Cico Beck

Joasihno at the Ernst Hoferichter Prize 2020 in the Literaturhaus Munich

Cico Beck , actually Christoph Beck (* 1984 in Eichstätt ), is a German musician who is mainly known for his music project "Joasihno".

Life

Cico Beck (spoken: Giko) grew up in the Upper Bavarian village of Egweil near Eichstätt. After graduating from a music high school, he studied special needs teaching with a focus on intellectual development at the LMU Munich. After completing the state examination, he attended the Musikhochschule Münster (Faculty 15) of the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster from 2009 to 2013 and completed his training as a classical percussionist .

Joasihno

Joasihno
General information
origin	Egweil , Germany
Genre (s)	Experimental indie pop
founding	2009
Website	www.joasihno.de
Founding members
	Cico Beck
Live and session members
	Nico Sierig (since 2010)

Joasihno started in 2009 as a solo loop orchestra project in which Beck superimposed loops of vocals, folk guitars and various electronic and acoustic sounds.

The Doundoun, a cylindrical bass drum covered with cowhide

The debut EP papierTonnenTigerTum was released in the first year . Since 2010 Beck has been performing live as a duo with drummer Nico Sierig from Missent to Denmark . In 2011 the first album " We Say: Oh Well " was released. He wrote the songs and lyrics in the basement of his parents' house. The Notwist brothers Micha and Markus Acher took Joasihno on tour as support and published the following album A Lie (2013) on their label Alien Transistor.

In 2015, Cico Beck replaced Martin Gretschmann at The Notwist.

In 2013, Joasihno presented the BR series launch pad to the audience in its 13th season and followed the project for three months with the camera.

Joasihno appeared alongside Sebastian Witte at the end of Anil Jacob Kunnels film "Pixelschatten" (2011) and can be heard on the soundtrack for the film. Other film and theater music contributions were made in part under Beck's real names.

On the 2016 album Meshes , the music is more experimental and instrumental to a large extent. Models of what Beck calls "Electronic Anti-Pop" are early experimental electronics, the Moondog canons , Steve Reich's patterns and the production of Four Tet .

Other band projects were Aloa Input , Ms. John Soda, You + Your D. Metal Friend, Spirit Fest.

Discography

• 2009: Joasihno: papierTonnenTigerTum (EP; self-distribution)
• 2011: Joasihno: We Say: Oh Well (Album; LP: Red Can Records ; CD: Kyr Records)
• 2013: Joasihno: A Lie (Album; Alien Transistor)
• 2013: Aloa Input: Anysome (Album, Morr Music )
• 2015: Aloa Input: Mars etc. (Album, Morr Music)
• 2016: Ms. John Soda: Loom (Album, Morr Music)
• 2016: Joasihno: Meshes (Album, Alien Transistor)
• 2016: You + Your D. Metal Friend: Sonnier (Album, Alien Transistor)
• 2016: The Notwist: Superheros, Ghostvillians & Stuff (Live-Album, Alien Transistor / Sub Pop)
• 2017: Millepede: Mirror Mirror (Remix Album, Alien Transistor)
• 2017: Spirit Fest (Album, Morr Music)
• 2018: Spirit Fest (Album, Morr Music)
• 2019: Songs from the Kathmandu Valley (Album, Trikont)
• 2020: Spirit Fest (Album, Morr Music)

Film music

• 2011: Pixel shadows (Director: Anil Jacob Kunnel)
• 2011: Monika (SWR production; director: Christian Werner)
• 2012/2013: Music for trailers and films on the European Outdoor Film Tour
• 2013: Leaving Greece - Vanishing Point Greece (together with Florian Kreier ; BR documentary; director: Anna Brass )
• 2013/2014: Music for trailer and CD of the European Outdoor Film Tour
• 2015: Mars Closer (together with Florian Kreier, documentary; directors: Annelie Boros, Vera Brückner)
• 2017: The Disappearance (together with Markus and Micha Acher; TV series; director: Hans-Christian Schmid)
• 2017: F 32.2 (together with Florian Kreier, documentary; director: Annelie Boros)
• 2018: System Error (together with Florian Kreier, feature documentary; director: Florian Opitz)
• 2018: Elternschule (together with Markus Acher; feature documentary; director: Jörg Adolph)
• 2019: Attitude is Everything (together with Florian Kreier, feature documentary; Director: Susan Gluth)
• 2019: Roads (together with Markus and Micha Acher; cinema; director: Sebastian Schipper)
• 2020: Forces (HFF Munich; Director: Annelie Boros)
• 2020: Walchensee Forever (together with Markus Acher; feature film; director: Janna Ji Wonders)
• 2020 One Of These Days (together with Markus and Micha Acher; Director: Bastian Günther)
• 2020: My son (together with Florian Kreier and Nicolas Sierig; director: Lena Stahl)

