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Wuppertal, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany | INDIE

Wuppertal, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany | INDIE
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"A MUSICAL WEEKEND AT LIVE CLUB BARMEN"

They played with moments of surprise, junctions, tempos and intermissions. They switched between energetic songs and multifaceted ballads, between riveting solo spots by all band members and spontaneous dancing interludes. On a friday evening the musicians from the Royal Street Orchestra offered more than two hours and several encores of intense musicianship to their listeners, who appeared high in number at Live Club Barmen, despite of the heavy snowfall. The band took their crowd to a journey, some of the stops were the Orient, Spain, Bosnia, Romania, Irland. The songs, titled such as "I´d walk a mile for a camel", "Sunrise in Sarajevo" or "Espana Cani", were as different as the roots of the nine band members are.
The applaus increased more and more, the fans enjoyed the extraordinairy concert as much as the musicians themselves.
"We see you in 2010", promised cellist Cornelius Thiem, biding farewell. The fans of RSO are taking him at his word.

A live review on RSO´s second regular show, which took place in Wuppertal in December of 2009. Written by Tonia Sorrentino and published by Westdeutsche Zeitung.






- WESTDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG , TONIA SORRENTINO, DEC. ´09


"RSO ALBUM PRESS RELEASE 2012"

A wildy trumpeting elephant was galopping through an extraordinary railcar ; on its way, it injured a few journalists, before crashing through a window. The riverbed 10m below with a depth of 50 cm suddenly stopped its fall.

Frankly, up to now, this enthralling anecdote was the most monumental incident ever to shake the serene city of Wuppertal. A city, which is also -due to its steeply sloping streets- benevolently called ‘The German San Francisco’.

What Fortuna had in mind, when she decided to consolidate this dilly blend of compromised artistic spirits, originating from the unpaceful South of Europe and the Wild West of Eurasia, to converge in that particular part of earth, will remain a divine business game of chaos-theoretical deliberation. One thing is certain though; this tesselated consolidation of nations is a stroke of luck, bestowing a new wild trumpeting attraction upon the ‘Green Metropolis’ after almost a century.

In the case of Royal Street Orchestra, the name is the game. The damsel Fortuna once again had her delicate finger in the pie. After visiting the Hazelwood-Interims distribution agency in Wuppertal, the two Hazelwood producers Two Horses and Kaneoka One were looking for some salmonella free chip shop when the ingenious deity directed them to a concert of this eminent street orchestra. The rest of the story can be easily imagined and like the arms of the more creek-like river, which plays a leading role in this particular tale, circuitously leading them to the RSO- long play debut ‘Visible At Given Temperature’.

ROYAL STREET ORCHESTRA - VISIBLE AT GIVEN TEMPERATURE (Hazelwood / Rough Trade)

A dunning sun emerges from the Arabian Nights upon the crests of Hindukush and casts vast shadows over a hysterical Occident. A land, which even on the verge of systematic worst case scenario, has not learned its lessons from history. Even though Islamophobia cannot be mentioned in this context, the RSO-debut ‘Visible At Given Temperature’ has led to stage bans before its release. In minaret-free Switzerland, an event producer demanded the scimitars of the RSO-Logo to be banished. A quite snappy request by a Swiss whose national hero aims a crossbow at a child . If an artwork showing mounted musketeers with florets would have led to the same pacifistic diligence will remain inexplicable. The band declined this generous offer politely but firmly.

Is the statement behind the album political? Of course it is! RSO combines traditional keys, beats and lifestyles of the Euro-Oriental musical art with western minted club music in a completely unique way. And they are accomplishing this without finding themselves drowning in clichés. This alone is political. Although metres, rhythms and cadences seem to be able to vertiginously please an untrained internal ear, the music remains unpretentious, easy-going and impertinently danceable. Every single track calls the visualization of an original soundtrack its own, creates and ceases foreign and exotic worlds out of the blue- an imaginary cinema without celluloid.

