The Convent (band)
| The Convent | |
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 In2TheSound 2019, Turbinenhalle Oberhausen |
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| General information | |
| origin | Zeven , Germany |
| Genre (s) | Post-punk , new wave |
| founding | 1985 |
| Founding members | |
| Carlo van Putten | |
| Frank Belau (until 1995) | |
| Torsten Rimkus (until 1989) | |
| Mathias Schlobohm (until 1987) | |
| Heiko Paletta (until 1987) | |
| Current occupation | |
| Carlo van Putten | |
| Joachim "Jojo" Brandt (since 1991) | |
| Carsten Lienke | |
| Roland "Rod K" businessman | |
| Stefan Bornhorst (since 1999) | |
| Interim members | |
| Thomas "Thommy" Budde (1991–1996) | |
| Martin Bosker (1997) | |
| Benjamin "Ben" Schadow (1998-2001) | |
| Nils Cordes (1987-1994) | |
| Jörg "Schoko" Dubielowski (1995-2001) | |
| Florian Bratmann (1988-1992) | |
The Convent is a German-Dutch post-punk / new wave band with occasional echoes from psychedelic rock , but also from rock music and pop music in general.
history
Early years
For a long time, Carlo van Putten's main focus of life was in northern Germany , which is why the band was founded in Zeven in 1985 , as all the other members also came from this region.
The band released two singles in 1987 and 1989 ; the second was initially marketed by the band itself and so Red Sunshine Records (later Red Sun Records) with PO Box in Zeven was created; from 1988 in Hambergen because van Putten had moved to Vollersode . The first was recorded with the original line-up, from the second single Nils Cordes was on drums.
The formation began to change and made van Putten the only remaining founding member. The next obvious change began when Jojo Brandt joined in 1991, who took over the guitar and Frank Belau became a rhythm guitarist . On the EP 1995 ( Mocha for the Lions ) was Belau no longer there. Before that (1988-1991) Jojo Brandt was active in the electro-wave project Liquit Dreams together with André Grafert and Pino Redemund and had known van Putten since 1984 when both were members of the progressive rock band Blackout .
Some former band members later continued their music careers elsewhere: Bassist Benjamin Schadow became a founding member of Bernd Begemann & Die Befreiung in 2003 and played a. a. at Rhonda ; Keyboardist Florian Bratmann also worked as a guitarist for Wolf Maahn from 1996 to 2002 and has performed under the pseudonym Erik Fryman since 2010 . Like Martin Bosker and Stefan Bornhorst, he worked on the White Rose Transmission project.
Mark Burgess, The Chameleons and the Albums
Mark Burgess ( The Chameleons ) is still a close friend, great advocate and supporter of the band to this day. He produced parts of the first album from 1993 ( Counting the Stars ) and the complete second album from 1994 ( Tales from the Frozen Forest ). That also worked in the other direction, because Ralf Kirschbaum, next to Jojo Brandt and Burgess always at least involved in the band's productions, had produced their album Spring Blooms Tra-la for Mark Burgess & The Sons of God in 1994 .
On the third album from 1996 ( Crashes Cars & Loveletters ) the native Corsican Yves Altana took part, who later became the drummer for Mark Burgess & The Sons of God and ChameleonsVox.
On the live album from 1998 ( For a Fistful of Deutschmark (Collection of Live Recordings 1992-1997) ) is a cover version ( Less Than Human ) of The Chameleons. During this time, The Convent performed without an independent keyboard player, as Bratmann had left the band in 1992 and Bornhorst did not join until 1999. For this reason, no keyboard player appears in the dedication of the live album from 1998. Jojo Brandt could only occasionally put the guitar aside during the live performances; He played the instrument on the corresponding studio recordings of the period.
On the fourth album from 2001 ( Red Light Melancholy ), Mark Burges produced the last track ( My Honest Life for Lies ), which he had written with van Putten. The band's line-up, which has since changed, was also reflected on the album: “Schoko” Dubielowski occupied the drums, Stefan Bornhorst the keyboard and Benjamin Schadow the bass.
