Dear Stereo Total-friends & fans,


Sorry that we didn't write any new newsletters since such a long time.

What happened since February? Nothing and everything!

We were on tour through the US and Canada for a very long interesting beautiful time.
We were playing on crazy summer-festivals where the people didn't give a damn sh.. about the rain.

In Berlin, we were playing in the legendary Rauch-Haus, where "Ton Steine Scherben" had rehearsals in the last century, but also in the legendary SO36, where all the crazy new- wave- industrial- experimental- punk- rock- concerts took place since the late 70ies. Long live SO36!
But we also played at the exhibition-opening from legendary Pierre et Gilles at the C/O Galerie. The pictures were great, the place was packed!


In Madrid we recorded an album called "No Controles Stereo Total" - "Stereo Total nicht kontrollieren!" This album is all in Spanish language for beginners. It will come out on Elefant Records in September.
The cover looks like this:




We also recorded an album "Special Québec" called "Carte Postale de Montréal". There, Françoise Cactus is singing in Québecqoué! It will come out in September in Montréal. On "Dare to care-records". The cover will look like this or like that - depending how the weather will be:



??? (doesn't make a big difference)


But also:
We are still writing and recording songs for our new (un)regular "Stereo Total"-album. We don't know the name yet, and we don't know how it will look. It will come out at the end of the year.
Whapdoowhap: Supercool guests are playing and singing with us on the record.
But it's a surprise!

In the meantime we have already released a new single - you can read the press-text below.

Brezel founded a record label called "Verboten in Deutschland".
He releases 7"s from bands like Robotron and Drei Punkt Bande.
www.verboten-in-Deutschland.de
Check it out!


Friendly yours ...
Françoise Cactus
&
Brezel Göring




NEW SINGLE: ANTI LOVE SONG (Kill Rock Stars)




Stereo Total is a female/male French/German duo based in Berlin. The band exists since the mid-90ies and have released at least 8 albums: "Oh ah", "Monokini", "Juke-Box Alarm", "My Melody", "Musique Automatique", "Do the Bambi", "Discotheque" and "Paris-Berlin". Françoise Cactus plays drums and sings, Brezel Göring plays organ, Trautonium (a German synthesizer from the 20ies), a self-made guitar and a lot of strange electronic instruments.

They like to play music, and they like to play with music. They mix different styles. She is more inspired by French chanson and Rock' n' Roll, he by the robotic New-Wave sounds from German "Krautrock". The result is a kind of a chaotic melodic crazy underground pop-music.

Françoise Cactus loves to sing in different languages: French, German, English, Spanish, Italian, Turkish and Japanese. For the US-tour planned in March/April 09, KRS brings out a tour-single called "Anti Love Song" with four songs in English language (with French accent).

On the cover, there is a crochet-portrait of Courtney Love (she can be recognized by the crochet syringe and dollar note) made by Cactus. "Courtney Wool" is part of a series of woolen portraits of female musicians exposed actually at Gallery Crystal Ball in Berlin.

"Anti-Love-Song" (a Betty Davis cover-version), "I hate everybody in the discotheque", "No Tututu"... What's going on? So much hate and anger in the music of Stereo Total! At least Brezel Göring comes up with something positive when he sings: "I wanna be a mama, I wanna have a baby, I want to play with him and exploit him well...". (The original version - in Spanish - was composed by movie director Almodóvar.)

On the new "Anti Love Song"-EP, the band is not leaving its musical territory of low bit sampling, Casio-tones, Rockabilly-drumming and disco songs with the length of short punk songs.

Stereo Total have a bunch of friends in the USA and are really happy to come visiting them soon. Anyway, they are globetrotters and permanently on tour since years. With their music, they try to build down frontiers, stylistic, linguistic, geographical??? Their fan-community all over the world shows them that everybody is special, but also that there are analogies between people having the same taste and the same aspirations, no matter where they come from.

Stereo Total is not what you would call a serious band. They are not making music because they are too greedy to pay for a psychologist. They think that humor is a soft weapon, which can change a lot! But this is not a universal recipe: Complete lack of humor can change a lot too...