Krautfuzz

Krautfuzz started out recording live improvisations at the ZONE Studio, Berlin, in November 2022. As Imari Kokubo (drums), Dirk Dresselhaus (guitar/vocal), and Derek Shirley (bass) come from an extended variety of musical backgrounds, including activities with the likes of Faust, Vladislav Delay Quartet, die ANGEL, Schneider TM, Piratezombiedog, Monno, The Still, and Hi-Speed Dubbing, the premise is to boil down stylistic concepts to their essence by playing adventurous, cathartic, and time-transcending music without a safety net, while giving some extra attention to communication in-between each other as well as to the individual subconsciousness.

Krautfuzz is embossed by an angular-futuristic tension, spanning from fuzzed-out neo-psych-rock to abstract, heavily processed minimalism to pure noise, and is open at the fringes, which means the implementation of occasional, non-typical musical elements in the studio, live video improvisations by iLan katin as well as surprise guest performers at their live shows, which usually join in at the 2nd set of the evening and so far included luminaires such as saz player Murat Ertel (Baba Zula), experimental saxophonist André Vida, J Mascis (Dinosaur Jr.), sitar player Chandra Shukla (Xambuca), or Eleni Poulou (ex-The Fall) & Hilary Jeffery (zeitkratzer).