New interview online

During my holiday vacation, I met Sylvain Mazars from "Encore" for an interview in Strasbourg.
It is actually written in french language. Please read it "here"

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!

New "Let It Out!+" review!

A very kind and positive review of "Let It Out!+" is now online on the website of "Radio Goethe".

 Please read it "here".

New reviews for "Let It Out!+" and "Patterns Of Light"

"Sylvain Lupari" provides two very nice reviews about "Let It Out!+" and "Patterns Of Light" on his "Synth & Sequnces" website.

Please read it here:

BERND KISTENMACHER: Let it Out! + Compressed Fluid (2012)

“I said it once and I'm saying it twice, Lit it Out! is a truly masterpiece of contemporary EM. Hat to you Bernd!”
1 Let it Out! 41:08
2 Compressed Fluid (Bonus track) 19:58
MellowJet Records | cd-bk1202 (CD 61:06) *****
(Berlin School, Symphonic EM)
Caresses of violins! Enormous caresses of violins which escape from the cavern of cosmos and run on the seas of abysses in order to waltz with melancholy. These strata are wrapping us with an infinite tenderness and transport us up to the cliffs of violent orchestral arrangements which debauch the gargantuan appetite of the multiple strings which inflame in violent staccatos. And bang! So bursts this compressed sound dynamite that is Let it Out!. How many of you still haven't heard this monster of intensity that was presented within the framework of the 2010 Ricochet Gathering festival? This music, available only in downloadable format since its release in December2010 is now distributed in factory pressed CD by the German label MellowJet Records. In complement we are entitled to a portion, the encore, of the concert given by Bernd Kistenmacher at the Planetarium of Muenster on January 14th, 2011.
“Let it Out! + Compressed Fluid” presents two music pieces that are very alike. If one, "Let It Out!", sketches a furious musical overview of this magnificent musician and composer career, "Compressed Fluid" is a surprising dissection of Kistenmacher last album (Antimatter) on a slow and mesmerizing staccato overhung by delicious solos that the German synthesist cuts with a surgical musicality out of his MiniMoog. If it's less violent than "Let It Out!", it remains as much intense. And the solos...Hum pure delight! You can read about the Let it Out!downloadable album here: http://synthsequences.blogspot.ca/2011/05/bernd-kistenmacher-let-it-out-2010.html
I had already written that Let it Out! was 2011 album of the year. And I maintain this position. Rarely did I hear an album so intense where the scents of vintage EM espoused marvellously the symphonic ambitions of a musician. And when it comes from Bernd Kistenmacher, the capture of the delight is amplified. Offered in pressed CD Let it Out! is finally franked from a downloadable version which simply didn't give it justice. The powerful performance of Kistenmacher at the Ricochet Gathering is unique. It's a piece of anthology in the chessboard of contemporary EM which doesn't deserve the forgetting in the vast areas of the Internet. And “Let it Out! + Compressed Fluid” is even bigger with two powerful tracks of a rare intensity signed Bernd Kistenmacher. A must have!
Sylvain Lupari (January 2nd, 2013)

BERND KISTENMACHER: Best of-Patterns of Light (2012)

“There are compilations that are only simple compilations and others that are an interesting journey at the antipodes of a career which knew an important artistic bend, Best of-Patterns of Light is of those”
1 The Beginning 4:14
2 In Face of Saturn 8:49
3 The End of the Record 12:59
4 A Hand Softly Touching You 11:47
5 The Memorial 6:58
6 On The Shoulders of Atlas 6:05
7 Lost City 14:01
8 Autumn Leaves 6:24
Innovative Communication | 872377-2 (CD 71:15) ****
(Classical Berlin School, Symphonic EM)