Theater music

• 2011: Woyzeck , Städtische Bühnen Münster (Director: Alexander Schilling )
• 2011: As You Like It , Theater Total , Bochum (Director: Barbara Wollrath-Kramer )
• 2011: Siddhartha , Ruhrtriennale (director: Barbara Wollrath-Kramer)
• 2011: Performance The Conference of Birds , Theater Total, Bochum (Director: Barbara Wollrath-Kramer)
• 2012: Romeo and Juliet , Städtische Bühnen Münster (Director: Markus Kopf )
• 2012: Platonov , Theater Total, Bochum (director: Barbara Wollrath-Kramer)
• 2012: Nocturne , Theater Total, Bochum (director: Barbara Wollrath-Kramer)
• 2013: Faust I , Theater Total, Bochum (director: Barbara Wollrath-Kramer)
• 2013: Innschuld , Theater Münster (director: Bernadette Sonnenbichler )
• 2013: Blattrausch , Theater Total, Bochum (director: Barbara Wollrath-Kramer)
• 2014: The bitter tears of Petra von Kant , Theater Münster (director: Bernadette Sonnenbichler)
• 2015: Lucky Happiness Golden Express, Theater Ingolstadt (director: Kathrin Mädler)
• 2015: Outside the door , Theater Münster (Director: Bernadette Sonnenbichler)
• 2015: Peter Pan, Theater Augsburg (director: Bernadette Sonnenbichler)
• 2016: Drunk, Schauspielhaus Graz (Direction: Bernadette Sonnenbichler)
• 2016: Peer Gynt, State Theater Schwaben (director: Kathrin Mädler)
• 2016: Romeo & Julia, Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus (Direction: Bernadette Sonnenbichler)
• 2017: Pension Schöller, State Theater Nuremberg (Director: Bernadette Sonnenbichler)
• 2017: Alice in Wonderland, Residenztheater Munich (musical direction: Felix Müller, direction: Christiane Stark)
• 2018: people, places, things. Berliner Ensemble (Director: Bernadette Sonnenbichler)
• 2019: Wish List. Theater Regensburg (Director: Oliver Endress)
• 2019: mothers and sons. Berliner Ensemble (Director: Karen Breece)
• 2019: The Traveler. State Theater Swabia (Director: Kathrin Mädler)
• 2020: Mother Courage. State Theater Swabia (Director: Pia Richter)
• 2020: Effie Briest. Theater Regensburg (Director: Pia Richter)

Web links

• Joasihno's sound carrier in the catalog of the German National Library
• Official website
• Joasihno
• Cico Beck at Allmusic (English)
• Joasihno at Allmusic (English)
• Cico Beck at Discogs (English)
• Joasihno at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Joasihno , entry at last.fm
2. ↑ ^{a b} Joasihno as a guest in the studio ( memento of the original from June 6, 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. , afk M94.5 , October 14, 2013.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Christoph Büscher: New records: Joasihno - "A Lie" ( Memento of the original from June 7, 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. , ByteFM, April 4, 2014.  
4. ↑ Rita Argauer: Joasihno (experimental indie pop) , SZ youth page, 14/2013.
5. ↑ Marco Maurer: This is how the present sounds , Süddeutsche Zeitung, April 13, 2011.
6. ↑ Introduced // Joasihno Frickeln against the affluence melancholy , PULS , March 7, 2013.
7. ↑ Music For Movies ( Memento of the original from June 6, 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. , Cico Beck, accessed June 5, 2014.