Yellow Snake Records

"Today stupid and tomorrow stupid and the day after tomorrow again" tells the first almost 35 years of band history of the Abfallenden Brieftauben and traces the development of (fun) punk in Germany.
Founded at the end of 1983 as a taunt of the NDW in the heart of the vibrant Hanoverian punk scene, the self-proclaimed "fun punk duo no. 1" was to become the figurehead of German fun punk in the early 1990s. Neither the turbulent DIY genesis of the debut album Das wern wern we already done from 1986, nor the unbelievable record deal with EMI from 1989 (including cooperation with BRAVO and the newly born private television), nor the festival of the folk music tour in 1990 through the east of the republic , or even the guest appearance in Hape Kerkeling's cult feature film Kein Pardon (1993) may be missing.
In over 30 interviews, companions and contemporary witnesses (e.g. Olga from the Toy Dolls, Ted Gaier and Schorsch Kamerun from the Golden Lemons, Rodrigo González from the Doctors) describe in their own words what really happened, how they experienced it then and how they do it today think about it. The biography was created in close collaboration with founding member Micro Bogumil and is authorized by the band and management.

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172 pages, full color
+ Autographed replica (1 of 5 motifs)
+ Bonus DVD with short documentary about Andora at FlotART 2018
incl. foreword by Christof Stein-Schneider (Fury in the Slaughterhouse)

The internationally renowned PopArt artist Andora worked for several months in tranquil surroundings: Rodenbach in the Palatinate, Bröckel near the Lüneburg Heath and the small town of Filderstadt. A fascinating experience for the cosmopolitan Andora, who until now has been at home in large metropolises. From the beginning, the grand master of colors recorded his impressions and his work during this time on Facebook. This is how a special diary was created, consisting of well over 1,000 postings and around 5,000 photos, which author and photographer Jens-Christian Schulze edited and put into book form, supplemented with many photos of Andora's stay in Bröckel.

It's Saturday October 19th, 2019. Alofa is lying on the ground in a bad condition and with the last of his strength manages to reach out his hand for Demolition Davies to reach her. He activates his last reserves of strength and makes it into the corner. Finally, after so many hard punches and kicks that he had to take in the last few minutes, the goal has been reached. Davies is the replacement. A murmur goes through the crowd. Can Davies turn the tide and help Jörg Vespermann's team to victory? Probably the most important victory that Jörg Vespermann so urgently needs in order to continue to be President at the helm of Power of Wrestling...
Author Andreas Barthel sheds light on the last year of wrestling before Corona and has conducted many exciting interviews with wrestlers and makers.

It all started in a small warehouse in Hanover and was followed by the revival of one of the most traditional venues for catch/wrestling:
Of the Schützenplatz!
The history of the first five years of Power of Wrestling is revisited in "The return of the tradition - ...just do it!". With detailed interviews of the activists and the makers behind the scenes, the complete fight results and lots of photos, some of which have never been published before, on over 240 pages.
With Bonus CD: "Entrance of the Gladiators [Rock Version]"

"Yes I do"
In the best-case scenario, every couple gives this answer if they dare. But how did it happen? Where, how and when did you two meet?
When did affection become love? As a reader, you will be taken to various wedding ceremonies.
Dive into the true love stories! In a festive but also humorous way, Bernd Tameling has been wedding couples in private weddings since 2009. The reader can experience a selection of these wedding speeches in this book.

There are many AC/DC tribute bands, but none quite like BLACK/ROSIE! Anyone who thinks hard rock music is still a male domain is very wrong, because even the toughest guys get weak knees with the hair dryer! The five professional musicians from Hanover and Wernigerode exclusively present the music of their Australian role models: AC/DC – one of the biggest and most successful rock bands of all time!
BLACK/ROSIE, founded by lead guitarist Gaby, have been touring Europe since 2006 and have performed at over 300 shows with the likes of T-Rex, Doro Pesch, Tito & Tarantula and Subway to Sally. At the Hamburg motorcycle meeting with 35,000 guests, they leave an impression that is just as lasting as at the small club concert.
BLACK/ROSIE bring every room to a boil and make the evening a very special experience!