There are compilations that are only simple compilations! And then there are others which form an interesting journey at the antipodes of a career which knew an important artistic bend. And “Best of-Patterns of Light” is part of those. This superb compilation of Bernd Kistenmacher's works makes the auditor travelling between the both worlds that the synthesist and German composer has caressed for the greatest pleasure of our ears. From this universe to analog tones of the vintage years, strongly soaked by his Schulzian influences, to a more contemporary one, forged in great symphonic arrangements, “Best of-Patterns of Light” is a skeud which travels as much in the time as in the cosmos of Kistenmacher. A skillful mixture of two styles which in the end makes only a wonderful musical vein where the dream follows the patterns for a light that only Bernd Kistenmacher has the control over the switch.
"The Beginning" and "In Face of Saturn" form the superb intro of Celestial Movements. Here they start a compilation to hybrid flavor with somber synth layers which grow around the lamentations of a melancholic trumpet. The movement is symphonic and Vangelesque. It pours into "In Face of Saturn" and of its electronic percussions which row towards a tempo of which the curt movements are strummed under the aegis of a synth with splendid solos. This more contemporary vision of Bernd Kistenmacher shines with his symphonic arrangements while that "The End of the Record" and "A Hand Softly Touching You" bring us back to quite a different era. Pulled out of the Contrasts Vol I album, released in 1998, "The End of the Record" offers a rhythm slightly skipping with sober electronic percussions and sequences which alternate as knocks of bevels on a long minimalist movement of which the fine variations slip between some suave solos to analog flavors. We are in the temple of works typically inspired by Klaus Schulze. It's very good and very magnetizing. More intimist and ambient work, "A Hand Softly Touching You" from the 91 Outlines album reminds us of the first incursions of Kistenmacher in the universe of orchestral arrangements. The movement is black, mesmerizing and intensely meditative.
First unedited track of this compilation, "The Memorial" is inspired by a José Saramago's novel and wears very well the weight of its mood of procession with a Bolshevist flavor. Continuing on his symphonic impulse, Kistenmacher works this title with a dramatic approach where discreet angelic choirs wrap the symmetric pulsations of a slow evolution which became more oniric than clanic. Then follows the wonderful "On the Shoulders of ATLAS". The jewel of Antimatter parades in our ears with all the elegancy of a superb bolero of which the crescendo stigmatizes our emotions, so much it's beautiful, so much it's magical. It's undoubtedly one of the most beautiful tracks from Bernd Kistenmacher who blows our mind with another musical jewel coming out of the Beyond the Deep album; "Lost City". This very beautiful title is constantly torn apart between its melodious sweetness and some dense orchestrations built on dramatic approaches which are drawn in the breaths of a discreet synth. A synth which becomes more present and among which the spasmodic chords and the symphonic strata invade little by little this universe where the rhythm gets wins with knocks of bows and a little bit anarchic drum rolls before sinking into the tranquility of a finale which matches its introduction. An interesting reference point is Geoff Downes' very avant-gardism work; The Light Program. "Autumn Leaves" is the second unedited track of this compilation. It's a beautiful symphonic ballad for romantics with a nice melodious synth which sings under the delicate warning shots of a concerto for bows of which the jerked movements wrap carefully the caresses made by a dreamy synth. It's beautiful and its crescendo presents a very poignant finale.
Travelling skillfully between the periods and styles that Bernd Kistenmacher draws for our ears since 1984, “Best of-Patterns of Light” is a great compilation which makes a just overview of his career and establishes his links towards a more melodious and more symphonic EM. It's a compilation which concentrates on the more contemporary works of Kistenmacher and which should charm those who always hesitate to let be seduce by an EM as melodious as dreamy. The music is melodious, the rhythms are fine and the melodies mesmerizing. It's the universe of Bernd Kistenmacher at its best...or almost! The fans of Vangelis should adore and those of Kistenmacher are also going to feast with both unedited tracks, while being surprise by two tracks that we had forgotten on the course of time. A compilation which is worth its weight of gold!
Sylvain Lupari (January 4th, 2013)



 Of course this CDs are available at "Mellowjet Records" webshop!

Elektro Beats poll 2012

With kind regards from "Olaf Zimmermann" (RadioEins). A nice result at the beginning of 2013.

