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Thanks to Jabeen, thanks to Fatima, thanks to DEKRA who let me record some proper car crashes.

Lump200 feat. Fatima Njai. A short beta version of this track.

Lump200 feat. Fatima. Voilà a beta version of this track.

R.I.P. Amiri Baraka. Another Lump200 Bamboo Session live recording. Without bamboo. But with Moritz Baumgaertner on Drums.

Little Brother from rene desalmand on Vimeo.

„I am the gardener of NSA, I listen to what the plants say.“

As initiation of the Lump200 Band #3 we went to studio with some plants, a dog and some cameras for two days. We recorded 11 tracks, miniature songs, experiments. Please find some excerpts below.

On sousaphone: Pauline Boeykens
On drums: Moritz Baumgaertner
On cams: also starring

Lump200: Gran Garden from rene desalmand on Vimeo.

In the Bamboo Session we explored various techniques for fusing electronic and acoustic layers. The present director’s cut consists of all three takes we recorded. „Doucement, Capitaine“ is an incantation to carefully deal with power.

Bamboo Session: Doucement from rene desalmand on Vimeo.

Two days in studio we were. We is Pauline Boeykens, Sousaphone, among many others she played and plays with Robbie Williams and Hans Unstern, is Moritz Baumgaertner, Bonaparte drummer, Jazz and groove wizard, is me and is Alex Schmalz who handeled 3 cameras and lights at the same time. We were at Parachute Pony Recording Studio in Berlin Hohenschönhausen and we recorded 11 tracks. Thanks to everyone who helped make the session happen!
Voilà the first little edit.

Bamboo Session Short Egg from rene desalmand on Vimeo.

HOW MANY HOW MUCH – live @ Roter Salon/Volksbühne, Berlin