01 Playin' AC/DC
02 Beatin' around the bush
03 You shook me all night long
04 Back in Black
05 Whole lotta rosie
06 highway to hell
07 Sin City
08 Hell ain't a bad place to be
09 LiveWire
10 Dirty Deeds (Live)
11 Shot Down in Flames (Live)
12 Hell's Bells (Live)

01 Sterbehilfe
02 Auf’n Sack
03 Yes, ve gan!
04 Schiess dich ab
05 Sündenbock
06 Hau weg die Kacke
07 Drohnen
08 Babylon brennt
09 Dicke Eltern
10 Progrom
11 Ja ja ja
12 Was bleibt
13 Der Bart muss ab
14 Entwöhnung
15 Irrsinn

Captn Catfish, that's the band from the Neckarbayou, which stands for handmade music on handmade instruments. With their unique self-made instruments, they clearly stand out from the general musical landscape, and they sound as impressive as they built their instruments. Everything is possible, everything is allowed and everything is used.
The origins of the three-string license plate guitar undoubtedly lie in the key of G. Fabian Fahr explores this with a fine intuition and finds masterful riffs, comparable to the great riff masters such as Keith Richards. His musical roots are in southern rock. Together with Jordan Wiest from Minnesota they find the right words, riffs plus lyrics result in catchy, straightforward melodies and songs.
The five-piece band's themes include fishing, travel, barbecues and there are homages to fictional parallel worlds such as the Wild West and the glorious times of the Vikings. Jordan's bass, built from a salmon box, has just 2 strings as a deep equivalent to the license plate guitar, which he plays simply, functionally and extremely groovy.
That's where Tobias Langguth comes into play with his 6-string winebox guitar, whose sound he cleverly interlocks and weaves into the overall sound, so that one sometimes really thinks one is in southern rock, in the Stonesque or archaic-folkloristic area. So, despite the key being the same, there is a lot of variety!
Percussionist Marcos Jesús Gonzáles Jiménez from Cuba also makes a significant contribution to this, he underlines - very unusual and new for the cigar box scene, an authentic, wonderfully smooth Afro-Cuban-Son-Groove in most of the pieces and is closed on the drums in other pieces hear.
Vocally, Fabian's distinctive and deep voice is rounded off and complemented by singer Nicole Guida. With her pronounced feeling for blues and soul, she gives the whole thing the right finishing touch.

01 Poor Man's Guitar
02 Happy Wife: Happy Life
03 The Mullet Song
04 Bounty Hunter
05 Smiley's World
06 Copper Cauldron Gypsies
07 That's Life
08 Dinner Bell
09 BBQ
10 Yggdrasil

After the two studio albums Black Box and Kickin', the Hanoverian heavy rock band has made it with the new album Caution! Contains Loud Music! to capture their live qualities on sound carriers:
"We wanted to sound like four men who are sweating and celebrating the ultimate hard and heavy music together and not like a perfectly boring plastic band polished to a high gloss," says Jürgen Wulfes, commenting on the production philosophy.
The result is thirteen vigorous, powerful anthems carried by Jürgen Wulfe's exceptional voice, which have their roots in classic hard rock and heavy metal. The recordings took place in February 2014 under the direction of Ossy Pfeiffer and Anca Graterol in Frida Park Studio Hanover (including MSG, Thunderhead).
Cholane was founded by Jürgen Wulfes (vocals, guitars); Since 2011 Niels Sörenhagen (bass), Kai Steffen (guitars) and Daniel Knop (drums) have been fighting at his side for loud, handmade rock music.

