The Show
The audiovisual live show combines music and film into an exciting whole. Bartos presents for the first time his own films for the current singles "Atomium", "Without a Trace of Emotion", "Nachtfahrt" and "Musica ex Machina". Of course, included are his films for tracks from his earlier solo works such as "15 Minutes of Fame", "I'm the Message" or "The Camera" as well as the hits from his time in the legendary band Kraftwerk: "The Model", "Tour de France", "Computerliebe" and others. There will be 90 minutes of film on a screen triptych, which Karl Bartos will play live (!) from the stage in sync with the music – rhythmically, modern, intelligently.
(...) The films gradually take us on a journey along the Champs-Elysées, through the Reeperbahn in Hamburg to the foot of the Atomium. (...) sudinfo.be
The new stage program will celebrate its live premiere on German stages in January 2014, while the third album single "Musica ex Machina" will be released simultaneously.
Karl Bartos - "Off The Record" Live Shows 2014
presented by De:Bug, Kulturnews, taz pop Blog
January 25, 2014 Cologne, Live Music Hall
January 26, 2014 Stuttgart, Wagenhallen
January 27, 2014 Frankfurt, Mousonturm
January 28, 2014 Halle/Saale, Steintorvariete
January 29, 2014 Nuremberg, Festsaal K4
January 30, 2014 Berlin, Postbahnhof
January 31, 2014 Hamburg, Grünspan
The Album
In spring 2013, former Kraftwerk member Karl Bartos released the album "Off the Record" (Bureau B/Indigo), which was celebrated worldwide by the media as a sensation. These are tracks, riffs, hooks, melodies that Karl Bartos composed and experimented with during the most successful time of the electro band Kraftwerk. From these fragments, he has written new, timeless songs.
(...) These songs are also exciting because Bartos co-wrote many of the great and famous Kraftwerk songs. (...) Spiegel Online
(...) The ex-Kraftwerk member Karl Bartos has made the record that Kraftwerk can no longer achieve (...) Die Zeit
