New podcast from Radio Goethe!

 

Here comes the new show, something different this time…..enjoy!

http://www.radiogoethe.org/tl_files/radiogoethe/audio/shows/rg_2013_02_08.mp3

Günter Schickert: Wanderer
Robert Schröder: Ferro Oxid
Bernd Kistenmacher: Let it out! in nearly full lentgh.

Enjoy!

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

Another report from E-LIVE 2012

Report from Electronic-Circus

 Also the directors of "Electronic-Circus" visited the "E-LIVE Festival" and wrote a report for their official website.

Please read it "here"

First reactions after E-Live

Musikzirkus-Magazin

A first, very kind review of my concert  can you read on the website of "Musikzirkus-Magazin".

Please click "here" to read it.

Let It Out! + - New release from Mellowjet Records

Let It Out! (CD-release)

After 2 years of offering the unique track "Let It Out!" as download only, "Mellowjet Records" will now release this music on CD too. "Let It Out!+" will also contain the track "Compressed Fluid" which was recorded live during my "Antimatter Live" concert in Planetarium of Muenster earlier this year.

This CD will be available first from october 27th on. Fans can obtain a signed version next saturday in Oirschot (Netherlands) during the "E-Live Festival". You can also find more details and informationshow to order the CD on the website of "Mellowjet Records".

New interview online

"Lostfrontier", webzine- and radio for electronic and ambient music from Barcelona presents a brandnew interview which you can read "here".

Enjoy

Let It Out! - New review

"Synth & Sequences" - website from Sylvain Lupari, has published a brandnew review about "Let It Out!". You can read it here:

"Let it Out! Let yourself go and let off steam out! This is what one might conclude at the listening of this awesome music piece that Bernd Kistenmacher wrote for the famous EM festival; Ricochet Gathering 2010 promoted by Ricochet Dream Records’ own Vic Rek. For the German synthesist it was an opportunity to take stock of and build the bridge between his Berlin School influences and his current EM tangent which is more symphonic. And it's true that Bernd Kistenmacher has totally give vent to his feelings... if not went entirely running riot! He did Let it Out!

The whole thing starts with a movable synth line coming out of cosmos and stars to glide lovingly among waves that come and go in a soft and delicious musical maelstrom. Waves of synth that are intertwining and amassing over a multitude of synthesized waves, of which some stand out and throw short melodic fragments whereas huge symphonic drum rolls suddenly appear. They are the signal to launch a swarm of symphonic stratums where synth layers sharpen their metaphoric bows to draw curt and quick stationary orchestral élans. And there go violin mellotrons which are dandling with fury on rolls of symphonic percussions whereas lines of synth all so symphonic fly over this soft ferocity coming of the hits of quixotic bows on a structure becoming more and more dense and heavy. We are at the 7^th minute point and the atmosphere is explosive with this furious orchestration which continues to tumble down under warm mellotron strings and Greco-Roman choirs which add a depth already filled at high volume. Toward the 9^th minute the rhythm is crashing on the orchestral cliff, freeing piano notes which hesitate to make themselves heard and which are quick snapped by a hatched sequential movement. It’s a jerky movement which crashes into as scissors of a psychotic barber whereas that the piano finally develops its harmony under a sparkling dam of sequences and waving synth lines. The rhythm drumming, Kistenmacher dresses Let it Out! of all his musical assets. This time it’s acoustic guitars notes’ turn to join in to make a sweet melody with the piano’s, under a sky streaked by shrill lines of synth. And the whole thing is reforming abruptly in a heavy and dense orchestration where a Berlin School is flooding of marvellous dense and intense orchestral stratums whereas the symphonic approach is moulding to superb exhilarating sequences. A sequence is isolating towards the eighteen minute. It divides up the rhythm to pound alone a movement which zigzags beneath sinuous reverberations. Let it Out! undertakes then a pure Berlin School turn with a powerful hypnotic sequence which hammers a ghostly tempo flied over by streaks and discreet solos of synth while, demonic, keyboard keys ramble and knock with fury to scattered in a totally wild rhythm.

