Ludwig
As a boy in the late 80ies, LUDWIG-songwriter-, main arranger-, singer- and founder Peter Dick had to practice playing the violin to his grandmother's metronome in the small German town of Detmold. The resolute Lady - more interested in discipline than in finger exercises – only supervised, that, not what the boys were practicing. So the boy made use of her musical ignorance to experiment with improvised melodies instead of études for the first time in his life. During these violin lessons at home, he did not only manage to satisfy his grandma, but also discovered his love for songwriting.
At the same time, just a few kilometers further north, a hardly older Petja Partels also followed a family tradition. But unlike Peter's grandma, Petja's musical foster-father, his uncle and namesake Petja Hofman, was a musician himself and no one less than the bassist in the original lineup of legendary German krautrockband Misus Beastley. Back then, neither Peter nor Petja suspected, that years later Peter would fall in love with uncle Petja's daughter and found a band called LUDWIG with her cousin Petja Bartels.
Ludwig was neither born in the rehearsal room nor in a pub, is neither Berlin project, nor contemporary experiment – it is a family matter. The cooperation of these two musicians can hardly be explained in other terms, as seldomly a band has been born out of such differing approaches to making music. All the songs are initially produced by Peter on his laptop. „Actually it's botchery,“ he explains. „Everythings gets cut into pieces and looped.“ When he first heard Peter's songs, he remembers, he didn't really know „what that was actually supposed to be. I thought: „That's not even music. But I like it.“
Inbetween these utterly different concepts of music emerges a unique mix of genres, that is danceable, atmospheric und nonetheless songoriented. “Petja is my third ear,” explains Peter. “Spending as much time as I do on a computer, you can’t hear anything anymore after a while. It's very important to have someone who hears things totally differently. With his classical, songoriented ears Petja saves me from complete fragmentation.”
At the end of 2010 LUDWIG recorded the songs “All in a tremble” und “What it is” with Simon Frontzeck and Tobias Siebert at the Radiobuellebrück studios Berlin.
In a slimmed down version LUDWIG have been performing the self-composed soundtrack to German Theatre Group Rimini Protokoll's production Black Tie in New Delhi, Reykjiavik and Oslo and other cities worldwide.
Liveband:
Bass: Jonas Holle
Drums: Florian Berwanger
Guitars: Petja Bartels
Vocals: Peter Dick
Contact:
Aerotone (Label)
Email: jan@aerotone.net
Ludwig (Band)
Email: aha.ludwig@gmail.com
Booking:
Email: aha.ludwig@gmail.com
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