MUSIC

For our “Silver Jubilee” in 2020, we had planned to release an album of what we felt were unfinished songs. All had been released, one way or another. Staying home for covid gave us a lot of time to do work on this idea. We chose not to release a physical album, as it was all about an app we specially developed (available on app store and google play) that allows listeners to immerse in a new way of listening to music. A simple version of the music is available on all streaming platforms. By the way … 9000 nights are almost 25 years.

Tracklist

1. Singapore
2. El Dorado
3. La Zona Drom I
4. Atchafalaya
5. Ifni
6. Ajsino
7. Across Waters
8. Dreh’ dich nicht um
9. Worksong
10. Blumen im Glas
11. Teschko
12. Mad Bad Cat
13. Solitaire
14. Hand vorm Gesicht
15. La Zona Drom II
16. Bound for Morning
17. Kaukapol

Time was ripe for a new way to put our songs on tape. So we took a bunch of ideas to the old Hörspielstudio at Funkhaus Nalepastraße, where we rehearsed, arranged and recorded eleven backing tracks in two days, adding horns and strings in two more. Then we wrote the lyrics for songs about what we feel is worth going on a barricade for. The title is the German translation for “Le temps des Cerises”, a song associated with the Paris Commune of 1871.

CD/LP available @ HIPPIE SHOP.

Tracklist

1. Unterm Kirschbaum
2. Gold
3. La droguiste
4. If the wind blew me away
5. Wach vor Liebe
6. Licht aus
7. Pierre et Blanche
8. Going crazy
9. Wie ein Tier auf deinem Arm
10. Zwei Fische
11. You can’t kill yesterday

Our best of 17 HIPPIES album! 20 favourite songs – from the early recordings in 1996 to where we were in 2016 – all tracks revisited, remixed, and remastered to celebrate 20 years of the band on the road.

LP vailable at the HIPPIE SHOP.

Tracklist

1. Son mystère
2. Uz
3. The beast on your tracks
4. Saragina Rumba
5. Marlène
6. Was bleibt
7. Saint behind the glass
8. Jovano Jovanke
9. Jolies filles
10. Wann war das?
11. Adieu
12. Stern am Ende der Welt
13. Le son mystère (instr.)
14. Lazy friends & promises
15. Deine Tränen
16. Just like you
17. Valser nel bosco
18. Frau von ungefähr
19. So leicht
20. Hoyaka

Friends of ours collaborate and play 17 HIPPIES… our bonus album for our 20th anniversary. With 14 tracks played by BANDABARDO (Italy), LES OGRES DE BARBACK (France), BAYOU SECO, Marc Ribbot (USA), John Kennedy (Australia), Stoppok (Germany) and many more.

Tracklist

1. Las mujeres mágicas de la calle mía
2. Uz ti sceglie
3. Solitaire
4. Thorn
5. Schattenmann
6. Mijn mysterie
7. Adieu
8. Just like you
9. Диджей идёт домой (DJ id’ot domoy /Der DJ kehrt heim)
10. Sobreviviendo
11. Jolies filles
12. Jiao Hui Ji Guang (Funken der Berührung)
13. Son Mystère
14. Stranger

Challenging ourselves, we were joined by percussionists and drummers on every song. To begin with, we had meant to record an album of covers of “classic” instrumentals (tunes by the Allman Brothers, Bill Laswell, Frank Zappa, Mulatu Astatqé, and more), but then a few of our own songs, and a tune or two we picked up on the road crept in … just by chance this album marked the beginning of a new era: up until now (2014), we rarely played without percussion and never with drums. Now we do.

CD/LP available at the HIPPIE SHOP.

Tracklist

1. Geamparalele
2. So leicht
3. Ajsino
4. Jamais tout
5. Peaches en regalia
6. The beast on your tracks
7. Worksong
8. Hand vorm Gesicht
9. Zapateado
10. Yèkèrmo sèw
11. Hinter den Hügeln
12. In memory of Elizabeth Reed

Our first – and so far – our only album for children, recorded and released in 2013: “Titus träumt” (Titus dreams). Creating the album was the best fun we’ve had in ages. It had all us in stitches. We didn’t try very hard to be educationally valuable … it was all about recapturing how much fun it can be to be a kid! We fooled around, tried new things … ‘relived the child in us’. We still intend to release the English version …

CD available at the HIPPIE SHOP.

