Namosh (born 8 May 1981), also known as Namosh E. Arslan or Namosh Erkan Arslan, is a German singer, musician, performance artist, actor and DJ of Kurdish descent.

Life and work

Namosh has lived in Berlin since 1999 and is known for his eccentric and wild

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. He performs mostly solo or with other artists at various events. He has worked with a lot of well known artists and musicians such as Peter Thomas, Wolfgang Müller and

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, performing or producing music together with them. In the music magazine Q,

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described Namosh's song "Cold Cream" as her favourite song of 2005. The song appeared on his first album ''Moccatongue'', which was released in 2006. It was followed by ''Keep It for Later''. This, his second album, was released in 2009. In addition to his musical activities Namosh has worked as actor. He played the leading role in the Children's theatre play ''Kleider machen Leute'' at ''Theater an der Parkaue'' in Berlin. Reviewers of the newspapers Der Tagesspiegel and Berliner Zeitung praised his performance in the play. In 2018 Namosh's album ''Music Muscle'' was released by the record label ''Weltgast'' as CD, LP and download."laut.de-Biographie - Namosh"
(in German). '' laut.de''. Retrieved 28 January 2019. His latest album ''Party Alone'' was digitally released on June 13, 2022.

Discography (selection)

Music

* 2004: Namosh ( LP, Album, Pale Music International) * 2005: Cold Cream ( 12", Bungalow Records) * 2005: Messed Up w/ Angie Reed/ Hi-End (12", Metroheadmusic) * 2005: The Pulse (12", Bungalow Records) * 2005: Wolfgang Müller & Namosh / Frieder Butzmann - ''25 Jahre Geniale Dilletanten'' ( 7", Crippled Dick Hot Wax) * 2006: Dear Diary feat. Hisako / Fine! Adam Sky Remix (7", single, Ltd, Bungalow Records) * 2006: Moccatongue ( CD, Double LP, Album, enh, Bungalow Records/

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/PIAS) * 2007: Schocko & Co (limited book-CD, Hybriden Verlag/Mimas Atlas) * 2009: Keep It for Later (CD, album, Crippled Dick Hot Wax) * 2011: Keep It For Later (MP3/WAV, Track on the

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'' Jerk Off '', Zingy) * 2018: Music Muscle (CD, LP, MP3/WAV, Album, Weltgast) * 2020: Music Muscle - The Rework (MP3/WAV, Album, Weltgast) * 2021: Moccatongue - The Reroll (MP3/WAV, Album, Weltgast) * 2022: Party Alone (MP3/WAV, Album, Weltgast)

Production

* 2004: Namosh (LP, Pale Music International) * 2006: Moccatongue (CD, album, Enh, Bungalow Records/Rough Trade Records/PIAS) * 2008: Mit - Coda (CD, album, Haute Areal) * 2009: Keep It for Later (CD, album, Crippled Dick Hot Wax)

Miscellaneous

* 2005:

– Hustle A Hustler (12" or CD, Chicks On Speed Records), (Hustle A Hustler (Namosh

Remix A remix (or reorchestration) is a piece of media which has been altered or contorted from its original state by adding, removing, or changing pieces of the item. A song, piece of artwork, book, video, poem, or photograph can all be remixes. The o ...

)) * 2009: Jessie Evans – Is It Fire? (LP or CD, Fantomette Records), (author, bass, keyboards on ''Black Sand '' and choral singing on ''To The Sun'') * 2012: Wolfgang Müller – "Séance Vocibus Avium" & "Wísk Niwáhsen Wísk Nikahseriiè:Take Kanien'Kéha Wa'Katéweienste" Oder "Learning Mohawk In Fifty-five Minutes" (double CD, Intermedium Records), (birdcall on ''Coturnix Novae-Zelandiae'') * 2013:

Die Tödliche Doris Die Tödliche Doris ''(Deadly Doris;'' a pun on ''tödliche Dosis,'' meaning ''lethal dose)'' was a performance art and music group based in West Berlin from 1980 to 1987. It was founded by band members Wolfgang Müller and and later joined by , ...

– Stopp (Der Information) - Unvollendete Version 1983 (12", Squoodge Records), (editing)

Other creative works

*2012: Children's theater play ''Kleider machen Leute'' at Theater an der Parkaue in Berlin (actor)

Trivia

*The German actors Daniel Steiner and Nic Romm shot a music video together for Namosh's song ''Cold Cream''.Namosh's ''Cold Cream'' - music video
on YouTube

References

External links

*
Namosh discography
at Discogs * {{Authority control 1981 births Living people People from Bietigheim-Bissingen German people of Kurdish descent 21st-century German male singers