In connection with their own tour in 2002 the band was also a supporter of the Chameleons on their tour; the last appearance took place in October 2002 in Bochum . On their own 2002 album ( About Kings and Queens and Stolen Bicycles ), Carsten Lienke (Bombay Club, Die Tulpen, Cayne) on bass and Rod K on drums, who joined the band in 2001, also appear.
Projects
2002 was the turning point for the band, which did not split up but pursued other projects after the tour:
Carlo van Putten moved to the Netherlands and in the same year co-founded the Dead Guitars , who released their debut album in June 2007 and supported The Mission on their European tour in spring 2008 . In 2003 he was involved in the album Ice Cream Phoenix by The Electric Family by Tom "The Perc" Redecker . Here he met ex-member Ben Schadow , Ralf Kirschbaum and other well-known German musicians again.
Jojo Brandt (as "Herr Brandt"), wife "Sonne" and Stefan Bornhorst (as "Kpt Kork") got involved under the band name Sunandt from 2003, released their debut album Gestern in 2008 and became part of the Die Funkhausgruppe . Brandt also took part in the shoegazing band Seasurfer around 2014/15 and Stefan Bornhorst released some solo albums as "The Silicon Scientist".
Drummer Roland "Rod K" Kaufmann played for Blitzmaschine, Adrian Thomas Band, for Rollo333 (alias Rolf Peters), and Boerney & Die Tri Tops. He and bassist Carsten Lienke (as "Cee Link" or "Basstard") were together in the short-lived The Upsurders and The Pyronix; Carsten Lienke played (also drums) with Connery and electric guitar in the band Alaska .
After a long break from 2002, the band got together again in 2009 - including two concerts in Italy without a keyboard player. More regular appearances began with the band's 30th anniversary in 2016. The band continues to play at relevant festivals and events of the wave and indie scene. Performances planned for 2020 - u. a. auf der Stubnitz - were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic .
Adrian Borland - In2TheSound
In 1988, following his time with The Sound , Adrian Borland started a solo career. In 1994 The Convent planned to cover the piece Winning and asked Borland what a deep connection arose from: Borland became the band's “special guest” and sang the song himself, also in collaboration with Carlo van Putten. Borland is also the singer of Winning on the 1998 live album, For a Fistful of Deutschmark (Collection of Live Recordings 1992–1997) .
From 1995 Borland was involved in the creation of the first two albums of the joint project White Rose Transmission with Carlo van Putten. The second record 700 Miles of Desert from 1999 is therefore also the last Borland work to be completed during his lifetime. (Borland's last album Harmony and Destruction was posthumously finished and released in 2002.)
One of Borland's last live performances took place in 1994 in Osterholz-Scharmbeck in the Kleinbahnhof (KUZ) cultural center together with The Convent. In honor of Borland, the documentary Walking in the Opposite Direction - Documentary about The Sound & Adrian Borland was shown as a German premiere on April 28, 2018 at the location from 1994 in a neighboring cinema (Oscar) ; Afterwards, the original drummer from The Sound, Mike Dudley, played with the musicians from The Convent at the KUZ as a souvenir.
The event was repeated in principle on February 8, 2020 in the Musichall Worpswede . Carlo van Putten has a strong relationship with Worpswede and has performed without his band members in 2015 with the White Rose Transmission project in the Musichall pub and in 2019 in the immediate vicinity ( Worphausen Café Niels). Mike Dudley and The Convent also continue to perform and are advertised as In2TheSound ; Carlo van Putten came up with this name in order to create a reference to the original The Sound and not infringe any naming rights. They performed under this name in particular in Portugal (January 19, 2019 Porto and July 6, 2019 Lisbon ) and on December 1, 2019 in the Netherlands ( Rotterdam ).
“The past and its tragedies are always with us; but we can save the essence of creativity that produced so many great songs and carry it into the future to keep it alive not only for fans who are still listening, but also for those who have not yet discovered it "
Tour dates (selection)
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- June 12, 2021: Hamburg , MS Stubnitz ; together with No More and the French band Catalog .
