PAVIAN BAND, by Pavian Band

PAVIAN BAND

by Pavian Band

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Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
The 40-year-old debut album, digitally restored, composed into a fine digipack with 16 page booklet.

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1.	Ich will, was sich will 03:28	lyrics	buy track
PAV
2.	Ich freu mich auf die Zukunft 03:06	lyrics	buy track
PAV
3.	Neonharmonien 05:16	info	buy track
4.	Sag mir was Du Denkst 03:15	info	buy track
5.	Nutzmensch 03:25	info	buy track
6.	Eigenheim 02:50	lyrics	buy track
PAV
7.	Unser Hans 03:20	info	buy track
8.	Ich Afrika und Du 04:37	lyrics	buy track
PAV
9.	Lieber Axel 02:59	lyrics	buy track
PAV
10.	Hektik der Stadt 03:33	info	buy track
11.	Der Besuch 04:02	info	buy track

about

"Schönen guten Tag"!
In summer 1982, four young musicians bravely enter the hallowed halls of Frankfurt's music scene: The Hotline Studio. A demo tape they had brought with them is handed at reception without much ado, and they are determined not to leave the studio until someone had examined the material.

As hunger and thirst are getting to the musicians, the door to the monitoring room bursts open and an excited and arguably important person appears shouting, tape in hand waving "Who did this, where is this band?" The Pavian Band is still there and there is no fuss - the next day the contract for a record production is signed and sealed. A little later the recordings begin. The band records all the songs live in three days. At the mixing desk is none other than the young English sound engineer Jon Caffery, who had already worked for bands like Tubeway Army and Joy Division and was to oversee the productions of Abwärts, Einstürzende Neubauten, Die Toten Hosen and Ton Steine Scherben in the course of his impressive career.

Forget about further details: The record was finished, but never released. One exception was the song "Eigenheim", which found it's way on a Neue Deutsche Welle sampler, at least in good company with Falco's "Maschine brennt". Some big record companies showed interest, but in the end the band was not ready to give in to demands and requests from the music industry. Leading the way was PAV, the singer and guitarist who penned the lyrics. A true punk who would rather continue to live happily ever after with his 100 white rats in his little flat than be enslaved by capitalism. Unfortunately, PAV passed away in 2012. So, this late release is also a tribute to this great man.

The original sound recordings are lost. But Jon Caffery did not miss the opportunity to restore the remaining forty-year-old stereo cassette copies. The result is an album that is like a journey back in time to the beginning of the eighties.

credits

released April 10, 2022

Lyrics: PAV
Music: Pavian Band
PAV: guitars and vocals
Roberto Nagel: keyboards
Frank Diedrich: bass
Bodo Sperling: drums

1982 recorded and mixed by Jon Caffery at Hotline Studios Frankfurt
2022 restored by Jon Caffery at The Old Winery, Bruttig-Fankel

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Pavian Band Frankfurt, Germany

Post Punk, NDW, Punk and New Wave from Frankfurt/Germany. The first and only album was recorded in 1982 at Hotline Studios Frankfurt and finally released in April 2022.

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