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Nightenhelser

About Me

"Nightenhelser" is the name of a solo project of "Guided By Confusion" singer / guitarist Benjamin Kantschieder (that's me ..) - mostly in a more acoustic vein than the songs of GBC (which are far more electronic and synthie-pop-based due to the lack of a bassist / drummer and the use of a synthesizer to fill these holes)It's also an opportunity for exploring some of the more experimental sides of music that I am interested in - mostly Ambient / Drone-based music... (huge influences are the likes of "Nadja", "Fripp / Eno", Steven Wilson's "Bass Communion", the guitar-worshipers of "SunnO)))" and the elegiac soundscapes of "Fear Falls Burning")Most of the songs, however, are folky / acoustic-guitar based songs, drenched in reverb and adorned with soundscapes that I create through processing recorded sound-sources - think of "No-Man", Porcupine Tree's "Half Light", the version of Peter Gabriel's "Here Comes The Flood" on Robert Fripp's "Exposure"-record, Nick Drake is a GIANT source of inspiration too - I think you get the picture by now... All in all these songs are just too quiet, calm and often a little depressing and overall don't fit the music-style that "Guided By Confusion" is playing and that's why I started this side-project...The name derived from the sci-fi-duology "Ilium / Olympos" by Dan Simmons (to be more precise - from the character Dr. Keith Nightenhelser)______________________________________________ _________________



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Member Since: 31/08/2008
Band Website: youtube.com/profile?user=knabenfleisch
Band Members: Benjamin Kantschieder (vocals, all instruments, soundscapes, drones, loops, noise)
Influences:everything by Mr. Steven Wilson (Porcupine Tree, Bass Communion, Blackfield, No-Man, Incredible Expanding Mindfuck),Pink Floyd / David Gilmour,Acid Mothers Temple, Aerosmith, Agitation Free, Air, Alamaailman Vasarat, Almuadem, Amon Düül 1 & 2, Amplifier, Anekdoten, Änglagård, Arthur Brown, Ash Ra Tempel / Ashra, Astra, At The Drive-In, Badger, Bat For Lashes, Beardfish, The Beatles, Beck, Behold... The Arctopus, Birth Control, Björk, The Black Angels, Black Market Karma, Black Mountain, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Black Sabbath, Blackmores's Night, Blind Faith, Blur, Boards Of Canada, Bob Dylan, Brendan Benson, Brian Eno, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Bright Eyes, Bubu, The Byrds, Camel, Can, Captain Beyond, Chad VanGaalen, Chroma Key, Cluster & Eno, Cocteau Twins, Coldplay, Colosseum 1 & 2, Comus, Coverdale & Page, Cream, CCR, CSN (&Young), The Cure, Dälek, Daturah, De Facto, Dead Soul Tribe, Death Cab For Cutie, Death In Vegas, The Decemberists, Deep Purple, Deerhunter, Deluge Grander, Depeche Mode, Devin Townsend, Dire Straits, The Doors, Dream Theater, Druid, The Dukes Of Stratosphear / XTC, Earth, Einstürzende Neubauten, Elbow, ELP, Engineers, The Enid, Eric Clapton, Explosions In The Sky, Fantômas, Fates Warning, Fear Falls Burning, Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac, The Flower Kings, Frank Zappa (& The Mothers Of Invention), Genesis, Gentle Giant, George Harrison, Global Communication, Gnidrolog, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Gojira, Grails, Guns N' Roses, Harmonia, Harmonium, Have A Nice Life, Hawkwind, Henry Cow, Herbie Hancock, Hidria Spacefolk, Horslips, Hurricane 1, I Am X, Ian Anderson / Jethro Tull, iLiKETRAiNS, Iron Butterfly, Jamiroquai, Jean Michel Jarre, Jeff Beck, The Jesus & Mary Chain, Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Cash, Jon Anderson, Jon Lord, Jonas Hellborg, Buckethead, Jonny Greenwood, Kaipa (from the 70ies - the new stuff is crap...), Karlheinz Stockhausen, Kate Bush, The Kills, King Crimson, Klaus Schulze, Lisa Gerrard, Kula Shaker, Kyrie Eleison, Landberk, Led Zeppelin, Leonard Cohen, Liquid Tension Experiment, Loop, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Magma, Magna Carta, The Mahavishnu Orchestra, Mark Hollis / Talk Talk, Mark Knopfler, The Mars Volta, Massive Attack, Mastodon, Maudlin Of The Well, Meshuggah, Mike Oldfield, Michiyo Yagi, Miles Davis, Mogwai, Mojave 3, Mono, Monster Movie, Mountain, My Bloody Valentine, Nadja, Nancy Wilson, Neil Young, Nektar, Neotropic, Nick Cave, Nick Drake, Night Sun, Nine Inch Nails, Oasis, Oceansize, Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, Opeth, OSI, Paatos, Paco De Lucia, Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Paul Weller, Pelican, A Perfect Circle, Peter Gabriel, Phideaux, The Pineapple Thief, The Police, Popol Vuh, Portishead, Premiata Forneria Marconi, The Pretty Things, Primal Scream, Procol Harum, The Prodigy, Pure Reason Revolution, Quatermass, Rachel Portman, Radiohead, Rainbow, Ram Jam, Ravi Shankar, Red Sparowes, Richard Barbieri, Richard Wright, Ride, Robert Fripp / King Crimson / Fripp & Eno, Robert Plant, Robin Trower, Roger Waters, Roine Stolt, The Rolling Stones, Rory Gallagher, Roxy Music, Roy Harper, Roy Rogers, Rufus Wrainwright, Rush, Russian Circles, Ryan Adams, Sand Snowman, Santana, Scraps Of Tape, The Seahorses / The Stone Roses / John Squire, Seal, Sigur Rós, Simon & Garfunkle, Siouxsie & The Banshees, Sleepmakeswaves, Slint, Slowdive, Sneaker Pimps, Soft Machine, Sonic Youth, The Sound Of Animals Fighting, The Soundtrack Of Our Lives, Spock's Beard, Steve Hackett, Steve Howe, Sting, A Storm Of Light, Sunn O))), The Tangent, Tangerine Dream, Taste, Thenewno2, Thisquietarmy, Tom Petty, Tomas Bodin, Tortoise, Tosca, Transatlantic, Travis, (80ies) U2, Uematsu Nobuo, Van Der Graaf Generator, Van Morrison / Them, The Velvet Underground (& Nico), The Verve / Nick McCabe, Voivod, The White Stripes, The Who, Will-O-The-Wisp, The Wings, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, YES, The 3rd And The Mortal, 801,Soundtracks (FF6, FF7, FF9, Wild Arms, Juno, Cowboy Bebop, Chrono Cross, Legende, Suikoden I, Chocolat, Elizabethtown, Lost In Translation, Whale Rider, Wall-E, The Dark Knight)
Sounds Like: HEAVY MELANCHOLIA
Record Label: Ohne Vertrag
Type of Label: Unsigned