Ergebnisse elektro beats Hörerpoll 2012
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Platz 25 Robag Wruhme „Olagamikks“

Platz 24 Moby „Destroyed Remixed“

Platz 23 The Orb „The Orbserver In The Star House“

Platz 22 Actress “R.I.P.”

Platz 21 Kreidler “Den”

Platz 20 Matthew Dear “Beams”

Platz 19 Monolake “Ghosts”

Platz 18 Dead Can Dance “Anastasis”

Platz 17 Mohn “Mohn”

Platz 16 Terranova “Hotel Amour”

Platz 15 Tolouse Low Trax “Jeidem Fall”

Platz 14 Flying Lotus “Until The Quiet Comes”

Platz 13 Hot Chip “In Our Heads”

Platz 12 Bernd Kistenmacher “Antimatter”

Platz 11 Paul Kalkbrenner “Guten Tag”

Platz 10 Mouse On Mars „Parastophics“

Platz 09 Grimes “Visions”

Platz 08 Tangerine Dream “Machu Picchu”

Platz 07 Orbital „Wonky“

Platz 06 Dapayk & Padberg „Sweet Nothings“

Platz 05 Modeselektion Vol.2

Platz 04 Schiller „Sonne“

Platz 03 Fritz Kalkbrenner „Sick Travellin’“

Platz 02 Can „The Lost Tapes“

Platz 01 Phon.o “Black Boulder"

Elektro Beats

On wednesday 21st of november, I will be guest again in one of the most famous (public) radio-shows for electronic music: "Elektro Beats" on "RadioEins" hosted by "Olaf Zimmermann". Olaf will present a "full-package" of my music. So you can listen to some nice talks and music from "Antimatter", "Let It Out!+", "Patterns Of Light" and the vinyl-edition of "Head-Visions".

The 2-hour show starts at 11.00 p.m.. Please click "here" to get access to all "on- and off air" frequencies incl. livestream!

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".

Patterns Of Light - Best Of Bernd Kistenmacher

Approx. on october 27th, 2012 DA Music ( Deutsche Austrophon) will publish a new compilation on its very known E.M. label "IC - Innovative Comunication".

This album will contain a carefully done selection of my music and is called

"Patterns Of Light - Best of Bernd Kistenmacher".

Beside some known tracks which will give the listener an overview about my work during the past 20 years, this album will also contain a previously unreleased, brand new track called "Autumn Leaves".

The catalogue number is : 872377-2

We will present the cover and the tracklisting soon in this blog.

Eventim Onlinetickets for Dinslaken

Eventim - website for Dinslaken tickets

Tickets for "The Return Of Electronic Rock" are now available at "eventim", the biggest ticket-service in Germany (and Europe???).

Please follow this "link" to obtain your ticket. The service includes ticket print-service too.

Thank you and greetings from Berlin.

The Return Of Electronic Rock - Official Poster

The Return Of Electronic Rock

Well, here it is. The official poster for our concert in Dinslaken. And btw. it is another masterpiece by Michel Le Stum!

Thank you and of course, I hope to meet you in Dinslaken!

Swimmingpool-Festival 2012

I am sure, that this is not new for you but "Swimmingpool-Festival 2012" happens this week (friday and saturday) in Berlin.

Here is the link to the official "festival-website".

"Tickets" are still available and a CD-Stand with my releases will be also there.

So I hope to meet you soon in Berlin-Steglitz.

New Interview

"Synthesizer-Magazin no. 2" is out now. Some months weeks ago, Andreas Michel visited me in Berlin for an interview, which you can read here.

Enjoy some reflections about "Antimatter"!

Antimatter on Radio Goethe

Just a short message today.
"Radio Goethe" plays some tracks and a short interview in his latest Podcast!

Here is the playlist:

Radio Goethe Podcast 05-11-2012

Glitterbug: Outside my window
Kreidler: New Earth
Sølyst: The swell
[‘ramp]: infernal machines part one
Bernd Kistenmacher: Acceleration
Bernd Kistenmacher: It doesn’t matter
Bernd Kistenmacher: Large Hadron Collider
Klaus Schulze: Spielglocken

Please click "here" o get access to the podcast.

