Hotel Encore is
not a hotel, not really.
I've been a musician for many years and now
it's time to spread my musical output. Therefore
Hotel Encore is my way to publish and distribute the music
I make or am involved in.
If you're interested in a chronological list of my musical activities
read
this. Feel free to check my latest activities on
Soundcloud.
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In this catalogue
you can find all currently available releases with their front covers,
a description, and a link to archive.org. There you can listen to all songs or download them.
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Artist: Vakuum
Title: AB-CD
Number: ENC001 (CDR)
Tracklist: Train of delusion * Like a cloud * The door * What about him? * The wanderin' feet * U2 um 3 * Hass * Schwarz * Nature's rebirth * Nightlife * Fairy-tale-index * Mach' ruhig weiter * It's alright * Flight prevention * Double-gum * Bubble-gum * Foreigner * Home * Casiopeia * Tired * Mr. Important * Colors * Hey you * The wish * White ship * What's up?/Philosophy
The AB-CD is Vakuum's first release on CDR after several tape-only releases from 1991-1994. It contains 26 refreshing tracks, most of them in a singer/songwriter style (all lyrics are in English except for two or three phrases), but there's also some experimental stuff. All tracks are 8-track re-recordings of older songs, so the AB-CD could be considered as a best of 1991-1994.Original release (private edition) from 1995, re-release on Hotel Encore from 2002.
The whole album is offered for download at archive.org.
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Artist: Vakuum
Title: Stories from another mind threw our eyes
Number: ENC002 (CDR)
Tracklist: Dissolve * Vox lunae * Thin kings trade with lemons * Who's leading my dreams? * Seth * Waiting for/with Jesus
In 1995 the music of Vakuum became a little bit more outlandish. Again we decided to make 8-track re-recordings of a few songs. The music after the opener sounds like one long track. It concludes with the long "masterpiece" Waiting for/with Jesus in which the influence of The Legendary Pink Dots is obvious. All lyrics are in English.Original release (private edition) from 1996, re-release on Hotel Encore from 2002.
The whole album is offered for download at archive.org.
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Artist: Halbes Vakuum
Title: dark green then / Heads for details
Number: ENC003 (CDR)
Tracklist: FC * rade * Who knows? * ε * chrog * Believe your friend (version) * lide (½) * I see * hygge * Ouverhead * God is more * Sevenhead * Just a dream * Twenty years later * Loophead
It's not perfect. It's more a kind of statement. A statement regarding my life in 1996. I recorded 90 minutes of fragments, songs and soundscapes in two days with a 4-track machine. Later I re-mixed it and threw some bad things out. For this re-release on Hotel Encore I re-mixed it again and now it only contains the essential parts (and runs 55 minutes). These essentials had to be said and done! It comes along as two long tracks (dark green then and Heads for details) wherein you can find real songs like Who knows?, followed by soundscapes like ε or relaxed guitar fragments like hygge. The second track ends with a hypnotizing experiment (Loophead). I found some machines with music inside and plugged them in. They invited me to do a jam session. After fifteen minutes I left the room and when I came back they were still rocking. Of course I faded it out now... All lyrics (yes, there are some) are in English.Original tape release (private edition) from 1996, first CDR re-release (private edition) from 1998, second re-release on Hotel Encore from 2002.
The whole album is offered for download at archive.org.
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Artist: Musik aus Barmbek (Frank Zonza + Thorsten Wald)
Title: Musik aus Barmbek
Number: ENC004 (CDR)
Tracklist: Avant-Garde * Restrisiko * Geistderstadt * Tagesanbruch * Beerensammler im Wienerwald * Dog * Was willst du machen * The dishonest mailmen * Die Krücken * Das dunkle Zimmer * Abschied von Wien * Jim Knopf * Der Cowboy * Fast Food
Musik aus Barmbek is a compilation of tracks taken from the (more private) CDRs Musik aus Barmbek and Musik aus Barmbek 3. All tracks are re-recordings of songs we came up with since 1985. Most of the songs have lyrics written by poets (Bertolt Brecht, Erich Fried and many more), but there are also some own lyrics (most of them are in German). The HD-recordings are from 1996-2004.Released on Hotel Encore 2004.
