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Hallogallo 2010 / Michael Rother and Friends perform the music of NEU!
Michael Rother will start performing selected concerts around the world in summer 2010 with his project "Hallogallo 2010". Steve Shelley (Sonic Youth) and Aaron Mullan (Tall Firs) will join him. Together they will play music by NEU! as well as some tracks by Harmonia and from Michael Rother´s solo albums.
Tour dates and agency contact here.
Michael Rother and Friends Perform the Music of NEU!
with Steve Shelley and Aaron Mullan
The legendary German group NEU! released only 3 albums between 1972 and 1975, but these albums had an influence wildly disproportionate to their modest commercial success; praised by and influential to David Bowie, Hawkwind, Iggy Pop, DEVO, Sonic Youth, Stereolab, Autechre, Radiohead, U2, Wilco, Primal Scream, and beyond. In May 2010 Gronland Records will release a box including these three LP’s and an incredible batch of bonus material. Also this year will be the first live presentation of this music in more than 35 years.
Michael Rother and Klaus Dinger first came to the public’s attention shredding Hendrix-toned riffs and pounding monotonous, tom-heavy beats in a particularly psychedelic 1971 version of Kraftwerk. The pair left after 6 months to form NEU! and took with them their tandem musical language that would go on to have a far-reaching influence. Dinger’s propulsive beat is often cited as the quintessential motorik drumming, while Rother’s guitar playing made something new from a variety of influences: The timbres were of rock music, but the melodic sense was something else- the scales were bittersweet and very European, accompanied by a Middle-Eastern style open-string drone. The trio of Rother, Dinger, and producer Conny Plank created a cohesive universe where straightforward tones and melodies intermarried with heavily processed elements, where reality could turn itself inside-out or stretch out seemingly forever.
Rother and Dinger parted ways after the third NEU! album. Rother concentrated on his collaboration with Cluster (Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius) as Harmonia, and starting in 1977, released a series of solo records. Dinger began a new project called La Dusseldorf. The pair regrouped in 1985/86 but were never able to complete another album to their mutual satisfaction. In 2008 Klaus Dinger passed away. Regarding the NEU! box set, Rother says: It was my aim to present Klaus Dinger´s musical strengths and visions just as much as my own ideas. All during the emotional process of reworking our album Klaus was on my mind and I contemplated what he would think about my decisions. I was very relieved and moved to hear from his heir Miki Yui that she was pleased with the result presented with the album NEU!´86."
Inspired by revisiting these recordings, Rother has invited two musicians to visit the NEU! universe with him for a series of live performances: Steve Shelley and Aaron Mullan will perform a limited number of concerts this year as ‘Hallogallo 2010’. This group will perform NEU! music and selections from Rother’s work with Harmonia and his solo albums.
Steve Shelley is best known for drumming in Sonic Youth since 1985. He has also recorded or performed with The Fugs, Allen Ginsberg, Arto Lindsay, Loren Mazacane Connors, The High Confessions, Christina Rosenvinge, Richard Hell, Giant Sand, the Matt Zivich Trio, Ron Asheton, Townes Van Zandt, Cat Power, The Raincoats, Brigitte Fontaine, Robert Quine, Enrique Morente and many others.
Aaron Mullan is ½ the guitars of Tall Firs. He has collaborated with Chris Corsano and The Matt Zivich Trio, amongst others.
4 LP NEU! Box Set Released May 2010 / neu2010.com / michaelrother.de
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Tour dates Michael Rother / Hallogallo 2010
