SPEX Magazine

The recent issue no. 366 of SPEX magazine publishes a very good review about my re-releases "Head-Visions" and "Wake Up In The Sun".

If you are looking for the albums, you can find them at "Bureau B/Tapete Records" and "MIRecords/Bandcamp".

Next concert in Berlin!

I hope to see you there. I will play music from the past and the future ;-)

For tickets please chcek this "link".

See you

bureau b releases Head-Visions and Wake Up In The Sun!

After many months of preparation and work it is time now to tell you, that the very known Hamburg based label "bureau b" releases my first solo-albums "Head-Visions" and "Wake Up In The Sun" on 6th of november. The releases will be available as downloads, Compact Disc and Vinyl. Especially "Wake Up In The Sun" wasn't not released since more than a decade. So this will be your chance to rediscover the music of my very first musical period.

Let's say bureau b some own words about it:

"It  was  Klaus  Schulze’s  album  “Moondawn”  (1976)  which  altered  the trajectory of Kistenmacher’s life when he heard it on the radio at the tender age  of  16.  The  sequencer  patterns,  melody  lines  and  soundscapes triggered all of his aesthetic receptors. From then on, this was the only kindof  music  he  wanted  to  hear.  He  became  a  relentless  venerator  of Tangerine Dream and Klaus Schulze, particularly the latter.

But  his  heroes  evolved,  their  music  changed  with  the  advent  of  digitalsounds and midification. A fairly normal process in music which is strongly influenced by technology. But Kistenmacher was not happy with the way things  were  going.  And  if  his  idols  were  no  longer  making  the  music  he loved them for, then he had to take up the challenge himself. His father had shown him how to play the piano when he was a child and he had always been  fascinated  by  the  technology  of  synthesizers—Kistenmacher  thus decided to become a musician. Synthesizers were prohibitively expensive, so he started to build his own modular system. But before he finished, he realised that, for one thing, he was going to have to spend inordinate sums of money and, secondly, he was not going to achieve the results he strove for unless he could get his hands  on  a  proper  synthesizer. As  soon as  he  was able  to pay for  one, Kistenmacher  bought  a  Korg  Mono/Poly  which  would  become  the cornerstone of his career. That was back in 1982.

He acquired more and more equipment until, in 1984, he finally released his first cassette (“Dancing Sequences”). Kistenmacher was now using his analogue gear to create the sounds which Schulze and Tangerine Dream played  at  the  zenith  of  their  careers.  Two  further  cassette  productions followed  (“Music  from  Outer  Space”,  “Romantic  Times”),  as  did  various concerts,  meeting  with  approval  from  radio  stations  and  consumers.  In 1986,  the  time  had  come  for  him  to  release  his  first  LP:  “Head-Visions”.

The cover art features a work by the Berlin sculptor Rainer Kriester. The  reaction  was  overwhelming.  Radio  plays,  big  concerts,  music  for fashion  shows  and  television  formats  indicated  to  Kistenmacher  that  he was on the right track: repetitive sequencer patterns, soft melody arches and  layered  soundscapes,  with  rhythmic  bass  lines  driving  the  musicforward.  Minor  keys  dominated.  In  other  words:  Bernd  Kistenmacher embodies the spirit of the Berlin School."

So please check out the following audiosamples or go directly to the website of "bureau b". Again the releases will be available from november 6th on and exclusively for the first time at my upcoming show in Berlin at the "Planetarium Am Insulaner" on the 7th of november. 

I meet you there!

Bernd Kistenmacher   Head-Visions (bureau b no. BB214)

Bernd Kistenmacher   Wake Up In The Sun (bureau b no. BB215)

Information from MIRecords

We are happy to announce the beginning of the production of Bernd Kistenmacher's "Head-Visions" in the remastered version on CD.
In a first step, we present you now the final artwork of the frontcover. Again the fantastic artwork is done by french artist Michel Le Stum.
The cat. no. of the CD is MI10050.
This album will be available at the end of september, but you can allways order it now on "bandcamp" and if you wish, you will receive the CD handsigned by Bernd Kistenmacher itself.

Please click "here" to enter the webshop.

Stay tuned for further informations.

Bandcamp is official webshop for MIRecords!

Bernd Kistenmacher's MIRecords on bandcamp

Since the good start of MIRecords on "bandcamp", we've decided to use this platform as official webshop for all recent and future releases of MIRecords.

This means, that MIRecords will not provide any other website or webshop for direct sales, but this blog for informations and bandcamp for sales of our music.

Please click here to enter our "shop" 

Of course you can contact us directly too. Please click on this link "MIRecords Order" and we will hurry up to answer all of your questions.

We hope to meet you soon here, there or on bandcamp!

Head-Visions now on Bandcamp!

MIRecords, Bernd Kistenmacher's label for electronic music, has now launched an own website on "Bandcamp"; a platform for losless digital downloads, physical releases and more.
Please follow this "link" to enter the site or check the musicplayer below. First release of course, is Bernd Kistenmacher's remastered "Head-Visions" album. More offers will follow soon.

radiospecial on next sunday!

Local radio station "Radio Modul" will present on sunday the 30st of june 2013 a three hour special with music from Bernd Kistenmacher.

The show will start at 3 pm local time.

Please check details and stream "here".

You can also check the "Facebook" site of "Radio Modul" for further infos.

A personal reflection at the end of 2012!

Dear friends,

don't worry, this is not the moment for a critical view back onto a year, which was not so easy at every day.
This is the moment to present you an interview, which is published - let's say - right in time. It was done for the "Dresdner Neueste Nachrichten", a newspaper which is published  for the city of Dresden as well as for the south-east of Germany. Indeed this interview is a reflection about my past and recent work and about some personal point of views about this and that. I hope you can translate it because it is written in german language.

Interview für Dresdner Neue Nachrichten!

However, I wish you a time of joy and festivities and a happy new year 2013!

Back to you soon.

All the best

Bernd Kistenmacher

After Elektro Beats

Last Radio Poets

There are some nice reactions here and there in the "www" after Olaf Zimmermann's interview with me and his presentation of my latest releases in his "Elektro Beats" radioshow.

1) The pure interview is now online on the website of "RadioEins". You can listen to it "here".

2) Same interview has also been recommended on the american "Last Radio Poets" website. To get access, please click on this "link".

3) Last but not least a nice reaction of a german fan on the "Elektro Beats" website:

"Lieber Olaf Zimmermann,
schon seit geraumer Zeit krame und grabe ich im spannenden Elektronik und Krautrockdschungel der 70er und 80er Jahre und habe nach und nach so einige Eckpfeiler ausmachen können. Der großartige Bernd Kistenmacher ist allerdings eine völlige Neuentdeckung für mich. Ich danke sehr herzlich und möchte hiermit an der Verlosung einer der Schallplatten teilnehmen.

Mit besten Grüßen,
John"

There is nothing to add at the moment ;-)

Elektro Beats Repeated

Bernd Kistenmacher & Olaf Zimmermann

Here is a second chance to listen to the "Elektro Beats" show from last night: it will be repeated in the night from thursday to friday.

Please follow this "link" for more informations and the schedule.