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Phillip Boa And The Voodooclub Is A German Avant-Garde Pop Independent Band Which Is Strongly Marked By The Songwriter Singer And Guitarist Phillip Boa. Boas Music Is Influenced By British Post-Punk Indie/alternative Rock And Avant-Garde. Continuous Characteristics Are Catchy Melodic Choruses Which Are According To The Mood Change Pierced And Distorted. Thereby Clash High Melodic Singing And Melancholic Vocals Which Communicate And Harmonize With Each Other. Phillip Boa And The Voodooclub Was Formed By Phillip Boa In 1985. The Group's Original Line-Up Consisted Of Pia Lund Voodoo And Der Rabe. In The Same Year The Band Released Their Debut Album Philister. It Was Released On The Label JA! Music And Landed In The German Indie-Charts. As From 1986 Philister Was Sold Over All Of Europe Through The Label Red Flame. The Second Album Aristocracie Was Released On The Label Constrictor Phillip's Own Label. It Was Produced By Eroc A Student Of The Producer Conny Plank. This Album Reached Tenth Place In The Independent Music Magazine Spex's Charts For The Year 1986. The Band Has Been Touring Europe Since 1987. Phillip Boa And The Voodooclub Signed A Contract With The Label Polydor Records Where Their Next Three Albums Copperfield Hair And Hispañola Were Released. With The Single Container Love They Attained In 1989 Commercial Success And International Recognition. In 1991 The Album Helios Was Released On Polydor. After Boaphenia Released In 1993 On The Label Motor Music Phillip Boa Committed Himself To His Metal Project Voodoocult. Further Albums God In 1994 She In 1996 And Lord Garbage In 1998 Were Released In The Following Period On Motor Music. Alison Galea From The Maltese Band Beangrowers Took The Place Of Pia Lund After She Left The Band Between 1997 And 2003. Annually Since 2001 The Band Plays Two Or Three Christmas Concerts In The Leipziger Moritzbastei. Between The Years 2000 And 2003 Phillip Boa And The Voodooclub Released A Total Of Three Albums On The Label Sony/BMG-RCA My Private War In 2000 The Red In 2001 And C 90 In 2003 . In The Year 2005 The Album Decadence & Isolation Was Released On The Label Motor Music Which Was Influenced From 1980s Music From Bands Like The Cure And Joy Division. In 2007 The Album Faking To Blend In Was Released On Motor Music. In February 2009 The Album Diamonds Fall Was Released On Rough Trade Records. For This Album The Drummer From Can The Late Jaki Liebezeit Was Engaged And Played The Complete Drums And Percussion As A Voodooclub Member. In The Summer Of 2010 The Live Album Exile On Strait Street Was Released On Their Own Label Constrictor. The Albums Helios And Boaphenia Were Remastered And Rereleased In The Spring Of 2011 On Vertigo Records/Universal.
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n August 2012 The Studio Album Loyalty Was Released On Cargo Records. The Album Was Recorded On Malta And In London. Produced By David Vella Boa And Brian Viglione. Mixed By Ian Grimble In London And Mastered By Frank Arkwright In Abbey Road Studios. In The Same Year John Robb A Renowned English Music Critic Wrote In Louder Than War Magazine "One Of The Best German Bands Of The Last Three Decades Phillip Boa And The Voodooclub Have Been On A Creative Surge Recently. Their Recent Album Of Melancholic Post Indie Is A Great Piece Of Work."
In 2013 The Fan Album Reduced! Was Released Which Was Recorded In The Winter Of 2012 In The Moritzbastei. It Should Radiate "the Dirt And The Intensity From A Intimate Club Concert". Only The Instrumentation Was Worked Out In Studio The Mistakes Were Uncorrected. At The Same Time Pia Lund Set A "landmark" In The Band's History And Left At The End Of 2013 Of Her Own Free Will. From 2014 The Band Work With Different Female Guest Singers.
On 22 August 2014 The Studio Album Bleach House Was Released On Cargo Records Which Reached Place 7 In The Album Charts The Best Position In The Charts In The History Of The Band. The Album Was Produced By David Vella On Malta And Was Mixed In London At The Konk Studios London By Dougal Lott. It Was Mastered By Fred Kevorkian In The Avatar Studios In New York.
Phillip Boa And The Voodooclub Is One Of A Few German Bands That Also International Recognized By Critics And Fans. To This Day They Are The German Band With The Most "Album And Single Of The Week" Credits In The British Music Press 8 X "Single Of The Week" And 5 X "Album Of The Week" In NME Melody Maker And Sounds . Phillip Boa Was In The Top 20 Of The Survey "Made In Germany – The Most Influential Geman Musicians". Furthermore He Stands As One Of The Sharpest Observers Of Our Society And A Distinguished Songwriter In Germany With "a Cynical-Poetic View Full Of Mysterious Metaphors And Sharp Wisdom" NME . The Voodooclub Have Shared A Staged With Other Bands And Artist Such As David Bowie Bob Dylan John Lydon's Public Image Ltd. Nick Cave Sonic Youth Björk The Fall Residents Gun Club Iggy Pop Und Manic Street Preachers. The Voodooclub Has Been Produced By Tony Visconti David Bowie John Leckie Morrissey New Order Gareth Jones Interpol Depeche Mode Gordon Raphael Strokes Ian Grimble Manic Street Preachers Bauhaus Mumford And Sons Etc. They Have Also Worked Together With Aphex Twin LFO Schneider TM The Notwist Jaki Liebezeit CAN As Well As Brian Viglione Dresden Dolls Nine Inch Nails . After Many Intensive Years And More Than 2.5 Million Sold Albums On 16 September 2016 The Single Collection Blank Expression – A History Of Singles 1986-2016 Was Released On Capitol Records/Universal Music And Reached Place 8 In The German Album Charts.

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