Member Since: 03/09/2008
Band Members: Wigald Boning, woodwinds and brass, vocals. Roberto Di Gioia, keys, vocals. Christian Prommer, electronics, percussion. Matteo Scrimali, drums
Influences: Sun Ra's Solar Myth Arkestra, Kenneth Patchen, Charles Nowa, Henry Mancini, Harry Breuer, Jean-Luc Godard, Visage, Lord Byron, Baccara, The-Prize-is-right, Chaim Soutine, William S. Borroughs, Gil Evans, Georges Delerue, Maria Serebriakova, Steve Reich, Charles Wilp, Johann Sebastian Bach, Miss Fenjala, Duane Hanson, Cäcilie Großherzogin von Oldenburg, Udo Jürgens, Martin Parr, The Swingle Singers, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Friedrich Rückert, Eumir Deodato, The-sound-of-an-albatros-crossing-the-channel-by-night, Oscar Wilde, Botho Lucas, Commodore C 64, Frédéric Beigbeder, Werner Schwab, Gary Numan, Caetano Veloso, Herbie Mann, Norbert Bisky, Frank Nitsche, Louis Begley, Alexandra, Burt Bacharach, The Out-Of-Towners, Kraftwerk, Prez, Sandy Shaw, Bird, Miles, Train, Oscar Werner, Margot Werner, Alf, Balzac, Francois Truffaut, Don DeLillo, Trio, Merry Alpern, Thelonious Monk, Jon Krakauer, Frank Darius, Federico Fellini, James Last, Apollinaire, "Der-Alte"-Soundtrack-no-idea-who-wrote-that, Grace Jones, Lars Rudolph, Elvis, Gary Winogrand, Charles Ives, Material, Russ Meyer, Rolf Dieter Brinkmann, The Sparks, Wim Thoelke, Jean Cocteau, Marisa Monte, Brust oder Keule, Charles Ives, Herbie Hancock's "Inventions and Dimensions", Jonathan Swift, Christian Anders, Jordi Bernardo&Ramon Prat, Bill Evans, Depeche Mode, Franz Lambert, Silver Convention, Lee Friedlaender, Fanny Ardant, Sitting-in-front-of-the-TV-set-in-an-orange-brown-pyjama-wat
ching-Rudi Carell-at-the-age-of-ten, Oswald Spengler, Hyperwest, George Gershwin, Bazon Brock, Emmanuelle Béart, Klabund, Tim Ulrichs, Sade, Horst Antes, Caravaggio, John Updike, Orson Welles, Anthony Quinn, Freddy Quinn, Roland Barthes, Martin Eder, Soft Machine, William Gaddis, Stephan Schacher, Workpoint Studios Bangkok, Frank Stella, Donatello, Klaus Wunderlich, Robotron, Michel Houellebecq, Edgar Varèse, Vélasquez, The-sound-of-a-truck-passing-by-during-the-recording, Henri Rousseau, Truman Capote, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Diogenes, Lajos Papp, Count&Duke, Robbie, Tobbie und das Fliewatüt, Jack McDuff, Carla Bley's "Escalator over the Hill", Best of Softrock Volume 38, Erik Satie, Kim Wilde, Ingfried Hoffmann, Elaste, Bill Laswell, Bronco Botoluzzi, Bassoon out of tune, Moog out of control, Max Schmalz, Lalo Schifrin, Hildegard Knef, Disco 73, Jeopard, Orson Welles, Atari 1040 St, Lovis Corinth, Sabaphon TK 125, Arvo Pärt, Ben Webster, Bud Spencer, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Human League, Kurt Edelhagen, Mozart, Herman Melville, Leslie Feist, Jimmy Giuffre, Novo-Metro-Pfefferminz, Ray Conniff, Fahrstuhl, Philip Glass, James Bond, The-sound-of-a-green-elfe-falling-asleep-next-to-me, Archie Shepp, horizontalism, Chaim Soutine, Iwan Turgenjew, Dietmar Dath, Ideal, E.M. Cioran, Stan Tracy, Dinah Washington, Herlinde Kölbl, Soapy, Mark Twain, Vergeistigung durch Eindösen, Dosentelefonsolo, Pablo Casals, KIXX, Klaus Voormann, Alexa de Puivert, Miss Marple, Glenn Gould, John Glenn, Edna Hermsen, Claudia Finger (Does anybody know where I can find her? She moved from Bremen to Paris in 1984. A few years later I visited her. Together we went to a student party; its attraction was a bathtub filled with guacamole. One year later we had one last phone call, nothing since then...), Ennio Morricone, Ruf-Teddybär-Eins-Vier, Charlie Mingus, Antonio Vivaldi, Joseph Stella, Anne Clark, Arto Lindsay, David Moss, Klaus Kinski, Enrico Rava, Michelangelo Antonioni, The Last of the Blue Devils, Michael Cretu, Siggi Loch, Albert Ayler, Spongebob Squarepants, Ornette Coleman, Brigitte Nielsen, Clifford Brown, Stanislaw Lem, Horst Königstein, Rita Tushingham, Al Corley, Tony Forsythe, Alban Berg, Die Schnösel (my first band when I went to school), Ivan Rebroff, D.A.F., Peter Thomas, Sergei Rachmanninoff, Rififi, George Duke, Puccini, Sonny Rollins, Florian Seidel, Fehlfarben, Kathi Wagmüller, Les McCann, Perry Robinson, The-sound-of the-wind-shaking-the-treetops-in-my-garden, Christian Bruhn, Sergio Mendes, Ady Zehnpfennig, the thrill of speed, the thrill of limitations, the sweet thrill of tender nothingness. What was the name of this wicked tune sung by Jennifer Rush? - "The Power of Love". Oui, ca y est.
Sounds Like: "JET SET JAZZ" IN STORES DEC 5th 2008!!!
Record Label: Compost Records
Type of Label: Indie