****Sweet Silence****
My new album "sweet silence" is finished ;-) This time english lyrics and pure electronics. It will be released in June 2012 Mixed by T.Raumschmiere Tour in autumn 2012
Working on a new album!
I'm working on my new album - relase date will be hopefully late summer 2012. I can already drop a few lines, without engagement: pure electronics, produced with T.Raumschmiere.
Fan No. 3, September Collective + Afghan Women Poem Project
*** new online Ep "Fan no. 3" is out now! Including wonderful remix Versions by Schneider TM, Hans Nieswandt and Gudrun Gut plus a cover version of "sogn o´the times" / Prince by myself. *** At the 12th of Marc 2011 I will take part in a performance based on the afghan women s writing project - www.awwproject.org. Together with the choreographer Krystian Lada and visual artist Lidia Wlkosz we will interpret the poems in the way we understand them musically and visually.
Fan No.2 release 13.09.2010 - hits hits hits
Fan No. 2 is a compilation of songs of my whole album history plus a bonus release of my first cassette "enter the oartyzone"/ EP "plastikreport from 1997. You´ll find 2 brandnew songs and a cover verison of "Blackbird" (The Beatles) plus a booklet full of pictures of my workspaces. Joe Tabu - the founder of the Berlin Wohzimmer-Scene, which was active in mid 90ies organizing shows in living rooms, wrote a wonderful text about my work. Later on there will be an online Relase of Remixes by Justus Köhnke, Hans Nieswandt and Gudrun Gut. ;-)
Out Now - PAPER OF PINS - Bill Wells / Stefan Schneider / Annie Whitehead / B. Morgenstern
Our second album "Paper of pins" is out now on Karaoke Kalk! Bill Wells - a Glasgow based wonderful pianist known from several albums he did with big band - was invited in Mai 2007 to play a show at the legendary festival "Le Weekend" at the Tolbooth in Stirling / Scotland. He had the idea to invite us, to work on new material and later in summer 2008 we recorded what we did so far and invented some more melodies.
news - news - news
The new September Collective Album "always breathing monster" will be released in september on Mosz Records -www.mosz.org. Stefan Schneider, Paul Wirkus and me recorded a midified Churchorgang in the Johannes-Church in Duesseldorf and used this recordings to compose 11 new tracks. Look out! I will not play any live shows until 2010 because of a baby break ;-)
Monokultur Live
Monokultur Live @ Admiralspalast Berlin 2009.
Camouflage live
& Arne Ghosh live @ CDQ Warszawa, 16.01.2009
Rare as a green dog @ RNCM Manchester
My 5th album "bm" is released! + Record Release Party Berlin 14.11.08
A Bechstein Grand Piano is the center of it - recorded at the House of World Cultures in Berlin. Robert Wyatt appears with his unbelievable voice, lyrics and a key-solo on "Camouflage".
Julia Kent (Anthony and the Johnsons) added wonderful Cello Chords, the Choir of the House of World Cultures (which I´m conducting since 2007) sang along the Chorus of "Meine Aufgabe" and (like all the other years) my very good freinds Sven Janetzko and Arne Ghosh completed the album with their great ideas on guitar and drums. Plus - first time ever - the lyrics will be translated in English!
"Come to Berlin" EP + Video is out now!
"Come to Berlin" - the single outtake from my new album "bm" (31st of October on Monika Enterprise) - is released (on Monika as well ;-). Including wonderful remixes by Telefon Tel Aviv (USA), The Rice Twins (SE) and Chloe (F). The Video to the single is online at youtube as well - shot on places that are about to disappear - directed Yaneev Topyol, Amichai Green and Shai Levy! http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=Qd8tMz8KM6E
Come To Berlin
Video Direction and Editing: Yaneev Topyol
Camera: Shai Levy
Concept and Design: Amichai Green and Yaneev Topyol
Deine Geschichte live
Decibel Festival @ Neumos, Seattle WA, on 9/25/2008
My new Ablum is coming at the 31st of October o8!
