White Rose Transmission

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White Rose Transmission
General information
origin Germany
founding 1995
Founding members
Carlo van Putten
Adrian Borland († 1999)
Current occupation
Carlo van Putten
Thomas Marcin
Robert Smeekes

White Rose Transmission was founded in 1995 by Adrian Borland and Carlo van Putten and has been continued with various contributors since Borland's death in 1999.

history

founding

After The Sound ended in 1988, Adrian Borland began 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 vocalist for Winning on the band's 1998 live album, For a Fistful of Deutschmark (Collection of Live Recordings 1992–1997) .

(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 2018, the documentary Walking in the Opposite Direction - Documentary about The Sound & Adrian Borland shown as a German premiere ; afterwards the original drummer from The Sound, Mike Dudley, played with the musicians from The Convent at the KUZ as a souvenir.)

Borland and van Putten had become close friends and Borland was often a guest of van Putten, who at that time still had his main focus of life in northern Germany and lived in Vollersode . Both realized the first two albums of their joint project "White Rose Transmission". In 1997 Borland also released his solo album 5:00 AM and dedicated the piece City Speed ​​to Carlo van Putten.

In April 1999, Adrian Borland committed suicide in London suicide and 700 Miles of Desert thus became his last completed work during his lifetime; his last solo album (Harmony and Destruction) was posthumously completed and released in 2002.

David Maria Gramse and Florian Bratmann, who was keyboardist for The Convent from 1988 to 1992, also contributed to the two albums by White Rose Transmission.

Continuation

In 2002, The Convent provided support for The Chameleons ; In 2000 and 2001 van Putten had already supported the band together with Amanda Palmer ( Dresden Dolls ), especially in Germany and Great Britain, and van Putten had performed as White Rose Transmission. In 2000 in Paris van Putten sang a cover version of Kraftwerk (Radioaktivity) while he was accompanied by Palmer on the keyboard.

In 2002 van Putten moved to the Netherlands and in the same year also co-founded the Dead Guitars . 2006 took van Putten; next to Gramse and Bratmann; his friend Rob Keijzer joined the project and they published Bewitched & Bewildered . Marty Willson-Piper ( The Church ) was also involved in the recordings (Martha Harbor, Circle). Mark Burgess from The Chameleons plays the electric bass in some pieces .

In 2008 the album Spiders in the Mind Web was released, by Frank Weyzig (ex- Clan of Xymox , singer with Born for Bliss); was produced. He also played keyboards, bass and guitar; the latter also together with Rob Keijzer.

On November 21, 2009 the Dead Guitars played in Messajero ( Mönchengladbach ) and White Rose Transmission appeared as the opening act. Carlo von Putten often combines his projects; on March 28, 2009 it was his original band The Convent , who supported the Dead Guitars in the Tower (Bremen).

“The musicians of all bands like and appreciate each other very much and give each other the freedom they need. There is no competition, because with each band I do something different, otherwise I wouldn't need three bands. "

- Carlo van Putten in an interview with BODYSTYLER Electrozine 2011

Between 2011 and 2015 van Putten went on occasional minimalist summer tours with the Dead Guitars , which he later did with White Rose Transmission.

“It was like magic, not just for the audience. We had incredible fun in this atmosphere and the fans were absolutely thrilled. "

- Carlo van Putten 2011

Together with Robert Smeekes, in 2013 he had already completed a small series of performances with acoustic versions - although sometimes supported by the keyboard -, recorded and published under Carlo and Robert - To the Point .

The new EP In June was created with the participation of Robert Smeekes and Thomas Marcin; Ex-members of the Dutch band Aestrid from Utrecht, who also accompanied van Putten live in 2015 and 2019.

