Fahren, by Kulku

Fahren

by Kulku

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1.	Hoodoo Blues 06:24
2.	Das Lied Der Einsamkeit 03:49	buy track
3.	So To Do 03:52	buy track
4.	Unterm Himmel 06:08	buy track
5.	Fahren! 08:06	buy track

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Acoustic, no-age krautrock from Berlin releasing on Glasgow label, Phase Group.   

The next release on Phase Group unearths a truly unique project that has existed as an outlier in the Berlin underground since 2002.  

A stage decked out with xylophones, tambourines, timpani, wooden percussion, two drum kits, a cello, harmonicas, saxophones and pieces of scrap metal. Eight unassuming musicians playing repetitive, trance-inducing phrases, at times serene, fragile and dream-like and at others wild, primitive and driving. This isn’t a scene you might associate with hazy nights out in Berlin but it’s what you’d find if you ended up at a Kulku show.

Kulku's music is a hard to define blend of percussive minimalism, folk, krautrock, post-punk and no wave, almost exclusively derived from acoustic sound sources. Their debut album ‘Fahren!' presents this unique sound-identity that they have been crafting for the best part of two decades.

The A-side presents 3 tracks of percussive propulsion, minimalist xylophone motifs and repetitive drums alongside monotone organ, dramatic narration and woodwind instruments moving in and out of dissonant howls and melodic improvisation. The B-side is devoted to lighter tones, beginning with the glockenspiel minimalism of ‘Unterm Himmel’ and rounding the record out with trance inducing drone of the album’s title track which builds up into a cacophony of snare drums, dissonant accordion and melodica before fading out like dream.

All songs composed and recorded in Berlin by Wenzlovar, Gatis Silde, Johannes Schmelzer-Ziringer, Johanna Riska, Cornelius Onitsch, Alexander Samuels and Maxfield Gassmann  

Artwork by Andrija Čugurović  

‘Fahren’ is released in August 2022 on Phase Group Records. Distribution via Rubadub.

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released August 26, 2022

All songs composed and recorded in Berlin by Wenzlovar, Gatis Silde, Johannes Schmelzer-Ziringer, Johanna Riska, Cornelius Onitsch, Alexander Samuels and Maxfield Gassmann  

Artwork by Andrija Čugurović  

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Phase Group Glasgow, UK

Record label founded in Glasgow run by Thomas Lea Clarke & Daniel Magee

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discography

Reset To Be

Apr 2024
Unpinned

Mar 2023
A Given Moment

Dec 2022
Fahren

Aug 2022
Carcass Identity

Feb 2021
Dusk/Grey Skies (i)

May 2020
o o o o o

Feb 2020
PHASE001

Aug 2019

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