Hello,

 

my new website will be online during December 2024.

 

 

 

Here is the trailer for the new music-theatre The Woman at the Store::

 

Trailer 

6th and 7th July 2023, live at Radialsystem Berlin


as part of the Heroines of Sound Festival Berlin, 6th - 9th July 2023

 

06th July 2023, 6 pm

as participant in the panel discussion


7th July 2023

World premiere of a new composition for the Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin with electronics and video


Tree Torn Mind

for Theo Nabicht, contrabass clarinet, Seth Josel, e-guitar Cosima Gerhardt, violoncello

 

Stepha Schweiger composition, conception and elaboration of electronics and video

Sound design: Florian Tippe

Photos and video realisation Jakob Klaffs


Commissioned by the Heroines of Sound Festival Berlin 2023

 

 

Stepha Schweiger answered the 15 Questions by Tobias Fischer.

 

 

The Moon Is No Door is Stepha Schweigers new Band.

The Moon Is No Door perform Stepha Schweigers third Katherine Mansfield project.

 

The debut album Tiny Moment appears August 26, 2022, on LST records, Berlin | Broken Silence, Hamburg.

 

On June 24, 2022 the first single Revelation is released: https://orcd.co/revelation

At the same time the video teaser for the album Tiny Moment appears on Youtube:

https://youtu.be/hs9--Q1aTTE

 

Find and follow The Moon Is No Door on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/themoonisnodoor/

Find and like The Moon Is No Door on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/themoonisnodoor/

 

Artist: The Moon Is No Door

Album: Tiny Moment

Release: 26. August 2022

Label | distribution: LST Records | Broken Silence

 

Videos:

Tiny Moment: https://youtu.be/DAP1Uy_3Cro
Revelation: https://youtu.be/Z7qJp-XiyOg
 

Stream+Download:
https://orcd.co/tiny-moment

CD+Vinyl:
https://originalproduct.de/interpret/?q=THE%20MOON%20IS%20NO%20DOOR
 

The Moon Is No Door - Tiny Moment

 

Review by Ullrich Maurer and "Platte der Woche" on Gaesteliste - Internet Music Magazine:

 

Go to Website

 

The Moon Is No Door

The new album Tiny Moment received the following attentions on radio stations, among others:

 

https://www.swr.de/swr2/musik-jazz-und-pop/lyrik-prosa-post-punk-tiny-moment-von-the-moon-is-no-door-100.html (album of the week)

 

https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/corso-kunst-und-pop-vom-20-08-2022-komplette-sendung-dlf-dc9a48a6-100.html

 

online till 29.8., including live performance:

https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/tonart-livesession-stepha-schweiger-dlf-kultur-92da8418-100.html

 

Freistil by Holger Luckas, radioeins 24.08.2022:

https://www.radioeins.de/programm/sendungen/freistil/

 

Deutschlandfunk Radionacht (Rock) by Günther Janssen

(without link)

 

Bayern2 with Roland Biswurm (online until 7.10.):

https://www.br.de/radio/live/bayern2/programm/2022-09-29/3279560/

 

 

Here is the new review of Tiny Moment by The Moon Is No Door in the TAZ Berlin:

 

https://taz.de/Neue-Musik-aus-Berlin/!5867929/

 

Biennale Venice 2022, Merce Cunningham Dance Company

 

Jlin’s Remix of Floryan nachdenklich by Stepha Schweiger from the Album When I Was A Bird

 

as part of the Live Dance Performance by Merce Cunningham Company at Biennale Venice 2022.

 

@vittoriomachini, @labiennale, @studiowaynemcgregor @mercetrust @matthieu_blazy @jlin_p @stephaschweiger

 

A teaser of the production on Instagram

Stream and Download Floryan nachdenklich (Jlin Remix) Maxi-Single

Original Video Floryan nachdenklich (Jlin Remix) by PFA Studios

 

 

To support the composition of a new musical theatre Stepha Schweiger was awarded a grant from the German Musikfonds in 2022.

Stepha Schweiger

Floryan nachdenklich (Jlin Remix)

Digital maxi-single with three songs based on the album “When I was a Bird”

Release: March 26, 2021

L’ST records / Broken Silence

 

Following the release of the album “When I was a Bird” by Stepha Schweiger in 2020, which appeared as vinyl and cd, L’ST Records is about to release a maxi-single with three of the artist’s new productions on March 26, 2021.