Enjoy

Radio Jena - Show from 1st of April repeatet!

Repeated on 8th of april!

"Rainer Sauer", host from the "Sounds from Synthesizer Reloaded", announces the repitition from the last show from april 1st, where the winners from his "Album Of The Year 2012" election were presented with music and interviews.
Due of some technical problems, not the complete show was broadcasted.

So here is the chance to listen to it again and to win some nice prices!

The show starts at 8.00 pm and to listen to it, please follow this "link" to get the webstream.

Enjoy!

Antimatter - Review in Eclipsed Magazine

"Eclipsed" - a german magazine for Rock- and Prog-Music - publishes in their latest edition no. 139 a nice review about "Antimatter".
"They Call It Soup!" is recommended as "Top-Track"!

Radio Jena - E.M.-Special show on1st of april !

On april first, host "Rainer Sauer" will present music and interviews with the 3 winners of Radio Jena's "Album Of The Year" election.So we met us last week  at the "Frankfurt Musicfair" and we talked very long about my musical development, ups and downs (and ups again) and of course we talked about "Antimatter". Rainer recorded everything, so you might expect a nice interview (in german language) and a lot of music of "Antimatter".
Please follow this "link" to watch the website.
For following the lifestream, please click on this "link.

Antimatter - On the radio plus interview

"Terry hawke" announces a new edition of his "Hawke Chill Out Sessions" show for upcoming saturday night /sunday morning (march 17th).
If you like to follow, here is the schedule:

