Susanne Blech
| Susanne Blech | |
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 Susanne Blech at Bochum Total 2015 |
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| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Electro pop |
| founding | 2004 |
| Current occupation | |
singing |
Timon Karl Kaleyta |
singing |
Jobin Vazhayil |
Production, drums |
Sebastian Maier |
Guitar, keyboard |
Jens Schilling |
Bass, keyboard |
Kay Schilling |
Drums (live) |
Dennis Brzoska |
| former members | |
singing |
Jerome Vazhayil (until 2018) |
Susanne Blech is a six-member electro - pop band from the Rhine - Ruhr area .
Band history
Susanne Blech's beginnings go back to 2000, when Timon Karl Kaleyta and Sebastian Maier first recorded songs together. After the Hamburg producer Matthias Arfmann (including Beginner , Jan Delay , Blumfeld , Goldene Zitronen ) became aware of the project through the song Neuzeit , the band signed a first contract with A-Jugend / Motor Music , so that in 2004 the one in Turtle Bay Country Club in Hamburg produced song Let me through I have to go to Cairo on the sampler Love Factory . In 2005, the band released their first EP with Musik für Tiere on their own label, Z-Muzic; the following year two more songs followed on the sampler Eclectic Fitness .
Susanne Blech released her debut album in 2008 under the title Deutsche Renaissance - Ein Kanon , again on Z-Muzic. In 2010 the band became part of the VW Sound Foundation and in 2012 was part of the 16th funding round of the Federal Government's Music Initiative to support young artists.
In January 2012 Z-Muzic released the second studio album with Triumph der Maschine . The LP features the Berlin band Egotronic and the saxophonist Klaus Fiehe . In November 2012 Susanne Blech was nominated for the popUP NRW Prize. Susanne Blech has been under contract with Four Artists Booking since January 2013 and subsequently played support for the Fantastischen Vier and the Toten Hosen, among others . In July 2013 a single from Helmut Kohl was released , which also contains several remixes, including from Scooter and Egotronic.
In May 2014, Cat in the Box (Broken Silence) released the band's third studio album, World Prevent . Several songs on the album were created with the participation of the writer Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre and the former Snap! -Rappers Turbo B .
The 4th studio album Ragazzi Di Vita was released in August 2018 .
style
In her own biography the band writes about herself: "Susanne Blech is ambitious electro-pop, wants to be exactly that and wants to sound exactly like that."
Critics sometimes think of the band as having too high or too cryptic text density. The 2012 intro wrote about the triumph of the machine : "Great sounds for the modern dance floor with simply too much text."
In the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung , Harald Staun wrote about the band and their style: “Susanne Blech is the band project of Timon Karl Kaleyta from Düsseldorf, who has recorded his three albums so far with changing musicians because, as he claims, he himself is completely unmusical. The sound that comes out is somewhere between Eurodance and German hip-hop, although Kaleyta has nothing against being pigeonholed in the 'Electropop' drawer, if only because that is not pigeonholed. Wanting to be is the beginning of a deeply despised artistic pretension. "
Max Scharnigg wrote in the Süddeutsche Zeitung : “The band Susanne Blech from the Ruhr area is now clearly noticeable and needs attention. Their new record 'Welt Verhemmen' (Cat In The Box Records) hits the ceiling clearly and rigorously and, refreshingly, does not just rely on the party. The lyrics that are placed between Atari sounds and fast electro pop are political and witty. "
Side projects
The members of Susanne Blech are part of the artist collective Tengu Basement , which, in addition to Susanne Blech, also includes the artists Danja Atari and Sola Plexus.
Sebastian Maier worked as co-producer on the record ReComposed by M. Arfmann, which was released on Deutsche Grammophon in 2006, and is also musical director of the street art show Urbanatix . Under the pseudonym Sola Plexus he and Jerome Vazhayil are responsible for remixes from Medina, Egotronic , Mega! Mega! and sisters.
