centrozoon is releasing “Fire” today, an improv session from June 2011. It’s available for free listening or as a 6€ download at http://iapetus-store.com/album/fire.
All revenue will go towards the Bonestarter campaign, which I’ve written about in the blog post “This is how we do it”. In addition to the audio release there is free video footage for Fires 2, 3, 4 and 8 on the centrozoon Youtube channel.
liner notes and credits
“Fire” documents the complete evening of centrozoon recordings at the foyer of Gütersloh’s town hall in June 2011.
Taking place five months ahead of the “We Will Tongue You 2011/2012” Tour, the Fire session was scheduled with the primary intention of recording audio and video material to promote centrozoon’s renewed intention of presenting their music live, and to acquire more gigs for the tour. It also marked the band’s first time playing together in over 18 months, so while there was no audience present, the recordings served both as a “sound check” and as way to shorten the wait until the tour.
The revenue from this release will go to support Bonestarter, our homemade crowdsourcing campaign to finance our latest studio album “Boner” which was released on May 9, 2012.
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centrozoon - Fire
Recorded and filmed on June 14, 2011 at Rathausfoyer, Gütersloh, Germany
Bernhard Wöstheinrich - software synths
Markus Reuter - Touch Guitars® U8 Deluxe
Tobias Reber - electronics
Mixed by Adrian Benavides, Austin TX, USA
Mastered by Lee Fletcher, Paignton UK
Thank you: Rathaus Gütersloh, Wolfgang Hein, Mia Plaßmann
Released July 14, 2012
centrozoon “Fire” - online broadcast of the upcoming live album at www.welle303.com this Sunday, July 1st, 8 pm CET
“Fire” documents the complete evening of recordings at the foyer of Gütersloh’s town hall in June 2011.
Taking place five months ahead of the “We Will Tongue You Tour 2011/2012” with its 13 concerts in five countries (including a homecoming gig as part of the the Gütersloher Polyphonie concert series), the Fire session was scheduled with the primary intention of recording audio and video material to promote centrozoon’s renewed intention of presenting their music live, and to acquire more gigs for the tour. It also marked the band’s first time playing together in over 18 months, so while there was no audience present, the recordings served both as a “sound check” and as way to shorten the wait until the tour.
“Fire” was released for free to supporters of Bonestarter, the band’s homemade crowdsourcing campaign to finance their latest studio album “Boner”, on June 1, 2012. It will be available to the wider public on July 14, 2012 on centrozoon’s Bandcamp page, with all revenue going towards the Bonestarter campaign - which is still running and offering a variety of deluxe “Boner” packages at www.centrozoon.de.
Video footage from Fire 8 and three more tracks on centrozoon’s Youtube channel.
The audience is cordially invited to to chat and discuss with the musicians Tobias Reber and Bernhard Wöstheinrich at http://welle303.com/chat (Markus Reuter is not available since he is currently on a US tour with the Crimson Projekct).
