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Title:  Shirts & Pistols Artist:  Hardman Label:  Quatermass Format:  CD Price:  € 14.40   Mp3 samples:   1   2

Title Description:
Hardman's debut Shirts and Pistols takes stock of deep soul and white trash culture,
folkrock and microprocessor-aesthetics on both sides of the atlantice and makes it
all their own.
Kraftwerk live again, but with Howlin'Holf as their frontman - or maybe it's the
other way 'round ?
Sampling and resampling themselves Hardman deconstructs and reconstructs
a relaxed cocktail of digital collages, songwriting and old school popmusic.
This product contains no third party ingredients.

Shirts and Pistols was produced by Hardman and Mark Bihler, who has lend his
producing/remixing talents to bands like Appliance, Saint Etienne and Melllow
and enjoys success in Great Britain with his project Bridge and Tunnel.
Created, with extensive use of the internet, and over a two month production
period in Berlin the album celebrates songs as well as collages and fragments.
Hardman lives what in many cases is merely the result of artistic calculation
and therefore they have a credibility, that is very rare to find these days.
Under the name ROPE Jay (Janek) has released two moody albums on Geist Rec
(a sublabel of Alec Empire's DHR) and runs a prestigious live act working the world's
stages from Paris to Warschau to Hong Kong. He has worked with artists as diverse
as Mikis Theodorakis, Maria Farantouri, Arto Lindsay, Raz Ohara and Rechenzentrum.
Jeff (Uwe) is a prolific bandleader and songwriter (The Twang Dudes, Gloomlifters,
Psyfi) and works in the United States as a session player, producer and engineer.
He's worked with Greg Brown, Eliza Gylkison, Kelly Joe Phelps and Geouff Muldaur
among others.

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