Music & Muzak

Telebossa Chico Mello & Nicholas Bussmann
Kapital Band 1 [extended group] | Tony Buck, Andrea Neumann, Werner Dafeldecker, Clare Cooper, Martin Brandlmayr & Nicholas Bussmann
Kapital Band 1 | Martin Brandlmayr & Nicholas Bussmann
Alles 3 | Toshimaru Nakamura & Nicholas Bussmann

Telebossa

Telebossa are Chico Mello | guitar & voice & Nicholas Bussmann | cello, electronics

If you turn the binocular and look from the other side, everything is so far away –
we discovered that playing Bossa in Berlin makes the Bossa feel like Telebossa – so don’t be suprised if you feel the music more like Berlin than Brazil. To put it into magazine-style words: it’s bossa played like a Schubert string quartet with a minimal Berlin fundament.
We are about to finish our first album and it’s going to be beautiful, to get an idea what we are doing checkout our myspace site:

listen to Telebossa on myspace

Kapital Band 1

is a project by Martin Brandlmayr and Nicholas Bussmann. The musicians met around 2000 playing a number of duo concerts under different names: “the golden boys”, “hair” amongst others. While the instant approach was to make an abstract derivate of funk music it happened to be something quite unique – but not funk. By using random algorithms the drums and the electronics interact in way that forces the musicians to play with an attention to the moment which you only know from improvised music, while keeping the skeleton of a pop song. In 2004 “2CD” was released, the bands debut album on Mosz–Records/Vienna. KAPITAL BAND 1 received a honorable mention at PRIX ARS ELETRONICA for their debut album.
Their music has since developed far away and infact there was a second album already in the works and near completion, but the musicians decided to trash it altogether and go a step further. “Playing By Numbers” is the result – the third album.