The remix of the song “Floryan nachdenklich”, for which a video is to be released simultaneously, was created by none other than Jlin.

 

Titled “Sleeping Together”, the second track is a product of the lockdown. Nostalgically recalling the simple act of sleeping side-by-side in times gone by, this song was once again inspired by the writings of the British-New Zealand author Katherine Mansfield.

 

The icing on the cake of this maxi-single comes in the form of an extended disco version of the title track “When I was a Bird”. Created by the album’s producer Pyrolator, it’s backed by a clubbeat and is ideally suitable for dancing within your own four walls or in the great outdoors.

 

Video "Floryan nachdenklich (Jlin Remix)" on YouTube

Stream/Download Maxi-single Floryan nachdenklich (Jlin Remix)

 

Order vinyl / cd „When I was a Bird“

L’ST records

 

Deutschlandfunk Kultur


Stepha Schweiger appears as part of an extraordinary feature on the vocalist and performer Anna Clementi 
with an interview and live excerpts of „The Mark on the Wall“
the music theatre work they realised together in London, Berlin and Ulm 2017-2019.
 

The interview - with live recordings of „The Mark on the Wall“ at Berlin Theatre at Delphi in October 2019 - starts at minute 28.45:

listen to feature onDLF Kultur

Stepha Schweiger is elected for the interview highlights 2020 on Radioeins - Elektro Beats!

 

 

 

 

Stepha Schweiger - Interview & LIVE music

Frannzclub Berlin - Summer Garden at Radioeins live broadcast

 

Friday, 18th September 2020, 7.05 & 8.30 pm

 

 

https://www.radioeins.de/programm/sendungen/mofr1921/_/stepha-schweiger.html

 

 

 

 

La Wolfe is online!

 

Interview on the new album "When I was a Bird" and music, selected by Stepha Schweiger, a broadcast, made by Thomas Maitz at Radio Helsinki, Graz:

 

https://cba.fro.at/462227

The videos accompanying new album release "When I was a Bird" are out!

 

When I was a Bird, video by Vincent Stefan

 

Sea Crazy Song, video by Pyrolator

 

 

 

 

Elektro Beats Radio1 with Olaf Zimmermann on August 09, 2020:

Focus on new album "When I was a BIrd" including interview.

 

Unfortunately not yet available online: Listen

 

Federleichte Sommerklänge

Verträumt, poppig, leicht psychedelisch klingt das neue Album der Berliner Komponistin und Sängerin Stepha Schweiger. Ihre markante Stimme, die Schweiger zwischen die Synthesizerklänge streut, sorgt dabei für genau das richtige Maß an Bodenhaftung. Ein zauberhaft sommerliches Klangexperiment.

WAZ, 8th June 2020, on new album "When I was a Bird"


 

Stepha Schweiger’s new studio album "When I was a BIrd", produced by Pyrolator aka Kurt Dahlke, released may 29, 2020 on L’ST records | Broken Silence.

 

You can find detailed info and downloads on L’ST records:

home | videos

press

Stepha Schweiger | download presskit

Stepha Schweiger "When I was a Bird"

 

RBB-Kultur, a portrait by Carmen Gräf 10th June 2020

 

Here you can listen to the portrait in german language or read the announcement on RBB.

 

Stepha Schweiger is interviewed by Roderich Fabian at Zündfunk Bayern 2 Radio on May 28th

 

2020 on her new album "WHEN I WAS A BIRD", along with music from the album.

 

May 29 2020: New album

Stepha Schweiger - When I was a Bird

order cd digipack & vinyl 180 g, blue transparent, limited edition from Flight13 online shop & record store.

 

April 24 2020: The first digital single Sea Crazy Song taken from the forthcoming album is coming out.

video | stream& buy |  LST records | bandcamp

 

May 29 2020: new album

Stepha Schweiger - When I was a Bird

cd digipack / limited edition coloured vinyl 180g / download

LST Records / Broken Silence

production and arrangement: Pyrolator

 

 

 

Interview at Radio 1 Station, Lokalmatador

 

with Christiane Falk on 30.09.2019 at  2.07 pm

 

 

 

 

 

World Premiere

 

14. November 2019

 

Alte Feuerwache, Köln/Germany

 

Konzertreihe 3 x 3 x 3

 

Stepha Schweiger

Frost Pattern - Eisblume

für Flöte, E-Gitarre, fixierte Elektronik

 

Trio nyt: Pavel Tseliapnou, Stephan Wolke, Emanuel Wittersheim

 

The concert will be repeated on 05th December 2019 in Essen/Germany and on 07th Dezember 2019 in Münster/Germany.