04 August 2010 - Maxwell´s, Hoboken, NJ - "Michael Rother and Freunde"
06 August 2010 - Lincoln Center Out of Doors, New York City, USA.
08 August 2010 - International House of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA (USA) - Tickets.
15 August 2010 - Dockville Festival, Hamburg, Germany
17 August 2010 - The Edge Festival, Picture House, Edinburgh, Scotland (UK)
27 August 2010 - Polyforum Siqueiros, Mexico City, Mexiko (Infos: Arts&Crafts Mexico)
28 August 2010 - LARVA, Guadalajara, Mexico
04 September 2010 - ATP New York, Monticello, USA
07 September 2010 - Wexner Center for the Arts, Wexner, Columbus OH, USA
08 September 2010 - Lincoln Hall, Chicago, USA
10 September 2010 - MOCAD (Museum of Contemporary Arts Detroit), Detroit, USA
14 September 2010 - Kagelbanan, Stockholm, Schweden
15 September 2010 - KB - Kulturbolaget , Malmö, Schweden
17 September 2010 - Numusic Festival, Stavanger, Norway
19 September 2010 - Incubate Festival, Tilburg, Netherlands
21 September 2010 - Vooruit, Gent, Belgium
23 September 2010 - Admiralspalast, Berlin, Germany
21 October 2010 - Barbican, London, UK
24 October 2010 - Supersonic Festival, Birmingham, UK
12 November 2010 - Rolling Stone Weekender, Weissenhauser Strand, Germany
13 November 2010 - Gloria Theater, Cologne, Germany
More news and tour dates will follow shortly.
Agency contact:
- USA: Eric Dimenstein / Ground Control Touring
- Europe (ex GAS): Carlos van Hijfte, See/Hear Management
- Germany/Austria/Switzerland:
Yan Mangels / FKP Scorpio
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Print press - interviews, reviews and features
Loud And Quiet //
WFMU //
Dazed&Confused (UK, June) // SPIEGEL Online //
UNCUT (UK, June) // MOJO (UK, June) // Q Magazine (UK, June) // FUZZ (Sweden, May) //
Rolling Stone Online
(Germany, 29 April 2010) // VISIONS (Germany, May) // Rolling Stone (Germany, May) // MOJO (UK, May) // DJ Magazine (UK, May) // GROOVE (Germany,
May) //
The Quietus //
TAZ //
Style And The Family Tunes //
Ink19 //
MOJO Magazine (UK) // SOUNDS (Germany) //
The Quietus, long Interview //
The Quietus // Exclaim! // Resident Advisor //
BLURT Online, album review //
Telegraph //
The Line of Best Fit //
Drowned in Sound //
Euro-Rock Press (Japan) //
BLURT Online, interview //
CLASH Music //
Bluefat //
BLURT Online Fred Mills on NEU! //
Exclaim // UNCUT Magazine, UK, Oct. 2009 // MOJO Magazine // The Wire //
Record Collector
(all UK, Sep. 2009) //
RAVE Magazine (Australia) //
TAZ.de (in German) //
dB Magazine (Australia) //
The Quietus //
Exclaim.ca //
1LIVE //
The Ultimate Krautrock Playlist - NME // The Dwarf.com.au //
The Guardian - Music Weekly // Der Tagesspiegel // SPIEGEL Online // The Independent // "Times Online" // Q Magazine (UK) // AU Magazine // Mountain Fold Music Magazine // ....
Details on the news
Loud And Quiet, UK, interview by Edgar Smith with Michael Rother. Online version published July 05 2010, printed issue May 2010.
WFMU, "Primavera Sound Recap": Review of the concert by "Hallogallo 2010" (Rother/Shelley/Mullan) at Primavera Sound in Barcelona. Posted on June 29, 2010.
Dazed&Confused, issue June 2010, "Michael Rother", Text by Tim Burrows.
SPIEGEL Online International: "I Wanted to Be Carried on a Wave Like a Surfer", Interview by Christoph Dallach with Michael Rother, published 08 June 2010
UNCUT Magazine (UK, June): review by John Mulvey of the NEU! vinyl box set
MOJO (UK, June): review of the NEU! vinyl box set
Q Magazine (UK, June): review of the NEU! vinyl box set
FUZZ (Sweden, May): artcile by Michael Dee about the NEU! vinyl box set, including an interview by the author with Michael Rother.
