Naked Lunch (band)

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Naked lunch
Naked Lunch (Donauinselfest 2009)
Naked Lunch ( Donauinselfest 2009)
General information
Genre (s) Indie rock , alternative rock , indietronic
founding 1991
Website www.nakedlunch.de
Current occupation
Oliver Welter
Vocals, bass
Herwig Zamernik
Boris Hauf
Alex Jezdinsky
former members
bass
 Georg Timber-Trattnig (1991–1993)
Drums
 Peter Hornbogner (1991-2001)
Drums
 Thorsten Thonhauser (2002-2005)
Keyboard
 Stefan Deisenberger (1998-2015)
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
This Atom Heart Of Ours
  AT 25th 02/02/2007 (6 weeks)
All is fever
  AT 5 02/15/2013 (7 weeks)

Naked Lunch is a rock band from Klagenfurt , Austria . In their early days they played alternative rock with a mixture of hard rock guitars and soft vocals. In the course of the 1990s they made contact with the Weilheim indie scene around The Notwist and expanded their sound spectrum to include mainly electronic elements.

Band history

The beginnings (1991–1996)

When it was founded in 1991, the Carinthian band named itself after " Naked Lunch " , a novel by William S. Burroughs . The founding members were Oliver Welter, Peter Hornbogner and Georg Timber-Trattnig . The first demos quickly led to a recording contract with the German indie label Big Store Records , which released the 6-track mini-LP "Naked" in 1991 and the debut album "Balsam" the following year . Then Trattnig got out to take care of his writing ambitions and was replaced by Herwig Zamernik from the Disharmonic Orchestra . Zamernik and Welter are the core of the band to this day.

After these initial successes, the band tried to gain a foothold internationally, but despite a few showcases for large record companies , it took a few years to get involved with Mercury Records .

Superstardom (1997-2000)

After Naked Lunch had made it onto a major label , they recorded their second album in order to achieve the level of awareness they had longed for in the title Superstardom . The recordings took place in Weilheim, New York City and San Francisco . They recorded a video in Brazil for the single "Tambourine" mixed by the well-known sound engineer and music producer Alan Moulder and devastated a stage there . They were later arrested in London , where some members had moved. The hoped for success did not materialize, however.

Shortly afterwards the keyboardist Stefan Deisenberger got on board and in 1999 the album "Love Junkies" was released with the support of Olaf OPAL . The single "Closed Today" became a small international hit, but the album didn't sell very well. As a result, Naked Lunch changed their record label and released "Love Junkies" again on Virgin Records . But since the album flopped there too, the new record deal was canceled.

Time out and return (since 2001)

After the inconsistent events surrounding the two releases of "Love Junkies" , Naked Lunch took a break. Welter had to return to his hometown and lived on the street and out of his car for half a year. In retrospect, he described this period as one of the hardest in his life. It is possible that Welter only showed the death of his former bandmate Trattnig as a result of his alcoholism in 2000, about which the song "King George" is about, how important life is.

After that, Naked Lunch returned to the studio to record another record. With "Songs for the Exhausted" old indie rock concepts were dropped in order to try out new ways of working, which included intensive work with computers. "Songs for the Exhausted" was recorded in Zamernik's own studio, the "Fuzzroom" in Klagenfurt, over the course of a year. However, before the start of the recording, drummer and founding member Peter "Bogs" Hornbogner left the band. He was later replaced by Thorsten Thonhauser. Most of the drum tracks on the album were either recorded or programmed by session musicians. Shortly before the end of the recordings, the studio burned down.

After the album was finished, the band ran into new problems. They couldn't find a record company that wanted to release "Songs for the Exhausted" . The album was generally rated as too sad, depressed, and overall uncommercial. It was not until 2004 that the universal sub-label Motor Music released the album, which received mostly positive reviews and also sold surprisingly well.

As a result, Naked Lunch released the EP "Stay" in 2005 and contributed their music to the film "Sperrstunde" , a project of the filmmaker friend Thomas Woschitz , in which the band's music was played live. Zamernik also released a solo album under the name Fuzzman on Living Room Records after the rebuilding of his studio .

Like its predecessor "Songs for the Exhausted" , the new, more optimistic album "This Atom Heart of Ours" was released in January 2007 after a long break and received similar praise (e.g. by being named album of the week by Plattentests.de) or fourth place in the Spex editorial team's favorite albums in January). After Thonhauser's departure, it is the first release with the new drummer Alex Jezdinsky, who previously played with the band Angelika Express . For some time it was not entirely clear whether Jezdinsky was a full member because he was not seen in the promotional photos for the new album or in the video for the new single "Military of the Heart" .

In 2011, in collaboration with the author and director Bernd Liepold-Mosser , Naked Lunch developed the music for a production of Franz Kafka's America ( Der Verschollene ) . The band was in charge of the production at the Stadttheater Klagenfurt . The album of the same name was published in an edition of 2000 copies.

In February 2013, the studio album All Is Fever was released .

  • Oliver Welter

  • Herwig Zamernik

  • Stefan Deisenberger

  • Alex Jezdinsky

Discography

Naked Lunch (2013)

Albums and mini albums

  • Naked (Big Store, mini LP, 1991)
  • Balsam (Big Store, 1992)
  • Superstardom (Mercury / PolyGram, 1997)
  • Love Junkies (Mercury / Universal or Virgin / EMI, 1999)
  • Songs for the Exhausted (Motor / Universal, 2004)
  • This Atom Heart of Ours ( Louisville / Universal, 2007)
  • All Is Fever ( wallpaper , 2013)
  • The Single Collection (wallpaper, 2013)

Soundtracks

  • Universalove (Louisville / Universal, 2009)
  • America (Rough Trade / Monkey, 2011)
  • Jack (wallpaper, 2015)

Singles and other small formats

  • Balsam (Big Store, single, 1992)
  • WOM Demos (WOM, EP, 1995)
  • Spark (Mercury / PolyGram, single, 1997)
  • Tambourine (Mercury / PolyGram, single, 1997)
  • Me (Mercury / PolyGram, single, 1997)
  • Closed Today (Mercury / Universal, single, 1999)
  • On a Sunny Day (Virgin / EMI, single, 1999)
  • Disco Sadness (Virgin / EMI, single, 1999)
  • Stay (Motor / Universal, EP, 2005)
  • Military of the Heart (Louisville / Universal, single, 2006)
  • The Sun (wallpaper / indigo, single, 2013)
  • So Sad (wallpaper, single, 2017)
  • Here Come The Bells (wallpaper, single, 2018)

literature

Web links

Commons : Naked Lunch  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

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  1. ↑ http://austriancharts.at/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Naked+Lunch
  2. ^ Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon : Naked Lunch. musiklexikon.ac.at, June 15, 2011, accessed on May 4, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Record tests online: Naked Lunch - This Atom Heart of Ours .
  4. ^ Naked Lunch - Military of the Heart (YouTube) ( Memento from March 22, 2007 in the Internet Archive ).
  5. ^ The Gap : Kafka's "Amerika" in Klagenfurt , March 7, 2011