01 Shake Your Bones
02 Wicked Man
03 Streets On Fire
04 Get Down
05 Stop
06 Deaf Dumb And Blinded
07 Grow Old
08 Final Curtain
09 Alive
10 Eternity
11 hwy
12 Fading Away
13 one-track min

An exceptional woman of exceptional talent, singer, songwriter and guitarist Cindy Alter is from Johannesburg, South Africa. She was already gaining worldwide recognition at the age of 21 when she rose to fame in 1978 with the rock group Clout and the band's most successful hit, Substitute. Extensive tours with The Police, Thin Lizzy, Supertramp, Dire Straits, Blondie, Gloria Gaynor, Village People and other well-known artists of the time followed. Cindy never stopped living music, writing songs and giving concerts. Even a malignant cancer could not bring her to her knees. On the contrary, she has drawn new strength from it and her motto can be found in her lyrics, including one of her new hits, the song "Thrive" released in 2014: "I'll do more than survive, I'll thrive". ("I will more than survive, I will thrive"). In 2019, Cindy was back in Germany for the first time in 36 years at the invitation of "Werner Nadolnys JANE" bassist Rolf Vatteroth, who had also organized a small tour for her. As part of the tour, two song recordings were made, which can be found exclusively on the CD.

01 Driving
02 Faith & Fire
03 More
04 Heart Attack
05 Gonna Get Better
06 Thrive
07 kiss me
08 Ghost
09 The Devil Walked A Mile In My Shores
10 Girl Crush
11 I Will Love You
12 love hurts

When Agnes Hapsari and Pit Schwaar met at a musical production in 2012, the lives of the two artists were actually planned very differently. The exceptional singer and pianist, also known to the public through her participation in the ensemble "La Mer", planned to return to her home country Indonesia after completing her music studies. Pit Schwaar, who had previously worked as a composer and guitarist in the prog and hard rock genres with bands such as Eloy, Ramses and Zed Yago, had said goodbye to the tough touring business and focused on softer and jazzy guitar tones. The two artists got along so well right away that they founded the duo "Cream Flow". Today Agnes Hapsari has made Hanover her adopted home and "Cream Flow" has been touring successfully since 2015. In the course of the collaboration, numerous original compositions were created, which are now being released on their debut album "Smooth vibes". The result is a groovy, sophisticated pop album, whose titles playfully use different music genres to create soulful, "gentle vibrations". In their texts, the duo addresses topics such as deep interpersonal relationships and understanding togetherness. The preference of the two artists for the music of the 80s and early 90s is unmistakable. Staying in this tradition, there are no digital traces to be found on "Smooth vibes". All titles were sung and played with virtuosity and attention to detail in "manual work". The duo used the Covid 19 lockdown to put the finishing touches to the production and to expand their online presence. "We didn't get discouraged, we still see the world in bright colors, that's who we are and that's how our music sounds."

01 You've Got A Friend
02 Hooked On You
03 Loving You This Way
04 People's Song
05 Summer time
06 Cream Flow
07 Morning Rain
08 Next chance
09 Where I Belong
10 One Of These Nights
11 Georgia On My Mind

The Love Tree is a 2018 drama film directed by Hikmet Izgi and starring Alexander Johnston, Julia Thielert and Sibylle Brunner.
In the drama Der Liebesbaum, a couple has to overcome their own prejudices against German-Turks in order to be happy together.
The Turkish-born German Kerim (Alexander Johnston) is new in Hanover and falls in love with Marla (Julia Thielert). However, she has some reservations about him and cannot shed her prejudices so easily, which is why the relationship comes to nothing. But then Kerim begins to get involved politically and eventually even stands for the mayoral election. In the course of his election campaign, he meets Marla again and their love is given a second chance, which could finally overcome deadlocked ideas.
(Source: https://www.moviepilot.de/movies/der-liebesbaum)

Rating: Approved without age restriction
Package dimensions: 19.2 x 13.6 x 1.6 cm; 100 gram
Director: Hikmet Izgi
Media format: Dolby, Maxi
Running time: 1 hour and 16 minutes
Release date: May 25, 2018
Cast: Alexander Johnston, Julia Thielert, Liza Tzschirner
Studio: Yellow Snake Records (Timezone)
Number of discs: 1

Dietrich Kittner's 25th program - 174 minutes of live political cabaret.
For the first time on DVD + Bonus Interview (16 minutes)
FSK 18

In an interview with Susi Duhme, Dietrich Kittner looks back on more than 45 years of cabaret, as well as on the very first performance experiences playing in the circus with neighborhood children, setting up his own venues, the production of the first DVDD "Rundschlag" and how son Konrad went from tearing tickets to a musician and both the played on the same stages.
The exceptional cabaret artist once in a private conversation with moderator Susi Duhme. Recorded on the former stage of the Theater an der Bult on May 10th, 2005.