Rolling Stone Online
(Germany, 29 April 2010): "Der Beat darf nicht verloren gehen" - Feature by Joachim Hentschel and video interview with Michael Rother
VISIONS (Germany, Mai): Feature by Sascha Krueger on the history of NEU! with excerpts from an interview with Michael Rother
Rolling Stone (Germany, Mai): Feature on NEU! review of the NEU! vinyl box set
MOJO (UK, Mai): "I Hear A NEU! WORLD", Article on NEU! and Michael Rother´s live project "Hallogallo 2010"
DJ Magazine (UK, Mai): "Krautrock", feature by Claire Hughes with excerpts from an interview with Michael Rother
GROOVE (Germany, Mai/Juni): "Endlose Gerade" - on the NEU! vinyl box set
The Quietus, "From Neu! To Kraftwerk: Football, Motorik And The Pulse Of Modernity" by John Duran, published January 6th, 2010.
TAZ. "Grönland schreibt noch keine schwarzen Zahlen". Feature (in German) by Benjamin Weber on Grönland, Herbert Grönemeyer´s small record label that has released albums of Michael Rother´s group projects NEU!, Harmonia and Harmonia & Eno ´76. Published on 17 Dec 2009.
Style And The Family Tunes, issue 4/4 2009: "Krautrock - Kraftwerk, NEU!, Harmonia - Die Vorgeschichte eines aktuellen Nachlebens". Feature in German and English by Sami Khatib on Michael Rother´s projects und collaborations of the 70s including an interview by the author with Michael Rother und photos from his studio in Forst.
Ink19, "Michael Rother - Harmonia Convergence". Feature on the album "Tracks and Traces" by Harmonia & Eno ´76 plus a long interview by Matthew Moyer with Michael Rother. Published in December 2009.
MOJO Magazine (UK). "Tracks and Traces" by Harmonia & Brian Eno ´76 was selected by Andrew Male for MOJO´s list of "Reissues Of The Year" 2009.
SOUNDS (Germany), "Der Pionier im Spielzeugland", feature on Michael Rother´s music and his projects NEU! and Harmonia (in German) by Chris Wiesner with quotes from an interview. Published on 06 November 2009 in edition No. VII of the magazine "Sounds by Rolling Stone".
The Quietus, "Kosmische Polymath Michael Rother: Neu! Harmonia, Eno, Bowie & Making Peace With Dinger", long interview by Dr. Rock with Michael Rother. Published on 03rd November 2009.
The Quietus, news article of 2nd November 2009.
Exclaim!, "Conversations" Oct. 2009 by Brock Thiessen with Michael Rother.
Resident Advisor, review of Tracks and Traces by Todd Burns, published on 23 Sep 2009.
BLURT Online, a review of the album Tracks and Traces by Wilson neate, published on 25 Sep 2009.
Telegraph, a review of the album Tracks and Traces by Peter Culshaw, published on 16 Sep 2009.
The Line of Best Fit, a review of Tracs and Traces by Matt Poacher, published on 24 Sep 2009.
Drowned in Sound, eine Besprechung des Albums Tracks and Traces, a review of Tracs and Traces by Alexander Tudor, published on 18 Sep 2009.
Euro-Rock Press (Japan, vol.42 - in Japanese), interview by Keiko Sakurai with Michael Rother following the release of the albums "Flammende Herzen", "Sterntaler", "Katzenmusik" and "Fernwarme" in Japan with
Marquee Inc..
BLURT Online. An exclusive interview (in 2 parts) with Michael Rother by Wilson Neate, published on 17 September 2009.
CLASH Music, "Personality Clash", Harmonia Vs Fujiya and Miyagi. Michael Rother and David Best talk about music and their projects Harmonia and Fujiya and Miyagi.
"Michael Rother: Hearts on Fire", an interview of August 2009 by John Payne with Michael Rother for Bluefat.com.
BLURT Online by Fred Mills about an interview with Michael Rother about NEU!.
Exclaim, long interview by Brock Thiessen with Michael Rother on his current projects and coming releases.
UNCUT Magazine, UK, Oct. 2009: "My Life in Music" with Michael Rother and a review of the album Tracks and Traces by Harmonia & Eno ´76.
MOJO Magazine, The Wire, Record Collector (all UK, Sep. 2009): reviews of the album Tracks and Traces by Harmonia & Eno ´76
RAVE Magazine (Australia), 10th August 2009, interview by Matt Thrower with Michael Rother on his current projects and the compilation "Brand NEU!".
