Carpathian dog
| Carpathian dog | |
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 Carpathian dog live in the sound station Bonn, 14 September 2007 |
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| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Pop rock |
| founding | 2004 |
| resolution | inactive since 2010 |
| Website | www.karpatenhund.com |
| Founding members | |
| Claire Oelkers | |
| Stefanie closet | |
| Bjorn Sonnenberg | |
| Jan Niklas Jansen | |
| Maurizio Arca (until 2008) | |
| Last occupation | |
Singing, drum pad |
Claire Oelkers |
Vocals, bass, synthesizers |
Stefanie closet |
Vocals, guitar |
Bjorn Sonnenberg |
guitar |
Jan Niklas Jansen |
Drums |
Saskia von Klitzing (from 2008) |
| Live members | |
guitar |
Jennifer Jasmin Keßler (from 2009) |
Karpatenhund was a rock band from Cologne , which was founded in late 2004. Her debut EP was released in autumn 2006. The name comes from an episode of the youth book and radio play series Die Drei ??? .
history
Singer Claire Oelkers and Björn Sonnenberg met in Cologne in 2003 and began to plan to found a band to play indie pop with a DIY attitude and to make music that is “unelitourous and accessible to everyone”. In the summer of 2004 the founding was finally decided and the first rehearsals in December were joined by Stefanie Tisch, Jan Niklas Jansen and Maurizio Arca (who had formed the noise folk band Locas in Love with Björn Sonnenberg since 2001 ). The band gave their first concert in March 2005 at the Blue Shell club in Cologne . After a long series of concerts, the big record companies took notice from the end of 2005 and ran a “bidding war” around the band. In the summer of 2006, Karpatenhund decided to sign with Virgin Records .
The songs of their demo EP and parts of the first official EP Karpatenhund # 1 were produced by the band together with Wolfgang Stach. The band recorded their debut album in the autumn of 2006 in France in the Black Box Studio and again in Cologne (the song Sendet Fahrt was also produced in the Black Box Studio together with Peter Deimel, which landed on EP # 1). The album was mixed in the USA by Interpol producer Peter Katis. In November 2006 the debut EP Karpatenhund # 1 was released . This was followed in spring 2007 by the single Gegen den Rest / Karpatenhund # 2 and the album Karpatenhund # 3 . Karpatenhund gained greater fame when their single Gegen den Rest became the title song of the ARD pre-evening series Turkish for Beginners in early 2007 . This debut single was also her first appearance in the charts . The director Benjamin Quabeck shot a music video for the single, which was often played by the music broadcaster MTV . At the same time, in early May 2007, a four-page report about the Carpathian Dog and their record company was published in Spiegel magazine. Against the rest could despite its bulkiness create the format radio the jump to ten weeks held in the campus charts and was there until the first position climb well into the SWR3 -Hörercharts where it got in from 0 to 1, for weeks on pole -Position and was able to reach number 3 in the annual listener charts. The band also made numerous appearances on radio and television to promote single and album and was a guest in ZDF morning magazine, KiKA , Tigerenten Club and MTV TRL . The second single from the debut album was Is it what you wanted . On the single there was a remix of the piece that Andreas Dorau had made, an artist whom Karpatenhund refers to again and again, as well as a cover version that was recorded by the Berlin-based Britpop band Sternbuschweg, whose song OW Karpatenhund was the B-side in return covered for the single. For the second single there were no accompanying promotional measures by the record company such as a music video. In the music magazine Intro , Karpatenhund's debut album was voted 23rd in the annual album charts in January 2008.
The significant artwork for all of the band's releases comes from bassist Stefanie cabinet.
Carpathian Dogs were on stage as support for Razorlight , Magic Numbers , Aereogramme , Futureheads , Juli , Trans Am and Dendemann, among others . For 2007 they were booked for the Southside , the Hurricane Festival , the Highfield , the Open Flair , the Taubertal , the CH-Frauenfeld , for the Deichbrand , the Big Day Out and the Hamburg Reeperbahn Festival . In autumn and winter 2007 the Carpathian Dog completed their first own club tour in numerous cities in Germany , Austria and Switzerland . The support bands that accompanied them all came from the band's environment, for example Tchi , Schwervon! , Beatplanet , cat or home .
From January 2008 the band worked on their second album. Meanwhile, a third single was released with Disappearance Together and accompanied by a music video and various TV appearances, including a live performance on TV total in March 2008, where the band first appeared in captain's uniforms. Almost a year after its chart debut, the single was able to enter the top 100 again with Gegen Den Rest . At this time, the Carpathian dog and drummer Maurizio Arca separated amicably, and Fehlfarben drummer Saskia von Klitzing joined the band. According to the website, the band started recording their second album in June 2008, again in the Black Box studio in France together with Peter Deimel ( Tocotronic , dEUS , Chokebore , Miossec ). Karpatenhund again worked with Peter Katis for the mix, and Tony Doogan ( Mogwai , Belle and Sebastian , David Byrne , Dirty Pretty Things ) mixed some pieces . The album was released under the title Karpatenhund # 7: The name of this band is Karpatenhund on August 28, 2009 and received mostly positive reviews, e.g. B. in Musikexpress , Rolling Stone or Intro . This was preceded by the EP Karpatenhund # 6: Wald / Mondo Cane and a video for the song Wald , which the director Hagen Decker shot. The title Mondo Cane alludes to the film of the same name by Gualtiero Jacopetti , the album title to The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads by Talking Heads . On the compilation for the 15th birthday of Rolling Stone they were represented with the piece Heart of Glass .