The Mainzer Allgemeine Zeitung recently lamented that "political provocateurs like Dietrich Kittner are no longer born today." - what for? The master still acts with sharp vision and bite. What this DVD proves. Satirical balance sheet of an era, that of the dull two-thirds government coalition. Kittner, whose favorite characters are still called Eulenspiegel and Schweijk, guarantees that such a situation does not have to lead to frustration and dead seriousness. Buckets of scorn and ridicule. Here it is. Popular wit can overthrow dictatorships, ridiculousness can crack coalitions. And when Kittner sings, it gets under your skin; when he (actually) mounts the war phrase mower, things get really spooky.
This DVD is not a well-balanced program recording for the entertainment range of our television stations, which is open to the bottom. More: a collage specially assembled for the medium. Studio productions, live performances, resorts to what is now frighteningly topical again, unfortunately and field recordings combine to form a consistently logical chain of evidence. Get the (bogus) saints and concrete heads (West) off their pedestals! Everything that TV doesn't dare to show.
Political cabaret - does that still exist? But hello - the walte Kittner!

The 25th program. 2 CDs, 150 minutes.

"Dietrich Kittner gains a lot of cutting power from the otherwise toothless cabaret."
(Stuttgart Newspaper)

“An alert head sweeps through the political lowlands like an intellectual whirlwind. In times of rampant infantile comedy giggles, Kittner holds up the banner of political cabaret – a fantastic logician, even in terms of language.”
(Nuremberg News)

disk 1

01 Muted punch lines
02 festivals
03 About funds
04 We sleepers
05 song about the compulsions
06 About Euromans

disk 2
01 About Freedom to Travel (with a text by the Federal Ministry of the Interior)
02 The inn on the Spree
03 sorry

An audio book of a special kind. To save time, Dietrich Kittner prefers to write official and official letters in such a way that he can easily recite them as satires in cabaret. What he proves with this double CD. It mainly contains a recording of Kittner's special program "Dear Dirty Pig!" at FAUST Hanover, where a flowery collection of his correspondence with ministers and chancellors, public prosecutors, association bureaucrats and federal presidents draws the audience to laughter.
It is always most beautiful when a big-headed overtone drinks the cocoa through which it is drawn by answering. On this CD, satirist Kittner enviously admits that the phrase "Dear bastard!" was not his own. True stories are the worst.
The more unbelievable, the truer! To be on the safe side, the artist sings his summary at the end. Laughs, songs and above all: blasphemous letters.

disk 1
01 Intentional
02 Early precariat
03 Intermezzo I: About trills & drums
04 Laughter officially forbidden
05 Intermezzo II: About begging & bombs
06 maneuver saved
07 Intermezzo III: About Baboons & Soldiers
08 economic aid
09 official poetry
10 And the General

disk 2
01 The book recycler
02 Intermezzo IV: About submissions & information
03 Asylum at the Minister of the Interior
04 Table fee for Obertanen
05 The conscience worm
06 The cash register and the computer
07 Dear bastard!
08 Conclusion: About the value-free
09 Bonus with very superscript

Just in time for Kittner's 50th stage anniversary in February 2010, a 5-CD box was released. The collection essentially includes previously unpublished rarities from Kittner's sound archive as well as rare recordings that have not previously been available on CD.

