I found my old guitar, which I played up and down in my Berlin time as a kid in the 70s, as a young artist in the 80s, and when we moved into the studios in the 90s. The revolution in the East just ended. We danced to Acid House and digged into the Neo-Hippie vibes just came back from Goa/India and the most important thing for us had been the music that took us to very special places.
When I started playing my Berlin guitar again, there was a feeling of returning to those emotional states and a desire to produce an album to capture that special energy to rediscover Berlin in a new process.
I flew towards my ideas, influenced by Post Punk, New Wave, Art- and Kraut Rock, Psychedelia, Post Disco and Techno.
On Berlin Guitar (Short Cuts) you will find 3 to 4 min. short versions of my album Berlin Guitar.
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Tracklist:
· Mitropa (Short Cut):
Indietronic Post Disco marching in a 4 to the floor beat with a strumming concise melodic guitar riff that guides through that ride.
· Grunewald (Short Cut):
Snappy staccato New Wave style power chords minimalistically movin on a straight insistent beat.
· SO36 (Short Cut):
An uptempo fusion of electronic Goth Acidhouse Psychedelia elements.
· Silly Love Song (Short Cut):
A highly emotional electronic Rhythm & Blues guitar ballad, the lead guitar tells the story in an strongly up- and downbuilding expression, guided by a minimalistic handplayed funky bass & beat, guided by a gliding 303 synth.
· No Closing Time (Short Cut):
peels out its post-Discotronic Acidtechnohouse influences,
made to dance and inspired by Giorgio Moroder.
· Cosmic Ride (Short Cut):
Indietronic Acidhouse with a swing and a smoothy riding fretless bass flowing. The name is a reference to those German artists of 70s that didn’t really like the term Kraut Rock but prefered their music tagged as Cosmic instead.
· Trippin’ With Ralf + Florian (Short Cut):
Indietronic Acidhouse with a touch of Psychedelia, hypnotic synth patterns over layered funky guitars and baselines create a deep and groovy sonic experience with an irresistable dance appeal.
· Cause We’re Lovers (Short Cut):
Acidtechno melting with elements of 70s Psychedelia where singing e-bowed guitars connect with a hypnotically pulsating Techno groove and 303 baselines delivering that feel of Funk on top to it.
· Below The Surface (Short Cut):
Indietronic, spiral guitar strings dived in deep hall texture gliding over the far away sonic horizont.
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Berlin Guitar Live Jam:
[No Closing Time · Mitropa · Grunewald · Trippin' with Ralf + Florian]
Performed via live stream at Snowdance Independent Film Festival 2021.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2kW3jIooJk
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Get the CD album Berlin Guitar (limited edition) @ bandcamp:
gabriellemar.bandcamp.com/album/berlin-guitar
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released June 12, 2021