- December 1, 2019: Rotterdam (Baroeg: WaveFest VI); Appearance as In2TheSound ; As in Portugal, keyboardist Frank Bornhorst was replaced by Michael von Hehl ( Plexiphones ); The Wedding Present , SUIR , SONNDR and The Foreign Resort also play .
- May 18, 2019: Oberhausen Turbinenhalle , New Waves Day , in the In2TheSound formation; further festival bands were And Also the Trees , Chameleons Vox , Gang of Four , Pink Turns Blue , The Arch , Then Comes Silence and Peter Hook and The Light .
- October 27, 2018: Hamburg; New Dark Age in Hafenklang as In2TheSound alongside Ash Code , Silent Em and Escape with Romeo on a farewell tour.
- June 30, 2018: Meschede , Live am See , together with Tiktaalik and Shock Therapy ; the band plays here with Mike Dudley, the original drummer of The Sound ; The event poster does not yet mention the new name In2TheSound for this collaboration.
- March 25, 2017: Essen, Zeche Carl : Melting Sounds Festival together with Cold Cave , The Foreign Resort , The Fair Sex , Whispers In the Shadow .
- October 18-21 , 2016: The 30th anniversary tour ; On the occasion of the band's anniversary, they played in Mönchengladbach (Messajero), Bochum ( Langendreer train station ), Worpswede (Musichall) and Hamburg (Hafenklang: Goldener Salon). Rational Youth from Canada was “Very Special Guest” in Hamburg .
- March 28, 2009: Bremen (Tower); The Convent and Dead Guitars perform one after the other with their common singer. In the same year there are further performances in Hamburg and Italy .
- October 27, 2002: Bochum, Langendreer train station (incident); as support for The Chameleons ; after that the band took a break and the members went to other projects.
- September 8, 2002: Bremen (Tower); The band's line-up has changed: Carlo van Putten, Jojo Brandt, Stefan Bornhorst, Carsten Lienke and Roland Kaufmann on drums; The group Besser acts as the opening act . (Information from the Tower itself, Jörg "Schoko" Dubielowski (later Yakooza ) and Benjamin Schadow would have played here, are wrong; both had their last appearance in 2001.)
- 1995: Support on the band tour in October was Paul Roland : Jojo Brandt helps out and ends up on his live album from 1996.
- October 9, 1994: Bochum colliery ; Adrian Borland - permanent “special guest” on this tour - plays One from U2 .
- June 1, 1991: Ochtruper Open Air, Happens Hof, Ochtrup ; The band is one of the small acts alongside: Escape With Romeo , Love Like Blood, M. Walking on the Water , Mark Burgess and the Sons of God , Pink Turns Blue and Who by Fire. The band's first official contact with Mark Burges.
Discography
Albums
- 1993: Counting the Stars (Lune Records Beverstedt : LR9208-B). The self-financed album was then released on the independent label Strange Ways Records (Hamburg), as the band went under contract there. Parts of the album were produced by Mark Burgess ( The Chameleons ). The record also contains three live tracks.
- 1994: Tales from the Frozen Forest (Strange Ways Records); This time the album was completely supervised by Mark Burgess, which was mastered by Janis Steinmann. The intro Prisoners of the Cold is performed by Tim Nullmeyer ( oboe ) and Florian Bratmann ( piano ). Christian Ressel's didgeridoo can be heard in two pieces . The band line-up for the record: van Putten, Brandt, Belau, Cordes. At that time the band did not have an independent keyboardist and Brandt took over the playing of the instrument if necessary. On the record there is a cover version of Winning ( The Sound ), here the drums were played by Ralf Kirschbaum, who this time assisted in the production together with Jojo Brandt and who again contributed the percussion . Since the band took the marketing back into their own hands, the record was now released on the band's own label Red Sunshine Records (today: Red Sun Records).
- 1996: Crashes Cars & Loveletters (Red Sunshine Records). The album was produced by Jojo Brandt and Yves Altana (later drummer with Mark Burgess & The Sons of God , ChameleonsVox ).
