TANZEN BAMBOLINE

We named ourselves after Kalte Sterne proposed me to make cover of Tanzen Bamboline from Alberto Camerini. Then we also made a cover of Rules and Regulations from british punk girl’s band Fuzzbox and "California Dreaming" from the Mamas and the Papas with the intention to play those three tracks in some kind of little show, a "musical interlude" in between two other real gigs organized this night at the Molodoï (Strasbourg) by the collective Lick my legs.
For this short performance, we decided not to play instruments live but performing only a dance and singing show in retro space age costumes.

We dressed in minimalist outfits, made of 2 X 1m/1m white velvet elastic fabric that used to be fixed with pins on right and left side of the waist. Costums from a former performance entitled "we are Neodyms".A Neodym is a chemical element, nêos and dîdymos, means litteraly, new and twin. Neodymiums are also very strong magnets that we can find in modern products such as motors in cordless tools, hard disk drives, and magnetic fasteners.

This decision created a bit of confusion : some people didn't want to believe we made the music ourselves. They thought, that like The Suprems or The Ronettes, we had some producer doing it for the us. 

We decided then to play two gigs with our HEAVY anagogic synthesizers. But some people complained, as they preferred to see us dancing. 

Tanzen Bamboline sound is basically a lofi mixture of self-production - punk recording - of more or less experimental yet danceable music. We work with different refined analogic tools (going from SH101, Kawai 100F, to VLtone and Casio random).   

As spaced gym tonic troubadours, we share a common interest into performance, comedy and musical, considering each track as a new occasion to narrate a story.