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it's been quite a while since our last post... hope you're all good out there! the first couple of new songs are done and sound pretty good! and we've got loads more which are shaping up very nicely. we'll do the first demo recordings soonish. meanwhile a new website is in progress. it looks amazing and fits perfectly to our new songs!! should be able to launch it in a couple of weeks... we're

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!!! i have changed the link... should work better now!!! hey everybody, long time no speak! i hope everyone is doing good out there! maria launched a website with photography lately. you can view the pics here: Lavender Voids love the taste

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we've been on a demo against atomic power plants yesterday. me and a friend climbed the horse and gave him the anti-atomic-power flag. things can be changed!! go for eco power!!! today!! xxm please feel free to share this!!! thank you!

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hi everybody, here is a new song called 'Two into One'. It's my most emotional song of all times. it was quite hard to sing this without having tears in my eyes. this song is dedicated to my wonderful grandmother. she died when i was only 7. she took care of me in the morning from when i was sweet little 6 weeks old. hugs to all of you maria Download and listen here: Two into One Lyrics: //

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2 1/2 years ago we licensed a song to a label called pistol records. they wanted 'can't get enough of your dang-da-dang' for their compilation 'fresh weird & wonderful'. released in 2007. i read in the news that they sold many many copies of it (in fact it peaked no. 8 on the US itunes album charts) and our song was the best sold track on the record in lots of countries including UK and the US.

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my mum told me today she went to a lecture held by greenpeace. she goes eco for more than 25 years! a very very clever woman my mum! it was a about the mining of uranium for the nuclear power plants. its so terrible what is happening in the countries where uranium gets stooped. little kids are playing in the radioactive mud...and the ground-water gets embittered for tenthousands of years. and so

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IMAGINE PEACE

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...i started to sing and sing and sing. everyday.... i spent hours and hours singing to all the records my dad had. at the age of 12 i started to listen to the beatles, wings and mc cartney solo stuff, billy joel, trio, creedence clearwater, peter paul & mary, the who, rolling stones + + +. as a kid you really burn music into your brain. you can never ever get it out of your head. at the age of

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everything started in 1991. i was 12 years old. i found some old tapes my dad had in a box. i inserted that special red tape in my cassette recorder and got back into my bed... it was a weekend and i quite often got back into my bed in the morning to listen to some kids tales on my cassette recorder. i listened and suddenly their was this song that touched me in a way a song never did before. i

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there were some missing drum parts in humanity. fixed it now. new version downloadable at the usual spot. xn

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how could i forget!? as good as perfect: "evanescence" and "coming about" by maria schneider jazz orchestra. good night! xn

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...is great. i walked through it today with lilian. it was nice she called it 'blätterhöhle' meaning leaf-cave. i didn't walk through one since i was a kid. :) i thought of taking a corncob with me but i didn't. now i can see from our living room that they harvest the corn...with floodlight. wow! and a bit sad as i didn't took one with me. :) no corn for lunch tomorrow...buahhhh.

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lilian just wanted to listen to phoenix "1901". once again. and again. and again... think i listened to that song (and the whole album) about a million times. she always picks the songs from our ipod touch herself. i still like it though. this made me think of writing a post about my favourite records of all times. actually there are only two records which i consider "perfect" - meaning i can

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can you hear us john davis???? THE BUNKER

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one of the best records on earth for me is Ahmad Jamals - The Awakening! actually my favourite song is PATTERNS! xx maria

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im sooo pissed atm!!! i cant believe how stupid our industry and government is! you can't avoid eating gen manipulated food you can't even avoid to eat fucking nano particles! all in the name of money!! atm i'm full of hate! sometimes i just wanna run into these firms and rob them everything they earned from selling only shit things! they put chemical flavour into yogurt and in nearly all the

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wow......check this out!! this is no computer....this is acoustic and real! this is how it should be done. pah! NERVE xx maria

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hello ....we're back in the nature. it's the best place in the world for us atm. we stepped into the house this night....it was 3am or so. we didn't speak to each other...we just followed the program...getting lilian in her bed and all the luggage into the house. then fell asleep within minutes. in the morning nick and me discovered that we felt the same about coming home yesterday. we both find

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we've been to some very good restaurants here in berlin the last few days. one was indian food...see picture...and today we went to a place to eat organic nudels...it was very delicious...actually i forgot the name....there were two white birds on a black wooden label... over the front door. its at schwedter strasse. yesterday we spent a really long evening on a spielplatz. lilian loves schaukeln

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great hotel isn't it? its the radisson blu think this is also a part of sea life.... capitalism in top form.

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well then... we decided to throw the home demos for our album no. II work online for everyone. the songs are listed in no particular order and we'll add some more later on. just click to download. (please bear in mind: these are all HOME demos, recorded, edited and mixed in our basement with no extra equipment except our imac (not even an extra mic - just the build-in mic) and logic, that was it

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just looked at our webstats... man i'm stunned!! can't believe how many ppl are visiting our site and how many are downloading our album or the new demo songs!! each day!!! i mean we're not even playing live and we're not in the press or anything. this is amazing!! thank you all! keep spreading the word and the music. we encourage you to copy and share our music as much as you like! xn ps: we're

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okey... we'll go back to berlin tomorrow... we have a shit hotel here and we dont feel really comfortable here so we decided to go back to berlin... enjoying our cool hotel room in the city center!!! we'll post some pix soon were weve been the last days... atm we enjoy a good dinner at cafe affenbrot in lübeck. its cool here! it seems the only restaurant that serves organic food... don't know.