 

 

More Info

 

3 x 3 x 3

 

3 Konzerte, 3 Trios aus NRW, 3 Städte in NRW: Trio Abstrakt (Essen), Trio nyt (Münster) und Ensemble S201 (Köln)

  • 14. November 2019 – Alte Feuerwache, Köln
  • 5. Dezember 2019 – Zentralbibliothek, Essen
  • 7. Dezember 2019 – Musikhochschule, Münster

    Programm

     

  • Matthias Kaul: The Mellow Quark
    für Flöte, E-Gitarre und E-Bass
  • Simon Loeffler: b
    für drei Performer mit Effektgeräten
  • Stepha Schweiger: Frost Patterns - Eisblume
    für Flöte, E-Gitarre und Elektronik
  • Orm Finnendahl: Rekurs
    für Saxophon, Klavier, Schlagwerk und Elektronik
  • Simon Steen-Andersen: Im Rauschen
    für Flöte, Oboe und Bassklarinette mit Mini-Lautsprechern
  • Iris ter Schiphorst: My sweet Latin Lover II (*1956)
    für Flöte, E-Gitarre und Elektronik
  • Carola Bauckholt: Zopf
    für Flöte, Oboe und Klarinette
  • Georges Aperghis: Trio Funambule
    für Saxophon, Klavier und Schlagwerk

In der Konzertreihe 3 x 3 x 3 begegnen sich drei Trios zeitgenössischer Musik aus NRW, um gemeinsam Konzerte in den Städten Essen, Münster und Köln zu geben. An 3 x 3 x 3 sind das Ensemble S201, das Trio abstrakt aus Köln und das Trio nyt aus Münster beteiligt. Sie gestalten im Rahmen der Reihe einen gemeinsamen Konzertabend mit Werken von u.a. Aperghis, Bauckholt, Finnendahl, Kaul, Løffler, Sciarrino, Steen-Andersen und Schweiger.
Alle drei Formationen verbindet die Arbeit am Repertoire des 20./21. Jahrhunderts und die Auffuhrung neuer Werke junger Komponist*innen. Dabei erweitern sie das musikalische Tatigkeitsfeld auf experimentelle Weise in die Bereiche des Musiktheaters, der Performance, der elektronischen und improvisierten Musik.

Eine Kooperation der GNMR (Essen), GNM (Munster) und KGNM (Köln).

Ensemble S201
Dimitry Stavrianidi - Flöten, Tamon Yashima - Oboe, Heni Hyunjung Kim - Klarinetten
Trio abstrakt
Salim Javaid - Saxophon, Marlies Debacker - Klavier, Shiau-Shiuan Hung - Percussion
Trio nyt
Pavel Tseliapniou - Flöte, Stephan Wolke - (E-)Gitarre, Emanuel Wittersheim - E-Bass / Elektronik

 

 

 

 

 

The Mark on the Wall

(scenic revised version)

 

Music theatre based on the story of the same name by Virginia Woolf

in english with german subtitles

 

04th / 5th October 2019, 8 pm

 

Berlin

 

Theater im Delphi

(previous silent film cinema in Berlin Weißensee)

Gustav-Adolf-Straße 2, 13086 Berlin

S-Bahn: S-Prenzlauer Allee (Ringbahn)

Tram / Bus: Prenzlauer Allee / Ostseestraße  Tram: M2 / M12 / M13  Bus: 158 / 15 / 225

 

Entry: 15 Euro, reduced 10 Euros

Tickets: delphi.reservix.de :

Tickets 04.10.2019, 8 pm

Tickets 05.10.2019, 8 pm

or phone +49 (0)1806 700 733

 

 

Our gaze is drawn to a stain on a wall, which makes the mind spin – sensually and intellectually. Split into 3 roles – singer, dancer and speaker – the protagonist embarks on a phantasmal journey between imagination and reality.


