BAL PARE

Electronic trio "Jeanette und das Land Z was founded by Kirsten Klemm,Matthias Schuster and Jan T.Krahn . At home a few tracks were recorded and in spring 1981 the first 7" "poupee de cire,,,," a France Gall cover version, was released by Phonogram. The B-side was a strange soundtrack version of "Raumpatrouille", til today a German cult science fiction television series. After a series of interviews, great reviews and a radio session in Paris, the band returned to Hamburg to record their first album at Phonogram studios.At that point Jürgen Weiss joined the band to play drums on a few tracks. But after finishing the album, the band didn t come to an agreement with Phonogram, so the band took over the whole Konkurrenz label to start a new and totally independent company. Inspired by an old song of a german chansonette Hildegard Knef, the band manifested their independent status by changing the name to "BAL PARE".Jeannette & das Land Z-Poupee,,, Konkurrenz/Phonogram 1981 BAL PARE-Hamburg-Paris-Catania Konkurrenz Rec. 1982 BAL PARE-Metamorphose Krautrock Rec. Stockholm 1986 BAL PARE-Best of,,, Tatra Rec. Norway 1996 TING VOICE-Allez,Allez Konkurrenz Rec. 1987 T.O.S.O.-Sex Goddess Cashbeat Rec. 1988 Z.E.N. - Mirror CDR 1990 Bal Pare Remix for Sabotage Q.C.Q.C. Tatra Rec. Norway 1997So,after getting lots of emails from all over the world BAL PARE was restarted by Matthias Schuster in 2007, recording the forthcoming album BAL PARE 2007. Watch out for the new vinyl 7" on MINIMAL WAVE,N.Y.