STEAMBOAT SWITZERLAND - Budapest

Dominik Blum - Hammond Organ, Electronics
Marino Pliakas - E-Bass
Lucas Niggli - Drums, Percussion

GROB 2001
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Magyar! Paprikascharfe Klangbilder, live aus der Mücsarnok/Kunsthalle in Budapest!
Over two years after Steamboat Switzerland hit the (post) improv and (post) noise scene with their "Live" CD, only now do the long awaited follow up CDs appear. If the debut CD presented a patchwork of improvisation, own and foreign compositions and rock pieces, Budapest and ac/dB [Hayden] are compact, integral and equally imploring monolithic works. And yet the two CDs couldn't be more different. Budapest is the result of a purely improvised concert they gave in Danube metropolis in the Fall of 1999. The noise and prog rock roots have been compressed so much that there are no more clichés nor more citations, only tension that bursts asunder. The CD was mixed and co-produced by Stephan Wittwer, who contributed the intro, a little gem about the state of being chopped up. The grunge track that the band played following their improvisation, as an encore, is also a composition from Wittwer.
The liner notes to this CD were written by Dietmar Dath.