KAUFMANN FRUST
ON TOUR WITH NEW ALBUM "IM BLAU"
LTD VINYL VERSION AVAILABLE FROM 05.05. VIA MY FAVORITE CHORDS
The video "Variationen" Live from Funkhaus Nalepastraße in Berlin can be seen here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3TCInZpucI
In the tenth year of its existence - both the band and the label - Kaufmann Frust from Stuttgart and Berlin will release their new album “Im Blau” in 2023, which will be available digitally on April 21 via My Favourite Chords (Broken Silence) and shortly thereafter, on 05.05., as a limited vinyl version.
The vinyl version will be available. The record can be pre-ordered at this LINK.
Over a period of three years, the four-member band worked on twelve German-language indie rock songs, which were developed both in the Stuttgart studios of their early supporter Ralv Milberg and in their own studio in Berlin's Funkhaus and the Radio Buellebrueck Studio of Tobias Siebert in Berlin.
From 03.05 to 13.05.2023, the band will go on a Germany tour with the album. Compared to its predecessor “Aus Wachs”, although recorded as a studio album in Funkhaus Berlin and Toby Siebert's Radio Büllebrück Studio, a significant part of the band's identity was captured with live sessions in the Milberg Studios: The band's concerts are characterized by enormous joy of playing, improvisations, playing with silence, and a trance-inducing, precise interplay of bass and drums.
The song unmistakably conveys the intensity, imagery, and energy of the group Kaufmann Frust, which has always been equally the creative conglomerate of its four members Florian Stepper (guitar), Oliver Hauber (bass), Matthias Fugel (guitar), and Jan Breier (drums).
KAUFMANN FRUST LIVE 2023
presented by DIFFUS & KRACHFINK
03.05. Leipzig - Ilses Erika
04.05. Hamburg - Astra Stube
05.05. Berlin - Schokoladen
06.05. Tangermünde - Kaminstube
09.05. Dresden - Ostpol
10.05. Köln - Hängende Gärten
11.05. Freiburg - Slow Club
12.05. Karlsruhe - Kohi
13.05. Stuttgart - Kipepeo
More info on “Im Blau":
The arrangements and productions on “Im Blau” clearly rise above the gloomy German-language post-punk, which is characterized by the band's most well-known pieces such as “Felsenkeller”, “Fiebertraum”, or “Unheil”. The manic drumming or the often stoic bass certainly recall the past. However, catchy melodies in bright major have more air and space than ever before in the ten years of the band's existence. Those who want to be convinced should listen to the poppy new wave synthesizer in “Irre Fahrten” or the warm, multi-voiced harmony singing in “Kinder”. The recordings of the expanded instrumentation with piano, synthesizers, acoustic guitars, drum machines, and trumpets, as well as the vocals, were approached by the band with particular care and time investment, seeking a detail-loving and fruitful collaboration with Tobias Siebert (e.g., Slut, Juli, Kettcar).
Both thematically and musically, the color blue takes on a central theme. It sketches an almost floating state - comparable to the “blue hour” - in a phase between the nostalgic memory of carefree childhood and the darkness of an uncertain future building up diffusely on the horizon. The color flows further and reflects themes such as loneliness, mental health, the handling of digital media, and not least represents a tension field between hedonism, world flight, and slowly running out of air to breathe.
The band has clearly developed, opened itself to new influences, and become catchier without losing urgency. In doing so, it never loses sight of the all-important goal: to create significant and lasting art that shakes up both musically and thematically, becomes uncomfortable in text and music, and manages to weave the beautiful and the abyssal together.
