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

The Lay De Fear Tapes 1993 - 95

This is something really, really special. In 2001, a friend asked for a Lay de Fear-CD to put it on his page, muzik23. So Stolle made this wonderful P.T.E., a wild cut-up Journey through our tapes from 1993 - 1995, but then we unfortunately could not release it, and this wonderful CD got almost forgotten. However, now some time has passed, and so decided to try one more time to release this outstanding piece of art, before it gets lost....
This is a wild Journey to our early beginninings: free improvised music... Industrial, Krautrock, Ethno Fakes and Tape Collages, Tarot Sessions and Schlager Trash, - the BIG BANG of the Stolle & Member - thing !!!!

Don't Miss This DIAMOND
Get The Jewel here

Enjoy

Stolle & Member - Blicken Zurück 2003

Stolle & Member are looking back on 10 years of combining their creative powers. This was the motto for this compilation out of the year 2003. Some tracks from the previously released records "Elemente", "Doppelalbum" & "Gojira", Lay De Fears Live Recording "Im Zentrum Des Lichts", one MIRG track from Steffis Birthday Party in 2000, a track off of a release from our "Räume" - Series, (more about the "Räume" - series coming soon), one track out of the "Numbers" period and some unreleased tracks compiled by Stolle in 2003

Get it here

Enjoy

Stolle & Member - When The Machines Rock 2008

Hello Friends,

here we go again! Having met at Stolle's place in July, we recorded several hours worth of new material, and after our track WELLEN, which you can find on the EMBRYO THOUGHTS - Sampler by HLFP 02, we would like to give to you the next piece culled from these sessions.

This one is a 50-minute-impro which occasionally turned into a cover of an old Lay De Fear- Tune called WHEN THE MACHINES ROCK.
For those of you who like to check it out first, here's a single edit and an excerpt of the original Lay De Fear Version:

Get the whole thing

Embryonic machine 10:32

Birth Of The Machine 9:11

Wake Of The Machine (mixed & edit) 12:59

When The Machines Rock (mixed & edit) 15:20

here.

Stay tuned for upcoming stuff, and enjoy!

Stolle & Member

Lay De Fear - Im Zentrum Des Lichts 1994

In the beginning of our constantly changing universe there was a strange experimental free impro group called LAY DE FEAR. Stolle Fear, Member Fear and Chris Fear founded this group in february 1993.

The music of LAY DE FEAR took place in a former monastery, the theatre "Akademie Reuschberg".

We used to meet just three times a year for long trip out weekends. Additional to the three founders, there sometimes were 15 people around who shared our musical vision, among them Steffi and Marcus and many others.

In autumn 1993 we did our first live gig to support Damo Suzuki at the Asta Fest, FH Frankfurt.

Our influences were groups like CAN, Velvet Underground and Nine Inch Nails. The Music happened very spontaneous, out of the moment we were doing it, and oscillated between industrial, toy-keyboard-avantgarde-schlager, meditation, nonsense and free kraut rock textures.

Although after four years the project fell apart in 1996, it had a deep impact on us, it truly can be said that this experience changed our lives. Stolle & Member continued this trip as a duo and since then devotedly built this constantly changing universe until now, and promise to
walk that road further on and on and on.....

This, now, is a look in our best gig ever, at the ZENTRUM Offenbach on April the 30th 1994.

This post was inspired by homemade lofi psych, who posted a dedication to Lay De Fear, a live track from the band Orange.

Enjoy!

Im Zentrum Des Lichts