Hosh
| Hosh | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Genre (s) | originally heavy metal , hard rock , finally alternative rock |
| founding | 1994/1999 |
| Founding members | |
singing |
Jan Robitzky |
guitar |
Mark Thomas Lemke |
| Current occupation | |
singing |
Jan Robitzky |
guitar |
Mark Thomas Lemke |
Lead guitar |
Hans Christian Braatz |
Electric bass |
Jan Frederik Braatz |
Drums |
Jan Christian Delfs |
Hosh was an alternative rock band from Dithmarschen in Schleswig-Holstein .
Band history
Originally founded by the remaining founding members Jan Robitzky and Mark Thomas Lemke in the early 1990s in the classic way as a metal school band, the last known band from Dithmarschen came together in early 1994. Not least because of their gradual change of musical direction, the five friends gave themselves a new band name with Hosh in 1999, after they had already become known regionally with heavier songs as Sceptic Acceptance. At the 1997 John Lennon Prize , the band had made it to the finals.
Single and album
After the first single Marie , which was released on Eastwest Records in early December 2000 and was also featured on the Lord-of-the-Boards - as well as Hörsturz - sampler , and a tour in the opening act for Liquido , Therapy? and VAST in 2000 announced a debut album. With the songs on the self-titled album, the quintet left its clearly angry past behind to make melodic rock with alternative borrowings.
The sound was provided by the producer Mirko Schaffer , who also worked as a guitarist for Sub Orange Frequency . The recordings for the album, which was released on May 28, 2001, took place from mid-November 2000 to mid-January 2001 in the Hamburg MOB studios . Ronald Prent (including Guano Apes , Rammstein ), who mixed six of the twelve songs on the album in the Belgian Galaxy Studios , was also able to be involved in mixing .
Hosh also used the internet as a distribution medium. Almost at the same time as the start of Virtual Volume , one of the first record companies to rely primarily on the Internet, they discovered the new possibilities of marketing themselves. In November 1999, the musicians were voted one of the first so-called “jukebox heros” by the online community and received a record deal from the affiliated label Virtual Records . As a result, they received some media attention, for example from local TV and radio stations such as Delta Radio , and they were able to perform live on NBC GIGA .
In London's Camden Palace , they were the first German rock band to perform at the “Feet First” concerts in Great Britain .
In 2001 there was a tour of Germany, u. a. with an appearance at the Bizarre Festival . After that, however, the Eastwest label, which had taken over Hosh into the regular program after the bankruptcy of Virtual Records, refused to release a second single. This was followed by the dissolution of the record contract. The band stated that they wanted to go on on their own: Several new songs were written, a second record of their own was promised, which, however, was apparently not released.
It is unclear whether the band still exists. However, the band's website has left this question open for several years, so it suggests that this is no longer the case.
Discography
- 2000: Marie (single)
- 2001: Hosh (album)
Web links
- Works by and about Hosh in the catalog of the German National Library
- official homepage
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 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.
