{"id":13983,"date":"2020-09-30T19:42:29","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T19:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/?p=13983"},"modified":"2020-09-30T19:42:32","modified_gmt":"2020-09-30T19:42:32","slug":"krautrock-legends-mani-neumeier-zeus-b-held-release-new-album-the-secret-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2020\/09\/30\/krautrock-legends-mani-neumeier-zeus-b-held-release-new-album-the-secret-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"Krautrock Legends Mani Neumeier & Zeus B. Held Release New Album \u201cThe Secret Lives\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This is how a spontaneous project came about – long overdue! A colorful bouquet of ideas, rhythms, sounds, images and stories … They met in 1973 at a Krautrock Festival in Frankfurt – Mani played and was Guru Guru, Zeus was the newcomer to Birth Control on the keyboards. Since then they have met again and again, jammed and played gigs together. Then finally – in the summer of 2019 they went two days to Bernie Michael Land\u2019s Synxxs Studio in Rodgau – a wall of modular synth and wonderful gongs and percussion – this is how the basics of the tracks with Mani\u2019s percussive playing on the \u201cHaken Continuum\u201d and various electronic drum pads came about. Zeus built the chord structures and sequences for this. Then it went to Zeus\u2019 KG Beat Studio in Freiburg, where Mani recorded an acoustic drum kit as an overdub. There were also some outbreaks of poetics – so for some pieces texts were created about the common sound images. Afterwards they started again in Mani\u2019s Odenwald Secret Retreat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


\u201cDiscreetly, almost secretly we\u2019ve been putting together a first album \u2013 after\u00a0we\u2019ve\u00a0known each other as musicians since a long time \u2026\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Released September 18, 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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All Tracks written by Zeus B. Held & Mani Neumeier<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Mani Neumeier: Electronic, Acoustic Drums, Percussion, Kaossilator & VocalsZeus B. Held: Keyboards, Voice & Production\u00a0Luigi Archetti: Guitar on A3, B2, B3, B4 & B5\u00a0Bernd-Michael Land: Analogue Sequencing\u00a0Etsuko Watanabe: Voice On B1\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Recorded at Synxxs-, Kgbeat & Hilsenhain-Studios MMIX & MMXX\u00a0Mastered by Lars Lafayette Fasbender<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Cover Photo & \u201cWabi Sabi\u201d painting By Mani NeumeierPostcard Photo by Kamikaze JaneSleeve & Typography by Percy<\/p>\n\n\n\n


To purchase:<\/strong>https:\/\/bellerophonrecords.bandcamp.com\/album\/the-secret-lives<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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