Der Berg Groovt - Live In Pristina

Member is playing with his mates of "Der Berg Groovt" at the "Monotone Music Dialogue" Festival in Pristina, Kosovo. Have fun with this tour documentary and video of the first track of the concert...

Empty Blues 2009

This time, dear reader, we are offering another compilation of music out of our beautiful emptyblaukraut-universe: EMPTY BLUES !
The name of the game here is Blues, man. From way down our very souls.
We got one cover version of Albert King's Born Under a Bad Sign, and our version of the Traditional In My Time Of Dying, both done by Stolle & Member at our legendary Reuschberg-Holiday in 2003.
The rest of the stuff, however, features our very own approach to the devil's music. All of it, as always, improvised freely and straight out of nowhere by MIRG, EGOMANIA, LAY DE FEAR and DER BERG GROOVT.
Get yourself a bottle of booze, and enjoy!

Stolle & Member

2008/2009

This is A Compilation of Music we did in 2008 & 2009. Some of the tracks you might know from previous posts, while others are unreleased until now.
"CD 1" shows some new tracks of Egomania, Members Solo Project, some pieces of "Der Berg Groovt", Members Hippie Neighbour Collective, and the complete soundcheck of "Damo Suzuki & The Whole"'s last concert in december last year.
The focus on "CD 2" is on "MIRG", "Steffi & Stolle" & "Stolle & Member". Steffi & Stolle is a one of our rare and always delightful "half-mirg"-projects. Steffi & Stolle are the two singer/songwriter type of musicians, while the other two Marcus & Member are more kind of a free flow kind and not so well musically educated.... whatever that means. This is the first time Steffi & Stolle joined as a duo, because Steffi wished to make a Blues record with Stolle. They met last year at Stolle's place and did some wonderful and very recommended recordings, although not quite Blues. Listen to it here for the first time, and maybe we are posting more of this beautiful music. Same thing with the music of MIRG. We meet just once a year, making the most beautiful music, record it ... just to disappear in our archives. Here are three incredible pieces made during our last meeting at the Akademie Reuschberg.
The Stolle & Member tracks were posted here before.
Enjoy this ride through our constantly changing Universe.

Get the whole thing here and here.

Der Berg Groovt

Member runs a new blog presenting the wonderful music of Der Berg Groovt, his neighbourhood free music collective. Some time ago, last year, we post the very first session of this project, you may have a look here to remember. The blog is written in german language and in the future it will be written by all different members of the project... telling the adventures of this Hippie-like Community. You will find this blog here.

Enjoy

SESSIONS: Der Berg Groovt

Zwischendrin mal ganz was anderes...denn emptyblaukraut ist nicht nur das Duo "Stolle & Member"...

Hier besuchen wir Member in seinem großen & gemütlichen Wohnzimmer & Klanglabor am 22. September 2007. Meine Nachbarn haben sich eingefunden und wir machen Hausmusik. Wir leben hier in ehemaligen Ami Army Housings in einem alternativen Wohnprojekt am Frankfurter Berg. Hier leben viele unterschiedliche Künstler und andere Freaks. Eyke ist der Kern unseres Hausmusikprojekts Tautropfen. Connie spielt Gitarre in der Frauen Band The Slags, ist DJane als Lava 303 und hat mit Guru Guru Schlagzeuger Mannie Neumeier ein Projekt namens Lover 303. Dies war eine ganz wundervolle Session mit meinen wundervollen Nachbarn. Die Musik erinnert mich an Sergius Golowin, The Cosmic Jokers, Gila & frühe Popol Vuh.

And now for something completely different... something other than "Stolle & Member"...

We're visiting Member in his huge & comfortable living room & soundlab on september, the 22nd 2007. My neighbours are here and a session takes place. We're living here in former US Army Housings in a alternative living project on the "Frankfurter Berg". There are many different artists and other kind of freaks. Eyke is one of the masterminds of our house-music-project Tautropfen. Connie plays guitar in the all girl band The Slags, is a DJane as Lava 303 and plays with Guru Guru Drummer Mannie Neumeier as Lover 303. This was a wonderful session with my wonderful neighbours. The music reminds me on Sergius Golowin, The Cosmic Jokers, Gila & frühe Popol Vuh. Beautiful Cosmic Jammin' Music...

The musicians:

Eyke - guitar, djembe

Connie - synths, guitar, bass

Till - guitar, djembe, synth, vocals

Paul - djembe, vocals

Member - bass, vocals, synth

The Songs

and the whole thing here

Enjoy

Member