Ben Schadow

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Ben Schadow as bassist for Dirk Darmstaedter's Me and Cassity at the BootBooHook Festival 2012 in Hanover
Ben Schadow on the stage of the MuK in Giessen 2014

Benjamin "Ben" Schadow (born July 20, 1976 in Lingen (Ems) ) is a German musician , songwriter and music producer from Hamburg . Through his cooperation with bands and artists such as Bernd Begemann & Die Befreiung, Kettcar u. a. as well as known as a solo artist.

Life

Having grown up in Glückstadt , Schadow learned cello, guitar and bass at an early age. He celebrated his first successes with his band dernameistsolangdenkannsichehkeinschweinmerken , with whom he reached the final of the John Lennon Talent Award in 1997 , which Motorsheep (with Birgit Fischer ) won. In the same year he founded the indie pop / mod band Les Garçons, with whom he released two albums and, in addition to various sampler contributions, some singles.

In addition, Schadow was employed as bassist at The Convent from 1998 to 2001 and was involved in the 2003 project: The Electric Family by Tom "The Perc" Redecker , together with their singer Carlo van Putten . Besides them, other well-known musicians played on the record "Ice Cream Phoenix". Bernd Begemann became aware of him at a concert by Les Garçons and after their dissolution in 2003, Schadow became a founding member of the new formation Bernd Begemann und die Befreiung as bassist . He also produced the band's two most recent albums. Together with Begemann and the filmmaker Kay Otto he runs the film podcast Flickerfreunde.

On October 1, 2010, he took part in the band member of Begemann and Dirk Darmstaedter with the Freddy Quinn classic So it goes every night in the Bundesvision Song Contest 2010 in Berlin for Lower Saxony . However, they only took last place there. For the movie Schenk mir dein Herz (with Paul Kuhn , Peter Lohmeyer and Mina Tander among others ) he composed parts of the film music in 2010. With Carsten Meyer he wrote the music for the piece Quijote. Trip Between Worlds , which was performed at the Hamburg Thalia Theater and also worked as an actor.

In 2012 his first solo album was released on the Osnabrück indie label Timezone under the title Liebe zur Zeit der Automaten . He mostly gives concerts with the Ben Schadow Band , which consists of changing members, such as Klee bassist Stefan Götzer (Pele Caster), David Rieken (including live band from Spaceman Spiff) or Tobias Noormann from Mikroboy .

In addition to his permanent activity as bassist and producer for Bernd Begemann, Schadow plays guitar in the Hamburg soul-rock band Rhonda and in 2014 presented his second solo album Dr Eskapismus , on which Ekki Maas from Cologne-based band Erdmöbel participated.

Discography

Albums

  • Red Light Melancholy (2001) The Convent, (as Ben)
  • From Us To You (2001) Les Garçons
  • In the cheap places (2003) Les Garçons
  • Our love is an uprising (2004) Bernd Begemann & Die Befreiung
  • Of sparrows and doves, roofs and hands (2005) Kettcar
  • No Songs About Love (2005) Hansen Band
  • The beige album (2005) Olli Schulz & the dog Marie
  • I'll find her (2006) Bernd Begemann
  • Best World (2007) Finkenauer
  • Gloss (2008) Bernd Begemann & The Liberation
  • I declare this crisis over (2009) Bernd Begemann & Die Befreiung
  • This is how it goes every night (2010) Bernd Begemann & Dirk Darmstaedter
  • Wilde Brombeeren (2011) Bernd Begemann and The Liberation
  • Whatever (2011) Pele Caster
  • Not Now (2012) Clara Bow
  • Appearances (2012) Me and Cassity
  • Oh (2012) Pretty Mery K
  • Love at the time of automatons (2012) Ben Schadow
  • Your golden times (2013) Achim Erz
  • Raw Love (2014) Rhonda
  • Before We Leave (September 26, 2014) Dirk Darmstaedter
  • Dr. Escapism (November 14, 2014) Ben Schadow
  • A short list of demands (December 18, 2015) Bernd Begemann & Die Befreiung
  • Beautiful Criminals (April 4, 2016) Dirk Darmstaedter

Singles

  • Park song (2000) Les Garçons
  • Girlfriend in Latin (2002) Les Garçons
  • I haven't achieved anything except you (2004) Bernd Begemann & Die Befreiung
  • The new girls are here (2009), only digital, Bernd Begemann & Die Befreiung
  • This is how it goes every night (2010), only digitally, Bernd Begemann & Dirk Darmstaedter
  • I always fall for the same things (2012), only digital, Ben Schadow

DVDs

  • The world will hear us (2005) Bernd Begemann & die Befreiung

Sampler contributions

  • 2003: The Electric Family: Ice Cream Phoenix ( Sireena Records ); Music project by Tom "The Perc" Redecker .
  • 2003: Just in love with Immergutrocken-Sampler ( Grand Hotel van Cleef ) (with Les Garçons)
  • 2004: Just in love with Must All with 2 ( Wallpaper Records ) (with Les Garçons)
  • 2011: I'm a snob / I'm not like everyone else on Oh, this sound - Stars play Superpunk on the tribute album for the band Superpunk (with Bernd Begemann & Die Befreiung)

Web links

Commons : Ben Schadow  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Discography ( Memento of the original from March 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / benschadow.de
  2. ^ [1] Conversation with Ben Schadow about his collaborations
  3. ^ The Electric Family - Ice Cream Phoenix (2003). In: dicogs.com. Retrieved July 21, 2020 .
  4. ^ Burghard Rausch. In: Agitation Free . Retrieved July 21, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Interview with Ben Schadow
  6. ↑ [2]
  7. ↑ press reviews
  8. ↑ http://www.thalia-theater.de/h/schauspielerinnen_34_de.php?person=413&func=1
  9. ↑ http://www.timezone-records.com/kuenstler/details/ben-schadow/
  10. ↑ https://www.facebook.com/events/1539813172908965
  11. ↑ [3]
personal data
SURNAME Schadow, Ben
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schadow, Benjamin (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician, songwriter and music producer
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Lingen (Ems)