The whole album is offered for download at archive.org.
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Artist: Chanting Sheep
Title: Titanium and anthracyte
Number: ENC005 (CDR)
Tracklist: Alien day * Waiting for rain * Hugo Distler * In the spring * Norrahammar * Z connection * 87.50 FM * Lights out! * Wheat and barley * World doesn't work without words
What's the sense of our being? Writing important songs about unimportant people? Or writing unimportant songs about important people? And what is more sophisticated? Titanium and anthracyte is the result of a musical co-operation with Lars Tängmark for seven years. Every river offers a voyage of discovery and this album is like a river. Every single sound is relevant. Silence and words. Gentleness and opposite. Nothing is unimportant. Most of the lyrics are in English.Released on Hotel Encore 2008.
See ENC011 for the re-release as real CD pressing.
The songs of the album are offered for download at archive.org. The transitions and interludes between the tracks are only available on the CD version.
Two songs have already been released on earlier compilations (see below).
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Artist: Alexander von Ostwestfalen
Title: Anemone nemorosa
Number: ENC006 (CDR)
Tracklist: Destruktiv * Supermann nähert sich im Tiefflug * Maja gegen Vancouver * Blutige Anfänger versuchen sich an Taekwondo * Staubsauger in Nebenrollen * Perikles auf der Flucht vor seiner großen Schwester * Keine Ahnung, Dein Boot * Er hängt in Bielefeld * Zwischen den Welten I * Wo ist Timo? * Der Minister verbrennt ein Kleeblatt * Die Werkbank am Berghang
Anemone nemorosa is my collection of music by Alexander von Ostwestfalen. I lay emphasis on my, because if my musical companion compiled this, it would be different. Looking back Alexander von Ostwestfalen sounds like young people searching for their musical identity and like discovering. No vocals, but much fantasy. Constructed, but therefore worth listening. The 4-track recordings are from 1985-1990.Released on Hotel Encore 2005.
The whole album is offered for download at archive.org.
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Artist: Halbes Vakuum
Title: Fizzle projects
Number: ENC007 (CDR)
Tracklist: Anonymer Sonnenuntergang * Wycoque Part 3 * Halbkreis * Antarktis (edit) * Krikkit * Drei Minuten deines Biolehrers (edit) * Spinatwachteln auf der Vogelfluglinie * Intermezzo Nr. 1 * Sinus * Karo * Präludium D-Dur * DBK * Westwind * Time floats * Kattwyk * Härzschmerzen * Nightlife * Klärfisch (edit)
Fizzle Project is a compilation of 4-track recordings I made 1986-1992. It's similar to Alexander von Ostwestfalen, but sometimes it's more like minimal music. The last three songs are with vocals, but the lyrics of the long Klärfisch consist of just two words.Released on Hotel Encore 2007.
The whole album is offered for download at archive.org.
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Artist: Halbes Vakuum
Title: MMII
Number: ENC008 (CDR-EP)
Tracklist: Analyze it:: Zug island 1 * The sheep lady from Algiers * Ship breaking the water / Dark moon * Zug island 2 ::To death
The mini album MMII contains four songs with lyrics written by Patti Smith and Wolfgang Kabsch. The music sounds similar to Musik aus Barmbek, but I've used fragments from 1982 (Athabasca) in Ship breaking the water / Dark moon, too. I wanted to record more songs with lyrics written by other people. This project turned out to be to ambitious, so I decided to make it a mini album. All lyrics are in English. The HD-recordings are from 2002.Original release (private edition) from 2004, re-release on Hotel Encore from 2010.
The whole album is offered for download at archive.org.