- 2001: Red Light Melancholy (Silverbird Music). From 1999 the band had started collecting material for the album; Mark Burges produced the last piece (My Honest Life for Lies), which he wrote with van Putten. The album was recorded by: van Putten, Bornhorst, Brandt, Dubielowski and Schadow. Tom Morrow, Irish violinist with Dervish ; participated in four pieces.
- 2002: About Kings and Queens and Stolen Bicycles (Silverbird Music). The album was recorded and mixed by Brandt and Bornhorst, Ralf Kirschbaum did the mastering. Lienke also plays a fretless bass on this album (i.e. without frets ) and Bornhorst - in addition to his keyboard interjections - the electric bass version with six strings . On this album Tom Morrow is used as a background singer.
Singles and EPs
- 1987: The Endless Way ; The single was recorded at White Noise Studios in Hamburg and pressed at Schallplattenfabrik GmbH in Diepholz . It was released in 1987 by RMZ Records (RMZ 310187) and in 2004 by Fuego in Bremen. The single cover was designed by Ute Brach. A-Side: The Endless Way (6:27); B-Side: Thank You (3:26).
- 1989: Kicked Out of Time : The single had no label when it was released, but was released by the band's own Red Sunshine Records ("..our Friends in Holland") with a branch and post office in Zeven and was then released in 2004 by Fuego in Bremen. A-Side: Take It on a Chin (6:13); B-Side: Cold December (4:58).
- 1995: Mocha for the Lions ; the EP was mastered by Ralf Kirschbaum, who also contributed the percussion and produced the EP with Jojo Brandt. The album was recorded with the cast of van Putten, Brandt, Budde, Rimkus, Cordes. Cover and photos were designed by Ulrike Rank. The EP was released by Strange Ways Records and in 2004 by Fuego in Bremen. In Get In Get Out the violin is played by Christian "Komo" Komorowski (from 1987 member of Love Sister Hope, from 1991 to 1999 also active in Deine Lakaien and with Das Holz ). In addition to Jojo Brandt, Thommy Budde is active as the background singer for the song Winterland .
Compilations
- 1998: For a Fistful of Deutschmark (Collection of Live Recordings 1992–1997) (Red Sunshine Records: RSR 010); The live album contains recordings of performances in the Zeche Bochum , Logo Hamburg, Feierwerk Munich and the Festhalle Zeven ; from the latter concert comes the cover song Less than Human by The Chameleons , in which the piano is played by Florian Bescht. The song Winning is sung by the original singer Adrian Borland . The album was mastered in the recording studio Alien Style (Rolf Kirschbaum) in Bremen and produced by Jojo Brandt, who was also responsible for the cover with c & gs Joachim Schmidt-Nürnberg. The album was produced by DOCdata Germany (Berlin).
In addition to this live album, the first three studio albums have now been re -released on the band's own music label Red Sunshine Records. The band was one of the first to have its own mail order site on the Internet, a booking agency and managed itself.
- 2016: The Convent 1986–2016 ( Sireena Records ); Double album
Others
- 1994: Sampler: Total Fatal Vol. 5 (Sound Factory); as a convent ; Track 5: Fish Nor Flesh .
- 1996: Paul Roland : Live 1995 (Gaslight Records: GASFAN-001); The record, distributed exclusively for fan club members, as well as a video released as a VHS cassette, was recorded during the 1995 tour on which Paul Roland provided support for The Convent : At Alice's House and Gabrielle (recorded in Logo Hamburg), as well as Gary Gilmore's Eyes (cover by The Adverts recorded in the Schlachthof Bremen ) Jojo Brandt plays the electric guitar.
"This album is affectionately dedicated to Jojo [Brandt]."
- 2001: Sampler: A Night Like ... A Tribute To The Cure (Angelstar: SPV CD 085-81192); as a convent ; Track 6: M . Different artists sing cover versions of The Cure ..
- 2018: In2TheSound: Commotion and Style (Sireena Records); The live recording was mixed by Raymond Hassfeld; CD release 23 August 2018 (SIR 2201); it was released as a limited vinyl album (SIR 4061) on July 26, 2019; Line-up: Carlo van Putten, Jojo Brandt, Stefan Bornhorst, Carsten Lienke, Mike Dudley on drums. First public appearance of this formation. Heartland was repeated as an encore , as no other pieces had been tried yet.
