Funprox had a chat with Brigitte Enzler from Augsburg, Bavaria. She has a musical career spanning over 20 years, starting in the punk/wave/noise scene. Nowadays she is active with her solo project Beta Evers, various collaborations and her own succesful electro label Kommando 6. Brigitte talks about her past, her current activitities and plans for the future.
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Wermut has caught the attention of both minimal electronics fans and lovers of dark folk music. They seem to be a rather new group but are definitely not. Both members, Sofia E.R. and Laszlo P.S, have been producing music for along time. Also they are active with their relative new label Treue Um Treue / Reue Um Reue.
Funprox took some time to dive in the past, talk about the present and gaze a little into future with these two very creative and productive individuals.
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Funprox.com offers a guest contribution by Benjamin Schreuder. He recently did a substantial interview with Alan Trench concerning his neo-folk formation Twelve Thousand Days (together with Martyn Bates) and his new ritual project Temple Music. For your historical perspective, you may want to read an earlier interview which Benjamin had with Alan Trench, which can be read at the late FluxEuropa.
Richter is a duo from Canada that makes electronic / synthpop music. Ikecht was positively surprised when reviewing their debut album Cost of Living, which was released by themselves. Therefore he decided to find out more about this promising act and invited Jack and Lizz to enlighten us about their project.
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Recently Peter Ulrich released his second solo album “Enter the Mysterium”, after his debut with “Pathways and Dawns” in 1999. No matter how many other albums he will make, I suspect Ulrich will always be related to his previous activities as drummer/percussionist of Dead Can Dance. Which is of course nothing to be ashamed about. In this lengthy and readworthy interview Ulrich tells more about his varied musical influences, his working process, his experiences with Dead Can Dance, his favourite music and much more.
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Novalis from Germany has a melancholic and romantic musical sound, somwhere between neofolk and dark wave. Since their first EP in 2001 the band gradually evolved, with concerts and releases getting better everytime. Their latest album “…Paradise?” is their strongest work so far. Stev Schumann (vocals/guitar) tells us somewhat more about the band. The interview was delayed a little, because Novalis was confronted with a German band from the 70’s with the same name. Therefore they decided to change their name slightly to “NOVALIS deux”.
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Quite a lot happened lately around Battery Cage, the EBM/industrial band from Boston. So much actually, that interviewer Ikecht hardly knew where to begin with his questions. There is news about three different albums being released and re-released on various labels. Time to clear some confusion, time to let founding member Tyler Newman inform us about the past and future of Battery Cage.
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One of the more refreshing electronic pop albums that came out recently, was Consolidated Green by the French project Thee Hyphen. Reviewer Ikecht was quite charmed by this album and decided to find out more about Thee Hyphen. He asked its creator, Member U-0176, for some background information about this project and his label BoredomProduct.
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