In 2011 Timon Karl Kaleyta and Tilman Ezra Mühlenberg (Danja Atari) founded the Institute for Contemporary Art (IFZ) and the affiliated Im Publishers in Düsseldorf, among others . In 2012 the IFZ realized the phenomenological installation The 100 Most Important Things at the Museum Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf ; An expanded exhibition of things followed in 2013 in cooperation with the photo artist Horst Wackerbarth . The project was published in book form in 2016. Katja Eichinger , Rafael Horzon , Sophie Hunger , Daniel Kehlmann , Markus Lüpertz , Peter Richter , Claudius Seidl , Christiane Stenger , Lisa Gotto , Volker Panzer , Samira El Ouassil , Saša Stanišić , Tom Kummer , Ulf Poschardt , participated as guest authors in the project . Nils Minkmar , among others
Discography
Singles
- 2004: Let me through, I have to go to Cairo
- 2008: Fancy a disco!
- 2012: The machines are running hot
- 2012: you & me
- 2014: World Prevent
EPs
- 2005: Music for Animals
- 2013: Helmut Kohl
Albums
- 2008: German Renaissance - A Canon
- 2012: the triumph of the machine
- 2014: World Prevent
- 2018: Ragazzi Di Vita
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f biography on the label's website, here online ; accessed on March 6, 2017.
- ↑ a b report in coolibri about Tengu Basement, here online ; accessed on March 7, 2017.
- ↑ Interview with Timon Karl Kaleyta on Jetzt.de (Süddeutsche Zeitung), here online ; accessed on March 6, 2017.
- ↑ Presentation of the band at Initiative Musik, here online ; accessed on March 6, 2017.
- ^ Page with the nominated artists, here online ; accessed on March 6, 2017.
- ^ Message on the homepage of Four Artists, here online ; accessed on March 6, 2017.
- ↑ a b Article about Timon Karl Kaleyta at RP Online, here online ; accessed on March 6, 2017.
- ↑ Article about Susanne Blech on RP Online, here online ; accessed on March 6, 2017.
- ^ Message on the Broken Silence website, here online ; accessed on March 6, 2017.
- ↑ a b Harald Staun: Definitely Maybe. The Ruhrpott band Susanne Blech saves the protest song and makes indifference dance. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung. May 11, 2014 (No. 19), p. 42.
- ^ A b Max Scharnigg: Rigorous. A hot new band called: "Susanne Blech". In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. May 19, 2014 (No. 114), p. 10.
- ↑ a b Biography of Susanne Blech on the Z-Muzic website, here as PDF ; accessed on March 6, 2017.
- ↑ Album criticism in the intro, here online ( memento of the original from March 7, 2017 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. ; accessed on March 6, 2017.
- ↑ Information from Deutsche Grammophon, here online ; accessed on March 6, 2017.
- ↑ Information about Maier on Urbanatix's website, here online ; accessed on March 6, 2017.
- ↑ Information from Z-Muzic, here online ; accessed on March 6, 2017.
- ↑ Information from the IFZ, online here ; accessed on March 6, 2017.
- ↑ Information from the IFZ, online here ; accessed on March 6, 2017.
- ↑ a b Review at RP Online, here online ; accessed on March 6, 2017.
- ↑ Timon Karl Kaleyta, Tilman Ezra Mühlenberg, Martin Martin Schlesinger, Samira El Ouassil, with photographs by Mischa Lorenz: The 100 most important things . Hantje Cantz , Ostfildern 2016, ISBN 978-3-7757-4114-9 .
- ↑ a b Review at Spiegel Online , here online ; accessed on March 6, 2017.
- ↑ a b Review at Zeit Online, here online ; accessed on March 6, 2017.
- ↑ Review of the art magazine art , here online ( Memento of the original from March 7, 2017 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. ; accessed on March 6, 2017.
- ↑ Information from the publisher, here online ; accessed on March 6, 2017.
- ↑ Information from the IFZ, online here ; accessed on March 6, 2017.
