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Die neue CD von ZIGURI ist endlich da.
"onetwothreefour" ist der Titel des neuen Albums von Dieter Kölsch, Günter Schickert und Udo Erdenreich, erschienen bei Sireena Records.

Die Berliner Trance-Rock Legende nimmt uns wieder mit auf ihre schamanistische Klangreise in die Tiefen von Raum und Zeit. Wie bei ihrem letzten Album (Kölsch-Schickert-Erdenreich, Bureau B), hat sich die Band das Berliner Zone Studio von Klangzauberer Dirk Dresselhaus / Schneider TM mit seinem magischen Sound ausgesucht.

Alle Stücke wurden "Live" in einem Durchgang eingespielt, was den besonderen Charme dieser Aufnahmen ausmacht. Ebenso wurde wieder auf jegliche Synthesizer, Looper, Sampler oder Sequencer verzichtet. Handmade Dancefloor.
Während Dieter Kölsch (drums) und Udo Erdenreich (bass) kraftvoll und sensibel den treibenden Rythmus nach vorne hämmern, schichtet Kraut-Rock Legende Günter Schickert seine unverwechselbaren Echogitarren-Patterns darüber.

Dadurch hat sich ZIGURI gerade als Live Act bei einem internationalen Publikum aller Generationen einen Namen 1 gemacht. Auf "onetwothreefour" erzählen sie uns von einem träumenden Berg, den Söhnen der Sonne, einer anarchistischen Radiostation, Heissluftballons, von afrikanischem Feuer und vielem mehr. Dazu erfreuen sie uns nämlich noch mit drei bisher unveröffentlichten Bonustracks aus ihrem Archiv. ZIGURI überrascht immer wieder aus Neue.

Der Theatervorhang des unerschöpflichen ZlGURI Kosmos öffnet sich uns für 76 spannende Minuten.

Günter Schickert has quite a reputation amongst friends of psychedelic music. He and Manuel Göttsching (Ash Ra Temple) pioneered the use of echo guitar. His solo albums "Samtvogel" (1974) and "überfällig" (1979) have attained cult status. In 1987, together with Udo Erdenreich and Dieter Kölsch, friends from the Berlin theatre 100Fleck, Schickert founded Ziguri Ego Zoo, a musical theatre project which soon evolved into the band named Ziguri.

Ziguri initially rehearsed in SO36, the legendary punk club in Berlin-Kreuzberg (subsequently finding themselves entangled in the street battles on Oranien Street which were a regular occurrence at the time). Their first gigs took place in squats, at street parties or in underground clubs, before graduating to venues like Tacheles, der Eimer and Schokoladen. Ziguri continued playing in this format until 1997, after which only the theatre project remained, lasting until 2002.
Each of the three band members went his own way in the years that followed, signing up to new bands sooner or later. Kölsch played with Schickert in Ponyhof and with Erdenreich in the punk combo Hagel. Both used the same rehearsal space, so the trio often found themselves gathered socially in the original line-up, as it were. One evening, those famous words were spoken: "Let's put the band together again."
That was in 2011. And from the first moment, it was like they had never been apart. Picking up exactly where they had left off, Kölsch and Erdenreich hammered out a driving rhythm and Schickert layered his unique echo patterns over the top. They road-tested their live set in two concerts with Damo Suzuki (Can). As Ziguri played further shows, it dawned on them that younger listeners had bolstered their audience, strengthening the band's resolve to revive the act as a going concern.
Ziguri enlisted Dirk Dresselhaus as producer, better known as the artist Schneider TM. The album was recorded in his Zone studio in just three days and was released by Bureau B in 2014.

Now they are back with the new album entitled "OneTwoThreeFour". Maybe it stands for the signal for the start of a live recording because this second album was also recorded live in a few days. Phantastic grooving trance rock with a dash of Krautrock and modern minimalism - it's tribal! There are some older recordings added as bonus tracks, showing very good where it all came from.

Tracklisting:

1. Pietra di Bismantova 13:34
2. U-DOngO moto 05:04
3. Radio Blisga 07:13
4. SUN SONS SANS 06:37
5. SKYKISS 14:48

6. Hotel Babel 05:30
7. DiaLekT 09:35
8. Apricot Brandy III 14:16