My 5th album is finished and has got a name - "bm". It will be relase in End of October / beginning of November on Monika Enterprise.
A Bechstein Grand Piano is the center of it and the single "Come to Berlin" will be out in late September - combined with wonderful Remixes by Telefon Tel Aviv (USA), The Rice Twins (S) and Chloe (F) + Video on Youtube made by three Israeli friends of mine.
Murmansk, Moskau, Samara und Saratow
At the 20th of March my boyfriend Immo and me wil go to Murmansk to play (just me and my drummer Arne) at a cultural festival in Murmansk , who invited us to this wonderful trip! After that I will play (alone) in Moscow, Samara and Saratow.
Immo and me will write an article about our experiences in Russia and specially about the music scene in Murmansk - look out for it!
Recordings for a new album
Ahhhh - first things are happening on the way to my next album. In middle of October I made recordings with my drummer Arne Ghosh in the House Of World Cultures here in Belrin.
I´ve played the Grand Piano and Arne did some weird percussion on boxes and strange things, which sounded really nice. But the release will not be before autumn next year - as far as planned now.
Choir of the World Cultures
From May 2007 I will form a Choir at the House of the World Cultures in Berlin and I am really happy about it! We will sing Titels from Popmusic to modern classical works and after some month of singing together, the Choir should be part of the musical work of the House of the World Culture, meaning: musicians from all over the world, who are invited by the HKW will write for the Choir and include it into their performances.
Everyone who wants to is invited to take part in our Casting from the 14th to the 16th of May 2007. For further details take a look at:
Barbara in New Zealand
I have the big luck to be able to stay in New Zealand in March. The Goethe Institut and the Institut Francais invited Fred Avril and me to compose some music together and play some shows. The new September Collective Album "All the birds were anarchists" will be released in April on the Vienna based label Mosz. September Collective are Stefan Schneider, Paul Wirkus and Barbara Morgenstern. And I am working on new songs for my next album and I can only say: there will be a lot of piano!
The Grass Is Always Greener live
The Doug Fir Lounge
Portland, Oregon
June 10, 2006
The Operator
Video by Kolja Kunt
USA Support for the Mountain Goats - Concert in Berlin!
I will do the support for "The Mountain Goats" in June, which is really wonderful and i would like to thank them here! For further Information please look at www.mountain-goats.com. The Record Release gig is at the 5th of May at "Maria am Ufer". Beginning at 10 p.m. there´s first Mico - best Electro from London and Tokio and at the end of the night: Oceanclub Party with Djs Gudrun Gut, Thomas Fehlmann, Daniel Meteo ... In May i will go on tour in Germany, Switzerland an Belgium - see at "live".
the grass is always greener - release at the 24th of april + single (27th of march)
My new album "the grass is always greener" is finished and will be released at the 24th of april on Monika Enterprise.\r\nInstead of the old albums the organ has moved a little and my piano gets mor into the foreground. I recorded some live drums with Arne Ghosh - who always plays at my concerts and I am really happy with the results. The Single is called "The Operator" and contains the electro-Song "The Operator" and a pur piano version of it. My tour takes place in May, summer and September. The first gig will be in Berlin at th Maria am Ostbahnhof.
New Barbara Morgenstern album spring 2006
My next album is nearly finished and will be released at Monika Enterprise in spirng 2006 (April). This time with a lots of Piano and realy drums on it - played by my live drummer Arne Ghosh and of course - hits hits hits!
Robert Lippok + Barbara Morgenstern
TESRI - TESRI -TESRI - TESRI - TESRI - TESRI - TESRI -TESRI - TESRI - TESRI - TESRI - TESRI -TESRI - TESRI - TESRI is the name of the Album, Robert and me did together. It will be released at the first of May on Monika Enterprise / Indigo. Robert and me did a short EP with 4 tracks 3 years ago and out of that we decided that we won´t stop doing music together, ´cause nice ideas come up when the other´s around. We recorded the whole album at my small studio in Berlin-Treptow, but with the help of Tarwter-member Bernd Jestram and his wonderful studio the album`s got really completetd.
