we take the freedom from our children....

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 single jar of mash....people are wasting their money by buying this stuff. think for yourself don't let the industry let think for you!
then we put them away in a créche at the age of 7 or 8 months...they still need their parents at this age....its important for them to feel safe in the hands of their mother/father....they need a strong relationship to one special person at this age....where have all the grannies gone?
we take them their nature....the room to discover things...the way back home to where they feel safe.
have you ever seen a kid walking around in the city at the age of two??? or younger??? no...they all have to sit in their buggies. there are no children beyond the fenced playgrounds in the city. where have all the children gone? they are not part of our society really. why do cars, bikers, dogs have more rights then a child? why has it become so normal that there are no young children learning to walk beyond their families home or the playground?
children belong into the nature...they can develop best in the nature because they are a part of it. they define themselves through nature. they need to be free need to be a part of nature need to discover nature.
we don't care about them (though we think we do) anymore we get blind through commerce. children don't need courses they need trees, flowers, water, earth not in an unnatural way like in a playground. they need THE nature.
we think we're free but no one is free in this modern world anymore at least our children. not that many children would need antipsychotic drugs against ADHD if they would have more space more nature to develop in.
this is a mad world

The Taste on WOXY

'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

ORGANIC SELFMADE

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

new projects tracks plus downloads

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

krautrock and kraftwerk

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 song with german lyrics.... never did that before. i don't feel at home singing in german language (this is in a way strange...i know). but this time it was great fun though. it's a crazy song...we'll put this online soon...maybe tonight. it's about the autobahn...."war on the autobahn". we've spent a lot of time on the autobahn 2006/2007 and there are so many idiots on the streets.... they shouldn't even get a driving license for a bike... their way of driving is so unbelievably dangerous...
- > you can find all new songs on the projects site...

we've been listening to lots of krautrock music and kraftwerk stuff lately.... they inspired generations of musicians all around the world (check them out...."neu!", "can"...etc... !!!!)
xx maria

songs/news/things/art project

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 readers are in london....the raskolnikov vid will be shown at artrocker club night. actually i don't know when....just go there every week :)...its a great club night! did a gig there 2007. was good...people were dancing on and off stage. and we had a great time with the staff when the club was already closed. had many drinks...the very first time my english sounded great! ;)
will tell some more tour stories soon. we'd been homeless for over a month that summer....had all our stuff with us in our white van. ahhh i'm getting sentimental.

ah, one more thing: we've been asked now a few times why we don't write in german.....it's because our stats tell us most people reading this blog are from uk, usa, argentina, japan, india, belgium, sweden, netherlands, brazil, france, ireland, marocco, russia, latvia, italy, korea, norway +++....
we hope all our german readers don't mind...BUT if you would like to know anything special about the band, records, gigs etc...please feel free to email in german!! 2010@thetasteband.com is the way to get in touch with us. we're sorry if we don't reply immediately....we have a whole lot of things to do....
hugs,
maria

recording

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 in song-writing. when i hear a melody snippet, most of the time it immediately reminds me on something. the problem is i can't name it. it's more of an idea and it sometimes takes me weeks if not months to catch it and see it clearly. and while i'm trying to find out what that idea is i often slip on the wrong path and lose my way. so having the opportunity to record everything as fresh from my mind as possible helps keeping track of where i wanted to go originally. hope that made sense... it's not easy to describe a process that's in my point view to at least 50% directed from my subconsciousness. anyways i think we have some really amazing new songs in the pipeline and i hope to get some demos done that capture our idea of how they're supposed to be when they grow up (=when they're recorded properly later on).
x nick

projects

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...
RASKOLNIKOV