Hermann Kopp
Hermann Kopp loves Amanda Lear and Paul Virilio. But is he really serious when he says so? Fact is that Hermann was taught to play Violin for 5 years but never learned to play properly with the left hand so that the tone never would vibrate. Encouraged by the Punk movement he interpreted songs by The Damned and John Cale on his first synthesizer and also started writing his own songs.
Hermann’s first 12" which is called „Aquaplaning in Venedig", is long deleted and highly collectable to minimal-wave fans. So is his second Mini-LP, ironically named “Pop”.
In the eighties Hermann Kopp made “Industrial-Pop” as member of the German Avantgarde-Electro-Band „Keine Ahnung". His dark and disturbing Soundtracks to the films of Jörg Buttgereit, with which he contributed to the „Violent- Movie- Movement", made his name familiar to a somewhat broader public. Apart from the composition of film music he also played a part himself in the movie „Der Todesking", a lonesome fish-lover drowning himself in his bathtub.
Currently, Hermann is living in Catalonia. His latest work is called “Psicofonico”, distributed by Vinyl-On-Demand. It is the rather extreme soundtrack to a Spanish documentary film on the subject of “electronic voice phenomena”, voices of unknown origin.
Hermann has his own style of music and usage of voice, hard to compare to anything else. Very minimal, intellectual and dark on one hand, obscure, excentric, intellectual and somehow funny lyrics on the other hand. Hermann Kopp, nothing else but Hermann Kopp.
Web Sites:
www.hermannkopp.com
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