Liebe Zu Dritt - Music

Stereo Total Are A German/French Indie/electro Duo That Formed In Berlin During 1993. The Group Consists Of Françoise Cactus From France Drums And Vocals And Brezel Göring Guitar Synthesizer Sampler . The Band's 1999 Single "I Love You Ono" A Cover Of "I Love You Oh No!" By Plastics Was Famously Used In An American Commercial For Dell Computers In 2009. The Berlin Duo STEREO TOTAL Has Created A Colourful And Fascinating Universe. Oscillating Between The Essential Punk Rock Disco And Electro Garage Chanson And Genious Diletantism The Songs Dazzle Us For An Instant Most Of Them Not For Longer Than Two Minutes Leaving Us Stunned By Their Intensity. At The Beginning Of This Ever-Expanding Musical Universe Pleasantly Enough! A Woman A Man And An Inexhaustible Sparkling Imagination. Françoise Cactus Who Was Born Van Hove In Burgundy And Has Chosen Berlin As Her Home For Something Like A Generation Now A Writer Local Diva Who Has Performed Among Other Things As Drummer And Singer Of The "Lolitas" In The Eighties. Then There Is Brezel Göring An Inexplicable Mixture Of The Hyperspeedy "Grand Duduche" And The Elegant Unobtrusive Crooner With A Soft Voice And A Lively Rhythm. Bent Over His Synthesizer Happy As A Young Boy He Reminds One Of The Hallucinated Inventor Géo Trouve-Tout. To Sum Up STEREO TOTAL's Short History Which Began With The Single "allo J'écoute" Let Us List The Different Elements Characteristic Of Their Musical Art A Minimalistic Production In A Positive Sense Meaning A Home-Made-Trash-Garage-Sound Crossed With Underground Authentic As Well As Amateurish Ironic As Well As Effective Pop As Well As...Political. An Untiring Creative Energy As If It Could Never Suffice "Oh But You Haven't Heard This One!" And Wop! Here We Go Again Hardly Leaving Time To Draw A Deep Breath. A Brilliant Sense Of Composition As Well As For Covering Other's Material Whatever The Source Combined With An Excessive Love For French Chanson The Main Weak Spot Being An Evident Admiration For The Master Gainsbourg . A Mystery Of Words Resulting From The French-German/ Male-Female Bilingualism Words In Which Accents Are Merrily Blended And Become More And More Exotic From Album To Album Japanese Turkish Spanish English . And Finally An Explicit And Surprising Sensitivity For Electronic Effects And A Thrilling Beat. A Gift Of Pop Music And Its Everlasting History.
The Unexpected Combination Of Two Traditions - French Chanson And German Electronica Which Not Only Relates To Kraftwerk But Also To The Uniquely German Sound Of "Neue Deutsche Welle" Popular In The Eighties And The Emergence Of Electrogroove A Sound Which Has Flourished Over The Past Ten Years In Numerous Clubs In Berlin Is Again At Its Best Enchanting Its Listeners. Just As The German Audience Adores Françoise Cactus Charming French Pronunciation Of The German Lyrics Her French Collection Of Texts Poetic And Playful Solemn And Cheeky Anarchistic And Light Makes Her The Most Unknown Composer And Singer Of French Chansons - And It Is High Time That She Be Discovered. Fragile And Irresistible She Stands Behind Her Tiny Drum Kit And Hammers The Songs To A Sequence In A Devilish Rhythm. In A Matter Of Seconds She Passes From A Romantic Ballad No! Do Not Listen! It's A Sad Song! To Pure And Simple Rock Animating Brezel Göring As Well As The Crowd To Leap. Indefatigable Accomplice And Perfect Entertainer Brezel Göring Is At Her Side Stepping On The Gas His Fingers Working The Knobs Of His Machine Or The Cords Of His Rectangular Guitar. read less