Pioniere aus Duesseldorf, article in German written by Tim Caspar Boehme and published in TAZ on 28th July 2009.
dB Magazine (Australien). Written by Patrick Lang. Article about Michael Rother and the compilation "Brand NEU!" and featuring excerpts from an interview by the author with Michael Rother. Published in dB Magazine, Australia, # 471 of 14th July 2009.
The Quietus. Ben Hewitt writes about the new album "Three Fact Fader" by the Engineers. For their track "Clean Coloured Wire" the British band used a sample of Harmonia´s track "Watussi" from the album "Musik von Harmonia".
Exclaim.ca. Brock Thiessen writes about the rerelease of the album "Tracks and Traces" from the 1976 collaboration of Harmonia with Brian Eno which will be out in September 2009 on Groenland Records.
1LIVE. Article (in German) by Frank Karch about the compilation "Brand NEU!" with excerpts from his interview with Michael Rother.
The Dwarf.com.au. Review of the compilation "Brand NEU!" by Nat Salvo, 26 June 2009.
The Ultimate Krautrock Playlist - In The NME Office by Nathaniel Cramp (27th May 2009)
"The In Kraut", an article on NEU!, written by Nathaniel Cramp with excerpts taken from an interview by the author with Michael Rother and published in NME (New Musical Express U.K., issue of 29 May 2009).
"Auch Oasis ehren NEU! - die Paten aus Deutschland". The article written by Markus Wesselmann (in German) on the compilation "Brand NEU! was published in Der Tagesspiegel on 24 May 2009 and features quotes from an recent interview by the author with Michael Rother.
The Guardian - Music Weekly of 15 May 2009 by Paul MacInnes and Rosie Swash. The podcast features interviews by Rosie Swash with Jarvis Cocker and Michael Rother.
"Hofknicks vor den Krautrock-Königen", an article (in German) on NEU! and the compilation "Brand NEU!", written by Christoph Dallach and published on 15 May 2009 in SPIEGEL Online.
Q Magazine (UK), issue June 2009: "How To Buy: Krautrock". Article and recommendations by Richard Harris.
"Musical tribute to krautrock band NEU!"
, an article by Richard Clayton published on 10 May 2009 in Times Online on behalf of the release of the compilation "Brand NEU!" and featuring excerpts from an interview with Michael Rother. Some of the musicians who feel inspired by NEU! and who have contributed tracks to the album explain their views on NEU!.
The Independent, review on the compilation "Brand NEU!" of 02 May 2009 by Andy Gill.
"Kraut Of This World", published in AU Magazine, Northern Ireland, (issue #56, June 2009) and written by Chris Jones. The article on Krautrock features excerpts from a new interview with Michael Rother. Musicians and bands who feel influenced by NEU! (i.e. Faris Badwan/The Horrors, David Holmes, Benjamin Power/Fuck Buttons and David Best/Fujiya & Miyagi) give comments on the question why the experimental music from Germany of the early 70s still inspires them today.
Michael Rother talks about his projects NEU! and Harmonia in an interview conducted by Michael Kucyk for the first issue of
Mountain Fold Music Magazine, Australia, published in April 2009 and featuring new photos of Michael Rother by Stefan Marx. More information at TwoThousand.
"Krautrock". An eight page long feature on NEU!, Harmonia and other experimental German bands of the early 70s. Written by John Doran and published in Record Collector in February 2009. The article also features parts of an interview by the author with Michael Rother.
Selected reviews on ATP Australia and on Harmonia´s concerts of January 2009 in down under:
DiS (Drowned in Sound), by Rebecca Pellman on ATP Australia
Rave Magazine, by Andrew Tuttle on Harmonia´s concert in Brisbane
Rhythms, by Brian Wise on ATP Mt Buller
Gee muses, by Mike Gee on ATP Australia.
"Harmonia down under 34 years later", posted on 30th Nov. 2008 by Stephen Walker in "The Age Blogs: Noise Pollution" on NEU! and Harmonia.
"Michael Rother" (November 2008). Long interview by Tres Warren with Michael Rother published in Vice Magazine.