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was great today too! spent the whole day walking around with my cousin, his wife and their sweet baby. been to prenzlauer berg schaukeln then lunch at punk pizza, then walking around till 6 pm then eating sushi for dinner. tomorrow we'll be off to lübeck. lilian will see the sea for the first time in her life! xx maria punk pizza

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had a great first day in berlin today... though we didnt have much sleep last night. we got up at 2 am so lilian could sleep all the way through to berlin. we're all in bed now ready to sleep. been at the tacheles today... its getting more and more touristic i think...but hey thats where the money is...seen some great work. bought a nice small print for lilian. good night! maria obstsalat

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just returned from a beautiful trip to the mountains and hey i'm in vacation mood so i'm giving you another one of our just-finished demos: it's called sophie. remember this post? it's sort of the song that started our work on album no. 2 off. it reflects a kind of schizophrenia throughout the new album just compare it to the other songs that we posted so far. still we think it all fits together

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finished the last of our 11 demos we recorded throughout the last 4 weeks. we have a couple of more song fragments, don't know if they will make it on the record... the demos are now stored on our webserver, well hidden inside a magic theatre behind a secret door which may only be entered by madmen. let's see what will happen with them now... find a label get them out go on tour play later with

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they start in a buggy though nobody needs a buggy...we can carry our kids..we are made for this. less and less babies and children are breastfeeded....but they need to be breastfeeded...and not just for exactly 6 months....this is not the natures plan... then they get this terrible mash all the time...they don't need that. it's a great way to waste money again...our daughter has never get a

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'you should have danced' has been picked for air play on the artrocker radio show which is broadcast on both cult US indie station WOXY and london based resonance FM. paul also said some nice words about us and the art project. you can listen to the show again on artrocker.tv, it's the show from 9th august. x nick

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hallo, isn't this delicious???? we make our own organic bread....mhhmm :) and we grow our own tomatoes and chillies...and and and now....you would like a bread don't you? :)) best, maria

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as promised: two more project pages online plus projects homepage pimped (slightly at least) PLUS... you can now download each track as an hi-quality mp3!! many of you asked us about this so here we go now. these tracks are under creative commons as well (non-commercial of course - same as popularity) so we strongly encourage you to copy, share, post or whatever them! xx nick

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we now have finished song 7.....nearly.... there are still some lyrics missing. we've been spending the last two afternoons at the deutsche museum. it's great there!! perfect for lilian seeing her beloved "pfugzeig" meaning plane... and "duba" meaning helicopter. you can always put a smile on her face if you show her one of these. so this was great...really inspiring as well. i recently wrote a

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ohhhhok...just came back from studio....recorded guitars for new song 'sophie'. this piece of pop's bringing us down atm.... it was a great song when i wrote it a few weeks ago...now it's getting in a different direction which we don't want it to sound like...we keep it but we're going to work on other stuff now. next week is surely THE 'sophie' week and we can finish it. :) if any of you

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the last days we've been deep in the process of demoing. it's great to have our own little studio downstairs and be able to record any idea as soon as it pops into our minds. that's a totally different approach to creating a piece of music than we had while writing popularity. we have a lot of great music fragments waiting to become complete songs. as for me i find that the most difficult part

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our first project-microsite is now online. there will be more to follow on and off. it's something we like to do besides our album and live work. it's just what comes to our minds and wants to come out. this time it's a hi-res video so it may take a while to load. alternatively you can download an ipod/iphone version by clicking here. or you watch a low-res version on youtube. the video is called

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hello there, just came back from munich spending this wonderful sunny day eating sushi (no tuna of course!) and relaxing at  the english garden. a few days ago lilian started "jogging"! sooo cute. :) she seems to love running a lot. we had to work again a bit on our rehearsal room the last few nights...improve the acoustics and installing a huge pinboard... its still a mess down there after all

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we haven't been online for almost two years but there are still around 1000 people popping by every month. really cool!! i'm sitting here in the dark writing down ideas for all the things that come up when you start working on the band project again. many great plans have been made already i'm very excited about the upcoming year. i came up with a cool rock riff yesterday while nick was playing

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hello,just a few words.we just moved .... we now life in the nature.the air is so much better than in the city.we live in a super small village without any supermarket or so.in front of our house we have a huge lake.rubber boat trips have been made already.we also have horses in front of the house and sheep just a minute away.we just started rehearsing...and we are working on new material.more to

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we've been on holiday in former east germany in summer 09 with a small camper. to my shame i have to admit that i've never been there before (except berlin). we travelled over the country side... thueringen, sachsen, brandenburg. such a wonderful part of germany. you don't have to travel long distances causing pollution all the time. there are beautiful lakes in the east with no one there.

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lilian is just trying to walk with my big winter boots....nick is helping her ... really sweet! :) it's wonderful having a baby it changes everything in your life! thats why you have heard really nothing from us in the past 1 1/2 years. we wanted to concentrate fully on this new adventure being mama and papa. we now start to have fun doing music again. so we started to create new plans, new

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