Tracklist

1. Titus schläft
2. Frau Lamouche & ihr Grammophon
3. Der traurige Froschkönig
4. Vom Mädchen aus Schnee
5. Kaperfahrt
6. Mein Tisch, mein Bett, mein Stuhl und ich
7. Schweinchen bunt
8. Wenn die Turmuhr 12 schlägt
9. Jemand stahl die Kieschka
10. 3 Mexikaner
11. Das Kamel auf dem Motorrad
12. Cowboy Jim & sein Pferd
13. Titus wacht auf ...

A compilation of all French songs we had recorded to date (2013), released by Buda Musique. With guest appearances by Fredo of LES OGRES DE BARBACK and Laulo Kebous of LES HURLEMENTS D’LÉO.

Tracklist

1. El Dorado
2. Marlène
3. Vallée de sirba - feat. Laulo Kebous
4. Solitaire
5. Moi
6. Son mystère
7. Time has left me, ma belle (Hardcore Trobadors)
8. Gator's grin
9. Jolie blonde
10. Jah Schneider (Hardcore Trobadors)
11. Ifni Ifni - feat. Marc Ribot, Jakob Ilja
12. Jolies filles
13. Madame
14. Dansons la valse
15. Ton étrangère
16. Le son mystère (instr.)
17. Sans savoir comment - feat. Fredo des Ogres de Barback

The third in a trio of studio albums. JD Foster from NYC joined us as guest producer, along our longtime studio wizard Klaus Wagner. He encouraged us to experiment with sounds and voices, taking studio production to a new dimension. We ended up with 13 new songs with “Across Waters”, “Jolies Filles”, and “Ton etrangère” becoming classics in our live shows.

Tracklist

1. Ton étrangère
2. Lazy friends + promises
3. Biese Bouwe
4. Jolies Filles
5. Across waters
6. Gimme dat harp boy
7. Dorn
8. Singapore
9. Blumen im Glas
10. Mädchen im Glück
11. Moi
12. The train
13. Herz auf der Zunge

Two years on, after excessive touring, we revisited our makeshift studio, creating our most successful original album to date, featuring “Adieu”, “El Dorado” and “Stern am Ende der “Welt.
This is the second album in – what in hindsight – is a series of three.

Tracklist

1. Uz
2. Adieu
3. Welcome to my world
4. La Zona Drom
5. Atchafalaya
6. Arcanul
7. Solitaire
8. Stern am Ende der Welt
9. Six Green Bottles
10. El Dorado
11. Kaukapol
12. Bound for morning

We wanted to do something differently, so in 2007 we started recording 12 new songs in our office, turning the place effectively into our own studio. Improvising with borrowed technology, we started writing more original songs, slowly moving away from playing traditional music “our way”. “Deine Tränen”, and “Just like you” have become favourites in our live shows. As it happened, this was the first of three albums that feature this way of recording.

Tracklist

1. Schattenmann
2. Son mystère
3. Wann war das?
4. Deine Tränen
5. Teschko
6. Tick tack
7. The moving song
8. Apache
9. Heimlich
10. Just like you
11. Madame
12. Rustemul

For our 10th anniversary we released a live album (along with a DVD, featuring footage of different projects of ours) of our live show played at or living room, the Berlin “Kesselhaus”, where we still play our annual “Hippie-Haus-Tanz”. The album was originally supposed to be called “The greatest show on Earth”, but after a letter from “Barnum & Beiley” we renamed it.

Tracklist

1. Ifni
2. Frau von Ungefähr
3. Bourrée Dite D’aurore Sand
4. Mad Bad Cat
5. Karsilamas
6. Gator’s grin
7. Saragina Rumba
8. Saint behind the glass
9. Besho
10. Dansons la valse
11. Jovano Jovanke
12. Hotel Cazane
13. Sirba All The Way
14. Der Zug um 7.40 Uhr
15. Was bleibt
16. Elf-Achtel
17. Chassidic Song
18. Marlène
19. Hoyaka
20. Valser nel Bosco

This 2006 album documents an experiment that went very right! When our favourite guitarist Marc Ribot liked the idea of joining us on stage for a show in Cologne, a dream came true. Alongside our friend Jakob Ilja of “Element of Crime”, who had played with us on many occasions, we rocked the house at the “Stadtgarten”. Recorded live by the WDR (German public radio).

