….HIT YOU!

Zhe Genua Policemen popped out of the middle of now-where when mass protests of anti-globalization activists in Genua (Italy) were struck down violently by local police forces. Besides their name, which should remind of that, the hearty foursome had no political ambitions but shared an distinctive likeness for the subculture of the early Sixties.

Zhe Genua Policemen loved zhe multifaceted cultural expressions of that era, f.e. zombie-movies like „I Eat Your Skin“ or music like the instrumental surf-sounds of Dick Dale and especially garage-bands like the Sonics, one of the first bands ever who really deserved the designation „punk“ in more than only one way since their raw and brutal energy anticipated the british punk explosion for more than a decade!

Another huge role model for zhe Genua Policemen was the first boygroup ever, the Monkees, four young people who were casted by a record company to incarnate the american Beatles. While the lion's share of their musical output was tame teeny-pop, they also had some real raw garage classics on their schedule, like „Steppin' Stone“ (which once was even covered by the Sex Pistols!) or „Circle Sky“, which was also one of the rare tracks a group-member (M. Nesmith) had written.

A further rocket-fuel for the Genua Policemen's sonic excursions to garage-space were the sounds of german composer Peter Thomas whose haunting theme of legendary german TV-classic „Raumpatrouille“ was interpreted by the Genua Policemen as an impellent piece of surf music.

It's also one of the credits of the Genua Policemen to have snatched a record from Texas-based group The Telefones from oblivion, „Vibration Change“ from 1980. „A Sign of the times“ is only the amazing opener from an album full of ingenious and intoxicating Rock'n'Roll-blasts.

As unexpected as the Genua Policemen appeared on the scene of the freshly born millenium, as fast they vanished again from it only a short time later. Since the musical directions of the single members pointed to opposite directions (exo wanted to explore the future, while örwing, puschl and kerzen preferred to stay in the past) the brave quartet disrupted to its single parts again. This is its heritage.

Heinrich Philipp Liebeskraft, „The unknown side of Kraut“

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The Lords of Kraut at the Church of Noise ... bite!

One day in the noughties Exo Neutrino stumbled across a bunch of five valiant weirdos from the Hessian hinterland, and through that, for a short time, a new star flashed and sparkled at the skies of psychedelic Krautsalat. The fearless sextet – which later called itself Lords of Kraut - came together at the stage of a former, very big discotheque near the small city Marburg, somewhere at the edge of no-where. It was a place where village dancing and weekly hoedowns had happened some years ago. Now it was orphaned and empty but the complete furniture was still standing there! Inspired by the strange atmosphere of this unique place, the Lords christened it to the name "the Church of Noise" and began to release the loads of their completely different musical tastes and interests onto each other.

The music that emerged from this was a mixture of freely improvised, psychedelic „krauty“ soundscapes and roughly ralphed out compositional ideas of one or the other of the Lords. Exo was lucky enough to capture most of their music on a mini-disc-recorder. Later he added some sound-producing and cut the tracks to the privately released CD-R „... bite!“ which now is available through Bandstand. More refinement of the material failed due to the short living of the project. On the other hand one could say it was just the roughness and crudity, the freshness and virginity that gave the Lords their unique and distinctive sound! But form your own opinion about that and give the Lords a faithful listening right here!

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