CD1
1. Song of the sorrow articlelers
2. Quake with the bomb
3. Emergency Serenade
4. Pause Filler
5. Balance through the tube
6. Scissors Song
7. Lesson on Righteousness
8. Song of the Two Kinds of Consciences
9. Application to the government
10. Social partnership
11. Minority Regulation Act
12. Song about the subtle differences in emigration
13. Ballad of the 50 Pfennig Tariff
14. Forward with the red dot
15. Sympathizers
16. One way street
17. The life help of Dr. Baldwin
18. Stray Sandman

CD2
1. Mark champions take them on
2. Matte way
3. Narrow society
4. RRRevolutionary song for the meek
5. Empty
6. The Commentary
7. The anachronistic train
8. From one who went forth to learn from fears
9. Beautiful economy
10. Slow waltz from the development of freedom

CD3
1. Soldiers' song in the subjunctive
2. Girls in Uniform
3. General Studies
4. Heaven and Earth
5. Knowledge is power
6. The finer kind
7. The state critic
8. The patched up kit
9. Suffering thread for well-meaning social democrats
10th Social Democratic Party Congress
11. Comrade Trend speaks
12. Prize Salad

CD4
1. The Lübeck Morality
2. We tackle it
3. Song of the SA man
4. Battle song against private frustration

CD5
1. Songwriter, surfing
2nd federal press conference, classic
3. My God, Helmut
4. Poetry
5. Opportunities
6. automaton song
7. Idle Years
8. Screen Ways II
9. Special train to Hamburg
10. Class essay
11. Freedom instead of Or
12. Allende lives
13. Little Stock Doctrine
14. Federal German Heimatlied

Here's the proof: a double dose of laughter and horror. More than the usual stereotypical recording of a cabaret program. Rather an explosive mix of live atmosphere, sophisticated blue box studio technology and outdoor recordings. With the anger and vigor of a young savage, the old master exemplifies what satire can do. Timelessly topical, because names at Kittner in the "Rondo konfuso" proves that a longer working life creates new jobs or practiced smugly, there is no dry eye.

Dietrich Kittner lets satire become reality and reality becomes satire. Here the example of the reintroduction of torture. It was largely abolished in the 18th century, but experienced a renaissance between 1933 and 1945. And today ...? With biting black humor and amazing logic, Kittner outlines how the "embarrassing questioning" could actually become law again. Not only in Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo, but also in the land of poets and thinkers. A bitter satire, diaphragm and goosebumps in one.
Bonus material: report, judgments How a film is made Catalog raisonné trailer "Rundschlag"

In an interview with Susi Duhme, Dietrich Kittner reports from the beginnings with the ensemble Die Leidartikler to solo cabaret. About his own venues, guest appearances by colleagues and his New Year's Eve.
In addition, the 90-minute documentary features live performances that have never been shown before, and of course news from Kittner's news studio, historical recordings and a street survey.

They don't have all the slats on the fence anymore! - that's what you might think when you hear the album "Funny Times" by Geier Sturzflug mastermind Friedel Geratsch and his friend Adi Hauke. It is precisely from these fence slats and old cigar boxes that the two build their own instruments, so-called cigar box guitars, or CBG for short. With just one, 3 or a maximum of 4 strings and partly with a broken bottleneck, Friedel Geratsch and Adi Hauke ​​play an exciting sound that runs through the entire album.
Friedel Geratsch, who had a few big hits in the 80s (Gross National Product, Visit Europe, Pure Lust for Life) has written 14 new songs that deal with current issues or timeless stories about love and life. The album "Funny Times" is and sounds as independent, spontaneous and unconstructed as music can be.
Playing tips:
The title song "Funny Times" about conspiracy theories that are spreading more and more, the "Herz macht boom boom boom" played with only one string and an old Samsonite suitcase converted into a bass drum, and the hope-giving ballad "Let it shine"

01 Funny times
02 Hallelujah, that's going to be awesome
03 Closing time
04 Cool down
05 let it shine
06 Which way to go
07 Heart goes boom boom boom
08 Elevator of Life

The "elevator of life runs up and down in this book, in the truest sense of the word. Friedel Geratsch's autobiographical work is a study of the environment in the Ruhr area, personal and band history, a story about rise and fall, great successes and serious crises. All this with the sometimes crude ironic attitude that readers should also be familiar with from many of the author's song lyrics, not only for the band Geier Sturzflug, for which he became known as the frontman in the 1980s.

