Timo Blunck

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Timo Blunck (2015)

Timo Blunck (born March 25, 1962 in Buchholz in the Nordheide ) is a German composer , songwriter , music producer , bassist , singer and author .

Life

Blunck grew up in Hamburg . At the age of 9 he began taking flute lessons with Manfred Trojahn .

In 1978 he and his school friend Detlef Diederichsen first founded the Skafighter, which was renamed "Ede und die Zimmermänner" (later just Die Zimmermänner ) for the recording of the first single on Alfred Hilsberg's label Zick Zack in 1980 .

In 1981 he became the bassist of Palais Schaumburg , whose first two albums he also influenced as a background singer and co-writer. His unusual style on the bass (he only played guitar before Palais Schaumburg) does not follow any scales, only geometric patterns on the fingerboard and is an integral part of the primarily atonal band sound. Palais Schaumburg was produced by David Cunningham from The Flying Lizards and Andy " Coati Mundi " Hernandez from Kid Creole & the Coconuts .

Daniel Miller engaged the band in 1981 for his label Mute Records ; they played as the opening act for Depeche Mode . They were one of the first acts in Manchester's The Hacienda and performed in the Danceteria in New York. On their European tour in 1982 they were accompanied by Kurtis Blow .

The photographer and director Anton Corbijn , who had already taken the photos for the album Lupa (1982), shot his first music video for the single Hockey in 1983 .

From 1985 to 1990 Blunck was the singer and songwriter of the Hamburg pop band Grace Kairos, which released two albums, produced a. a. by Ray Shulman , formerly Gentle Giant . The singles Carolina and I don't know what's going on hit the charts in Holland and Sweden. In 1990 they toured as support for Wet Wet Wet. In 1990 he moved to London , where he produced in his own studio (Momentum Sounds), among others, Freaky Realistic and Christie Hennessy (for which he also writes songs). Chart successes were recorded in England and Ireland.

In 1992 his solo album Timo was released with the single Louisiana Lonely . German film director Gregor Schnitzler shot the video for the single in Louisiana .

In 1995 the company moved to the USA, first to Baton Rouge , Louisiana, then to Los Angeles .

In 1998, together with Stefan Will , Blunck founded the production company Bluwi, which composes and produces music for cinema, TV and advertising films. Customers included directors like Justus von Dohnányi and Christian Petzold , and brands like Audi, Mercedes, Nivea and Deutsche Post.

From 2010 onwards, Bluwi also took care of spatial communication, including at the Expo 2010 (Saudi Arabian pavilion) in Shanghai or the Expo 2012 in Yeosu (Swiss pavilion, Caltex pavilion).

Timo Blunck has been a member of the Art Directors Club Germany since 2002 .

Since 2011 he has played again with Palais Schaumburg in the original line-up. The group's continued success in Japan led to concerts in Tokyo and Osaka in 2012 .

The carpenters continue to release albums, most recently A Dog Called Work (2014) on Wallpaper Records, produced by Blunck.

In 2014 he mixed the album Spaces Everywhere for the London based band The Monochrome Set .

In 2015 came Über ... Menschen from the Düsseldorf group Fehlfarben . Since July 2015, Blunck has been running the BLUT company together with BLUWI producer Stephanie Zanatta, in which the two continue their work after BLUWI was dissolved.

He has been commuting between Hamburg and New Orleans since 2001 . Timo Blunck has three sons from his marriage to the American stylist Sondra Woodard Blunck.

On March 5, 2018, Blunck published his debut novel Didn't we even have sex in the 80s? by Heyne Hardcore , the album of the same name was released by Wallpaper Records . The partially fictionalized autobiography reports on the author's life on almost 500 pages. The 12 chapters of the book correspond to the 12 songs on the album.

