Band Projects
Boww – Tribal Poetry
Paris Safari
Emma
Down to the Button
Nuns n’ Hoses
Smacks Tracks
Boww – Tribal Poetry
Gregor Hilbe – drums, words & music
Kevin Davy – trumpet & voice
Uli Rennert – keys & lapsteel guitar
Martin Iannaccone – cello & voice
Volker Böhm – electronics, sequences & sub bass
Evaron Orange “sky189” – freestyle lyrics
Boww – Tribal Poetry is a project founded by drummer Gregor Hilbe (Tango Crash, Enders Room, Kahiba etc.)
The main title of the correspondent album The Tree released in 2008 (get it here e.g.), is a 40 minute continuous wave, which has been recorded nonstop, with no additional recording or programming.
Some excerpts:
Paris Safari
Gilbert Trefzger – guitar
Thomas Jeker – bass
Volker Böhm – electronics & sequences
Gregor Hilbe / Samuel Dühsler – drums
Guests:
Joy Frempong (OY), Tatiana Heintz (Okou), Karl The Voice, Allonymous – voices
Niki Reiser – flute
Emma
Philipp Stäudlin – sax
Thomas Jeker – guitar
Volker Böhm – electronics
Guests:
Sascha Armbruster – sax
Benjamin Brodbeck – drums
Track 2 from “Improvisation Unlimited”, 2002
Excerpt from a concert at Gare du Nord Basel, 2004 (drums: Benjamin Brodbeck)
Down to the Button
Tomek Kolczynski – Nord Lead bass, voice
Volker Böhm – electronics & sequences
Gregor Hilbe – drums & electronics
DTTB existed from 2001 until about 2004. We only played a handful of gigs together, but there was always a lot of energy and fun involved.
Here are some excerpts from an early concert at NT-Areal, Basel in 2001:
Nuns n’ Hoses
Gilber Trefzger – guitar, banjo, aoud
Volker Böhm – synthies
Lukas Zimmermann – bass
Rémy Sträuli – drums
Guests:
Eres Oron – scratches
Nuns n’ Hoses was another one of the various projects founded by the fabulous Gilbi Trefzger. It started out with an emphasis on funky grooves and scratches with inevitable noisy solos and moved more and more into something one might call arabic surf sound with undeniable hawaiian influences. 🙂
Smacks Tracks
Gilbert Trefzger – guitar
Emanuel Schnyder – bass
Volker Böhm – electronics
Benjamin Brodbeck – drums
Rémy Sträuli – drums
Smacks Tracks unfortunately only had a rather short life span in this formation. In the beginning the sound was very much coined by experimental improvisations – only a few bass lines and grooves were fixed (we had two drummers on stage!), the rest was left open for what ever would happen. But very quickly the project became a kind of session band which played regularly gigs in the so called ‘Carambar’ in Basel. Gilbi Trefzger the initiator of all this, curated a concert series there, where he used to invite musician guests and friends from Paris. And this is how Smacks Tracks over the time slowly evolved into Paris Safari.
Smacks Tracks @ NT-Areal 12.06.2002 – excerpt