Lovely How I Let My Mind Float
Dharma Drums – Kumquat Combat
CONTROL
SIGNAL
ONCE AGAIN, TODAY, I’M FILLED
WITH THOSE VAGUE AND POWERFUL ENERGIES
ON SUCH DAYS I MUST FIGHT AGAINST IT’S WILL IT WANTS TO DO WANT I DON’T
SOMETIMES I SIT INSIDE AND LISTEN TO IT FUNCTIONING TODAY IT’S STRONG, LIKE AN ANIMAL
IT WANTS TO PROVE THAT I’M NOT HUMAN I WAIT INSIDE
I MUST CHOOSE, TODAY
AND MAKE IT DO WHAT I WANT
IT’S NOT SOMETHING TO WE MAY ASK AND DO SHALL IT WAS AND SHOULD IT WERE AND TO BE ASKED NOT.
THE THING ITSELF IS SOMETHING FOR ITSELF INSIDE US AND CANNOT SHOULD NOT BE CONTROLLED.
THE FASCIST INSIDE US MUST BE KILLED.
DON’T CONTROL YOURSELF.
KILL YOURSELF WHEN IT HAPPENS OR SOMEONE WILL DO IT FOR YOU.
IS IT NOT TRUE?
DOES IT NOT EXIST?
DO WE NOT SEE IT? SHOULD WE NOT DO IT?
Jack Marlow
Call It Anything
Call It Anything [kɔːl ɪt ˈɛniθɪŋ]
Pop? Jazz? Hip Hop? – “Call It Anything” cannot be labeled as a musical direction but is a way of thinking. This compilation exclusively features German bands playing boundless music beyond the current labels of jazz and pop music. A tune implies more than mere words. “Call It Anything” guarantees great entertainment and new perspectives in modern music.
CALL IT ANYTHING
Chicken Teaser – Single
Tallulah Dance Band – “Chicken Taeser”, by Achim Gaetjen, Mark Scheibe, Ralf Benesch, Willehad Grafenhorst and Theo Leffers on drums.
Be My Chick Tonight – Single
Tallulah Dance Band “Be My Chick Tonight” – Single, by Achim Gaetjen, Mark Scheibe, Willehad Grafenhorst, Theo Leffers and Ralf Benesch
Countdown Remastered
REmastered June 2024 by Achim Gaetjen, Coverdesign & Photo by Mirjam Dumont @ 2024,
Release: August 2024
No Regrets – Remastered
No Regrets REmastered May 2024 by Achim Gaetjen, Coverdesign & Photo by Mirjam Dumont © 2024
Release: End of July 2024
SEA OF LOVE
Sea Of Love is dedicated to Peter Apel, who died suddenly in June 2024. It is the last recording with him in collaboration with Achim Gaetjen made in March 2024. The song was recorded in the Ainos Studios (Kefalonia, Greece) and the GüBa Bremen (Germany).
Peter Apel, guitars, mandolin and bass.
Achim Gaetjen, vocals, baritone ukulele and sounds.
Mirjam Dumont, vocals.
Stefan Ulrich, drums.
Composition and lyrics by Achim Gaetjen ©2024.
Photo and cover design by Mirjam Dumont ©2024.
Le Monde es à toi
The Bremen band Les Rabiates relies on vinyl, namely 180 gram, black vinyl of the highest quality. Last year, the band already released a mini-album in LP format with “Destination Unknown”. Now, the second coup follows with “Le Monde est à toi” (released on the Bremen label Fuego). Mind you, it is a mini-LP that runs at 45 rpm, so only contains six songs and has a playing time of a good 23 minutes.
Destination Unknown
Les Rabiates On “Destination Unknown”, Les Rabiates stage a crashing, driving, and then tenderly lyrical dark rock in singer/songwriter style, in which the color black predominates: Here, Cohen, Cave and Cash are sitting on the Velvet Underground sofa in Warhol’s Factory – the latter mainly because CaLi’s voice is somewhere between Nico and Patti Smith. Les Rabiates are also lounging on this sofa, and they feel right at home here. The lyrics are in English and Spanish, although the composer Achim Gätjen found his inspiration not in Spain, but – surprise!! – in Greece. Read More
Manna Machine
Manna Machine is Les Rabiates 6th studio album, and his most powerful to date. Released through Fuego Records, the album contains a rebellious and honest collection of songs, straight from the heart.
Les Rabiates was founded in September 2008. The line up was Achim Gätjen (sax, vocals), Jens Ahlers (drums), Ralf Benesch (git, sax), Michael Berger (analogue keys).Les Rabiates works with different artists and musicians. In the beginning of 2009 Les Rabiates work together with the german/polish writer and poet Artur Becker.
current line up: Achim Gätjen, Jens Ahlers, Peter Apel, Billie Bug
Der Tote Mann auf dem Friedhof geht nach Hause
Les Rabiates & Artur Becker “The dead man in the cemetery goes home”
The band Les Rabiates (aka Swim Two Birds) and Artur Becker can now look back on an eventful past – numerous live performances in Germany and Poland since 2007 and the successful CD production “A Kiosk with Eleven Million Nights” from 2009.
After a ceasefire, the musicians (Achim Gätjen, Ralf Benesch and Jens Ahlers) are returning with their enfant terrible, the German-Polish poet, with their current CD The Dead Man in the Cemetery Goes Home being a kind of back-to-the-roots journey: The recordings for this album were made in 2006 – at the junction between Swim Two Birds and the later Les Rabiates, and if you like, they document the first meeting with the writer, poet and essayist Artur Becker.
Ein Kiosk Mit Elf Millionen Nächten
Les Rabiates & Artur Becker is a furious combination of border-crossing music and divisive poetry, influenced by current jazz trends and subterranean rock, an explosive mixture of eloquent, sometimes subversive lyrics and a bubbling, stylistically wildly rampant sound. The musical result can no longer be clearly classified: with its polka passages and reggae rhythms, which are also mixed with goose-step marches or apparent Volga romanticism, and the rock n punk offensives, this is no longer jazz, but rather a derivative of all sorts of things, which, in combination with Becker’s verses, is always on the trail of urban fury and madness.