Bobo in White Wooden Houses

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Bobo in White Wooden Houses
Bobo In White Wooden Houses (2006)
Bobo In White Wooden Houses (2006)
General information
Genre (s) skirt
founding 1990
Website bobo-in-white-wooden-houses.de
Founding members
Christiane "Bobo" Hebold
guitar
 Frank Heise † (until 1994)
Axel "Lexa" Schäfer (until 1995 & since 2007)
Ulli Lange (until 1992)
Current occupation
singing
 Christiane "Bobo" Hebold
guitar
 Jan Stolterfoht (since 2010)
bass
 Axel "Lexa" Schäfer (since 2007)
Drums
 Christian Kohler (since 2010)
former members
Drums
 Andrew McGuiness (1993-1995)

Bobo in White Wooden Houses is a German indie rock band around the singer "Bobo (lina)".

Band history

Called Christiane Hebold (1967 *) "Bobo" (also called "Bobolina"), a pastor's daughter from Gräfenhainichen , started a girl band with 13 years. Later she studied singing at the Musikhochschule Weimar and wrote her first own songs. In 1990 she met the guitarist Frank Heise in Berlin and founded the band Bobo in White Wooden Houses with him . Not only was their first single Hole in Heaven a success, the song Wide Awake also helped the band win the Leipzig rock competition in 1990, making the band the first of the East German indie scene to gain a foothold in the post-reunification period. The three sound carriers Bobo in White Wooden Houses (1992), Passing Stranger (1993) and Cosmic Ceiling (1995) were released. The band not only achieved high sales figures, but also was nominated as a German contribution (Video Travel in My Mind ) at the MTV Euro-Video-Grand Prix 1995 - a kind of counter-event to the Eurovision Song Contest, which was taking place at the same time .

With the suicide Frank Heises (1995) the original line-up of the band broke up and from then on Bobolina devoted herself mainly to her daughter Flora Camille and several solo projects. In 2004 Bobo reunited with a new line-up at White Wooden Houses. In 2010 Bobolina, Axel "Lexa" Schäfer, the new guitarist and producer Jan Stolterfoht and the new drummer Christian Kohler recorded the new album Transparent . As a guest on a song, ex-member Andrew McGuiness was on the drums.

Bobo as a solo artist

From 1996 Christiane Hebold continued to work as a soloist and as part of other bands and projects. In 1996 the single Black Hole Sun was released with the London Session Orchestra , the album Glow followed shortly thereafter. She was then a guest singer with the group Rammstein and their hit Engel and part of the group Alaska, with whom she worked on songs for three years. A complete album was even created, which was produced but ultimately never released. Then the band broke up and the musicians went their separate ways again from 2001. In the same year a collaboration with the group Saal Drei followed, which improvised ambient music in churches. Together with the pianist Ulrike Haage (formerly Rainbirds ), Bobo worked on radio play productions and sang songs for them. In 2004 there was also a collaboration with the DJ duo Blank & Jones . The single Perfect Silence made it to number 46 and stayed in the German charts for 7 weeks.

The group Bobo in White Wooden Houses has existed again since 2004. First in a completely different line-up, from 2007 again with Lexa Schäfer and initially also Andrew McGuiness on drums, the formation plays live again and brought out a self-distributed tour CD (2004) as well as the studio albums Mental Radio (2007) and Transparent (2010) launched three more plates.

The artist has also been working with the composer and pianist Sebastian Herzfeld under the name Bobo + Herzfeld since 2004. The two are in the field of experimental music, folk and world music and have released several studio and live albums. The album Blick in den Strom was released in September 2018.

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Passing Stranger
  DE 57 05/10/1993 (9 weeks)
Cosmic ceiling
  DE 65 05/15/1995 (8 weeks)

Albums

  • 1992 - Bobo in White Wooden Houses
  • 1993 - Passing Stranger
  • 1995 - Cosmic Ceiling
  • 2004 - Limited Tour CD 2004
  • 2007 - Mental Radio
  • 2010 - Transparent

Singles

  • 1991 - Wide Awake (Pilgrim Records 865859-2)
  • 1992 - Hole in Heaven (Pilgrim Records 863347-2)
  • 1993 - White Wooden Houses (Pilgrim Records 859543-2)
  • 1993 - Tell Me One Good Reason Why (Pilgrim Records 861831-2)
  • 1993 - These Words Behind (Pilgrim Records 861541-2)
  • 1994 - Dreams (Pilgrim Records 855555-2)
  • 1995 - Travel in My Mind (Phreaky Beats Vocal Remix - Especially For Radio) (Motor Music Promo 579021-2; different from the regular Maxi-CD but with the same cat. No.)
  • 1995 - Travel in My Mind (Motor Music 579021-2)
  • 1995 - Yellow Moon (Motor Music 579387-2)
  • 1996 - Papercues (Motor Music 576391-2)
  • 1996 - Black Hole Sun (Bobo and the London Session Orchestra) (Pilgrim Records 999993-2 / Motor Music 531963-2)

Projects

  • 1996 - Glow (Bobo and the London Session Orchestra)
  • 1998 - Alaska ( Alaska - unreleased)
  • 2001 - Light ( HALL DREI - improvised music)
  • 2004 - folk songs (Bobo, Sebastian Herzfeld - zither / piano , Anne Kaftan - saxophone / bass clarinet )
  • 2007 - Lieder von Liebe und Tod (extended re-release of the folksong album on the Berlin label Traumton )
  • 2013 - Liederseelen (Bobo - vocals / Rhodes / pipe organ, Sebastian Herzfeld - prepared piano / harmonium / bass / metal instruments)

Guest appearances

  • 1997 - Rammstein - Engel
  • 1998 - Rammstein - The model (Bobo sings in the background of the Alter Mann Spezial-Edition)
  • 2004 - Blank & Jones - Perfect Silence
  • 2005 - Else Lasker Schüler - I dream so quietly of you (with the song Es geht der Abend )
  • 2005 - Blank & Jones - Loneliness (Relax Edition 2)
  • 2008 Blank & Jones The Logic of Pleasure (with the song Where You Belong )
  • 2009 - Blank & Jones - Relax Edition Four (with Where You Belong in Poolside House Mix)
  • 2012 - Die Zöllner - Uferlos (with the song Ein Blut )

Awards

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  1. ↑ Blank & Jones feat. Bobo - Perfect Silence - hitparade.ch. Retrieved February 16, 2019 .
  2. ^ Hebold, Christiane - German Mugge. Retrieved February 16, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Charts DE

Web links

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