One person - two missions:
WOHLLEBE = One Man Band. Writing songs and recording them in a studio environment. No live gigs at the moment.THE WHOLLEBE = playing awesome records preferable vinyl on your party / in your favourite bar / club / discotheque. Check out dates in the show section.
THE SONGS:
NOT QUITE RIGHT is from 2007 and about the general imperfection of things. There is ALWAYS something going wrong. "Even when the sun shines bright - something is not quite right. But that’s alright!" Especially the thing with technology is that nowadays almost everything has become tacky, clumsy and shite. Nothing’s made to last longer than a week and a half before it falls to pieces. Don’t get me wrong - I like some streamlined sharp new clean machine as long as it’s working and it makes your life go better and not just more complicated. It’s almost like mother nature is claiming back her right and that’s a beautiful thing. So this song may be seen as a plea for more simplicity and less complication. And against bullshit.
I played everything and my old friend Ralf Hammermeister twiddled the knobs.
HOT DAY obviously is about a hot summer day in the city and from the year before last year. I still want to redo some parts and the mix seems not quite right to me but what the hell...I like the buzzing fuzz bass sound and the Beach Boys infected harmonies.
SELFMADE MAN (just a scetch) is like a theme tune for a surreal cartoon TV series never made. Alternatively I am thinking about selling this for 1 Million to myspace as the official worldwide myspace song - aren’t we all more or less self-made men or women here? Come on Tom!
BI-BA-BUTZEMANN is one of the first songs I’ve ever done dating back to 1982. Recorded as a young kid with two mono cassette recorders bouncing it back and forth to get 4 tracks. The backing track is stolen from early Deutschpunk LP ABWÄRTS: AmokKoma - a firm favourite of mine ever since. I give myself 10 points for the idea alone if I am allowed to say this. Actually I invented sampling on this one. Not bad for a first time ’eh?
New songs are currently in the making and will be ready when they’re ready.
