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| Location: | Munich, |
| Country: |  Germany |
| Last Login: | Jul 2, 2008 (97 days back) |
About Me |
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Background: The Notwist emerged from their famed Weilheim roots almost 20 years ago. Back in 1989 their sound was fuelled by a visceral sonic aesthetic more readily associated with hardcore Metal than with the musically diverse, widescreen productions that made their 2002 album “Neon Golden” their biggest commercial and critical success to date. In the intervening years members of The Notwist have been involved with quite a number of exceptional bands, including Lali Puna, Console, MS John Soda, 13 & God and The Tied & Tickled Trio. In the midst of all of this activity, The Notwist have also toured the world, established a record label, started families, developed their interests in a widening circle of musical styles, and acquired the kind of stature and following that belies their origins deep in the woodlands of Bavaria. The Notwist make music that is at once impossibly personal and hugely inviting, formed by a kind of alchemy that isn’t hurried by convention or deadline. Over time this process has produced an album that will without doubt rank as their most important and moving to date : ’The Devil, You + Me’. The devil, you + me: On first listen, "The devil, you + me" greets you like an old friend. Markus Acher’s singular voice surrounds you with all the comfort of familiarity, the euphoria of re-acquaintance. It takes a while before the words and the scale of the musical language sink in. This is an album driven by an individual and collective restlessness, something that manifests itself both in the endlessly inventive musical construction and the submerged lyrical narrative that hits you from the astonishing opening "Good Lies" all the way through to the fragile end-piece "Gone Gone Gone". The lyrics explore a world of uneasy being, structured like incantations formed to ward off the inescapable cycle of life and death, falling back on archetypes, religion, God and the devil himself. Acher seems to be resisting the inevitabilities of mortality, fighting the physical certainties of the world around us - "Gravity you won’t get me. Old gravity you won’t get me..." Aided by the suitably stellar ’Andromeda Mega Express Orchestra’, ‘Where In This World’ is another breathtaking moment, deploying strings and orchestration in a fashion that greatly transcends the usual pomp and circumstance of rock groups with big budgets: this is more like Morton Feldman as filtered through an array of carefully underplayed electronic treatments. Immediately after all that, ‘Gloomy Planets’ sets about stealthily burrowing its way under your skin, setting out simply with a few well-placed guitar and piano chords only to build incrementally toward a stately, emotive swagger that never quite spills out into overstatement, or all-guns-blazing crescendo. It also just happens to be one of the loveliest songs this band have ever written. There’s a constant dialogue between The Notwist’s hard rocking past and their more exploratory tendencies, but it’s the gradations that lie in between those two extremes that make them unique. it sounds like these guys have spent those past six years reforming as eleven different bands, tackling each one of the songs here from an entirely different angle. There are very few groups who could make sense of material like ‘Your Alphabet’, a piece which combines droning 20th century dissonance with ear-shattering, electronically hacked percussion - only to somehow produce an actual, coherent song at the end of it all. That’s a trick you’d ordinarily only hear someone like Radiohead or Wilco pulling off with any degree of success, but on ’The Devil, You + Me’ The Notwist propel themselves into the same stratosphere as bands of that order. For all their inclinations towards the avant-garde, importantly, this is a band who know when to play it simple as well: a little further down the line you find yourself confronted with the sheer eloquence of acoustic rocker ‘Boneless’, a three minute power surge fusing motorik rhythms with restrained yet hugely effective arrangements, quietly weaving strings and harpsichord into the very fabric of the song. Elsewhere, Acher asks "where in this world could I go but to the chord that takes me away...?". And you’re suddenly filled with the hope and promise that although it may take a while, this isn’t the last we’ll have heard from him, or this incredible band. |
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Music:Member Since: 5/26/2005Band Website: notwist.com Band Members: Markus Acher - guitar, vocals Michael Acher - bass Martin Gretschmann (aka Console) - programming The Notwist - Where In This World .. Sounds Like: The Notwist (1990)
Neon Golden (2002)
Others: : :Johnny and Mary EP ( 1994 ) Only in America Promo CD (only released in the United States) ( 1996 ) Day 7 Maxi ( 1997 ) Chemicals Maxi ( 1998 ) Trashing Days Maxi ( 2001 ) Pick Up The Phone Maxi ( 2002 ) Pilot Maxi ( 2002 ) Lichter EP ( 2003 ) (Soundtrack for the film Distant Lights (Lichter)) Solo Swim EP ( 2004 ) Different Cars and Trains EP ( 2004 ) Record Label: CitySlang / Domino (USA) Type of Label: Indie |
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My Background and Lifestyle |
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| Occupation: | Music Artist (Electronica) |
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"Boneless" Video Premiere |
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| Myspace video premiere of "Boneless" , the second single from "The Devil, You + Me", it's today!Boneless
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New Tour Dates |
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| 20.06.2008 D-Wiesbaden - Schlachthof21.06.2008 D-Neuhausen o.E. - Southside Festival22.06.2008 D-Scheeel - Hurricane Festival05.07.2008 DK-Roskilde - Roskilde Festival15.07.2008 A-Feldkirch - Poolba... Posted by The Notwist on Mon, 30 Jun 2008 03:55:00 PST |
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New album cover art revealed! |
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Posted by The Notwist on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 01:49:00 PST |
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"Where in this world" Video! |
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| The Notwist: Where In This World from Notwist Ultras on Vimeo.... Posted by The Notwist on Wed, 09 Apr 2008 01:31:00 PST |
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New Single "Where in the world" |
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| The videopremiereofthenewsingle "Where in the world" will be avaiable soon on notwist.com!Also a revamped myspace profile with the album artwork will coming too.The new album "The Devil, You + ... Posted by The Notwist on Wed, 02 Apr 2008 04:24:00 PST |
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New album, new song, new tour! |
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| New song "Good Lies" from the upcoming album "The Devil, You + Me"The Notwist will begin courting The Devil on a bunch of European dates scheduled for the spring and summer, starting with an April 23 ... Posted by The Notwist on Wed, 05 Mar 2008 08:42:00 PST |
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Title Album Revealed!!! |
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| "The Devil, You + Me"soon will be albe a preview of "Good Lies" on cityslang.comyessss :) Posted by The Notwist on Wed, 05 Mar 2008 08:19:00 PST |
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The Notwist - untitled |
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| 01. Good Lies02. Where In This World03. Gloomy Planets04. Alphabet05. The Devil, You & Me06. Gravity07. Sleep08. On Planet Off09. Boneless10. Hands On Us11. Gone Gone Gone... Posted by The Notwist on Wed, 05 Mar 2008 01:43:00 PST |
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something new :) |
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| go now!!!http://www.notwist.com/ Posted by The Notwist on Fri, 08 Feb 2008 08:19:00 PST |
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NEW ALBUM, NEW LINE UP, NEWS!!! |
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| at the iceland airwaves festival in reykjavik/iceland notwist-singer markus acher told notwist-ultras-correspondent some interesting news:the recording has been finished.new drummer on the recording ... Posted by The Notwist on Thu, 13 Dec 2007 02:55:00 PST |
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