The modus operandi of the producer is merely noticeable, who himself provided acts like The Great Bertholinis, Broken Beats or the notorious Mardi Gras.bb with similar attributes. Thus, it seems more than fitting that MG.bb legend DJ Mahmut, Gentleman-DJ No.1, without a baseball cap or baggy pants, is once again responsible for the classy as well as explosive sound fragments.

VISIBLE AT GIVEN TEMPERATURE is the soundtrack of culture clash; radical yet engaging, revolutionary yet distressing, light yet virtuoso.

An exorbitant danceable plea for the critical reason. Elephant cow Tuffi would have liked it!!

RSO - VISIBLE AT GIVEN TEMPERATURE - Release in early September 2012 - Hazelwood Vinyl Plastics, FFM, Germany


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Debut album "Visible at given temperature" to be released September 2012 via Hazelwood Vinyl Plastics / Rough Trade!

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A wildy trumpeting elephant was galopping through an extraordinary railcar ; on its way, it injured a few journalists, before crashing through a window. The riverbed 10m below with a depth of 50 cm suddenly stopped its fall.

Frankly, up to now, this enthralling anecdote was the most monumental incident ever to shake the serene city of Wuppertal. A city, which is also -due to its steeply sloping streets- benevolently called ‘The German San Francisco’.

What Fortuna had in mind, when she decided to consolidate this dilly blend of compromised artistic spirits, originating from the unpaceful South of Europe and the Wild West of Eurasia, to converge in that particular part of earth, will remain a divine business game of chaos-theoretical deliberation. One thing is certain though; this tesselated consolidation of nations is a stroke of luck, bestowing a new wild trumpeting attraction upon the ‘Green Metropolis’ after almost a century.

In the case of Royal Street Orchestra, the name is the game. The damsel Fortuna once again had her delicate finger in the pie. After visiting the Hazelwood-Interims distribution agency in Wuppertal, the two Hazelwood producers Two Horses and Kaneoka One were looking for some salmonella free chip shop when the ingenious deity directed them to a concert of this eminent street orchestra. The rest of the story can be easily imagined and like the arms of the more creek-like river, which plays a leading role in this particular tale, circuitously leading them to the RSO- long play debut ‘Visible At Given Temperature’.

ROYAL STREET ORCHESTRA - VISIBLE AT GIVEN TEMPERATURE (Hazelwood / Rough Trade)

A dunning sun emerges from the Arabian Nights upon the crests of Hindukush and casts vast shadows over a hysterical Occident. A land, which even on the verge of systematic worst case scenario, has not learned its lessons from history. Even though Islamophobia cannot be mentioned in this context, the RSO-debut ‘Visible At Given Temperature’ has led to stage bans before its release. In minaret-free Switzerland, an event producer demanded the scimitars of the RSO-Logo to be banished. A quite snappy request by a Swiss whose national hero aims a crossbow at a child . If an artwork showing mounted musketeers with florets would have led to the same pacifistic diligence will remain inexplicable. The band declined this generous offer politely but firmly.

Is the statement behind the album political? Of course it is! RSO combines traditional keys, beats and lifestyles of the Euro-Oriental musical art with western minted club music in a completely unique way. And they are accomplishing this without finding themselves drowning in clichés. This alone is political. Although metres, rhythms and cadences seem to be able to vertiginously please an untrained internal ear, the music remains unpretentious, easy-going and impertinently danceable. Every single track calls the visualization of an original soundtrack its own, creates and ceases foreign and exotic worlds out of the blue- an imaginary cinema without celluloid.

The modus operandi of the producer is merely noticeable, who himself provided acts like The Great Bertholinis, Broken Beats or the notorious Mardi Gras.bb with similar attributes. Thus, it seems more than fitting that MG.bb legend DJ Mahmut, Gentleman-DJ No.1, without a baseball cap or baggy pants, is once again responsible for the classy as well as explosive sound fragments.

VISIBLE AT GIVEN TEMPERATURE is the soundtrack of culture clash; radical yet engaging, revolutionary yet distressing, light yet virtuoso.

An exorbitant danceable plea for the critical reason. Elephant cow Tuffi would have liked it!!