In English with German surtitles.

 

Concept, composition: Stepha Schweiger

Directing, stage, light: Sebastian Bauer

Stage, costumes: Nora Lau

Video: Phillip Hohenwarter

Video: Franesco Mancori

Directing assistence: Sina Kehrwieder

Dramaturgy (Premiere 2017): Eike Mann

Production: Marta Witak

Production: Dag Lohde

Production preparation: Cecilia Amann

 

Anna Clementi, singing/performance

Leo Chadburn, speaking/performance

Ziv Frenkel, dance

 

Chatschatur Kanajan, conducting

Christian Vogel, clarinet

Silke Lange, accordion

Johannes Öllinger, e-guitar

Jürgen Grözinger, percussion

Antonis Annissegos, piano

Miriam Götting, viola

Adam Goodwin, double bass

Florian Tippe, sound design

 

Martin Offik, live sound/recording

Uli Aumüller and Sebastian Rausch, video recording

 

The production of The Mark on the Wall with premieres in London and Berlin in 2017, as well as in Ulm in 2018, was supported by the Federal Association of Fringe Theatre and Danceperformers in Baden-Württemberg with funds of the Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Art in Baden-Württemberg, by donations, by Tete a Tete Festival London, Acker Stadt Palast Berlin and Festival for neue musik at Stadthaus Ulm.



A production of Aktuelle Musik und Musik-Theater-Produktion Berlin.


 

 

 

 

 

Stepha Schweiger - Now Im a Plant 

 

CD release 11th June 2019

produced by Hanno Leichtmann

12 tracks

Including remixes by Pyrolator and  Inthegardenofbeauty

words by Katherine Mansfield

visual concept by Wolfgang Spelmans

 

"An amazing gem in the experimental piano-pop genre: The Berliner with her distinctive voice is traversing dark untrodden paths between chamber pop, electronic noise, jazz and art music. Her new album, intended as a bow to Katherine Mansfield, evokes a dreamily blurred poetics that encounters a piano dabbling in minor keys and a profoundly emotive voice at times, before drifting into an abstract miniaturesque electronic noise just a few moments later. A deep, dramatic and enriching "piece of art" with Mary Ocher, Soap & Skin, Zola Jesus and Fever Ray. With artwork from Wolfgang Spelmans." (Flight13)

 

 

Now Im a Plant CD + T-Shirts / Gym Bags, black with the silver shimmering lizard motif:

 

Distribution:

The CD, T-shirts and gym bags with the lizard motif of the CD via bandcamp here.

 

Berlin:

In Berlin the CD is in stock at

Pop - der Laden, Yorckstraße 52, 10965 Berlin

directly at S/U-Bahnhof Yorckstraße

Opening hours: Mon - Fri, 12 - 7 pm, Sat 12 - 6 pm, www.pop-berlin.de

 

 

Spotify                      Bandcamp

 

 

Release tour

June 11-15 2019 Austria/Germany:

Stepha Schweiger, vocals, keyboard, synthesizer

Robert Pepe Pöschl, e bass

Playbacks by Hanno Leichtmann and Pyrolator

Video by Wolfgang Spelmans

 

Vienna, Austria 

11th June 2019

WOW! Signal

 

Graz, Austria

13th June 2019

Cafe Wolf

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Moosburg, Germany

15. Juni 2019

Jazzclub Hirsch

 

radio orange 09.04.2019

 

Facebook

 

 

The video by Wolfgang Spelmans,

 

accompanying current album release Now I m a Plant

 

on stephaschweiger.bandcamp.com:

 

Now I m a Plant

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

29th November 2018, 11:03 pm

 

Ö1 radio broadcast presented by Astrid Schwarz

 

Zeit-Ton: IKO@guts n faders

on the premiere at musikprotokoll im Steirischen Herbst 2018

Stepha Schweiger, ver.blich for double bass and electronics

Margarethe Maierhofer-Lischka, double bass

Peter Venus, controlling elektronics for IKO loudspeaker

 

Including interview with Stepha Schweiger and the full transmission of the premiere of her work "ver.blich" for double bass and electronics (ircam) in a new version for IKO loudspeaker of the institute of electronic music, art university Graz, on october 06 at musikprotokoll im Steirischen Herbst.