Discography

Albums

  • 1995: White Rose Transmission ; ( Indigo , Strange Ways); In addition to Borland and van Putten, Claudia Uman (backing vocals) and Florian Bratmann (violin) were also involved. The sound engineer was Rolf Kirschbaum, who had also worked on The Convent's albums . Jojo Brandt uses an E-Bow during his mission ( Silver Age ) .
  • 1999: 700 Miles of Desert ; ( Fuego , Red Sun Records); the album was written for the most part by Adrian Borland; which is why it is considered to be his last album completed during his lifetime, as it was recorded by Rolf Kirschbaum (Alien Style) in Bremen from November 1998 to January 1999. Mark Burgess can be heard on bass. Breath and The Swimmer was written by van Putten; the latter is the music of Florian Bratmann. The last track on the album is titled Dead Guitars: In 2002 van Putten co-founded the band Dead Guitars .
  • 2006: Bewitched & Bewildered ; (Pop One Records); the album contains three bonus tracks with cover versions:
  1. All About Eve : (Martha's Harbor); Presented by: Wilsson-Piper and van Putten.
  2. Edie Brickell : (Circle): Presented by: Wilsson-Piper and van Putten.
  3. Heather Nova (Walk This World); The bass player for this bonus track was Martin Bosker, who also played bass with Heather Nova. (He was also briefly in 1997 bass player for The Convent The photos in the album come from him; he had two years earlier along with Sally Altana's photos for the album. Magic Boomerang by Mark Burgess produced.)
  • 2010: Spiders in the Mind Web ; (May 7, 2010, Echozone ); on the album is the piece Foreign Country of Adrian Borland ; it was completely rearranged by Frank Weyzig with the help of an original recording around Borland's voice.
  • 2011: Spinning Webs at Night ; (Echo zone); the album was recorded live on May 14, 2010 in Mönchengladbach (Galerie Cafe Message; since November 2010 Circus Messajero) and released the following year on May 6, 2011; two pieces (Silent Air, Walking In The Opposite Direction) are by Adrian Borland.

Singles and EPs

  • 2020: In June; the EP was released on May 23, 2020 on Sireena Records ; all pieces were sung and written by van Putten, except for the cover version by Trumpet ; Stefan Bornhorst mastered the EP. The artistic design of the EP was done by Simone Haack.
  1. In June : Music and mixing are by Florian Bratmann.
  2. Mothers Of Mary : Peter Brough (with van Putten on Dead Guitars) wrote the music and also sings in the background; Percussion Rüdiger Tiedemann.
  3. Trumpets : cover version of the Waterboys ( Mike Scott ); Lecturers: Marcin, Kurt Schmidt (Dead Guitars), Twelve Drummers Drumming and Smeekes, van Putten; Percussion Rüdiger Tiedemann. In 2013 van Putten and Smeekers had already covered the song; see below: Carlo and Robert - To the Point.
  4. Happiness At Last : Schmidt, Smeekes and Marcin wrote the music.
  5. In June (Acoustic): The live team Marcin, Smeekes and van Putten play here almost like in their minimalist live performances, plus Schmidt.

Others

  • 1999: Presence (not a music label ).
  • 2013: Carlo and Robert - To the Point; Carlo (van Putten) and Robert (Smeekes) play pieces by The Sound, The Convent, Dead Guitars, as well as a piece each by Joy Division (Isolation), Talk Talk (Such A Shame) and The Waterboys (Trumpets). Stops on the mini tour included a. on January 11, 2013 Hengelo and on April 12, 2013 Utrecht (Kaargadoor).

criticism

“CONCLUSION: Whether WHITE ROSE TRANSMISSION, DEAD GUITARS, THE CONVENT or BORN FOR BLISS; all of these bands play a variant of dark, disturbing and beguiling music that has nothing to do with standardized gothic rock. Weyzig, Keijser, and Van Putten move in every form of appearance on an independent level. The climax is the reserved and poignant version of "Silent Air", which eleven, or now twelve years after ADRIAN BORLAND's death, still makes us aware of what painful turning point his suicide was and is. "

- Jochen König - White Rose Transmission: Spinning Webs At Night (Review) on musikreviews.de

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Lars Fischer: Forgotten Idol. In: Weser courier. April 25, 2018, accessed July 17, 2020 .
  2. ^ A b Ralf G. Poppe: Overland on Tour: Report and Interview. In: Land & Leben 7/2019 (page 33). July 2019, accessed August 13, 2020 .
  3. ^ White Rose Transmission (NL). In: Messajero. July 8, 2015, accessed July 27, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Messajero Archive 2009: Messajero Event Archive . In: Messajero, Mönchengladbach. 2009, accessed July 28, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Torsten Pape: "We will always surprise you!" (Interview with Carlo van Putten). In: BODYSTYLER Electrozine. 2011, accessed July 27, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Lars Fischer: Dead Guitars play in the region: Big musicians in small clubs. In: Weser Courier. July 26, 2011, accessed August 12, 2020 .
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  8. ↑ Frank Hübner: DEAD GUITARS ´Friends´ in the living room. In: Westzeit. September 1, 2011, accessed August 17, 2020 .
  9. ^ Lars Fischer: Tupperware party with music. In: Weser courier. July 8, 2015, accessed July 20, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Kim Torster: Man with Two Lives. In: Weser courier. July 19, 2019, accessed July 19, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Lars Fischer: Chamber rock in the tropical living room. In: Weser courier. July 24, 2019, accessed July 17, 2020 .
  12. ↑ Jochen König: White Rose Transmission: Spinning Webs At Night (Review). In: musikreviews.de. May 19, 2011, accessed July 27, 2020 .