Inner distance from external glamor and a stubborn refusal to take show business seriously have brought Friedel Geratsch through the last few decades unscathed in character, as many sections of the anecdotally structured book prove. They often show stars of yesterday and today from Friedel's very own perspective. Is this book worth reading? Absolutely! So much action is rarely found between two book covers. But it has one side effect: If you read to the end, you'll end up on the dog, guaranteed!

01 From the Ruhr area
02 I'm at home with you
03 Good shoes
04 I give you my heart
05 She won't let go of me
06 Lullaby
07 Welcome to the economic wonderland
08 Those times are over
09 Back to the stars
10 Thank you that's enough
11 My little heart
12 Higher than a sky high
13 red wine
14 returnable bottles
15 Whenever the rain falls

17 neue Songs aus der unermüdlichen Feder von Geier Sturzflug Mastermind Friedel Geratsch.
Geratsch lässt den Zuhörer teilnehmen an seiner Liebeskummertour.
So persönlich wie nie gibt es keine Tabus, wenn Geratsch in seiner charmanten Art den Reiseleiter gibt.
Und auf der beigefügten DVD, die eine Spielzeit von vier Stunden und 17 Minuten hat, plaudert er, bei sich daheim, mit Susi Duhme, über frühste Kindertage, erste musikalische Schritte, über die NDW, über Abstürze und neue Kreativität.

01 Liebeskummertour
02 Kranke Liebe
03 Straße Alkohol
04 Besser wenn du rennst
05 Der Nachtwächter
06 Leben nehmen
07 Braune Augen
08 Richtige Zeit
09 Ein Gedicht
10 Ich lauf voll
11 Wie blöd
12 Leute
13 Der Türsteher
14 Neue Adresse
15 Der blaue Mond
16 Klotz am Bein
17 Beste Zeit

CD with six songs plus audio book.

The "elevator of life" drives up and down in this book, in the truest sense. Friedel Geratsch's autobiographical work is a study of the Ruhr area milieu, personal and band history, a story about rise and fall, great successes and serious crises. All of this with the sometimes rough ironic attitude, which the readers should also be familiar with from many of the author's song lyrics, not only for the band Geier Sturzflug, for which he became known as the frontman in the 1980s.
Inner distance from external glamor and a stubborn refusal to take show business seriously have brought Friedel Geratsch through the last few decades unscathed in character, as many sections of the anecdotally structured book prove. They often show stars of yesterday and today from Friedel's very own perspective. Is this book worth reading? Absolutely! So much action is rarely found between two book covers.
But it has one side effect: If you read to the end, you'll end up on the dog, guaranteed!

01 Sunday child
02 let it shine
03 Your smile
04 Different worlds
05 I'm leaving
06 Workout fun

When you hear the name Friedel Geratsch, many people think of Neue Deutsche Welle and funny songs that, despite everything, always had a deeper message.
Here, on his first solo album, after all he has been playing the guitar since 1964, the Ruhrpottler proves that he is more complex and thoughtful. It's not a "Ja, ne merry" record, you have to listen to the songs in peace, it's not for streaming on the side. We are proud that we can present this record to the (music) world together with Friedel. This is 100% gossip.

»I am in a place between shadow and light« is not just a song line, but a clear description of the location. Sweet melancholy meets powerful, pounding rhythms and captivates from the first to the last note. And all this played on four-string cigar box guitars that Friedel had built himself.
Music couldn't be more honest and earthy. And always think about it, live every moment consciously, »because you can no longer take the milk out of the coffee«.

01 This is how time flies
02 The desert inside me
03 Over the years
04 From the Ruhr area
05 It's hot
06 No blues
07 thousand women
08 Thank you Thank you Thank you

Three busy hooligans, three chords - that's all it took to found Frustkiller in the summer of 1996. Started as a classic punk trio, it was quickly increased to four musicians and since then frustration killers have been hanging around all over Germany and neighboring countries.
Musically, US-oriented punk rock meets a voice that suggests many a night of drinking. Instrumentally far away from the 3-chord scheme of the time, the quartet captivates today with rousing and powerful songs with straightforward lyrics - without much excess and always to the point.

