the following years...

...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 16 i started to play the guitar. i had piano lessons as a kid but it never really touched me so i stopped doing it when i was 15 or so. i started to compose some songs....one i did at the age of 16 was this one 'daydream'. bloody 16! haha. i did the lyrics with my dad. cool time!
xm

oh hey why not.....another song: sooooooo popyyyyy. haha. have fun listening! its with matthias link (guitar) and frank thumbach (bass)..... 'the other me'
xm

a special music moment

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 couldnt hold back my tears. after a good while my dad came to my bed and i asked him which song that was. he said it was john lennons 'woman'. it was such an impressive moment for me i still remember as it was just yesterday. xxmaria

update

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

PS: favourite records

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

walking through a cornfield...

...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.

we just made a fire.... its so relaxing! its such a fascinating element!
i think its a primal feeling... it makes us feel save...

xx maria

favourite records

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 always listen to the whole record without having the urge to skip a track and without realising i wasn't really paying attention in the middle of a song. these two albums are "12 memories" by travis and "run to be born" by walking concert.
besides there are many more albums which i love and which are nearly "perfect", it's impossible to name all - i always forget some. so these are the ones that come to mind at the moment: "wolfgang amadeus phoenix" by phoenix, "quiet" by john scofield, "maestro" by kaizers orchestra, "the weight is a gift" by nada surf, "broken by soldiers" by the raconteurs, "in rainbows" and "ok computer" by radiohead, "first impressions of earth" by the strokes.
xn

this is where we'd love to record the new album!!

can you hear us john davis????



THE BUNKER

Ahmad Jamal - The Awakening

one of the best records on earth for me is Ahmad Jamals - The Awakening!



actually my favourite song is PATTERNS!
xx maria

nano

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 food you buy in a normal supermarket. don't buy this stuff!!! there is only shit in it. if i wanna buy a strawberry yogurt....i wanna have strawberry yogurt. not that low fat shit from cows that suffer all their lives just to produce milk and some chemical aromas and noooo f.... fruit in it! don't buy these things! don't give them your money... don't! there are nano particles in an ordinary chocolate, in ketchup, in sunmilk +++++++. they mix so many shit things in our food its unbelievable! read the label on the products...the more is listed on a simple product like a yogurt the more you should avoid eating it!
xx maria

ps: i just discovered that i used a so called super natural oil for our terrace with nano particles. :( ahhhhhh
i had the oil on my hands. and many sprinkles of it on my trousers :( i didn't buy it. :((

jojo mayer NERVE

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

back in the nature

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 it so relaxing here. the house has such a peaceful atmosphere. it's great being back.
yesterday we had a great day with two wonderful people. we were at a nice pasta place and after that we wandered around berlin...finding a spielplatz and then again walking around talking. the kids were having fun it was very cool!
it was good to be back on the road again....being inspired by a city although we didn't do any shows. it doesn't matter really if you like everything you see or feel or not... both is inspiring.
ps: if you like you can follow me on twitter....search for mariapattusch or thetasteband. i'm super new to that... i'm still learning actually.
xx maria

indian restaurant/shakespears sommernachtstraum

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. the spielplatz was behind a wooden theatre where they played shakespears sommernachtstraum. it was a wonderful evening...seeing the actors from behind the scene...most people are nervous just before they enter the stage and their whole body reflects that. i'm very nervous too so i know what i'm talking about. after the show is very very cool cause you feel so relaxed (not if it was a bad night of course :) ).
x maria

cool hotel isnt it?

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

For Madmen Only

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. hence the varying sounds between the songs and some recordings being muddy or distorted.)

we would LOVE to hear what you think of the tracks!!!!!!! so please leave your comments here.

Apartment 3
Safe Or Sound
The Unbearable Lightness of Not Being
Your Blue Eyes
Inappropriate Emotional State No. 117a/05-3
Raskolnikov
Sophie El Nath
Humanity
Section Earth
Two into One
Fettige Haare nach einer langen Zugfahrt



The Taste Album No. 2 Home Demo Preview is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

web stats & downloads

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 thinking about posting the download link for our new album demos...

ostsee

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. we missed good food a lot the last few days!!! i'll be back writing more soonish... we're all tired... had a nice day at the beach... though everything is a bit strange here... i'll tell you soon. hope everybody is fine out there! best maria

café affenbrot lübeck

ostsee

berlin day two

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

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

tacheles

sophie

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 pretty nicely. the song features 14 tracks of my handclapping and - world premiere!! - me singing.
x nick

PS: here some impressions from our mountain day trip...

demos in the bag

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 jools and letterman world domination...?! who knows. maybe no one will like it... but we don't care a lot, we think it's some excellent stuff!! now we hit the road for some days of vacation. to the sea!
x nick

ps: here's a song for you in the meantime which fits to marias latest post. it's called humanity.