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DARK STAR SAFARI
by Jan Bang, Erik Honoré, Eivind Aarset, Samuel Rohrer

Jan Bang - vocals, live sampling, samples, ac. piano, dictaphone
Erik Honoré - synthesizer, samples, synth bass, voice, lyrics
Eivind Aarset - guitar, electronics, bass
Samuel Rohrer - drums, percussion, keys, electronics, synths

Dark Star Safari, a newly formed group featuring Jan Bang, Erik Honoré, Eivind Aarset and Samuel Rohrer present its eponymous recording debut, an evocative song-driven album. These songs conjure shadows of memory, clouds of dreaming and silhouettes of foreboding through the album’s layered, many-textured fabrics and Jan Bang's silken delivery of Erik Honoré's acute lyrics.


DALE COOPER QUARTET & THE DICTAPHONES


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Dale Cooper Quartet & The Dictaphones.

 French dark jazz collective Dale Cooper Quartet & The Dictaphones.
The Quartet started in 2002 as a real Quartet for an improvisation jazz night. It was supposed to be a one-off gig with four musicians from different bands. We wanted to make a mix of Angelo Badalamenti’s soundtracks, especially Twin Peaks’s, and Bohren & Der Club of Gore, a German cult band we were listening to a lot at that moment. Nowadays there are three permanent members and various guests. Some regulars, some only for when we’re recording.
Formed: Brest, Bretagne, France; Members: Christophe Mevel, Gaël Loison, Yannick Martin, Arnaud Le Gall, Antoine Surdon, Nicolas Peoch

BOHREN & DER CLUB OF GORE


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Smeagle Noir
Music by Bohren & der Club of Gore

 The band Bohren & der Club of Gore is German ambient/jazz band from Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. The band was founded in 1992 in Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany by Thorsten Benning, Morten Gass, Robin Rodenberg and Reiner Henseleit.[1] Originally, group members started out playing in various hardcore bands such as 7 Inch Boots and Chronical Diarrhoea.[2] In 1992 they produced a crossover of jazz and ambient, which they self described as an "unholy ambient mixture of slow jazz ballads, Black Sabbath doom and down tuned Autopsy sounds". Henseleit left the band in 1996 and was replaced by Christoph Clöser in 1997, replacing the guitar with a saxophone at the same time.
Members: Thorsten Benning – drums; Christoph Clöser – saxophones, piano, Fender Rhodes electric piano, vibraphone (1997-); Morten Gass – organ, synthesizer, mellotron, Fender Rhodes electric piano, 8-string bass, vocoder; Robin Rodenberg – bass guitar, double bass. Former members: Reiner Henseleit – electric guitars (-1996).

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