trailer for the upcoming show

Hello friends,

with kind permission and help of the "Planetarium Am Insulaner" in Berlin, we publish here the official trailer with new music for Bernd Kistenmacher's  next show in Berlin on november 7th.

Enjoy it on Youtube or Vimeo.

Have a good flight ;-)

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)

New Planetarium Show in Berlin

Many things are coming up now for the next concert in Berlin on 8th of november.
All machines are running to finish Bernd Kistenmacher's new album "PARADISE" and to prepare a unique concert in Berlin at the "Planetarium am Insulaner". Same is for the visuals from Andreas Schwietzke, who created fantastic landscapes extra for this concert. Be welcome to the show and you will see unforgetable fulldome animations!

To obtain tickets, please follow this "link" to enter the Planetarium's website or stay here for a while and watch the promototional video of "Everlasting Magic", one of the beautiful tracks, you can listen soon on "PARADISE".

Btw. you can pre-order the album on "Bandcamp".

Stay tuned.

Tour dates

Hello friends,

please take notice of the upcoming concerts in autumn 2014 and 1st quarter of 2015.

04th of october 2014  Electronic-Circus  city of Guetersloh, Germany

01st of november 2014 Zeiss-Planetarium  city of Jena, Germany

08th of november 2014 Planetarium Am Insulaner  Berlin, Germany

31st of january 2015 LWL-Planetarium city of Muenster,  Germany

20th of february 2015  UfaFabrik  Berlin, Germany

For details, please follow the "upcoming shows" links in the right column.

And also please check the Blog of "MIRecords" for upcoming release of Bernd Kistenmacher

Thank you for your attention.

New concert in Berlin!

Next autumn concerts are in preparation status and here is anothoer confimred date, which can be now added to your calendar.

We will have another "Bernd Kistenmacher - Live in concert 2014!" show on 8th of november, 2014 in Berlin at "Planetarium am Insulaner" in Berlin.

Details about the show and lin-up will be published here or on "Facebook Events" in the next months.


Thank you.

Update for the concert in Berlin

Tickets can now ordered via this new email address: "planetarium-berlin@gmx.de" .
Of course this concerts still happens on november 16th, 2013 at "Planetarium am Insulaner" in Berlin - Schoeneberg.

Concert poster for Berlin !

We are happy to present the official poster for the concert at "Planetarium Berlin am Insulaner", which will happen on november 16th!

Concert poster for Planetarium Muenster

We are happy to present the official poster for the concert at "Planetarium Muenster", which will happen on november 23rd!

Official trailer for autumn concerts!

The autumn concerts in Berlin, Muenster and Jena will also promoted now with this trailer on youtube:

Enjoy and share! Thank you

Supporting act for autumn concerts!

Bernd Kistenmacher with guests and supp. act Thosten Quaeschning's PPM

We are proud and happy to announce a very special supporting acts for all 3 concerts in november this year. It will be:

Thorsten Quaeschning´s „Picture Palace music“ plays REMNANTS

Thorsten Quaeschning is member of well known "Tangerine Dream" and also head of his band "Picture Palace music". He was asked to compose and play the music for a documentation for BBC television, which is called "REMNANTS"


REMNANTS explores the rise and fall of the Neolithic civilisation of Britain via motion controlled, digital timelapse cinematography.

In one of the longest cultural developments in history, from 3800 to 1000 BC the Neolithic peoples of Northern Europe constructed thousands of complex stone monuments. Their reasons for doing so remain largely a mystery to this day.
Utilising highly stylized, motion controlled timelapse photography, Remnants captures the essence and austere beauty of their amazing 'Megalithic' constructions, suggests and reveals their purposes, and poses a question to our current culture. History has proven repeatedly that no civilisation can last indefinitely. Will we share the same fate?
Shot in 4K resolution over the course of four years throughout the UK and Ireland, Remnants is set only to an original score by Thorsten Quaeschning (and presented in a pristine widescreen digital print.

Thorsten Quaeschning will present this 37 minutes long documentation exclusively on Bernd Kistenmacher's live concerts in fulldome quality and he will play the music of this documentation live with 3 others members of his band "Picture Palace music".
Expect a very special evening full of beautiful pictures and fantastic music in Berlin (16.11.2013, Planetarium), Muenster (23.11.2013, Planetarium) or Jena (30.11.2013, Planetarium).

Be welcome!

 Please watch this trailer: http://vimeo.com/59932302