My Blog

It's summer...

...hot hot summer... uhbut you know what?! - it's raining right now - this gives me the opportunity to lock myself up in my room with my guitar and bang out some songs... okay actually I banged out on...
Posted by on Tue, 07 Jul 2009 06:23:00 GMT

Debris EP

i uploaded the whole "Debris EP" to rapidshare... so the ones of you that are interested in my more ambient / drone based recordings can download it...it consists of 3 tracks which were all constructe...
Posted by on Tue, 14 Apr 2009 11:19:00 GMT

...just... can't... stop.... arghz...

yeah it seems i've lost control... i just can't stop recording...today i re-recorded "A Million Moonlit Miles" ... i removed the (awfully programmed) drums and reduced the song to just guitars, sounds...
Posted by on Fri, 10 Apr 2009 08:12:00 GMT

productive days...

che surpriiisé... it's me again just wanna let you know that I created a new ambient track ("Pacific Coma") ... it's quite Eno-esque but I wanted to create something calm and relaxing to contrast the ...
Posted by on Wed, 08 Apr 2009 07:33:00 GMT

new songs / "songs"...

hi there...today i uploaded 3 new tracks... they are: an acoustic version of "Wrong From Right", a new version of "Driftin'" (which I personally don't like that much  ---> that VOICE ... tztztz) an...
Posted by on Tue, 07 Apr 2009 14:25:00 GMT