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
- The beginning (to begin with)
- Kaffee schwarz mit Zucker
- Nur was uns anschaut sehen wir
- Sarah Gina
- A far too long story
- 11 nach 8
- Absinth
- Ein Hauch von ...
- Manta Rey
- Ein Fall für Kommissar Kubrik
- Zweifel
- Sarah in Not
- Das Labor
- Mr. Hu hat keine Ahnung
- Schließfach 104
- ... oder doch?
- Icicles
- Apple-yard junction
- Der Echomann
- Jah Schneider shoots pool
- Kubrik kombiniert
- Second thoughts
- Ein letzter Tanz
- Dusk
- The end (to get done with it)
Credits
Arrangements: 17 Hippies (alias Max Manila)
Music: 17 Hippies (alias Max Manila)
#4,12 include bits of Saragina Rumba (W.G. Samuels / L. Whitcup)
#6 include bits of Elf-Achtel (trad.)
#14+16 include Jovano Jovanke (trad.)
#23 include Ungarn-Walzer (trad.)
Special Guests:
Carsten Dane – sounds, live sampling
Stephan Gatti – pedal steel guitar
Klaus Janek – steel stringed double bass
Boris Bell – drums, scraps of metal
Richard Pappik – acoustic percussion
Rob Cummings – electronic percussion
Johannes Leis – tenor sax
Recorded live: Popdeurope-festival 31.8.2002 at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
Mischung, Mastering: Klaus Wagner