Reviews
“CONCLUSION: Whether WHITE ROSE TRANSMISSION, DEAD GUITARS, THE CONVENT or BORN FOR BLISS; all these bands play a variant of dark, disturbing and beguiling music that has nothing to do with standardized gothic rock. "
“With '1986-2016', The Convent has succeeded in creating a well-rounded, diverse album that a rocker can also put on the shelf. For fans of the band, the limited vinyl is a must anyway! "
“In the end there is only one clear CONCLUSION: It really is a real treasure trove - this strictly limited, hand-numbered '1986-2016' vinyl double album by THE CONVENT, for which the Gorbachev saying applies: 'Whoever comes too late punishes him The life!' - or at least the ears. "
Web links
- The Convent on Facebook
- The Convent at Discogs (English)
- The Convent at Allmusic (English)
- The Convent at artistinfo (English)
- On www. chartsinfrance.net (French) can be heard almost all of the band's tracks as 30-second fragments.
- Marco Rocha: Carlo van Putten, su trabajo musical y su amistad con Adrian Borland. In: Subte Rock (Peru). February 20, 2019, accessed July 22, 2020 . Report with various photos. (Spanish)
Individual evidence
- ^ Ralf G. Poppe: Overland on Tour: Report and Interview. In: Land & Leben 7/2019 (page 33). July 2019, accessed August 13, 2020 .
- ^ Marco Rocha: Carlo van Putten, su trabajo musical y su amistad con Adrian Borland. In: Subte Rock (Peru). February 20, 2019, accessed July 22, 2020 . Report with various photos. (Spanish)
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- ^ The Electric Family - Ice Cream Phoenix (2003). In: dicogs.com. Retrieved July 21, 2020 .
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- ↑ Lars Fischer: In the sound laboratory of the Silicon Scientist. In: Weser courier . August 9, 2016, accessed July 20, 2020 .
- ↑ a b c Lars Fischer: It's like reading an old diary. In: Weser Courier . October 20, 2016, accessed July 19, 2020 .
- ↑ Lars Fischer: Forgotten Idol. In: Weser courier. April 25, 2018, accessed July 17, 2020 .
- ^ A b Christian Valek: Germ cell for musical culture. In: Weser courier. August 25, 2019, accessed July 19, 2020 .
- ^ Lars Fischer: Tupperware party with music. In: Weser courier. July 8, 2015, accessed July 20, 2020 .
- ↑ Kim Torster: Man with Two Lives. In: Weser courier. July 19, 2019, accessed July 19, 2020 .
- ↑ Pedro Vasco Oliveira: In2TheSound no Hard Club: Porto celebrou Adrian Borland e The Sound (Portuguese). In: Munda de Música. January 23, 2019, accessed July 26, 2020 .
- ↑ Pedro Corte Real: In2TheSound / Walking Into The Opposite Direction, homenagem impar ao génio de Adrian Borland em Lisboa (Portuguese). In: MúsikaEMDX. July 9, 2019, accessed July 26, 2020 .
- ↑ Ralf G. Poppe: Music Scores: OHV News EXTAL. In: Land & Leben 5/2016 (page 23). May 2016, accessed August 13, 2020 .
- ^ The Convent 30th anniversary plus very special guest Rational Youth (CAN). In: Hafenklang Hamburg. 2016, accessed August 2, 2020 .
- ↑ Ochtruper Open Air 1991 Setlists. In: setlist.fm (The Setlist WiKi). 1991, accessed August 13, 2020 .
- ↑ Jochen König: White Rose Transmission: Spinning Webs At Night (Review). In: musikreviews.de. May 19, 2011, accessed July 27, 2020 .
- ↑ Michael Schröder: The Convent / 1986-2016 - LP review. In: RockTimes. October 16, 2016, accessed July 19, 2020 .
- ^ Thoralf Koß: The Convent: 1986-2016 (Review). In: musikreviews.de. October 19, 2016, accessed July 19, 2020 .