Harmonious Thelonious is the solo project of the Düsseldorf musician Stefan Schwander. His works combine American-influenced minimal music with African rhythms and European melodies. The new album 'Plong' comes off with an exceptional work in the genre of electronic music, successfully embracing the physical power of a club night soundtrack whilst exploring the dramatic depths of sonic worlds to create an intensive listening experience in total solitude.

Plong

Harmonious Thelonious - Plong (Album Preview)

Chained music &
the power
of drum sound

Music for speakers as honesty in art
Allowing music to do what it wants to do with us
A project is finished when the new becomes compelling
Ullip

Not, and this marks its artistic profile, not additively, "side by side". Ullip combines these functions in order to let a new something emerge from them. CDs whose tracks do not preserve and reproduce "played music" as is usually the case. But CDs where the music is created by editing, mixing and recording it "on the fly". The CD as an audience, so to speak. With the great advantage that - in contrast to live sessions - one can enjoy the cuts of the CDs over and over again.
Based on a rich musical experience and an almost "wild" past, Ullip - together with other musicians - has today found a style that activates and inspires a special genre:

'Chained music'.

Sounds and pieces, music and rhythms that are played in a self-inspiring way or created on technical devices. Born in the moment, just like jazz. Also, not only as in jazz, given as a theme, otherwise improvised. Above all, they are not reproductions in the sense of notated notes. All the elements that stand between the first beat and sound of a live gig, a studio recording and the final burning process on a CD are interlinked to create what the "piece" recorded on silver discs ultimately is.

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- 2016-2019 -

21.12.2019 - Amsterdam, Het HEM (w/Gianni Brezzo)
05.12.2019 - Köln, Philarmonie (w/Gianni Brezzo)
02.11.2019 - Hamburg, Überjazz Festival (w/Niklas Wandt)
09.05.2019 - Münster, Gleiss 22 (Live)
08.05.2019 - Köln, Luxor (Live)
16.03.2019 - Halle (Saale), WUK Theater (Live)
14.03.2019 - Düsseldorf, Callshop Radio (Dj)
15.02.2019 - Düsseldorf, Bergerkirche /w Wolf Müller (Live)
04.01.2019 - Köln, Studio 672 (Dj)
01.12.2018 - Hamburg /w Niklas Wandt (Dj)
30.11.2018 - Berlin, Keith (Dj)
29.11.2018 - Berlin, Weser58 /w Niklas Wandt (Dj)
21.11.2018 - Bielefeld, Kunsthalle (Dj+Live)
26.10.2018 - Dresden, DAVE Festival (Live)
29.09.2018 - Bielefeld, Nr.z.P. (Dj)
13.09.2018 - Berlin, Heiners Bar /w Niklas Wandt (LIVE)
18.08.2018 - Münster, Heinz-Sommer Open Air (Dj)
05.08.2018 - Garbicz, Garbicz Festival Poland (Dj)
04.08.2018 - Olganitz, Nachtdigital Festival /w Wolf Müller (Live)
16.05.2018 - Berlin, Festsaal Kreuzberg (Live)
03.05.2018 - Witten, [...] raum (Dj)
26.04.2018 - Amsterdam, Cafe Struik (Dj)
26.04.2018 - Amsterdam, Red Light Radio (Dj)
15.03.2018 - Berlin, Klunkerkranich (Live)
16.02.2018 - Osnabrück, Felix-Nussbaum Museum (Dj)
10.11.2017 - Lissabon, Lounge (DJ)
04.09.2017 - New York, The Lot Radio (DJ)
19.08.2017 - Cologne, tba (Live)
16.07.2017 - London, Farr Festival /w Wolf Müller (Live)
09.04.2017 - Amsterdam, World Minimal Music Festival /w Wolf Müller (Live)
25.02.2017 - Berlin, Kantine am Berghain /w S U R V I V E (Live)
17.11.2016 - Cologne, Gewölbe /w Wolf Müller (Live)
09.07.2016 - Düsseldorf, Open Source Festival /w Wolf Müller (Live)
04.06.2016 - Cologne, Gebäude 9  (Live)
01.02.2016 - Landau, Atrium (Live)
23.01.2016 - Prague, Ponec Theatre (Live)
22.01.2016 - Berlin, American Whirlpools (Live)
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https://www.discogs.com/artist/2970716-Cass

Since 2012, Cass. has released albums of varying styles, from the rather organic and loopbased ambientpieces on Loops & Farewell Sketches and the Red Atlantic EP on Throne of Blood in 2017, influenced by 80’s pop sonics, to the more balearic and percussive recordings on The Sound Of Glades together with Wolf Müller in 2016. 

On his 2019 solo album Postclub Prism on Into The Light Records, Cass. explores his affinity to calm and atmospheric ambient music at the treshold to the sound of club music that - an important note in this context - did always play an immense role in the personal and artistic development of Cass..

In late 2019 Cass. collaborated with long time friend Marvin Horsch aka Gianni Brezzo on the LP 'Masala Kiss', released by the lovely Basso of Growing Bin Records. For Patrick Ryder (Piccadilly Records) 'Masala Kiss' sounds like "emotional ambient, soft focus synthesis and pastoral programming and connects the ideas from early and contemporary works to a hopeless romantic record".

In 2021 Cass. announces another solo album called 'Ambient Music For A Young Girl', to be released on Growing Bin Records in 2021.
In addition to that, Cass.' and his long time partner Niklas Wandt are about to release their recording 'Esculturas Rupestres' on the Salon Des Amateurs affiliated label candomblé in the same year. The record delivers an enchanting collage of spoken word, ancient drumming, synth ambi(val)ence and free improvisation.

Various aliases and experimental noodling in various genres from Chicago-ish house to no wave guitar skronk to ambient neo-classical

Inquiries: ✉ info@bureau-b.com ✉

Bureau B is a Hamburg based label which releases past and future classics unearthed from genres including (but not limited to) electronica, avant-garde, Kraut(rock) – a colourful spectrum of diverse, yet contigiuous musical genres. Applying the expertise deployed in trawling the archives, Bureau B has gone on to champion new and contemporary acts with similar musical sensibilities to their pioneering antecedents.