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Artist: Musik aus Barmbek
Title: Urknall EP
Number: ENC009 (CDR-EP)
Tracklist: Urknall Piano * Urknall Pop * Urknall Prinzip
We have made two versions of our contribution for the song contest with the theme Big Bang/Creation and decided to send in the version "Pop". But we've planned to make "our own" non-commercial version. So we made a third recording and put all together on this Urknall EP. All lyrics are in German. The HD-recordings are from 2009 and 2010.Released on Hotel Encore 2010.
The whole album is offered for download at archive.org.
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Artist: Vakuum
Title: Requiem
Number: ENC010 (CDR-EP)
Tracklist: Praefatio * Tempus, sententiae somniaque * Ave Sole * Supplicium * Domine, domine noster * Renascentia naturae * Opus nostrum * Opperiri Jesum
We wanted to conclude the being of Vakuum with this requiem, but we didn't finish it together. Half of the recordings are from the common time before 2000 (especially Opperiri Jesum has been made before 9/11), but it took another ten years, until I've finished the last tracks. Two songs consist of original fragments, but there are "modern" versions of our songs as well. The lyric fragments used are in German, English, French and Latin. The HD-recordings are from 1997-2010.Released on Hotel Encore 2010.
The whole album is offered for download at archive.org.
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Artist: Chanting Sheep
Title: Titanium and anthracyte
Number: ENC011 (CD)
Tracklist: Alien day * Waiting for rain * Hugo Distler * In the spring * Norrahammar * Z connection * 87.50 FM * Lights out! * Wheat and barley * World doesn't work without words
Titanium and anthracyte is the result of a musical co-operation with Lars Tängmark for seven years. We are both long-term fans of the Legendary Pink Dots and therefore not free of influences from our favourite band. Every river offers a voyage of discovery and this album is like a river. Every single sound is relevant. Silence and words. Gentleness and opposite. Nothing is unimportant. Our scope of creativity ranges from gothic to industrial to ambient to songwriter-folk, but you can also find Oldfield-like moments...Released as CD pressing on Hotel Encore 2011.
There won't be a free download of this edition.
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Artist: Various
Title: The cloud-zero tribute to the Legendary Pink Dots, volume 1
Number: ---
This tribute CD was released in 2004 and
contains a song by Chanting Sheep called Waiting for rain.
The whole
album is offered for
download at archive.org.
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Artist: Various
Title: The cloud-zero tribute to the Legendary Pink Dots, volume 2
Number: ---
This tribute CD was released in 2007 and
contains a song by Chanting Sheep called 87.50 FM.
The whole
album is offered for
download at archive.org.
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Artist: Various
Title: Urknall/Schöpfung
Number: ---
This CD has been produced in 2009 after
a song contest. It contains a song by Musik aus Barmbek called Fragen nach dem Urknall as
one of the three best tracks.
The CD is available
here. It can't be offered for free download.
----------------------------------------------- LINKS -----------------------------------------------
Lars Tängmark from Sweden:
Odensjö Recordings
Christopher Garbers from
Hamburg (German)
Christian Hennig from
Hamburg (German)
Official
Legendary Pink Dots-Homepage
My other hobby play-by-mail (German)
You may use this button for linking this site
----------------------------------------------- ORDERING/TRADING -----------------------------------------------
If you're interested in one or more of this CD/CDR releases you can
buy them (see below) or, if you're also a musician, trade with
CDs/CDRs of your own music. If you want to trade please contact me.
My CDRs include the coloured covers (inkjet on photo paper or
laser printer) and a CD sticker.
You can pay with PayPal or transfer the money to my bank account. Please ask for the details via email. Otherwise you have to send cash (disguised well with carbon paper).
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c/o Thorsten Wald
Sierksdorfer Str. 6
22147 Hamburg
Germany/Deutschland
e-Mail (not for PayPal!): tw [ at ] hotel-encore.de
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Thorsten Wald (for address see above) is responsible for the content of the
Hotel Encore-site.
He is not
responsible for the contents of other sites you can reach by
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