Nichts Muss Finale live
Concert in the club Exmud in Florence (Italy) 2004/11/29
Drums: Arne Gosh
Visuals: T-Rex
September Collective
Along our new LP (Geographic/ Domino) September Collective will play live gigs - completely improvised. Maybe i will bring a guitar ... Paul Wirkus - Stefan Schneider - Barbara Morgenstern (for dates take a look at "live") The Record is distributed by Rough Trade.
September Collective
... is the name of a new band i founded with Stefan Schneider (Mapstation, To Rococo Rot) and Paul Wirkus (a minimalistic electronic musician from Poland, living in Cologne). We did an album of 10 completely impovised tracks - some recorded at concerts, some in the studio - which will be relased on Geographic in September this year.
Bill Wells record on leaf records
"LeafRecords" has released an album of Bill Wells last in mai 04 in which i took part together with Annie Whitehead (Trombone Player, worked together with Robert Whyatt) and Stefan Schneider (Mapstation, To Rococo Rot). Bill Wells is a wonderful Composer from Galsgow who writes Music inbetween Jazz and Electronic. He invited us to record an album with him in Berlin during one week - but i only came for one day.
Nichts und Niemand Finale live
Concert in the Sydney Opera House at the 12th of March 2004. Last Show of the world tour organized by the Goethe Institut.
Drums: Bernhard Reiss
Guitar: Patrick Arp
BARBARA MORGENSTERN + Maximilian Hecker AROUND THE WORLD
Today we´re leaving for the second half of our world-tour! Everything´s prepared and we´re going to be in new york this evening. Now: take off and see what´s happening!
Online diary from the world-tour
We're starting the world-tour at the 18th of October 2003! Maximilian Hecker and me will play 34 concerts in all continents - hurra! We´ll going to write a diary from every town we´ll visit, ceck it out on www.goethe.de or www.zeit.de. All tour dates at "live". The first "opening"-concert will be in berlin (Kalkscheune) at the 15th of October!
BARBARA MORGENSTERN + Maximilian Hecker AROUND THE WORLD
Hurra Hurra - I´m going on Worldtour! The German Goethe Institut invited Maximilian Hecker and me to do a worldtour - it will start at the 18th of October. Dates are not really confirmed yet - further informations soon at "live". We will start with a concert in Berlin (Kalkscheune) at the 15th of October.
Move live
Live in Club Lek 12.3.2003
"NICHTS MUSS" has been released
my third album (Monika Enterprise/ Labels). Further there is a new Remix-EP "Himmel Mixe", released on monika, with remixes of Ellen Alien, Tarwater, Lawrence und Jimmy Tamborello (DNTEL, Figurine).
Merci
This video is one of the 10 Videos: Barbara Morgenstern - Kleiner Ausschnitt [DVD] On this DVD compilation 10 artists, from musician to VJ, from the Netherlands via Berlin, Dresden and Hamburg to London, have taken tracks from nichts muss to wed intimacy and electronics, each in their own inimitable way. No matter if enticingly blurred caresses (Gute Nacht), a race against the self (Move) or classic, deconstructive graphic and video art (Is) Kleiner Ausschnitt (small detail) is no regular video collection, but a very personal view of Barbara's innermost substance, combining her unique lack of distance (as seen in her live shows), music, lyrics and personality with the filmmakers own visions, who go on to underline, contrast, enhance, change, abstract and contextualise this proximity. Barbara herself pops up just once. Barely there, distorted, almost too close, but only just. And then, in the accompanying introduction, she shows herself: to explain, recount, relate completely unafraid of exposing her innermost self. Kleiner Ausschnitt: a small detail and deep insight into one of Germany's most challenging songwriters