Das Hertz (2006-2007)
category: open improvisation band
- musicians:
- Guido Erfen: bass, synthesizer
- Martin Ziegler: keyboards
- Wolfgang Diekmann: drums
- Michael Peters: guitar
- Das Hertz - 1st CD, "Initial"
Das Hertz is an improvisational group which explores a territory somewhere between jazz-rock fusion, psychedelia and what the Anglo-Americans nowadays call kraut-rock. From the beginning they keep recording almost every note they play together which is the basis for a series of cd-r/web albums which was launched in spring 2006 and has now reached to volume two with "Electric Gentry".
- Das Hertz - 2nd CD, Electric Gentry
The group started as an offshoot from a project named D.Saster, a free-form subsidiary of a long living band called The Absurd (not to be mistaken for the right-wing East German group with a similar name). The members' musical backgrounds are highly varied. There is jazzman Martin Ziegler (fender rhodes & synthesizer), loop experimentator and frippertronics adept Michael Peters (midified guitar & electronics), mercurial drummer Wolli Diekmann who has passed through countless bands and styles, and last not least former sampling specialist GeeNerve aka Guido Erfen who just switched to bass guitar not too long ago.
2007-07-19: More Minutes Per Hour - (7:19 min, 12 MB)
Excerpt from the July 19, 2007 session.
Oh how I love my Jon-Hassell-type harmonizer setting for guitar!
2006-03-16: Hunting the Drama-Waltz - [excerpt] (11:07 min, 10.4 MB)
Excerpt from the March 16, 2006 session.
This was a trio session without Martin: all keyboard sounds come from my guitar
More information and mp3 downloads here.
Das Hertz cover designs © Guido Erfen
- Das Hertz live, Stollwerck, Cologne, June 2006
- Michael Peters, Wolfgang Diekmann, Guido Erfen, Martin Ziegler