Discography (selection)

Ede & the carpenters

  • Eva, Jürgen & Max (single, Zick Zack 1980)

The carpenters

  • Half a year / culture (single, zig zag 1981)
  • 1001 ways to make sex without having fun (album, Zig Zack 1982)
  • Back in circulation (EP, Zick Zack 1983)
  • Anja (EP, Cherry Red 1983)
  • Goethe (album, AtaTak 1984)
  • Reproductive Supermarket (album, Zig Zag 2007)
  • A dog named work (album, wallpaper 2014)
  • The clotheslines were long (box set retrospective 1980–1985, wallpaper 2014)

Palais Schaumburg

  • Telephone (single, Zig Zack 1981)
  • Palais Schaumburg (Album, Phonogram / Mute 1981)
  • Lupa (album, Phonogram 1982)
  • Hockey (EP, Phonogram 1983)
  • Palais Schaumburg (double album Re-Issue, Bureau B 2012)

Grace Kairos

  • Fall In Love With Frank (album, RCA 1987)
  • Emotionspark (album, RCA 1989)

solo

  • Timo (album, RCA 1992)

Filmography (selection)

Awards (selection)

  • Golden nail for sound design 'Loewe - Chor', ADC 2009
  • Red Dot Award 2010 Saudi Arabian Pavilion, Expo Shanghai
  • DDC Award 2010 'In the Realm of Shadows', Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier
  • Golden Lion for Music 'Monkey / A Peace Of Mind', Cannes Advertising Festival 2010
  • Golden Clio for Music 'Monkey / A Peace Of Mind', New York 2010
  • Bronze Clio for Music BMW Scooter 'Modern Movement', New York 2012
  • Red Dot Award 2014 'The Time Machine - Wu Kingdom Helv Relics Museum Wuxi, China'

literature

  • Jürgen Teipel: Waste your youth. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt / Main 2001, ISBN 3-518-39771-0
  • Detlef Diederichsen / Walter Thielsch: 'The first book Bluwi'
  • Timo Blunck: Didn't we even have sex in the 80s? Roman, Heyne Verlag, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-453-27137-1

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ (Spex 04/83 / Musik Express / Sounds 03/83 / official carpenter biography on www.whatssofunnyabout.de)
  2. ↑ (Spex 12/81 / www.fusetronsound.com / Sounds 08/1982)
  3. ↑ (Depeche Mode: I just can't get enough, Simon Spence)
  4. ↑ (The Hacienda: How not to run a club, Peter Hook)
  5. ↑ (www.depechemode.de/antoncorbijn)
  6. ↑ (Spiegel May 30, 1988 / Musik Express 04/1990)
  7. ↑ Timo Blunck credits on www.allmusic.com
  8. ↑ (Musik Express 09/92)
  9. ↑ (Official biography in The First Book Bluwi )
  10. ↑ (Financial Times April 20, 2005)
  11. ↑ (www.tamschick.com)
  12. ↑ (www.adc.de)
  13. ↑ Simone Jung: Finally the forest is being swept again. In: TAZ . December 30, 2011. Accessed March 28, 2015.
  14. ↑ (www.residentadvisor.net)
  15. ↑ (Rolling Stone 10/2014)
  16. ↑ Timo Blunk Credits In: Allmusic . Retrieved March 28, 2015.
  17. ↑ (Musikexpress 03/2015)
  18. ↑ http://www.tapeterecords.de
  19. ↑ https://www.facebook.com/pages/Die-Zimmermänner/63572179769
  20. ↑ 19 BLUWI / BLUT Newsletter 07/15
  21. ↑ Didn't we even have sex in the 80s? Retrieved May 5, 2018 .
  22. ↑ Wallpaper Records: Timo Blunck. Retrieved May 5, 2018 .
  23. ↑ Timo Blunck: Rushes past . In: ZEIT ONLINE . ( zeit.de [accessed on May 5, 2018]).
  24. ↑ Marcus Müntefering: Timo Blunck and the eighties: "Popper, that was rebellious" . In: Spiegel Online . March 2, 2018 ( spiegel.de [accessed May 5, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Blunck, Timo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer, lyricist, producer, bassist and singer
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Buchholz in the north heath