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TAPIR Revolvix (Excerpt)

A little walk through our music - past, present and future.

Acid Rain (Album: Niemandsland, 2013)

Port (Revisited 241221)

Demo. Written 2005, arranged and recorded 2006-2015.

Dreams (Demo)

Our version of a wonderful song I learned in kindergarten, back in the mid-80s...unfortunately, I have no information who originally wrote it, it's nowhere online, but it has stuck with me ever since and we are happy to pay tribute to it. Btw. - it's the first song on which Sarah (from Grapeyard) actually sings!

Zarte Leichte Vogelspuren (Christmas 2016)

Excerpts and full length streams of our new album, Hobos & Architects (out July 2019).

100% independent production. Written, performed, arranged and recorded by EPHEMERE, mixed by Rüdiger Illg (Conscience, Portash etc.), mastered by Paul Gold (LCD Soundsystem, Sulfjan Stevens etc.).

Approaching Noon (Excerpt)

Life Is A Long, Long Time

Fears Into The Wind (Excerpt)

Hobos & Architects

Some Of Our Machines

Contingency (Excerpt)

Scarlet

Iron Sky (Excerpt)

First sketch (verse 1 & chorus) for new song from the project TAPIR. It's the perfect #corona song with a touch of #bond.

TAPIR - It's The Small Things (sketch)

EPHEMERE is an independent music project blending influences from Electronica, Progressive Rock and TripHop.

Beyond the borders of genres and the limitations of 4-minute-songs, EPHEMERE celebrates the sensation of being on the road, out there, in all its aspects - doubting, yearning, wondering, venturing - uniting great melodies, driving rock elements, hand-crafted analog synthesizer sounds and sophisticated arrangements. 

Lineup:
Jan Schoenmakers (Lead Vocals, Synthesizers, Piano, Beats, various noisy stuff), Celina Koch (Guitars), Sascha Hilgarth (Beats, Synths, Guitars), Karsten Block (Guitars, Bass, Drums, Vocals). 
Plus guests.

History:
EPHEMERE was founded in Heidelberg, Germany, in 2001 by the brothers Jan and Ole Schoenmakers (both Keyboards, Synthesizers, Beats, Vocals). In 2004, the live-album "Outside the Golden Cage" was self-released. In 2005, Ole left EPHEMERE while Jan recorded sessions with guitarist Houssein Take in Missouri (not released) and the EP "Hologram" (released 2006) with Electronica-producer Leo Frappier in San Francisco. 2006-2010, Christine Schoenmakers contributed artwork, bass and some vocals. In 2009, Karsten Block (Guitar, Bass, Organs, Drums) joined EPHEMERE and contributed to the EP "Hologram II" (released 2009). The LP "Niemandsland" featuring Jan, Karsten and various guests has been released in cooperation with (now-defunct) Whiterock Records August 15, 2013. Later that year, EPHEMERE contributed to the international Alphaville-tribute compilation "We Heard The Call vol. II" (RobertPreussler16 Records). Celina Koch joined in 2015, contributing guitars and some vocals. Since 2016, Sascha Hilgarth chips in beats and grooves. 2019, "Hobos & Architects", EPHEMERE's longest and most diverse record thus far, is released.

Ephemere states to be influenced by various artists such as Archive, Alphaville, Bike for Three, BeeGees, The Church, Eating Snow, Get Well Soon, IamX, John Frusciante, Kate Buch, Klaxons, Moderat, Radiohead, Pink Floyd, Puscifer, Silversun Pickups, Spleen United, Tricky and Ultravox of the John Foxx Era.

EPHEMERE

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