"Catching Up With the Krautrock Pioneer". An interview with Michael Rother by Brandon Ginsburg for Junkmedia.org, published October 10, 2008.
For links to more articles and interviews in German on the Michael Rother website please see here.
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First live appearances of Rother/Shelley/Mullan
Michael Rother, Steve Shelley (Sonic Youth) and Aaron Mullan (Tall Firs) will be performing together for the first time at the festivals in
Bad Bonn Kilbi, Switzerland, on May 28 2010, and at Primavera Sound 10, Barcelona, Spain, on May 29 2010.
Some comments (in German) on the festival and the particpation of Rother/Shelley/Mullan:
INTRO (Germany), 78s (Switzerland).
Press info:
Michael Rother/Steve Shelley/Aaron Mullan trio debut in Europe
Michael Rother first came to the public’s attention shredding Hendrix-toned riffs in a particularly psychedelic 1971 version of Kraftwerk. He and drummer Klaus Dinger left after 6 months to form NEU! and took with them their tandem musical language that would go on to have a far-reaching influence. Dinger’s propulsive beat is often cited as the quintissential motorik drumming, while Rother’s guitar playing made something new from a variety of influences: The timbres were of rock music, but the melodic sense was something else- the scales were bittersweet and very European, accompanied by a Middle-Eastern style open-string drone. NEU! released 3 proper albums between 1972 and 1975, and these albums had an influence disproportionate to their commercial success; easily heard in Low-era Bowie, Hawkwind, Stereolab, Radiohead, and beyond.
In 1973 Rother began a collaboration with Cluster (Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius.) The trio became known as Harmonia, and was referred to by Brian Eno as ‘The world’s most important rock band.” Their influence can be heard from Pere Ubu to Portishead. Starting in 1977, Rother released a series of solo records (many with Jaki Liebezeit of Can on drums) which further explored the ideas of ambience, repitition, and harmony and further blurred the distinction between Electronics and Electric Guitar. In 1998 he and Moebius re-started their collaboration, and Harmonia reunited for concerts from 2007-2009. In 2008 Klaus Dinger passed away. Rother is currently finishing work on a NEU! box set for release in May of 2010.
Steve Shelley is best known for having played drums in Sonic Youth since 1985. The tom-tom trance of ‘Schizophrenia’, the ‘Bull in the Heather’ shuffle, the pounding backbeat of ‘100%’, and the driving near-motorik of ‘Teenage Riot’ and ‘Skip Tracer’: all Shelley. In his 25 years in the band Sonic Youth has made 13 “proper” albums and countless EP’s, side projects, instrumental double LP’s, singles, compilation tracks, live film scores, etc. Steve has also recorded or performed with The Fugs, Allen Ginsberg, Arto Lindsay, Loren Mazacane Connors, The High Confessions, Christina Rosenvinge, Richard Hell, Giant Sand, The Matt Zivich Trio, Ron Asheton, Townes Van Zandt, Cat Power, The Raincoats, Brigitte Fontaine, Robert Quine, Enrique Morente and many others.
Since 1990, Aaron Mullan’s playing driven by drone, timbre, and bittersweet melody has been ½ the guitars of Tall Firs. He has also collaborated with Chris Corsano and the Matt Zivich trio, amongst others. He has engineered several albums and hundreds of live shows for Sonic Youth since 2002, and many other records at that band’s studio.
The three musicians gathered for some (so far unreleased) recording sessions in late 2008 which channeled some early 70’s energy. With Rother currently in the NEU! mindset, it seems likely this trio will present some strait-ahead, rush-forward-into-the-sun style jams. As the NEU! song title suggests, this music is Für Immer.
More information coming soon.
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German/French tv station Arte features Krautrock
On October 30th, 2009, at 11.15 pm (CET) the Arte tv magazine Tracks will broadcast a feature on the growing interest in German bands of the 70s like i.e. Michael Rother´s projects NEU! and Harmonia. The feature includes interviews with Michael Rother and the Krautrock fans Fujiya & Miyagi, Tortoise and DJ Riton.
Information (in German) by Arte tv on their feature: Krautrock.
(French page).
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