01 flotsam
02 Zahlemann & Sons
03 The moment
04 Serum
05 How it started
06 Hold me tight
07 A life of fear
08 110%
09 Long live the king
10 Polytoxic
11 Mucker Police
12 men of steel

01 But it's also cool
02 Dirty fast and loud
03 Jamma
04 Mona Lisa smile
05 Sometimes when the rain falls
06 red wine
07 She won't let go of me
08 Grandma always said
09 That simple
10 love of my life
11 t shirt
12 Your smile
13 Born to rock

Is there life after a #1 hit? ...yes yes yes now it's time to spit on your hands again...
In the 80s, singer/songwriter Friedel Geratsch landed a No. 1 hit in half of Europe with "Gross National Product", yes yes and now... Garage 3.
"They don't have all the slats on the fence anymore," you might think when you see Garage 3 perform. Friedel Geratsch, the band's singer and guitarist, builds his instruments precisely from these slats and a couple of old cigar boxes. Covered with three or four strings and played with a bottleneck, they are the basis for the rough, unpolished sound of the trio.
The rhythmic foundation for this is provided by drummer Stephan Schott and bassist Tom Baer. Garage 3 is Ruhrpott rock with German lyrics, authentic, independent, handmade.

1. Yeah Yeah Yeah
2. Thank you, that's enough
3. Do your thing
4. The day after
5. Ruhr area blues
6. Easy life
7. The names of women
8. Cry into my beer
9. August again
10. Visit Grandpa
11. Faithful heart and CBG
12. Who can still drive here?
13. It still works
14. Blues for breakfast

01 Spiel den Blues
02 An der Bar
03 Ventilator Blues
04 Pommesgabel am Hut
05 Irgendwie komm ich schon klar
06 Gute Leute
07 Schwarzfahrer Blues
08 Dieser Blues
09 Keiner kennt mich
10 Lass es laufen
11 Komm nicht mehr los
12 Autofahrer Blues
13 Sonntag häng ich ab
14 Cigarbox Gitarre und Raucherhusten
15 Ich dreh mich nicht um

01 The day starts well
02 rescue parachute
03 The return of the tapered jeans
04 Drive home
05 intelligence
06 The earth is a sphere
07 Young and beautiful
08 I love sleeping with you
09 You can fuck me
10 I Go Nuts My Honey
11 The ass always stays behind
12 Gross National Product 2013 (unplugged)
13 human Wolfgang
14 Ruhr area
15 returnable bottles (demo version)
16 The Return of the Tapered Jeans (Demo Version)

01 Alles im Eimer
02 Zu viel Spaß
03 Unten oben
04 Mein Herz ist ein Rad
05 Sommer 2030
06 Dududu
07 Komm schon
08 In Vollkommenheit
09 Ne gute Zeit
10 Das höchste der Gefühle
11 Sommer in Berlin
12 Siegerlied
13 Hausbeben
14 Liebe Leben Leberwurst