Tracklist

1. Leolos Blues
2. Frau von Ungefähr
3. Ifni Ifni
4. Galerón
5. Karsilamas
6. Was bleibt?
7. Jovano Jovanke
8. Truffles & french philosophy go Sirba
9. Marlène
10. Besho

6 songs, jointly composed, arranged and played by our French friends HURLEMENTS D’LÉO and us. Again we hired a studio in Berlin, and this time spent three weeks with 20 musicians cooped up in Berlin, bang in the middle of summer. The six tracks were then exclusively released on the Wagram label in France (also available in the 17 Hippies shop).
The 12″ single is an impulsive mixture of the traditions of both groups: urban, Eastern European and chansonésque.

Tracklist

1. Jah Schneider
2. Sexy Mariachi
3. Time has left me
4. Leolos Blues
5. Mixeur
6. Ifni

It was time for a proper studio album, so in 2004 we spent a few weeks almost living in one. We started off recording live (“Frau von Ungefähr”), and later learned to dub instruments to live backing tracks, such as the beautiful “Valser nel bosco”, and the somewhat ska-esk “Cube”. We also found time to do a cover of “Saint behind the glass” by Los Lobos. The press said: “Musically, there´s everything in it which they could possibly get their hands on. They whirl you through Romanian Sirba, clarinets race through Klezmer melodies, a Cajun song is performed in a very strange local German dialect. Rules are turned around and over, the outcome being wonderful, rather strange music, which for the first time is not only orchestral, but also sung. The entire album is a warming highlight…“

Tracklist

1. Frau von Ungefähr
2. Eine Sirba
3. Paso Doble
4. Ifni
5. Karsilamas
6. Was bleibt?
7. Cube
8. Marlène
9. Besho
10. Saint behind the glass
11. Valser nel Bosco
12. Hotel Cazane
13. Hoyaka Suite – Intro
14. Hoyaka Suite – Hoyaka
15. Hoyaka Suite – Soy em Gadde

To something completely different … recorded live at the “Haus der Kulturen der Welt” in 2002 this album is a “jam band goes film score” rendition of a sideline project of ours. Featuring guest musicians from the electronic scene, we improvised the soundtrack to an imaginary film noir, throwing in fragments of our repertoire. As a journalist put it: “SEXY AMBIENT HIPPIES are the GRATEFUL DEAD of world music.”

Tracklist

1. The beginning (to begin with)
2. Kaffee schwarz mit Zucker
3. Nur was uns anschaut sehen wir
4. Sarah Gina
5. A far too long story
6. 11 nach 8
7. Absinth
8. Ein Hauch von ...
9. Manta Rey
10. Ein Fall für Kommissar Kubrik
11. Zweifel
12. Sarah in Not
13. Das Labor
14. Mr. Hu hat keine Ahnung
15. Schließfach 104
16. ... oder doch?
17. Icicles
18. Apple-yard junction
19. Der Echomann
20. Jah Schneider shoots pool
21. Kubrik kombiniert
22. Second thoughts
23. Ein letzter Tanz
24. Dusk
25. The end (to get done with it)

This album gave us a little hit in France: “Marlène”, our first ever self-written song in French, originally intended for a guest vocalist, who then couldn’t find the time to sing the song. Kiki jumped in and so became our singer. Along with two other new tracks “Vallée de Sirba” sung by Laulo, of the French band HURLEMENTS D’LEO and the instrumental version of the same tune “Eine Sirba” (recorded by ourselves in a shack in Southern France) the album was made up of tunes from the “Wer ist das?” and HALBE TREPPE albums, previously unreleased in France.

