Browse by Artist: TARWATER

Artist:	TARWATER
Title:	Tar Babies/Strawberry Statement
Label:	EARSUGAR (UK)
Format:	7"
Price:	$7.00
Catalog #:	EARSUG 037EP

"Extraordinary new 7" from Tarwater, landing out of nowhere on the excellent Earsugar Jukebox imprint, now also situated in the band's hometown of Berlin. 'Tar Babies' plays out the label's charmed mission for finding perfect pop from parallel universes. Here Lippok intones nonchalantly over a definitive, Madchester flavored, disco dub. For our money though, its the awesome 'Strawberry Statement' on the flip which defines this record --modulating out of a Chronomad-esque beats and Raster-ized bass vamp into some gorgeous lilting and lonesome guitar-drenched psychedelics. Heavy indeed!" Pressed on red vinyl.

Artist:	TARWATER
Title:	The Needle Was Traveling
Label:	MORR MUSIC (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	MORR 054CD

Tarwater (Ronald Lippok and Bernd Jestram) present The Needle Was Traveling, their fifth
       full-length album and their first release on Morr Music. It shows the duo at the height of their artistic abilities.
       There is a new tone to their music here, breathing a narrative quality into their songs. Carried by a warm and softly
       insisting pulse, they glide from one track, one chapter to the next, while exploring bewitched, yet strangely familiar
       landscapes -- you'll never really know if they are placed on an axis in a far away future or if they are part of a
       long-forgotten universe, which is said to have been the place where truth once lived.

Artist:	TARWATER
Title:	Spider Smile
Label:	MORR MUSIC (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	MORR 073CD

Bernd Jestram and Ronald Lippok sit in their recording studio located in the heart of their city and turn
       the knobs, press the buttons, and shift the regulators until they find a sound, or until a sound finds its way to them. A
       rhythm, a melody, a noise. For Spider Smile, Tarwater have found pop music: they, the electro duo, each of
       them with his roots in East Berlin's subculture and avant garde. The sun that rises and sets again and again in
       "Arkestra" shines for everyone at another place, originating from a joint bus trip with members of Sun Ra Arkestra
       through the hilly landscape of Scotland. America -- or rather, different ideas of what America is like -- is its
       essential motif. "Shirley Temple" that marks the beginning, is a clouded electro-overture. The recording studio is Bernd
       Jestram's and Ronald Lippok's favorite instrument, but still, a number of analog instruments landed up in front of the
       microphones. A harmonica, for example. And with it the blues. It changes "Witchpark" into a dark dub-landscape. Guitars
       send several songs on their way -- like the pushing "World of Things to Touch." Violins are plucked distinctly in other
       songs, an oboe spreads melancholy patina. Later, there is repetition and modification, song- and soundwriting from the
       spirit of modulation -- a central motif within the music of Tarwater. The album's Virgin Prunes cover makes its
       way through an echo-chamber. "Home is where the heart is," a line that sums up the entire album very well.

Artist:	TARWATER
Title:	Dwellers On The Threshold
Label:	MUTE USA
Format:	CD
Price:	$11.50
Catalog #:	MUTE 9188CD

"The fourth album from Tarwater, Dwellers on the Threshold, can hardly be classified. Strangely graceful, this is how their sound patterns change between traditional instruments and modern electronica, between songs and tracks. Tarwater use their material unpretentiously and with economy. In the past year, during the recordings in their own studio in Berlin/Mitte, a slowly growing archive of songs was being created. Dwellers on the Threshold is the result. During this time, Tarwater worked together with other artists such as Norwegian Tone Avenstroup, Nicholas Addo-Nettey (part of the legendary 70s occupation of the Fela-Kuti band) and Stefan Schneider (Mapstation and To Rococo Rot). While working on their new tracks, Tarwater wrote music for films, theatre and auditions as well."

Artist:	TARWATER
Title:	Remix EP
Label:	ROOM TONE
Format:	CD
Price:	$8.00
Catalog #:	RM 008 CD

"The music of Tarwater as re-imagined by a cavalcade of international 'post-rock' superstars. Tarwater, aka Bernd Jestram and Ronald Lippok, have been making music together for a while now, starting years ago in a punk band under the wary eye of the East German secret police. More recently, Tarwater have effected a more subtle subversion, garnering praise for their latest album, Silur which combines song structures with spoken word fragments and sub-aquatic electronics. Most of the mixes on this EP were sourced from Silur. Along with fellow travelers Mouse On Mars, To Rococo Rot and Kreidler, Tarwater is creating some of the most adventurous sounds to come out of Germany since the heyday of Krautrock.." Five track EP, with remixes by To Rococo Rot, Third Eye Foundation, Kiln, Birdwatcher (Windsor For The Derby) & Bundy K. Brown. Limited stock.

Previous Page Index of Artists Next Page