Named after a song by Southern soul legend Sam Dees, Homewreckers are a German trio who have become known for a remarkable and fresh sound, somewhere between abstract funk, rhythm & blues and Detroit techno. They have released music on Thee Blak Label/Radikal Fear (Chicago), Groove Attack Productions (Cologne), Unique Records (Dusseldorf), and Circus Company (Paris), among others. Homewreckers' second album comes out this year with new Berlin label Frozen Speaker Cable.
All the visual material of this concert comes from the archive of filmmaker Harun Farocki. It was researched and selected for his last completed series Parallel, a video installation which explores the evolution of the video-game animation image.
Homewreckers' sound is mostly built out of trace elements of sampled material. These are then used to create compositions in dialogue with live studio sessions (organ, drums, bass, voice) as well as digital post production. As the sole sonic sources, the musicians use their own music collections, making the work a reflection of their personal and collaborative history and backgrounds.
The live presentation of Homewreckers' most recent album comes in the form of a concert film. The band adds additional live audio to the recorded soundtrack and simultaneously manipulates the accompanying images. The film was produced with Berlin media artist and painter Alexander König.
Homewreckers' new album, titled Hard Drive Jazz for now and due out this fall, has evolved out of a months-long, in-depth investigation of blues recordings from 1910 to 1980. Micro particles of guitar chords, organ sounds, or drum elements reappear in new contexts in the tracks and are fused with contemporary synthesizer and bass motifs. The results are deep, rhythmic, complex, and eccentric, leading the listener into the darker, more obscure sides of urban life (just like Confusion, Federal Buildings, or Darkest Days).
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