Analogue synthesizers, tape machines and songwriting that starts out on the piano – Elias Matt & (the) Rescue Mission is old school alternative pop in a time of digitally over-compressed deafness. Matt and his colleagues from Berlin see themselves as an art project with bizarre live performances, strange interviews and unusual promotion campaigns. Their sound is influenced by the „Sheffield Sound“ of the late 70s and early 80s with bands like The Human League and Cabaret Voltaire and German electronic acts such as Tangerine Dream and Kraftwerk. That's why the band exclusively uses analog synthesizers of this era.

Electronic, analogue, immaculate – CONDITIO HUMANA 2017!

Hello, 

I played drums and percussion instruments (and some backing vocals)  for 50 years with The Hottletts ('66-'68) and other pop rock blues bands in 
the Haarlem region,  (25 km west off Amsterdam) 

* In the '90s I was active as a manager-booker of two Local Bands.

After 2012 I was active again as a drummer and now also have fun as a starting singing  as you now understand ....

I discovered  5 years a go (!) That singing (again) makes me also very happy, and sometimes even more than playing drums ... I am now looking for the limits of what touches me and train my voice through singing exercises and lessons, the styles go from Classical to pop-rock-blues-alternative- bossa-jazz- from 50-ties till now I follow everything that comes to me and enjoy small progress and finish and occasionally acting to raise the bar, being able to do the singing is in principle the most important thing for me, the path, the self-examination is more interesting than the end goal ....

Charles-Louis
Haarlem
The Netherlands

Ex Drummer  by the HOTTLETTS  ( 1966-1969) 
Ex Manager  off  Life To Us  ( 1e line up) . ‘95-‘99
Ex manager. Off. The Link  ( ‘99-‘00)




@ sept. 2023 . CdB  (alias : Charles-Louis)

hi, i make neat cases for the pocket operator and euroracks.
please visit me on etsy or ebay.

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