Simulacron, by TaboTago

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Simulacron, the new album released by TaboTago is program music to the book by Daniel F. Galouye of the same name, and even more inspired by Rainer Werner Fassbinder's film "Welt am Draht - World on a Wire", which also goes back to the novel.



https://bernhardwoestheinrich.bandcamp.com/album/simulacron

In the music of TaboTago, which is influenced by and pays tribute to the band Tangerine Dream, the distinction between original and copy, model and image, reality and imagination is impossible - a mirror image without an original.

The 'busybodies' Leander Reininghaus, Bernhard Wöstheinrich and Andreas von Garnier pack their 2020's equipment to go back to the 1970s and dream of an exciting future that seemed possible at the time - Buckminster Fuller was on board the spaceship Earth at the time - which is obviously different from the one that has come. This sounds in a title like 'Counterfeit World', the fake world. Possibilities and confusion about one's own point of view is the theme, dreamed technological achievements like the 'Cortical Current' and the time confusions they produce are recreated with sequencers. Key figure 'Cau No' disappears in a vortex of hypnotic overtones. The listen-hear experience exceeds the 'look-see-coupling' by far.

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Music composed by Bernhard Wöstheinrich, Leander Reininghaus and Andreas von Garnier

Bernhard Wöstheinrich – Synthesizer, Keyboards, Sequencer
Leander Reininghaus – Synthesizer, Electronics, the "SOMA Pipe" (somasynths.com/pipe/)
Andreas von Garnier – Synthesizer, Keyboards, Sequencer


Mixed and mastered by Markus Reuter

Illustration by Christine Kriegerowski; Artwork by studioflokati.de

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New Video: TaboTago - Busybodies




Busybodies is a track from TaboTago's recent album 'Simulacron'. Music and video pick up the thread and continue with motifs of Daniel F. Galouye's book „Simulacron III“ and Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s film „Welt am Draht – World on a Wire“, which is based on the novel.

https://youtu.be/yOX3mDugVME

In the book, 'busybodies' are interviewers who compile opinion surveys on new products and market trends. Taking part in those surveys can't be refused by the people of the (parallel) world they live in; that is due to the fact that their world, which turns out to be purely virtual, was built solely for that purpose.

With their musical approach, TaboTago go back to a time when people were still dreaming of an exciting future that seemed possible once, essentially, to the time in which films like „Welt am Draht – World on a Wire“ and others were made, which attempted to explore what this future would be like - for better or worse.

Listen to the whole album here:
https://tabotago.bandcamp.com/album/simulacron

Bernhard Wöstheinrich – Synthesizer, Keyboards, Sequencer
Leander Reininghaus – Synthesizer, Electronics, the "SOMA Pipe" (somasynths.com/pipe/)
Andreas von Garnier – Synthesizer, Keyboards, Sequencer

Mixed and mastered by Markus Reuter

Video by Bodo Orejuela
Dancer: Maike Bartz