Namosh

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Namosh performing in Stuttgart in autumn 2004

Namosh , also Namosh E. Arslan, (born May 8, 1981 in Bietigheim-Bissingen ) is a German musician , singer , performance artist , actor and DJ of Kurdish descent.

Live and act

Namosh has lived in Berlin since 1999 , has produced his own music and has been performing in varied constellations in a wide variety of venues since 2003, mostly solo. Namosh uses his body as a medium at his concerts and forms it like an object. The musician transforms sounds into movements or, conversely, forms sounds based on movements. “The rhythm is funk-esque, his beats mostly produced electronically. Sometimes the pieces are again gentle and broad. "

Namosh is known for his eccentric and wild live performances and is so in demand that he has had over 100 concerts in one year. The digital youth channel Puls of the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation called him “dancer, rubber man, acrobat, musician and singer in one” because of his live performance and ARTE described Namosh as the “hyperactive enfant terrible” because of his performances. Namosh's dynamic performance was reflected in his 2004 debut album entitled Namosh . This was only released on vinyl by the Pale Music label . The success of his first album enabled Namosh to tour a club from Siberia through England to Spain . In 2005 his maxi single Cold Cream was released. Björk described the song of the same name as her favorite song in 2005 in the English-language Q magazine . The actors Daniel Steiner and Nic Romm shot a music video for Cold Cream.

In 2006 Namosh's first regular album Moccatongue was released on the Bungalow Records label. The album consists of "contrasting, caffeinized moods and emotions: sometimes smooth and flexible, then again bulky and saturated." Some songs from the first EP Namosh were recorded again and reinterpreted. Since 2006, Namosh has been working on two opposing albums, "each demanding the heart and dance muscles." The album Keep It for Later was released in 2009 by the Crippled Dick Hot Wax label in a limited edition. "Overall, the album is gentler than its predecessor," writes the label. After the quiet album Keep It for Later the “fast, powerful counterpart” should now follow.

In addition to his own music, Namosh also works as a DJ and works in various functions with various artists and musicians such as Wolfgang Müller , Angie Reed , Peter Thomas and Le Hammond Inferno. Work as an actor also followed. Namosh played the character of Wenzel Strapinski in the children's play Clothes Make People According to Gottfried Keller , which premiered in 2012 at the Berlin Theater an der Parkaue and was staged and written by the artist duo norton.commander.productions . Der Tagesspiegel and the Berliner Zeitung praised him for his portrayal .

On March 30, 2018, Namosh's new album Music Muscle was released . This was the music label World guest as a CD , LP and download published.

Discography (selection)

music

  • 2004: Namosh ( LP , album, Pale Music International )
  • 2005: Cold Cream ( 12 ″ , Bungalow Records)
  • 2005: Messed Up - Namosh & Angie Reed (12 ″; Metrohead Music)
  • 2005: The Pulse (12 ″; Bungalow Records)
  • 2005: 25 years of Geniale Dilletanten - Wolfgang Müller & Namosh / Frieder Butzmann ( 7 ″ ; Crippled Dick Hot Wax)
  • 2006: Dear Diary feat. Hisako / Fine! ( Adam Sky Remix) (7 ″, single, limited edition; Bungalow Records)
  • 2006: Moccatongue (CD, Do-LP, Album, Enh; Bungalow Records / Rough Trade Records / PIAS)
  • 2007: Schocko & Co (Limited Book CD; Hybriden Verlag / Mimas Atlas)
  • 2009: Keep It for Later (CD, album; Crippled Dick Hot Wax)
  • 2011: Keep It for Later (MP3 / WAV, contribution to the compilation Jerk Off; Zingy)
  • 2018: Music Muscle (CD, LP, MP3 / WAV, album, world guest)

production

  • 2004: Namosh (LP; Pale Music International)
  • 2006: Moccatongue (CD, album; Enh, Bungalow Records / Rough Trade Records / PIAS)
  • 2008: With - Coda (CD, album; Haute Areal)
  • 2009: Keep It for Later (CD, album; Crippled Dick Hot Wax)

Others

  • 2005: Angie Reed - Hustle a Hustler (12 ″ or CD; Chicks On Speed ​​Records) - Hustle a Hustler (Namosh Remix )
  • 2009: Jessie Evans - Is It Fire? (LP or CD; Fantomette Records) - Writer, bass, keyboards for Black Sand and choral singing for To the Sun
  • 2012: Wolfgang Müller - Séance Vocibus Avium "&" Wísk Niwáhsen Wísk Nikahseriiè: Take Kanien'Kéha Wa'Katéweienste or Learning Mohawk in Fifty-five Minutes (double CD; Intermedium Records) - bird's voice at Coturnix Novae-Zelandiae
  • 2013: Die Tödliche Doris - Stop (the information) - Unfinished version 1983 (12 ″, Squoodge Records) - adaptation

More artistic work

  • 2012: Actors in the play Dresses Make People at the Theater an der Parkaue

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Official website of Namosh
  2. ↑ Twitching in the mini machine park. In: TAZ . June 16, 2006, accessed April 10, 2014 .
  3. ↑ Namosh - Picked Up Floozy (live @ Bavarian Open Festival 2006). In: pulse . March 25, 2009, accessed April 9, 2014 .
  4. ↑ Namosh - Live Concert. In: Gallery Wedding. Retrieved October 11, 2020 .
  5. ↑ You'll see, you pig - the electroclash crooner Namosh presents its debut. In: Berliner Zeitung . June 15, 2006, accessed August 19, 2009 .
  6. ↑ Music video "Cold Cream" on Youtube
  7. ↑ Information about the album Keep It for Later on the official website of Crippled Dick Hot Wax
  8. ↑ Profile of DJ Namosh at hooolp.com
  9. ↑ BRIEF & CRITICAL - Money & luck: “Clothes make the man” in the Theater an der Parkaue. In: Der Tagesspiegel . April 17, 2012, accessed April 10, 2014 .
  10. ↑ A tailor in the bloodstream of the cardboard citizens - clothes make the man. In: Berliner Zeitung . April 16, 2012, accessed April 10, 2014 .
  11. ↑ weltgast.de: Releases
personal data
SURNAME Namosh
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Arslan, Namosh E.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician, singer, performance artist, actor and DJ of Kurdish descent
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Bietigheim-Bissingen