The NDW was and is a cult. At the beginning of the 1980s, music became colorful and new. Extraordinary hymns, songs that you just can't (and don't want to) banish from your brain even decades later. The Bochum band Geier Sturzflug played in exactly this league. Their hits are now part of the DNA of the NDW. They are as relevant now as they were then. The gross national product is called today
Gross domestic product is still being diligently increased and Venice is always on the brink of collapse.
In 2021 Friedel Geratsch vacationed in southern climes. The sea at his feet and the sun above his head gave him the idea to make another "Geier" ska and reggae album after all these years. At that time the hallmark of the band…. tackle not always pleasant topics with ease and cheerfulness.
With the idea of ​​returning to their old love, Friedel and his comrades-in-arms Carlo von Steinfurt and Reiner Hundsdoerfer quickly found the support of the congenial new vulture Karsten Riedel. Karsten, who is also a successful theater musician and composer, fell in love with reggae and ska at an early age. With his band Natty U he managed to play several concerts in the home of reggae in the early 1990s. Even in Jamaica's capital, Kingston, he and his audience moved happily together.
Friedel & Karsten got started: "Ska & Reggae - In the great tradition of small household goods" was created within just 2 months. Songwriting, compositions, mixing and mastering included. 13 songs, two of which are unreleased and updated from the early days of Geier Sturzflug. All songs follow the "old" tradition: serious with humor in swinging melodies. Topics such as the legalization of cannabis (“Smoking weed boosts the economy”), climate change (“Five to twelve”) or graduates from the YouTube academy (“Doofmann’s assistants”) bear witness to the fact that vultures to dive are still uncomfortable today and are allowed to do so that too. For a line like "mankind doesn't get smarter because there's television"
("Totally Crazy"), other artists would sell all their belongings. At Geier Sturzflug they run completely casually from the pen. You have to love the combo for that alone. But there are more elements that make the album something very special. Just like Friedel's homemade cigar box guitars. They are usually used on his blues albums, but they can also be different. Reggae and ska with a cigar box guitar has certainly never been heard in the world before. Both are woven into something very unique on the album and, in addition to the relaxed attitude, give the songs a touch of southern blues, the sweaty swamps deep in the south of the USA. Even if "Ska & Reggae - In the great tradition of small household goods" should be the last album by Geier Sturzflug, the band is as we know it. But it also sets new accents that you can hardly resist. Who wants to say no to that?

01 Bob Job
02 lockdown
03 Five to twelve
04 Born to roll
05 The last train
06 The old brush
07 Totally insane
08 Hey Captain
09 Weed boosts the economy
10 Lastafahra
11 corners of the mouth high
12 goofy assistants
13 Modern is when you win

"Gross national product", "Visit Europe (as long as it still exists)", "Pure lust for life"... who doesn't like to remember the big hits of Geier Sturzflug. Even today, more than thirty years after the great success, the songs still stand for an attitude towards life and for the Neue Deutsche Welle. The songs can be heard at every decent 80s party, inviting you to sing along and rock out.
But Geier Sturzflug has always had more to offer than simple party songs. Texts with depth, in which melancholy also came to light, were one of the important characteristics of their songs. The lyrics are subtle and sometimes sharp-tongued, mostly close to the pulse of the times and yet they all contain their own kind of humorous perspective, never becoming accusatory or even seeming arrogant.
What began in Bochum in 1979 is now finding a new home on the occasion of its 40th anniversary in "More Of It (The Anniversary Album)". The NDW icons have old songs paired with new material here, with a special focus on the hits, of course, which have now been given a new facet in fantastic unplugged versions. Only in these wonderful acoustic versions does it become apparent that the songs were allowed to mature with dignity and seem made for this format. There are also songs that you haven't heard for a long time or even lead to a completely new discovery by Geier Sturzflug, because completely new material has also made its way onto the 20-song cross-section.
They prove that they still create a good atmosphere for generations with their feel-good songs. In times of downloads and streaming, Obergeier Friedel Geratsch and the band consciously opt for a CD, the fan should get something they can touch and feel closer to the band and their music. After all, it's time to celebrate 40 years of Geier Sturzflug, and what could be more fitting than a Rundling that conveys an attitude to life and can thus be pulled off the shelf again and again? More of that? Please...

01 pictures from the sea
02 Those were the days
03 At the port
04 Visit Europe (unplugged)
05 More like this
06 Pure lust for life (unplugged)
07 Shalana
08 intelligence
09 The Queen
10 Solitude (unplugged)
11 The biggest, the best and the most beautiful

01 Wie viele Sterne
02 Am Hafen
03 Ich bin da
04 Bald wird die Nacht zu Ende sein
05 Und die Zeit vergeht
06 Leichtes Beben
07 Zu Hause bin ich bei dir
08 Die Olive
09 Trotzdem haut es noch hin
10 Der Mond
11 Hör auf zu weinen
12 Was für eine Nacht
13 Wie ein Eisbär sein
14 Oh Josephine
15 Käpt'n Blue Eye
16 Ich sag nicht gern auf Wiederseh'n
17 Schmerz vergeht
18 Die Zeit unseres Lebens
19 Mein letzter Hunderteuroschein (Bonustrack)