D1(D1-D8) RELEASE 20/01/2025 – OPEN EIGHT SESSIONS – A LIVE-STREAM RECORDED SESSION

AN UNUSUAL CONNECTION

LIVE-STREAM MIX BY PHIL SPELL

Open Eight Session D1

release, January 2025

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The recording sessions feature a constantly changing line-up with: Alícía Jaye, Dodo NKishi, Ole Wulfers, Nino Ruggieri, Philipp Spell, Andreas Latzel, Micka Saus

The recording sessions often have a demo-like feel, somewhere between a live performance and a finished recording.

Shortly after each recording session, we upload a remastered audio version to Bandcamp. This gives us the opportunity to present each instrument and vocal in a clearer way.

Listen to our latest session, D1 on Bandcamp (Please wait until we upload the remastered audio version)

REMASTERED AUDIO VERSION BY PHIL SPELL

Open Eight Session D1

release, January 2025

Our music is raw. Our sound an audiophile’s delight! Using the finest transistor technology of the 60s and 70s in unorthodox switching matrices, we create a nuanced sound that would make John Peel himself turn green with envy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Peel

We are, of course, huge fans of Peel and his Peel Sessions, especially our audio engineer Philipp Spell, who has made it his personal goal to get our tracks played on night-time radio as soon as possible.

We announce the Open Eight Sessions one week in advance on Facebook. We don’t rehearse them – we’re all beyond the age of practising in rehearsal rooms: we just meet in the kitchen, pop into the next room – an 18m2 living room studio – and everyone plays whatever comes to mind. Listening to each other is the most important thing here. Within just under an hour, a stream of music of the here and now emerges, without pauses, relaxed and free, until the session ends together and we return to the kitchen.

Later, we load the best scenes from the Open Eight Sessions in the remaster from Bandcamp. Philipp Spell is responsible for mixing the live sound and, shortly afterwards, presenting the live sound remastered on Bandcamp. Seven euros for the whole album with eight, roughly 50-minute sessions (numbered #A1-A8, the following album with #B1-B8…). You can also download a single session for just two euros. With this, you support our expenses for the technical gear, or enable us to undertake further activities such as concert tours.

Possibly even the pressing of two of our sessions on vinyl.

You can tell us your favourite session here in the comments section.

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