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DON wrote:
Your so kind! But i cant come to Germany haha

THE ALBUM IS HERE!

Here's where you can listen to a stream of the WHOLE album and download it (DONATIONS!!!!).
hexenstehenimmerzwischenbirken.bandcamp.com/

And here's where you can also download via the OHC 2shared and donate for it.
hexenstehenimmerzwischenbirken.wordpress...elease-almost-there/

So I've been busy lately...I uploaded two songs this week, and just the other week I uploaded my cover of "Rocket"! Check em out!! soundcloud.com/klaus-marten

More new stuff..just recorded two songs yesterday, called "Scrawl" and "Beekeepers In Love"..check em out! soundcloud.com/klaus-marten

Here is a demo i recorded over 2 hours. Its mostly improvised with a basic structure in my head. I can only apologise for the quality of the drums. Im an awful player and they were recorded on a cheap electric kit straight into an ipad. Also, its no vocals at the moment. Listened to a lot of sonic youth before i made this and i think it shows

soundcloud.com/cgul/a-demo

JonnyDaycase wrote:
This was awesome, man! You're really talented. Reminded me of Red Sparowes. They do instrumental post-rock stuff. Cant wait to hear some vocals. The drums were good BTW (way better than I could have played them!)

plasmate74 wrote:
Oh wow thanks! Wasnt expecting that haha. If i do vocals on it, im going to have them really distorted. Kind of like in tales of a scorched earth. Think that would fit the style. Thanks again!

Good one Jonny, I dig that...keep it on

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My band is going to record "s/t demo II" in early August which will appear on our soundcloud site (links here, of course).
This time we're entering synthesizers, finally some metal fuzz at times and progressive rock songwriting (and maybe a female guest singer but I can not promise yet).

DON wrote:
Cheers Don! I still need to download your other release. My laptop is being shit though. I'll get it asap

Just back from the third and last day in recording our new album.
It's clocking in at approx. 55 minutes, but post-production is still to come.

It's featuring our new female singer .
Containing four 10 min+ epics. a skit, a psychedelic track (featuring circus synths) and the mother of all depro closers.
Rough tracklist (at this state):

Hexen Stehen Immer Zwischen Birken - Die Schwarze Leinwand

1. Die schwarze Leinwand
2. Schilder einer Baustelle
3. Omne Verbam / Die Dauer der Relität beträgt genau 30 msec.
4. Frustration gets laid
5. Black is you
6. #1 / Futures in bones
7. Tape

Artwork still to come...it's gonna be red.
Don't worry - all lyrics sung in English.
Stay tuned.

"a psychedelic track (featuring circus synths)" - is that an unused Teargarden song you managed to get hold of?

I still haven't listened to your previous album, nuts!

Sounds nowhere like TBK gladly
It rather reminds me of 60s Floyd melting with early SP.

You better skip the old demo for it's containing of 50% rushed throwaway pieces to get it finished fast and no proper singing.
This time it's supposed to be an album listen!

I also managed to get the SP sound on my guitar without having a big muff, using two very different distortions, chorus and delay at the same time.

After our demo EP last March, here’s our first self made DIY album called “die schwarze leinwand” (=the black theatre screen)
Our band has grown, featuring Sofia on vocals now.

This time we tried to give the whole thing a logical concept with a brighter a-side and a pitch black b-side, but since no one listens to vinyl anymore (and we can’t afford letting any be made), you have the idea at least.


hexen stehen immer zwischen birken - die schwarze leinwand




1. die schwarze leinwand
2. #1
3. futures in bones
4. schilder einer baustelle
5. omne verbam / die dauer der realität beträgt genau 30 millisekunden
6. black is you
7. tape


personnel:

Sofia Nowacki – singing
Marco Capitano – guitar / keyboard
Sebastian Pienitzsch – bass guitar
Maxim Fischer – drums

music & words by hexen stehen immer zwischen birken

all rights reserved – download it, share it, spread it but respect us as the creators!

LISTEN / DOWNLOAD:

hexenstehenimmerzwischenbirken.bandcamp.com/

(typing in $0 gives you the free download!)

