Artist.......: Peter Kernel
Album........: How to Perform a Funeral
Label........: ON THE CAMPER
Genre........: Indie
Catnr........: n/a
source.......: CDDA
rip.date.....: Jan-27-2009
str.date.....: 000-00-0000
quality......: VBR/44.1Hz/Joint-Stereo
Url..........: www.myspace.com/peterkernel
track title time
01. HeÆs a Heartattack 03:42
02. Videotapes in Dubai 03:23
03. I Counted Them to Die Properly 03:03
04. Shoot Back 03:52
05. Happy to See You 07:19
06. In Case 03:31
07. Smiling 03:26
08. Flies Die 03:50
09. What the Hell 05:11
10. Radio Cowboy 02:40
11. Rena 05:27
Runtime 45:24 min
Size 60,9 MB
Release Notes:
Peter Kernel is a crapy pop band from Switzerland.
Founded in 2005 by Aris (guitar), Barbara (bass)
and DΣwis (drums), the initial idea was to give a
voice to moving images. Their rehearsal room
enhances the desire to evade (musically speaking),
a filthy and dank attic of a fry house.
Highly influenced by experimental moviemaking of
the bass player Barbara (videomaker as well), they
begin to assemble tunes around the end of November
2005. These will become the soundtrack of the
experimental movie LIKE A GIANT IN A TOWEL,
interpreted by all three components. A
twenty-minute, super8 short directed by Barbara,
screened the following summer at the Locarno
International Film Festival.
In January 2006 they come back from Canada
(BarbaraÆs native country) with lots of new
material, and print fifty homemade copies of the
film & soundtrack, which soon sell out, that will
be an input for new ideas. The outcome is a demo
tagged HOME RECORDINGS, with home made tracks
recorded between Winnipeg and Lugano. ItÆs printed
in thirty copies. In April 2006 they start doing
live gigs, that brings them to hit stages in
Switzerland and Italy, where they get to know a duo
called AMAVO, two girls from Venice. Together they
put out a limited edition, of fifty copies, split
cd entitled AMAVO EL TOCO.
In April 2007 the identity of Peter Kernel is
completed with the arrival of the second guitarist
Anita. The relationship between the four components
grows intimate. To the point of influencing new
ideas, later recorded during long, hot days of
August 2007 at Sauna Studio, in Varano Borghi
(Italy). ItÆs their first real release entitled HOW
TO PERFORM A FUNERAL. The disc comes out the first
of March 2008.
They shared the stage with Tying Tiffany (I), The
Dagons (USA), Boris (JP), the Notwist (GER), Why?
(USA), Cat Power (USA), Redworms farm (I), My way
my love (JP), Amavo (I), September Malevolence
(SWE), Enon (USA), Offlaga Disco Pax (I), Mogwai
(SCO), Gregor Samsa (USA).