 

 

 
 

 

 

 

new video

 

Schneefeld (2004 / 2019)

 

guitar: Johannes Öllinger 

 

youtube

 

 

NDR Nachtclub Radio 

 

15.11.2018 at 0:05

ndr nachtclub

 

repeated on NDR Blue

friday 16.11.2018, 1:05 pm (afternoon)

 

 

includes the 

Presentation of 

Now Im a Plant 

album and remixes

 

with live talks …. 

 

 

Oktober 25 2018, 8.00 pm

at Marie-Antoinette

Holzmarktstraße 15, 10179 Berlin

 

Girl on Catfish:

Stepha Schweiger, Mani Schimchen, Pepe Pöschl, Mäx Huber

youtube

 

Tatsumi Ryusui / Adam Goodwin (Elmer Kussiac)

 

 

 

Out now

 

Remixes of the new album

 

Now I m a Plant

 

Pyrolator - Wooden Leg Remix 

 

In the garden of beauty - Now I m a Plant Remix 

 

stephaschweiger.bandcamp.com

 

October 10 2018 - releases

 

RECORDING

 

 

Trio Sonar, string trio "SPUR", studio recording:.

 

This rough mix can be found on soundcloud.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

October 6 2018, 9 pm

 

ORF musikprotokoll 

at Steirischer Herbst Graz


 

ver.blich

for double bass and electronics

world premiere of the new version
 
guts n faders:

Margarethe Maierhofer-Lischka: double bass

Peter Venus: electronic control and assignment for IKO-Lautsprecher of the institute for electronic music Graz

 

 

 

 

Album release:

 

NOW IM A PLANT

 

Produced by Hanno Leichtmann with electronic sounds, basses and loops

 

stephaschweiger.bandcamp.com

 

Stepha Schweiger - Now Im a Plant

Released on: 17.07.2018

Tracks: 12 

 

Vocals and piano:

Performed and recorded by Stepha Schweiger

Rough Effects Mix: Thomas Stern

 

Produced by Hanno Leichtmann with electronic sounds, basses and loops

Mixed by Hanno Leichtmann and Stepha Schweiger

Mastering: Ulrich Müller

Visual concept: Wolfgang Spelmans

 

Music by Stepha Schweiger

Copyright & publishing 2018

 

"This album conveys such a beautiful atmosphere – and for me its 

purist combination of piano, electronic sounds and voice is phenomenally successful."

Kurt Dahlke / Pyrolator

 

Following directly on the premiere of her music theatre The Mark on the Wall – based on the short story of the same name by Virginia Woolf – Stepha Schweiger has now recorded and released poems by Katherine Mansfield in their first-ever musical setting. 

This unique album was produced by Hanno Leichtmann. He has enriched the piano and voice recordings with electronic sounds, basses and loops, while completely renouncing drums. 

 

The title song Now Im a Plant is included in an instrumental and a sung version. The pianist Stepha Schweiger sings about plant worlds and wandering around as insects fly through the air. Wolfgang Spelmans - responsible for the visual concept - is crafting the album s atmospheric mood and feel with a uniform consistency from the cover through to the planned videos.

 

The songs float and soar intrinsically, revealing ever-new musical routes as they do so. And the sounds stream into our minds like reveries, bearing us away to a nocturnal cosmos, embedded in a pillowy sanctuary: With the congenial musical adaptation and the words of a great poet joining the listeners on their journey.

 

Katherine Mansfield left behind truly fascinating texts, with most of them not intended for publication. They reminisce about her childhood in New Zealand, and broach the subjects of nature, everyday life, solitude, myths, fulfilment and death. 

 

Piece by piece, assemblies of text and sounds are constructed: hallucinatory, compelling and concrete. With this new masterpiece now waiting to be discovered by her audiences, as Stepha Schweiger astounds and amazes them over and over.

 

 

 

 

New report in Missy Magazine (print) by Judyta Smykowski

 

 

july 2018

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

#14 Hotel Bars 17.6.2018 Reboot.fm 

 

"Strange Hotels" and more from the upcoming album "Now I m a Plant" (17.7.2018  stephaschweiger.bandcamp.com), the premiere of "Sommerregen" 16.6.2018 at Staatsoper Berlin, Atonale in the Neue Werkstatt, and "The Mark on the Wall" with first sound examples of the performance at Festival "neue musik im Stadthaus Ulm" 08.04.2018 ...

