or hypes, or the End Of Year-craze you see happening all around you at this time of year. It's quite horrifying how...
Posted by NICOLAS KINSKI on Thu, 13 Dec 2007 08:31:00 PST

Two new songs !

I added two new songs to my profile: Kompress und Apparatur, both coming from a very recent session Kurt and I had in Bielefeld. We tried to capture the lonely greyness of a rainy november dusk.&...
Posted by NICOLAS KINSKI on Fri, 07 Dec 2007 10:00:00 PST

Winter

I fled Brussels. At a given point, a man's courage goes into the red. My tank was empty for a long long time, and no gas station to fill me up with energy. So I ran; very familiar with running as...
Posted by NICOLAS KINSKI on Tue, 20 Nov 2007 04:19:00 PST

Endless, abysmal

It's been a while. I can't shake loose the memories I've left behind. My mind is a blank, my soul abysmal. Wasn't it Iggy Pop singing "deep in my heart, there's a hole so deep" ? I'm getting ...
Posted by NICOLAS KINSKI on Thu, 30 Aug 2007 04:34:00 PST

Decay

I have been feeling rather depressed lately, and even summer can't change the way I feel about my life. It's all debris, all ruins, all broken memories and unfulfilled desires. The inceasant whirlpool...
Posted by NICOLAS KINSKI on Mon, 25 Jun 2007 01:34:00 PST

Brussels ?

Times change, moods swing and feelings alter: in my quest for a new, exciting city, I was suggested a 6 month stay at Brussels, the capital of Belgium. Musically still a wasteland, they say, but on th...
Posted by NICOLAS KINSKI on Tue, 12 Jun 2007 01:49:00 PST

Moving house

Berlin holds no more promises for me. The city's musical scene is busy collapsing, and my 4 year stay here is bound to come to its end. The once furious, almost superdivine attraction of a great ...
Posted by NICOLAS KINSKI on Thu, 07 Jun 2007 07:20:00 PST

Echoes

Summer is not quite our favorite season, though it's approaching with the speed of a violently horsepowered sportscar on a clear sunday road. Nothing interesting comes from a world at its top. For art...
Posted by NICOLAS KINSKI on Wed, 23 May 2007 02:01:00 PST

Two new songs: Südwind & Sommerklang

It has been a while since my last blog, but please understand: I have gone through hell and high tide. The wingless bird called depression cast its shadow over my life, and no prescriptions could take...
Posted by NICOLAS KINSKI on Sun, 13 May 2007 08:18:00 PST

Full-album ZIGNAL to be released

This spring we will be releasing our new full-album called ZIGNAL on Bunk'r Records, with whom we've just signed a 2 album-deal. We are very proud to announce that Zignal - subtitle: 9 pieces of ...
Posted by NICOLAS KINSKI on Mon, 05 Mar 2007 02:33:00 PST