Fishmoon

Artist: Fishmoon
P: 1994 / 2007    
Musicians:
Harald Grosskopf
Bertil Mark
Helmut Zerlett
Steve Baltes
Axel Manrico Heilhecker

1994 ,the idea came up, to record a instrumental album, which should be routed more to atmospheres, than to structural aspects in music. To accomplish this Heilhecker collected relics of his guitar-laboratories during his work as producer for Phonoroid,
Sunya Beat, Thomas Kagermann, Samson Gassama,or  Andreas Ludwig. This was done between 1995 and 1998. As a result this album established a visual sound, mainly leaded by Heilhecker's guitar, but far away from common string-acrobatics. Most different musical styles and guitar-specific playing-technics had been dismantled and brought together in new aspects. All instruments were played mainly by himself this time.
"Listening to my album today, i find all influences of my collaboratories in the 90's very clearly comin' upfront.
No picture - no sound ,this formula always has been putting a spell on me.
Steve Baltes and Harald Grosskopf, my longtime fellows since those days ,represent the musical caesura of the late 90's, the moveover from linear recording to virtual tracking.
Fishmoon ,moon in pisces
,is analog to a situation of sensitive processes and expressions, or a time
, when one is not able to lock up from in- and external sensations - a state of unlimitation.
What started as a collection will be continued as a conceptional edition and released Nov -  06."

Artist: Fishmoon
P: 2007    
Fishmoon is made up of Sunya Beat collaborators Harald Grosskopf on “trashdrums” on two of the CD’s seven tracks and Steve Baltes on programming on two tracks, Shawn Berid on bass (two tracks),  the Tirana Stringensemble on, you guessed it, strings (three tracks), Orin Elyan and Latha Vegantha on drums (a track each), H.P. Salentin on trumpet (one track), and Nippy Noya on sheng and percussion (one track). Fishmoon plays longform, experimental rock at times in the vein of seventies Krautrock. The Kraut droning influence is evident on Twomoon, which features a tribal jungle beat and some lively string accents from the Tirana stringensemble. At many times on this CD the droning Kraut sound is similar to the sound of Russian neo-Kraut.