Arbeit Schickert Schneider
Ass
The idea was to see what would happen if we set up a recording session with three berlin guitar players coming from three different generations. The result: ASS. Guenter Schickert released two reknown krautrock albums on Brain and Sky Records Jochen Arbeit is the guitar player of avantgarde pop bands such as Einstuerzende Neubauten and Die Haut Schneider TM released astonishing electronic music records since the end of the 1990s. The end product is very much more than just the sum of its parts, due not only to the participants' different musical philosophies, but also through the use of instruments not usually associated with this type of music (e.g. balafon, conch, mbira, electronic drums, modular system). Their joint album concocts a kind of musical magic from a myriad of influences (Krautrock, psychedelic, free jazz, punk, industrial, techno, minimal-electronic and so forth) yet simultaneously transcends them to create a new form of music.