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K Kawentzmann Member Berlin, Germany Joined: Mar 28, 2002 Posts: 254	K Kawentzmann Posted posted on Tue, Oct 14, 2003 8:27 AM I play guitar since the age of 11. In 1985 I started my own rockabilly/psychobilly band. We oriented us along The Cramps, The Stray Cats and The Meteors. I was getting more into 60s surf and in 1988 that band disbanded. That’s when I started recording instrumental surf on my own, with a little 4track cassette tape deck. I released 5 tapes via reviews in fanzines. In 1992 I got a band together again, playing live. In 1993 we released our first album COOL SURFIN’, we were called The Looney Tunes by then. We recorded 3 albums until 1998, when that band broke up due to musically different directions, again. So I went back to homerecording and recorded an albums worth of lounge/surf sounds, this time on a G3 computer. That project is being called Kahuna Kawentzmann. A very little sideproject with more modern/experimental sounds is Marble. One Marble track is going to be on the Exotica Mailing List compilation Two Zombies Later. Kahuna Kawentzmann tracks have been released on 7'' by Stark Reality and on compilations: Mojo Club – Never Felt So Free (Universal Music), Amercian Grafitti Revisited (Omom), Oriental Club (Universal Music) and the next one is going to be on Hair Revisited (Omom). For the techheads: I play a 65 Jaguar guitar, a 64 Bandmaster amp, a Kendrick reverb unit, a Coral sitar copy, a late 60s Mosrite Combo guitar among other mostly cheap old German gear. Hopf, Framus, Klira, jen Fuzz, Jen Wahwah, Schaller tremolo, Schaller WahFuzzVolume (Wah broken), Hohner organ and elPiano, Bongos, melodica. I also like to sample drums from old records. KK [ Edited by: Kawentzmann 2007-08-01 09:19 ]

I play guitar since the age of 11. In 1985 I started my own rockabilly/psychobilly band. We oriented us along The Cramps, The Stray Cats and The Meteors. I was getting more into 60s surf and in 1988 that band disbanded. That’s when I started recording instrumental surf on my own, with a little 4track cassette tape deck. I released 5 tapes via reviews in fanzines. In 1992 I got a band together again, playing live. In 1993 we released our first album COOL SURFIN’, we were called The Looney Tunes by then. We recorded 3 albums until 1998, when that band broke up due to musically different directions, again. So I went back to homerecording and recorded an albums worth of lounge/surf sounds, this time on a G3 computer. That project is being called Kahuna Kawentzmann.
A very little sideproject with more modern/experimental sounds is Marble. One Marble track is going to be on the Exotica Mailing List compilation Two Zombies Later.
Kahuna Kawentzmann tracks have been released on 7'' by Stark Reality and on compilations: Mojo Club – Never Felt So Free (Universal Music), Amercian Grafitti Revisited (Omom), Oriental Club (Universal Music) and the next one is going to be on Hair Revisited (Omom).

For the techheads: I play a 65 Jaguar guitar, a 64 Bandmaster amp, a Kendrick reverb unit, a Coral sitar copy, a late 60s Mosrite Combo guitar among other mostly cheap old German gear. Hopf, Framus, Klira, jen Fuzz, Jen Wahwah, Schaller tremolo, Schaller WahFuzzVolume (Wah broken), Hohner organ and elPiano, Bongos, melodica. I also like to sample drums from old records.

[ Edited by: Kawentzmann 2007-08-01 09:19 ]

Post #55046 by Kawentzmann on Tue, Oct 14, 2003 8:27 AM