 

http://reboot.fm/2018/06/17/neue-musik-14/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Mark on the Wall

 

Review in the neue Musikzeitung 

 

nmz

 

 

 

 

Out on mai 25 2018

 

Ed Williams - Echo Chamber #6 - Stepha Schweiger

 

Ed Williams is interviewing me on composition and why I am doing what I do, on song and text, discussing manuscripts of his father, who was an organist and music theorist. There is also music including one song from the upcoming release "Now I m a Plant". Duration: 2 hours.

 

 

https://edwilliams.xyz/posts/

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Article by Florian L. Arnold in the Augsburger Allgemeine

 

on "The Mark on the Wall" in Ulm on Sunday, 08. April 2018

 

Augsburger-Allgemeine.de

 

 

Article by Udo Eberl in the Südwest Presse

 

on "The Mark on the Wall" in Ulm on Sunday, 08. April 2018

 

SWP.de

 

 

 

press 

 

Die taz:

 

article by Franziska Buhre  

 

about Pacifico Exercises

 

10th and 11th March 2018

 

 

 

 

 

The Mark on the Wall

 

Performance of the music theater

 

in Ulm on April 8 2018 

 

THE MARK ON THE WALL

 

 

TRAILER of a scenic work by Aniara Amos: 

 

youtube 

  

PREMIERE

 

THE MARK ON THE WALL

Music theatre by Stepha Schweiger

based on the story of the same name

by Virginia Woolf

first published in 1917

 

 

13 th october 2017, 8 pm

further performances on 14th and 15th of october, 8 pm

Acker Stadt Palast, Berlin

 

http://ackerstadtpalast.de/Events/The-Mark-on-the-Wall-Musiktheater 

 

Directing and stage: Sebastian Bauer

Stage and costumes: Nora Lau

Video: Phillip Hohenwarter

 

with

Anna Clementi, singing

Leo Chadburn, speaking

Ziv Frenkel, dance

and

European Music Project:

Chatschatur Kanajan, conducting

Christian Vogel, clarinet

Franka Herwig, accordion

Johannes Öllinger, e-guitar

Jürgen Grözinger, percussion

Antonis Annissegos, piano

Miriam Götting, viola

Adam Goodwin, double bass

Florian Tippe, sound

Ulrich Müller, mastering

 

Dramaturgical and production support: Eike Mann
Production assistance: Nele Gehricke
 

supported by the Federal Association of Fringe Theatre and Danceperformers in Baden-Württemberg with funds of the Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Art in Baden-Württemberg.

 

TRAILER (2015), scenic work by Aniara Amos: youtube 

 

 

THE MARK ON THE WALL

 

Music theatre 

 

Premiere concertante in London, UK

 

13th August 2017, Tete a Tete Opera Festival

 

 

Trailer 

Video

Tickets

 

 

Released now:

 

 

Issue # 17 "KunstMusik" by World Edition, Cologne,

 

 

includes my recent essay "In-tonare" written in English.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The article about VISIONMUSIQUE

 

 

 

in Mittelbayerische Zeitung

 

by Fritz Wallner

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SONGS

 

 

The video from the recent EP "STEPHA - DISSOLVE INTO":

 

RUBIES

 

https://youtu.be/H0Fy309I8gc

 

 

 

 

RUBIES Remix out:

 

https://soundcloud.com/songs-by-stepha/stepha-rubies-remix-by-stern

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Konzertvideo

 

Stepha 

 

BKA Club Konzert

 

 

 

 


Our new video "Dissolve into" from the EP "Dissolve into" is out now !
  

Dissolve into

 

video by Vincent Stefan

 

Am 26. Juli 2016 erscheint die EP "Stepha - Dissolve into" auf Vinyl und als 7''-Single (Rubies | Dolphin Song).

