APRIL 2005: I am just rehabilitating myself back into polite British society once again after
a week spent slumming it in the studio with noisy monsters of electro indie rock Samson, and what a week it has been!
Samson are ostensibly a Munich-based band although their workshop is a dilapidated factory space in the market town of
Dorfen, some miles from the city.
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| My view of Bavaria for 5 solid days... |
Samson have been recording three new songs: the almost conventionally rocky "Boxer", the experimentally hip-hop
inspired "Reptile Returns", and the insane sonic anarchy of "Dog Raiser". And then, as if spending a week with these
guys at the controls of their new E.P. wasn't honour enough, I was invited along to a fantastic gig at Munich's Orange House venue, given loads of free booze and then invited up on stage to play bass on an old Monophobia track "Devil's Eye".
A definite high.
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| Samson @ the Orange House, Munich, 9th April 2005 |
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| Monophobia 2005 reunion? Only in my dreams... |
Samson comprises founder member Hendrik Richter on samples, programming and guitar and Flo Sochatzy on bass. The
band is fronted by former Monophobia keyboard player/vocalist Zizi Schuh who was brought in by Samson's now ex-guitarist
and co-founder Stephan in 2003, as a temporary replacement for their absent singer Luitgard. Luitgard never returned
to the band and so Zizi stayed and, by the boys' own admission, took things up a notch or two in terms of presence
and promotion.
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| After 5 days in a studio with me, Samson go a little strange... |
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