The background.

While a lot of experimental music seems to maintain an exclusive approach
(stay out you wouldn't understand), the music of Hinterlandt is meant to be
an invitation to anybody (come in - join the trip). While pop music gets
more and more geared towards the ever-decreasing attention span of young
listeners (which has shrunk from 2-minute radio songs to 30-second mp3
snippets), Hinterlandt warmly offers the format of 10-15-minute compositions.

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The record.

Life is diverse and so is this record. The music on New Belief System does
not stay in the same place for too long, it moves on. Like on a journey,
the listener can witness a great number of different shapes and colours -
strange things and familiar things, known sounds and unknown sounds, common
harmonies and disturbing noises, nice melodies and distorted crackles.
There are fairly detailed, pointy bits as well as lush ambiences, merging
into each other, replacing each other; and as they appear and disappear you
may give up on following and just sit back and see it as what it is: music.

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The artist.

"Electronic music is often interesting but sometimes feels a bit chilly.
When writing New Belief System, I tried to make a record that listeners can
connect to on an emotional level as much as intellectually. says Jochen
Gutsch aka Hinterlandt, who has just moved back to Germany after spending
some years in Australia. Having enjoyed a classical trumpet education as a
child, he played guitar in many underground rock bands before forming
Hinterlandt in 2002. This could be the reason why he relies mostly on
recording live instruments for his compositions rather than using samples
and plug-ins like many of his peers in electronic music.

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The launch.

As you would expect from a record by a German artist on a Sydney-based
label, New Belief System will be launched in Helsinki, Finland on 26-27-28
November 2004.

Hinterlandt
Live Nov/Dec 2004

Fri 26/11/04 - Myym