Buddy & the Huddle

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Buddy & the Huddle
General information
origin Bavaria , Germany
Genre (s) Alternative country , post rock , bar jazz , swamp blues , minimal music
founding 1996
Website www.buddy-and-the-huddle.com
Founding members
Roland Kopp
Michael Ströll
Current occupation
Roland Kopp
Guitar, monochord , mandolin , banjo , percussion, sampling , vocals
 Michael Ströll
Cello , accordion , banjo, percussion
 Stefan Nast-Kolb
Gunther Rissmann
Vibraphone , drums , percussion, marimbaphone
Radek Szarek
Drums, percussion
 Werner Driver
Trumpet
 Stefan Lang
Omnichord , mandolin
 Martti "Mäkkelä" Trillitzsch
Vibraphone, Hammond organ
 Peter Adamietz
Clarinet, saxophone, accordion
 Bettina Ostermeier
former members
Robert Alonso, Stefan Andritzky, Hedi Angenvoort, Michael Aures, Stefan Bauer, Andrea Bibel, Christoph Braun, Casual T, Kevin Coyne , Judith Dümmler, Cusse Ehebauer, Horst Faigle, George Farmer, Ramona Fink, Robert George, Andrew C. Gerfers, Wahid Ghamin, Golly , Gerhard Hiebl, Godela Holzmann, Gisela Koch, Jakob Kraft, Maria Kräuter, Gerda Krusche, Trixi Mahd Soltani, Toby Mayerl, Greg McGinnis, Matthias Reinmann, Mattias Rosenbauer, Armin Rothgang, Pat Scholz, Michael Seiler, Heidi Schiekofer , Dietmar Schüllner, Andreas Stahl, Georg Steinmeier, Christiane Walter-Kopp, Tobias Zillner

Buddy & the Huddle is an Americana band from Nuremberg and the Upper Palatinate , which releases its albums under the Glitterhouse Records label and its own Ciclismo Records .

history

The band emerged mainly from the formation of the Bløde Dog Blues Band , in which Roland Kopp, Michael Ströll, Armin Rothgang and Robert George played. Karola Riebe was no longer part of Buddy & the Huddle.

The first release was in 1996 "Music for a Still Undone Movie Maybe Called Suttree" . The album is based on the novel "Suttree" (German title: "Verlorene" , Rowohlt Verlag ) by Cormac McCarthy . Inspired by the visual language and the detailed descriptions of the characters in the novel, the two heads of the band, Roland Kopp and Michael Ströll , set about producing the audio film "Music for a still undone movie maybe called Suttree" along with a live performance. The musical spectrum of the band ranges from alternative country , post rock , bar jazz and sound games to swamp blues and minimal music . A mixture that is reminiscent of Tindersticks , Lambchop , Ry Cooder or Tom Waits .

For the instrumentation, wooden clubs and iron plates are used on an equal footing with classical jazz instruments such as the double bass or vibraphone , supplemented by the use of a monochord , various sound objects of Hannes Arnold , Dobros , the banjo , the mandolin , various wind instruments , the cello and various percussion .

In 1999 Buddy & the Huddle was awarded the "Star of the Year" by the Nürnberger Abendzeitung. The band members Kopp and Ströll received a cultural promotion award from the city of Nuremberg in the same year . In 2000 they published a musical biography (as Buddy & the Huddle themselves call it) by Thomas Alva Edison , and in 2003 they again set a novel to music, this time "The Lord of the Barnyard" (German title "Monument for John Kaltenbrunner" , published in Suhrkamp) Verlag) by Tristan Egolf . In 2010 a new setting for a novel, this time "Farrago" (German title "The random life of Homer Idlewild" , Aufbau Verlag) by Yann Apperry .

Others

Kopp's son Leon is the drummer in the Brit pop band the TurningOns , who recorded their debut album in the Blue Beat studio of Michael Ströll and Kopp in 2012.

Discography

  • Music for a Still Undone Movie Maybe Called Suttree (LP, 10/1996, Ciclismo 002)
  • More Music for a Still Undone Movie Maybe Called Suttree (LP, 10/1997, Ciclismo 003)
  • Music for a Still Undone Movie Maybe Called Suttree (contains Ciclismo 002 + Ciclismo 003; CD, 02/1998, Glitterhouse 439)
  • Short Stories About Love, Hate & Other Banalities (LP, 11/1998, Ciclismo 004 and CD, 01/1999, Glitterhouse 452)
  • Take a Ride into the Life of Thomas Alva Edison (double LP, 11/2000, Ciclismo 005 and CD, 11/2000, Glitterhouse 494)
  • Monument for John Kaltenbrunner (LP, 10/2003, Ciclismo 006 and CD , 10/2003, Glitterhouse 588)
  • How We Spent Our Childhood ( LP , 01/2005, Ciclismo 007)
  • Farrago ( LP , 06/2010, Ciclismo 009 and CD , 04/2011, Best! Entertainment 009)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lothar Röhrl: TurningOns finished with debut CD , Mittelbayerische Zeitung , November 18, 2012.