• • 17. März um 22:00 bis 18. März um 08:00

• "The Hawke Presents Yet Another Inter-Stellar 10 Hour Audionique Journey!" I'm ON-AIR with Donna-Jo Thornton of the 'Morning Breeze' on Saturday's around 8am PDT / 3pm GMT and Sunday's around 9am PDT / 4pm GMT www.ksbr.org Phone-Link Interviews: 1. ROBERT SCHROEDER & LAMBERT RINGLAGE @ 11.15pm GMT / 00.15am CET (Sun)) 2. BERND KISTENMACHER @ 01.15am GMT (Sun) 02.15am CET (Sun) 3. Donna-Jo Thornton of 'The Morning Breeze' @ 3.15am GMT (Sun) 7.15pm PDT (Sat) Streaming: http://earth.passionradio.co.uk/HFM When On-Air: studio@harboroughfm.co.uk When Off-Air: terryhawke@yahoo.co.uk Facebook Comments Page: "HAWKE-FRIENDZ" 'HAWKE CHILL OUT SESSIONS' & 'NIGHT HAWKE': Saturday & Sunday March 17th /18th 2012 GMT: 10pm Saturday to 8am Sunday CET: 11pm Saturday to 9am Sunday EDT: 6pm Saturday to 4am Sunday CDT: 5pm Saturday to 3am Sunday PDT: 3pm Saturday to 1am Sunday 'HAWKE CHILL OUT SESSIONS ' Session 1: 'Ambio-Rock Synthonique Vol 2' 10pm to 11pm GMT / 3pm to 4pm PDT 1. Kan'Nal: Gypsy: CD Dreamwalker 2. Dean De Benedictus: Occur: CD Salnaging The Past 3. Robert Plant & Alison Krauss: Rich Woman: CD Raising Sand 4. Laura Mann: Your The Reason I Go On Living: CD Bowties & Tatto's 5. Anubis: Us: CD Sibuna 6. The Orb: High Noon: CD The Dream 7. Porcupine Tree: Phase II: CD Voyage 34 8. Lunar Dunes: As Below: CD From Above 9. Ramp: Tool: CD Oughtibridge 10. Kan'Nal: Desest Flower: CD Dreamwalker 1. Session 2: 'ROBERT SCHROEDER & LAMBERT RINGLAGE SESSION' 11pm to Midnight GMT / 4pm to 5pm PDT 1. Robert Schroeder: Esthetique: NEW CD Esthetique 2. Robert Schroeder: Energizer: CD (see 1.) 3. Robert Schroeder: Neutron Swarm: CD (See 1.) 4. Robert Schroeder: Waiting For You (excerpt): NEW CD Club Chill Vol 1 5. Robert Schroder: I LIke It So: CD (See 4.) 6. Hypnosphere (aka Lambert & Alien Nature: Sleepwalk: NEW CD Within The Whirl 7. Berlin Heritage: Long Journey To Different Temples (excerpt): NEW CD Land Of The Rising Sun 8. Jiannis & Lambert: White Light (excerpt): NEW CD Timeless Vision Session 3: 'Ambio-Rock Synthonique Vol 1 ' Midnight to 1am GMT / 5pm to 6pm PDT 1. NEW: My Cosmo Tube: aka Sacha Simnovec: Antarctica* 2. Echopilot: Revelation Ridge: Comp CD Bioluminescence 3. Krill.Minima: Kronen Dub: Comp CD (See 2.) 4. Selfish: Easy Mr Palmer: Comp CD (See 2.) 5. Dream Theatre: Anna Lee: CD Falling Into Infinity (Thanks Dorthe!) 6. District 97: Mindscan VI: CD Hybrid Child 7. Vakuum Sounds: A Journey After A Snake Bite: Comp CD (See 2.) 8. Xerxes: Longyaard: Comp CD (See 2.) 9. NEW: Moonloonies: Oort Cloud 10. Altocirrus: The Needle * Can be found via 'Youtube', 'Soundcloud', 'Bandcamp'. As indeed can many of the other musician's featured during BOTH shows'. Session 4: 'BERND KISTENMACHER SESSION ' 1am to 2am GMT / 6pm to 7pm PST / 8.15pm EST 1. Wild Element: Sonic Space: Comp CD Syntonic Waves Vol 8 2. Jonson: Minimalism Unfinished 2nd: CD (See 1.) 3. Bernd Kistenmacher: They Call It Soup: NEW CD Antimatter 4. Bernd Kistenmacher: It Doesn't Matter: CD (See 3.) 5. Bernd Kistenmacher: Filling The Emptiness: CD (see 3.) 6. Bernd Kistenmacher: Caverns Of Knowledge: CD (See 3.) 7. Bernd Kistenmacher: Acceleration: CD (See 3.) 8. Alpha Wave Movement: Another Time, Another Place: CD Drifted Into Deeper Lands 9. Ian Boddy: Parabolic Excursions: NEW CD Strange Attractors Session 5: 'Ambio-Vox Synthonique Vol 1' 2am to 3am GMT / 7pm to 8pm PDT 1. Astralfish: Key Rings: NEW CD far Corners 2. Klaus Schulze: High Moon (12 Uhr Nachts): Ltd Edt Bonus Track 3. NEW: Radium88: And Then She Saw Stars: NEW CD Escaping Tomorrow 4. NEW: Darlene Koldenhoven: Remember Me: NEW CD Solitary Treasures 5. Sia: Don't Bring Me Down: CD Colour The Small One 6. NEW: Dan Blanchard feat Nisha Narsai: Transformation: NEW CD Awakenings 7. Spacecraft: The Pick Side Of Echoes: CD Cyberspace 8. Schonwalder & Rothe: Cup 1: CD Filter-Kaffee 101 9. Polaris: Permutations Pt 2: CD Background Stories

The interview with me will not be pre-recorded. So enjoy the show and meet me there or on Facebook at the same time.

Antimatter - Review on Radio Goethe website

Radio Goethe

Well, here is another nice review of "Antimatter" on the german website of "Radio Goethe". Music and an interview will follow soon. But for reading it, please click on this "link".

Thank you

Antimatter is "Album Of The Year" at Radio Jena

The listeners of local radio "Radio Jena" had the chance to elect their "Electronic "Album Of The Year". The result is now online and I am happy to tell you, that"Antimatter" has got place no.1! To watch the complete listing, please click "here" and scroll a little bit down.

"Album Of The Year"

I would like to thank my fans for this kind gesture. This is another motivation to give my best on my next albums!

All the best

Bernd Kistenmacher