Let it Out! continues his furious rhythmic élan on a sequence which by moments is splitting to finally move at high speed such a nervous and frenzied TGV on a very nice bass line which waves in length undulations. The more this long music piece of Kistenmacher evolves and the more he impresses by his wealth in the choice of virtual instruments and by the addition of all his musical layers that weighs down Let it Out! of a fascinating musicality a bit mad and crazy but constantly poetic. That’s all a lesson of EM that Bernd Kistenmacher is serving to us with this epic track which pursues its unbridled crusade while piano notes return haunting Let it Out! with striking percussions hits. Memotron stratums return and are even more symphonic. They wrap this wild rhythm of a tight melodious influence where lines, layers and stratums of synth are uniting to unify their breaths in a wonderful celestial clarion which sings and charms under frenzied hits of percussions, breathless sequences and this line of bass which supports this rhythm of a surprising cohesion with its thick cooing undulations. And quietly this infernal rhythmic train enters its station. It slows down its pace, letting drag the dust of its clarions, piano notes and sequences to only make hearing an acoustic guitar that sings beneath the jolts of still alive rhythms and breaths of a synth to hybrid layers, between the symphonic and Berlin School there where choirs breath in under mellotron stratums and hits of philharmonic big drums.

There are no doubts in my head, Let it Out! will be a piece of anthology in contemporary EM. We attend at a real tour de force where Kistenmacher is a real musical whirlwind. Throughout this heavy sequential and symphonic maelstrom, Bernd Kistenmacher maintains a fascinating melodious approach which is the soul of this long hypnotic musical piece where every stage brings its melodious freshness and the poetry so unique to the musical universe of the German synthesist. It is a pure masterpiece which is available in downloadable format on MellowJet site. I think it’s useless to specify that it is a must have. As far as I’m concerned it’s the best EM album in 2011 so far.

Sylvain Lupari

gutsofdarkness.com & synth&sequences.com "

More reviews can be also read on "Guts Of Darkness" website.

"Let It Out" is available as download only at the "webshop" of "MellowJet Records".

New Interview!

Some days ago, dutch journalist Bert Strolenberg did an interview with me for his "Sonic Immersion" website for electronic music.
We talked about the conceptional background of my recent releases, some general point of views about the recent em-scene and much more.

This interview is now online and be read "here".

Enjoy reading it!

Eldoradio

Tonight you can hear ecxlusively some minutes of "Let It Out!" in the show "Codo's Traumreisen" at "Eldoradio" web radio.
Host Christoph Cech aka "Codo" will play some  minutes of this 41 minutes long track.

Please follow this "link" for more details and webstream.

Let It Out! download online now!

This is just a short but important message today:

"Let It Out!", my latest release, is now available as download at "MellowJet Records".

Please follow this link to "MellowJet Records", listen to the sample, go to the webshop and... make the right decision ;-)

More news soon!

Merry christmas and a happy new year 2011!

My dear friends,
christmas time is there and it is time for gifts!

2010 was again a year with successful events and new releases.
 Inspiration cannot be planned or prepared and when I had started to read Frank Schaetzing's science-fiction novel "The swarm" one year ago, I didn't know how deep it would touch and inspire me. So the music of "Beyond The Deep" happened in fact from itself.

First "tests" during the "Music Fair in Frankfurt" in march showed, that there was a real chance that you would like this music. The response of you confirmed this.

This brings me to the very positive cooperation with "Roland Germany", which had been intensified over the past 12 months. From "Frankfurt Music Fair" to "Ricochet Gathering" in Berlin and finally to Cologne and Berlin with a series of synthesizer-workshops (with my personal premiere as "lecturer" on synthesizer topics). This cooperation will continue and at the moment we work on new activitites in 2011.

Back to "Beyond The Deep". Short before the release of the CD, I was invited by "Schallwende e.V." to inaugurate the renovated "Planetarium Bochum" in past june. This was my first concert in Germany since many years. The Planetarium was sold out and what can I say: there are considerations and plans to do more in 2011 - of course.
The invitation to participate on the famous "Ricochet Gathering" festival (for the first time in Berlin) reached me in august. For a certain time, I was involved into the organisation. This was another chance again to meet interesting and nice people. Future cooperations could be a result of this. But I was also asked to perform and did this with a longer, new track which was conceived as a musical bridge between my recent symphonic style and past "berlin school" textures. This track - "Let It Out!" - will be my christmas-gift to all of you. Together with "MellowJet Records", we decided to release this music for the first time only as download - available only via the website of "MellowJet Records". Date of release is "01.01.2011"

So we start with a brandnew release into the next year. More will follow.

Finally I will not leave this year without saying thank you to all people, who have helped me to go forward again. Thank you to Bernd Scholl and his family (MellowJet Records), Sylvia and Klaus-Ulrich Sommerfeld (Schallwende e.V.) Mrs Huettemeister (Planetarium Bochum), Andreas Michel (Synthesizer Magazin), Ute (Rathaus Schoeneberg), Cord Brandis and Michael Menze (Roland Germany), Olivier, Christian, Yann, James and all other guys of Cosmiccagibi and last but not least the best friend of the world: Michel Le Stum.

You, you and you! I wish all of you a merry christmas, a peaceful time and a happy new year!

All the best

Bernd Kistenmacher