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PLUS GANZWIND |
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Tom Baran: bass, guitar |
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Manfred Adler: guitar, keyboard |
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Georg Fuchssteiner: guitar |
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Matthias Lehrberger: drums |
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Plus Ganzwind are part of a small but vivid and young indie-scene originating from Straubing/Germany. Their influences are mainly Thrill Jockey artists, Jim O´Rourke, The Sea And Cake and Yo La Tengo. After a short appearance at Swampland Sessions in July 2001, Manfred Adler, Tom Baran, Georg Fuchssteiner and Matthias Lehrberger locked themselves up in an art-workshop with a MD-fourtrack and came back with an album of six instrumentals which brilliantly form an integrated whole.
Almost a year later Plus Ganzwind was chosen to be the first official Schinderwies release (CD, 500 numbered copies). Sunlit guitar melodies, often looped, communicate with each other and radiate an uplifting calm euphoria, grounded by driving jazz drums and decorated with sparkles of electronics and melodica. After a year of sporadic live shows the band unfortunately broke apart. Drummer Matthias Lehrberger releases on Schinderwies with his electronic solo-project Auf dem Weg ins Kaufhaus... and Manfred Adler is involved in different other projects, like the Emocore band The European Translation of...
Photo: Archie Müller |
