Glücksfall – Spontaneous and Improvised Music
Glücksfall is really a meeting of minds, it’s individuals coming together to create improvised music.
The band is made up of Stephen Benson, Joe Hiscoke, Mike Roper, Jonathan Sharp, Amy Tweddle, Jill Wallace and they have taken influence from the German kosmische of Ash Ra Tempel and Amon Düül II of the late sixties as well as the electric wig outs of early Velvet Underground.
“The idea originated last year when few of us performed a live improvised sound track to a film at Warwick Bazaar.” explained Stephen Benson. “We enjoyed the experience but we also had friends that love experimental music and wanted to join in.”
With only a single session under their belts, Glücksfall already have two albums of material and according to Stephen it came very naturally:
“Someone would start and then everyone would just join in, there were natural peaks and it was great fun. Oddly enough we all knew when to end. There are two bass players and a drummer but with 3 guitars there is a lot going on, there’s a lot of pedal stuff so the guitars don’t always sound like you’d expect.”
As a group they were fed up with the current news and found it nice to be insular and shut everything else out. They have two albums out on treehouse recordings and if you want to listen to art that was made just for the sake of it then I recommend taking a bit of time out with Glücksfall.
Music: www.treehouseorchestrarecordings.bandcamp.com
Facebook: @glucksfall
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