Tarwater is a German music duo comprising Bernd Jestram and Ronald Lippok. Tarwater have recorded several albums of mostly instrumental music usually tagged as
post-rock
Post-rock is a form of experimental rock characterized by a focus on exploring textures and timbre over traditional rock song structures, chords, or riffs. Post-rock artists are often instrumental, typically combining rock instrumentation with ...
.
History
Jestram and Lippok met in an East German
punk rock band, and began recording together even while Lippok recorded with
To Rococo Rot
To Rococo Rot were a Berlin-based band who combined electronic and analog elements to create instrumental post-rock music. Pitchfork described the band's sound as "unmistakably digital, yet 100% human." The group was composed of bassist Stefan Sc ...
and Jestram worked in his Bleibeil studio. The first Tarwater album debuted with 1996's
11/6 12/10, released around the same time first album came about. Tarwater's second album,
Silur, followed in 1998. The critical praise attendant on the latter earned Tarwater American distribution, with
Animals Suns & Atoms appearing in 2000 and
Dwellers on the Threshold in 2004. In 2005, the album
The Needle Was Traveling appeared. It was their first album for the
Morr label.
Discography
* ''
11/6 12/10'' (1996)
* ''
Rabbit Moon'' (1997)
* ''
Silur'' (1998)
* ''
Rabbit Moon - Revisited'' (1998)
* ''
Animals Suns & Atoms'' (2000)
* ''
Not The Wheel'' (2001)
* ''
Dwellers on the Threshold'' (2002)
* ''
The Needle Was Traveling'' (2005)
* ''Japan Tour EP'' (2005)
* ''
Spider Smile'' (2007)
* ''
Inside the Ships'' (2011)
* ''
Adrift'' (2014)
External links
Official Tarwater website*
Tarwaterat
Allmusic
AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on musicians and bands. Initiated in 1991, the databas ...
morr music
References
German musical groups
German post-rock groups
Kitty-Yo artists
Morr Music artists
Mute Records artists
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