Music Style Alternative Country

Musical Influences Calexico, Giant Sand, Johnny Cash

Similar Artists Calexico, Giant Sand, Johnny Cash

Artist History DREHER BUEGEL - Curriculum Vitae INTRODUCTION: It was wintertime when the founding members of 'The Rosettes' decided to form a new project that would focus on a music style by which they had been influenced for a long time. It was not by chance that their songwriting would reflect the loneliness of a dried out cactus tree in sandy desert dunes. PART 1: SOMEWHERE IN TEXANA As the musicians were spread out to Zuerich, Berlin and Hamburg it seemed logical to meet in Toscana/Italy in order to record some songs that had been growing for years in their hearts. On arrival they put their (sort of) instruments into a garage, hooked all up to the professional recording studio (Yamaha 4-track recorder) and started recording their first CD under the name DREHER BUEGEL. Nobody knew exactly what might come out of these sessions but after a while it became clear that songs like Mex y Fornia, Minor and Texana could be an homage to their all-time favorite artists like Calexico, rootsy Giant Sand, Friends of Dean Martinez and Johnny Cash and all desert(ed) bands that stand for hand-made music. As the recordings sounded a little too rough (due to the limited abilities in the 4-track technology), all tracks were cleaned from undesired hiss and left-over fragments at a real professional mixing studio. When the artwork was done, Somewhere In Texana was ready for manufacturing and started infiltrating the German Alternative Country scene. PART 2: MANOS TORPES As some people were convinced and infected by the debut album, they offered their help in assisting the upcoming recording sessions. After discussing possible problems concerning the recording arrangement (the first recordings were way chaotic but they were also responsible for the charming process and the lively sound atmosphere), DREHER BUEGEL concluded that a new way in recording could be an additional benefit to the songs they had been writing in the meantime. Not even half a year later, DREHER BUEGEL invited the two willing professional sound engineers (Trinker & SinTin a.k.a. Stußbrothers) in order to spend one week in Berlin where the follow-up recordings should find their start. The new constellation (now five individuals instead of only three) and the borrowed recording equipment (including an ADAT recorder and some of the finest microphones available plus further noise toys the author of this biography is not able to name) gave a totally new twist to all people involved: some never experienced ways of recording (for the sound engineers) and never heard before audio quality (for DREHER BUEGEL). The new recordings include Glidin' On Glue (a catchy tune about pondering cowboys way out yonder), Tumbleweed (the banjo-driven mis-adventures of enamored Li'l Pete in Arizona), Father/Son (a wicked ballad between Heaven and Hell featuring a human mariachi trumpet), The Good & The Bad And The Worst & The Best (also Edgar Allen Poe used to walk on a razor’s edge) and prove that DREHER BUEGEL found their way through grains of sand and skulls and bones. And Heaven knows what's coming next - recording holidays in Arizona? Hamburg/October 9th, 2001

Group Members FRANK H Guitars Acoustic Bass Electric Bass Ukulele Banjo Stool Scratching Fiesta Vieja WOLFGANG B Voices Mourning Triangle Guitar Story Telling Fiesta Vieja ROBIN W Percussion Cowbell Drums Oral Mariachi Trumpet Glockenspiel Harps Tiny Accordion Guitar Fiesta Vieja

Albums Somewhere In Texana, Manos Torpes

Location Hamburg, Hamburg - Germany

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