Review of this EP "Stepha - Dissolve into" on Er-em-online:

Die Berliner Avantgarde-Komponistin Stepha Schweiger dürfte erfahrenen Regensburger Szene-Kennern duchaus noch geläufig sein. Musikalisch war sie ja auch einige Jahre in Regensburg aktiv, Ende er 80er als Mitglied der Band Sex Trash. Die waren ja bekanntlich die Vorläufer-Band von Baby You Know, schließlich spielten hier auch Erhard Grundl, Michael Schott und Robert „Pepe“ Pöschl. Und mit dieser neuen Produktion, die Ende 2015 digital und als limitiere CD in einer 300er Auflage, erschien, schließt sich der Kreis. Die sechs Songs dieser ep wurde von Robert Pöschl zusammen mit Stepha produziert, der auch Bass spielte. Außerdem waren bei den Aufnahmen neben Berliner Musikern auch Manfred Schimchen (vocals, guitar) und Maex Huber (drums) dabei, die ja später zusammen mit Pepe und Michael Schott „Chief Joseph“ gründeten. Der Sound auf dieser Produktion ist allerdings anders, bewegt sich zwischen Singer/Songwriter, Folk-Punk und Indie-Pop – recht nuancenreich. Drei der Songs sind recht ruhig und dezent, wirken richtig filigran: „Rubies“, „Going nowhere“ und der Titeltrack „Dissolve into“. Dagegen ist „My favourite street“ stärker rockig ausgerichtet und geht mit Drive ab, ähnlich tönt „At the end of the night“. Einen leichten psychedelischen Einschlag mit dominanter Orgel hat „Dophin“. Gut Mischung, die allerdings nach knapp 20 Minuten schon vorbei ist. Inzwischen hat Stepha mit Pepe, Manfred Schimchen und Maex Huber eine neue Band gegründet: Girls on Catfish. Die spielten kürzlich ein Konzert in Landshut, möglicherweise kommen die vier auch mal nach Regensburg und stellen dann diese Songs vor. (Little Salt) no.men

 

http://www.er-em-online.de/index.php/review/cd/item/dissolve-into

 

OUT NOW!

 

GOING NOWHERE

 

Video

 

from the EP "Dissolve into" by Stepha

 

 

Stepha "Dissolve into"

 

on amazon:

 

LP

 

EP

 

Freisinger Tagblatt, 27. Januar 2015, 

anlässlich der Psychedelic-Art-Rock-Night im Lindenkeller Freising, 24. Januar 2015:
 
"Für einen der musikalischen Höhepunkte sorgte derweil eine Gruppierung um die Berliner Avantgarde-Komponistin Stepha (Schweiger): Zusammen mit Drummer Mäx Huber aus Moosburg … entwarf die experimentell und progressiv zu Werke gehende Band Klangcollagen, die an Marianne Faithfull oder Velvet Underground erinnerten."
 

 

 

 

 New Music:

 

 

- CD: Stepha Schweiger, "visionmusique"         

 

 Skira:

 

 

 Klaus Schöpp: Flöten, Claudius von Wrochem: Violoncello, Gerhard Scherer: Akkordeon

 

frango phragmón extended:

Gerhard Scherer: Akkordeon, Stepha Schweiger: elektronische Bearbeitung

 

Sites:

Cosima Gerhardt: Violoncello, Samuel Stoll: Horn

 

Ver-blich: 

Didier Meu: Kontrabass, Realisierung der Elektronik am Ircam, Paris

 

frango phragmón:

Gerhard Scherer: Akkordeon

 

  duration: 55 minutes

 

 

 - EP CD: "Sp19ri9ng one for Piano"

Stepha Schweiger: Piano. Recorded on Steinway B Grand Piano at Baby Monster Studios, New York City in 1991, first release in 1992 on music cassette, remastered 2012, duration: 20 Minuten

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My review of the LP:

 

Marc Sabat, Les Duresses, Care of Editions, 

 

appears in: 

 

Positionen, Texte zur aktuellen Musik, Nr. 102

 

 

 

 

 

 

   Stepha Schweiger "Einige Überlegungen zu Komposition,

   Sprache und Alltag",

 

  

 

   Gösta Neuwirth zum 75. Geburtstag;

  

   in: KUNSTzeitung, Usedomer Kunstverein, 2nd edition

 

 

 

 

STEPHA - THROUGH THE SCREEN

 

cd

 

 

 

 Stepha Schweiger, vocals, CP-80-piano, grand piano,

hammond C3, synthesizer, acoustic and electric guitars

 

Jeremy Woodruff, saxophone

Isabella Fassina, violin

 

Dave Cupp, electric guitar

Klemens Klarhorst, bass

Brendan Dougherty, drums

 

 

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