Karpatenhund played their last concerts in summer 2010 and have been inactive since then, even if not officially dissolved. In an interview with Rolling Stone in 2011, Björn Sonnenberg said: “However, we have the feeling that the second album by Karpatenhund contains everything that we can achieve musically with the project, so that at the moment we don't know what else could be added . We'll see if, when and how it goes on depends on whether we get an idea that we find exciting. "
At the end of 2014 the band opened their archive and digitally published unpublished material from all creative phases via Bandcamp . a. the compilations Necronomicon (an allusion to the Necronomicon , the "Book of Evil" by HP Lovecraft ) and The Band in the Age of Technical Reproducibility (based on Walter Benjamin's media-philosophical essay The work of art in the age of its technical reproducibility ).
Music and Aesthetics
The music of Carpathian Dog shows clear influences of American and British indie rock . Many of the characters who play the drums are reminiscent of electronic music. The bass guitar is also often replaced by bass synthesizers, which gives the music a decidedly cool, mechanical note. Claire Oelkers' voice is reminiscent of Blondie and Bow Wow Wow . On their second single Is it that what you wanted is a remix of the title song that Andreas Dorau made - Karpatenhund have always named Dorau in interviews and on their website as a great influence.
There are often allusions hidden in their songs and artwork, for example the cover of the single Gegen Den Rest is based on Raymond Pettibon's cover for the album My War by the band Black Flag . A T-shirt issued by the band reads "Faster CARPATHIAN DOG ... Kill Kill", a reference to Russ Meyer's film Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! Another one is clearly based on the Motörhead trademark logo and emblazoned "Kärpatenhünd" in Gothic abbreviation over a dog's skull, another quotes Hello Kitty and shows a cute monster dog with "Hello Karpy" written over it.
Carpathian Dogs are occasionally enigmatic in their communication and self-expression. In the booklet for their single Is it that what you wanted , the heads of the band members are cut off from their bodies like mannequins, on the plinth under Stefanie Schrank's head is written “Soviet Shine”. At their live concerts (at which the band members each wore black uniforms in 2007) there is always a large banner hanging behind the stage on which a hooded figure can be seen against a red and black background, the color scheme is reminiscent of the anarchist flag. In 2008, Carpathian dogs began to appear in uniform as ship captains on TV and live.
engagement
Carpathian dogs are committed to learning to read and write. For the iCHANCE project of the Federal Association for Literacy and Basic Education , Claire Oelkers is also the leading actress in one of the commercials for the “Don't write off. Learn to read and write! ”.
Discography
Albums
Studio albums
| year | Title music label |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, music label , placements, weeks, awards, notes) |
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| 2007 | # 3: Carpathian Dog Virgin / EMI |
DE77 (1 week) DE |
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First published: May 11, 2007
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| 2009 | # 7: The name of this band is Carpathian Dog BMG |
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First published: August 28, 2009
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Compilations
| year | Title music label |
Remarks |
|---|---|---|
| 2014 | # 9: Necronomicon self-distribution |
First published: November 25, 2014 |
| # 10: The band in the age of technical reproducibility self-distribution |
First published: November 25, 2014 | |
| We Were Never Here - Single B-Sides 2007-2009 Self -Distributed |
First published: November 25, 2014 |
Singles / EPs
Chart placements
| year | Title album |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
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| 2007 | # 2: Against the rest # 3: Carpathian dog |
DE43 (5 weeks) DE |
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First published: April 20, 2007
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| 2008 | # 5: Disappear together # 3: Carpathian dog |
DE97 (1 week) DE |
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First published: April 11, 2008
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more publishments
| year | Title music label |
Remarks |
|---|---|---|
| 2005 | # 0: Carpathian dog self-distribution |
First published: May 5, 2005 |
| 2006 | # 1: Carpathian Dog Virgin / EMI |
First published: November 24, 2006 |
| 2007 | # 4: Is that what you wanted Virgin / EMI |
First published: October 26, 2007 |
| 2009 | # 6: Forest (Mondo Cane EP) BMG |
First published: August 14, 2009 |
| # 8: If necessary, I'll wait forever (Remix EP) BMG |
First published: December 11, 2009 |
Web links
- Carpathian dog at Bandcamp
- Carpathian dog at laut.de
- Carpathian Dog at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thomas Schulz: Against the rest . In: Der Spiegel . No. 19 , 2007, pp. 94 ( online ).
- ↑ A conversation about "Lemming", reviews and the Reviewbot: Locas in Love in an interview article at rollingstone.de.
- ↑ YouTube: KARPATENHUND for ALFA music. Retrieved August 2, 2011 .
- ↑ a b Chart sources: DE