So here’s my in-depth personal track by track analysi:

1. die schwarze leinwand:
Pretty much the intro of all things and our first song tied down into one because it really happened as one piece.
I played the piano line one day we had a chat in our rehearsal cellar and Maxim liked it that much that we tried to turn it into a song – but my ideas on the keyboard are always limited and so I went over to the guitar and the result is some odd bendings Kim Gordon would be proud of and a real catchy indie rock song at the core of it all getting as close to the SP sound as possible without re-recording Hummer.
Sofia’s singing on this one is stunningly precise and beautiful and I love how the first line on the whole record says “Our plan was escaping”.
That said, the lyrics are complete non-sense written as a filler until some good ones appear…but we unfortunately suddenly liked them.
The samples, again, are Reinhard Bonnke, that insane charismatic Christian evangelist preacher you might know…or maybe not.

2. #1
The sole intro to the following track, though it was recorded and intended as one track, we decided to take #1 from our first recording and Futures In Bones from take two.
Cutting it together wouldn’t work because of the volume differences, so here’s two seperate tracks without a brake meant to run together.
The SP rip off solo at the end came out of nowhere but it felt right – hope Billy won’t kill me.

3. futures in bones
This track once should be titled “Futures In Balls” after the famous James Rolfe quote but since the lyrics rather deal with a heartbreak and go on explaining transsexualism.....
Musically this is one of my favourites, everything went better than expected, the jazz drumming, brilliant singing, a bass guitar shooting out shapes and my guitar turning from SP sound to noise rock.
Staying on SP, Maxim literally does the Chamberlin in the middle section.
It has the classic prog rock structure I guess…but then again how could prog have some?
Never mind, futures in bones is maybe the track representing best our vision as a band.
Love that one, check it out!

4. schilder einer baustelle
You never go wrong with a song quoting the 60s just to bring in the post rock bass line of all post rock bass lines.
This instrumental always had a special place in our heart because this should be the only song we always performed without mistakes.
The main theme is one of the most addictive things I have heard so far and, again, it came out of nowhere with me pressing some buttons on our keyboard switched to organ sound.
The song eventually was there after 10 minutes of us jamming around.
A miracle, play this on your radio station!

5. omne verbam/die dauer der realität betragt exakt 30 millisekunden
The title of it is complete bullshit.
That said, this one rocks and is my other favourite.
The first half is what you might call gothic rock I guess, if there was anything gothic left that wasn’t plundered.
Dark and elegiac with the female singing you always need for this perfectly brought in by Sofia.
After another SP solo (shame on me) it goes into part two that starts with some hypnotic post rock and my favourite lyrics on the whole record “This was the first dream I ever had in which I didn’t die”
Sung without any pathos but with the voice of a woman that knows what those lines mean.
We always write all the music together and everyone once in a while brings in lyrics and those being my favourite lyrics, were written by Sebastian.
The whole song reminds me of him and it wouldn’t have worked without his brilliant input, because the second half suddenly explodes into some hard grunge riffing, turning into a Sonic Youth solo, turning back into grunge and being ultimately devoured by the most hypnotic synth-like bass guitar I have ever heard.
Hats-off to Sebastian!
This song is a tour de force and makes its 10 minutes feel like 3.

6. black is you
The only re-recording from the old demo.
We haven’t changed anything about the structure and just added in the singing.
It improves the song but it unfortunately shows how monotonous some parts really are and this is why we added many samples in this one.
It’s a dark and haunting noise rock odyssey but it feels like a great ending to the hard rocking songs on this album.

7. tape
This silent song marks a good ending as far as I’m concerned…just some lonely singing and a clam bass and guitar outside in the rain.
The text deals with changes, angst, loss and everything and is supposed to reflect a lonely person’s stream of consciousness.
Again, I think Sofia’s singing on this is superb and deserves some extra appreciation.

Thanks for reading.

DON I AM SO HAPPY.

My band also has its own youtube site now, you can also enjoy the full album there:

www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL82C442A930AE407A

Swish!

I dunno if it was you guys but my band lately received some paypal donations from the UK and the US.
Thank you (if it was you)

This album is great Don. I'm really enjoying it. You guys are a quality act.

My favorites are the first song, track 5 and Black is You. The vocalist is amazing

Wow, thank you Frank.
I really appreciate it.
She actually is a professional singer and we were lucky enough to be friends with her for years
The band's favourite also is omne verbam/die dauer der realität (track 5).

I meant to comment a while ago, DON. I really do like these songs. I listened to all of them. I think track 5 is probably my fav too. Love when it goes heavy and that lead break at about 4mins into it is wicked!