EPISODE 2 *** Track List & Credits

01 not tonight
Hannah Aram (sounds), Colin Djukic (field recordings), Caspar Lesjak (sounds, production), Lina Zylla (voice loops)

02 Frankenstein goes back to his home quickly with three dogs
Aoi Swimming (sounds, text, vocals), Lina Zylla (voice loops, text, vocals, production)

03 askew
gamut inc (Marion Wörle: production, sounds) , Martin Krejci (sounds), Gemma Meulendijks aka M I A (cello)

04 Drainbeat (Elevator Music)
Thomas Glatz (sounds), Lachpillenonkel (sounds, production)

05 how to kiss a shiver
Hannah Aram (breath, sounds), Ruslan Boyarin (sounds), Martin Krejci (sounds), Lachpillenonkel (sounds), Gemma Meulendijks aka M I A (sounds/ beats, vocals), Andreas Purkhart (sounds), Stephanie Müller aka Rag Treasure (production, sounds, text, vocals), The Hercules And Leo Case (Maria Berauer, Katrin Petroschkat, Karolin Knote: text, vocals), Pelin Arbel Yüksel (text, vocals), Lina Zylla (voice loops, text, vocals)

06 Double Sky Coma
Karl Hagen (accordion), Sarah Ines (sounds), Gemma Meulendijks aka
M I A (vocals), Notum (production, sounds), Stephanie Müller aka Rag Treasure (sounds), Agente Costura (prepared sewing machine, talking hats and musical handbags), Aoi Swimming (sounds), Lina Zylla (voice loops)

07 A Cidus
Inga Ramona Hansen aka INGA (sounds), Thomas Glatz (sounds), Masako Ohta (composition, piano), Helena Hartmann (sounds, text, vocals, production), Pelin Arbel Yüksel (sounds), Tizia Hartmann (vocals)

08 Er stürtze seinen Kaffee hinunter und sagte
Thomas Glatz (production, sounds), Martin Krejci (sounds)

09 Versicherungsmensch
Fredi Grosser (production, sounds, text, vocals), Helena Hartmann (text, vocals)

10 on off – на до
Ruslan Boyarin (sounds), Thomas Glatz (sounds, final mix)

11 verlangen, zu sehen
Hannah Aram (sounds), Sarah Ines (beat poetry, vocals), Gemma Meulendijks aka M I A (cello, sound design, production), Andreas Purkhart (sounds), Aoi Swimming (sounds)

12 Alleinsam
Inga Ramona Hansen aka INGA (sounds, production, vocals), Lina Zylla (voice loops, text, vocals)

13 pollen vs. NICE CAR
Cup & Saucers (Miyuki Mori, Mari Watanabe: production, sounds, text, vocals), gamut inc (Marion Wörle: sounds), Nunofyrbeeswax (Angela Muñoz, Davide Maione: sounds), Stephanie Müller aka Rag Treasure (production, sounds, text, vocals)

14 retoure
Anton Kaun aka rumpeln (sounds), Klaus Erika Dietl (beats), Thomas Glatz (sounds, final mix), Carla Zuccon (beats, flute, vocal performance), Paula Zuccon (beats, trumpet)

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Alligator Gozaimsu (pronunciation: Alligator Goh-sai-mahs) refers to the Japanese expression Arigato Gozaimasu (English: Thank You Very Much), just with a bity „Alligator“-spice on top

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ALLIGATOR GOZAIMASU *** The XXL group

ALLIGATOR GOZAIMASU is made of many heads, voices and noises. The sound collective, with about 60 members spread all over the world, is back on the map with their upcoming release: Solange bunte Balken durchlaufen (engl.: As Long As Render Bars Go Colourful). The album title refers to the process of rendering in audio or video editing programmes.
The centerpiece of the XXL band is the experimental pop group beißpony (ChicksOnSpeed Records). In the midst of the lockdown beißpony's (ChicksOnSpeed Records) percussionist and songwriter Stephanie Müller reactivated a music collaboration that had already started in 2014. This spring, step by step, more artists and sound lovers joined in.

During the process of sharing sonic fragments, voices and noises online, the collective decided to try an album in episodes: an album that is open for all the different circumstances and needs of such a large band, an album that celebrates mood swings and listens closely to the different tempi in these days.

The artists

... come from Berlin, Bremerhaven, Horb am Neckar, Munich, Salzburg, Vienna and Zurich, from Phoenix (Arizona, USA), Dakar (Senegal), Istanbul (Turkey), Ivano Frankivsk (Ukraine), Oxford
(UK), Banjul (Gambia), Rome (Italy), Sevilla (Spain), Turku (Finnland) and Tokyo (Japan).

The album * Solange Bunte Balken Durchlaufen * As Long As Render Bars Go Colourful

Something vague is raising its voice inbetween the lines. The second episode consists of 14 songs. They swing along with all the ups and downs of the past weeks and months. The episode celebrates the beauty of delay. Digital interferences and latencies are not edited. Instead they become a mutual part of the collaborative compositions.

The release

Starting in July 2020 sound lovers are heartily invited to enter ALLIGATOR GOZAIMASU's sonic cosmos and to join the journey till December 2020. Each month a new release will be shared via bandcamp. All contributions will be donated. This time to Sea Watch e.V..

Enjoy listening *