Tracklist

1. Die Oros
2. Mad bad cat
3. Isa auf der Brücke
4. Ershter Tants (live)
5. Eine Sirba
6. Marlène
7. Elf-Achtel
8. Gelb zwo drei
9. Tanz des Bauern
10. Saragina Rumba (live)
11. Chassidic song (live)
12. Sandgate
13. Fahrstuhlmusik
14. Vallée de Sirba
15. Freilachs (live)
16. Gator’s grin
17. Kolomeyke
18. E-Major

The original soundtrack to the award winning German movie of the same name by Andreas Dresen. Creating the movie and the music for it, was a singular experience. The film had no written script and was developed by the director and cast as they went along, living together for three months in 2001 on site in Frankfurt/Oder. We joined them from time to time, and some of the music was played live during shots. We created a lot of the film score in a similar way, improvising sounds and atmospheres to little story lines. Some of the music was then used during the writing of a scene to enhance the feel of what they were planning to shoot. Some tunes were randomly recorded (there were many more) and used in the editing process of the film. The only tune written after the three month process was over is “Mad Bad Cat”, our first ever song, written on request for the credit section of the movie.

Tracklist

1. Die Oros I
2. Gelb zwo drei
3. Isabeau
4. Kein Feuerzeichen
5. Sandgate
6. Fische
7. Elf-Achtel
8. Tanz des Bauern
9. Gabis Lied
10. Isa auf der Brücke
11. Die Oros
12. Immer noch kein Feuerzeichen
13. Dorfwalzer
14. Fahrstuhlmusik
15. Im Schnee
16. El balado
17. E-Major
18. Vespa
19. Kolomeyke
20. E-Major II
21. Mad bad cat

Our first album on a professional label happened in France, when great Buda Musique put out most of the Rock’n’Roll 13 album tracks, adding some that appeared on “Wer ist das?”. They also came up with the album title, that over the years turned into a label of its own.

Tracklist

1. Der Zug um 7.40 Uhr
2. Bourrée dite d’aurore sand
3. Galerón
4. Valse à cadet
5. Who stole the keeshka?
6. A scuttiscia
7. Mustafa
8. Le waltz
9. Folk song
10. Shalom Alechem
11. Arriba muchacho
12. King Arthur’s liver
13. Jovano Jovanke
14. Chassidic song
15. Die Ungarn-Nummer
16. Mandelay

Recorded live in October 1998 at the Prater Biergarten in Berlin. We pre-gave-away tickets for three unplugged shows to a frantic audience. And unplugged meant just that: no amps, no microphones, not even for the rare vocal performance. Includes one of our all time favourites “Saragina Rumba”.

Tracklist

1. Le déserteur
2. Freilachs
3. Alabama jubilee
4. Jolie blonde
5. Ershter Tants
6. Maxglaner
7. Tarantella
8. Saragina Rumba
9. Niall’s
10. Mandelay
11. Mustafa
12. Ungarn-Walzer
13. Zweutletscht
14. Ukrainskyi Tanietz
15. Chassidic song
16. Broyges Tanz

A collection of our first recordings ever, originally intended as a cassette for friends and family. When we found out, that it was cheaper to release them on a CD, we did, accidentally starting our own record company. All from 1996, some tracks were taped at the legendary Beatstudio by equally legendary Gerd Blum, who also took care of mastering. Others were recorded using a cassette recorder, capturing the swinging atmosphere of our early regular gigs at “Café Bellevue” and abord “MS Pik-As”, two West Berlin venues we have outlived. Our first regular concert at a proper venue was tracked at our favourite old “Franz-Club” on July 14th (the day after Love Parade) giving us the iconic introduction “Habt ihr alle eure Plaeauschuhe an? (“are you all wearing your platform shoes?”).

Tracklist

1. Vorspiel
2. Der Zug um 7.40 Uhr
3. Bourrée dite d’aurore sand
4. Valse à cadet
5. A scuttiscia
6. Le waltz
7. Folk song
8. Der Freund von Lüül
9. Shalom Alechem
10. Who stole the keeshka?
11. Arriba muchacho
12. Galerón
13. King Arthur’s liver
14. Jovano Jovanke
15. Chassidic song
16. Die Ungarn-Nummer
17. Csillagok