Downloadcode, limited.NAMOSH. His artistic development commences in 1981, on his day of birth. Soon, he writes the first chapters of a rich artist biography: breakdance, song writing, selforganized performances in school. Coming of age, he almost instantly moves to Berlin, as is right and proper for an ambitious young painter. Painter? Certainly, but that should not work out as planned. From his first days in the capital, a fourtrack recorder claims most of his attention. Voice, percussion, keyboard – the last track is filled in 2002 with his very first own drum machine. Ever since, painting is ultimately off the table, which will not stop filling with harmonious delicacies. First gig with the trombone-cello-chant trio Moccatongue (rather experimental), solo shows and contributions to electronic music compilations. In 2004, the selftitled mini-album Namosh is born via Pale Music. It strongly characterizes the artist’s sound; or the other way around, which is, elegantly, open to interpretation. The proceedings Two years later, Bungalow Records publishes his first full-length album Moccatongue (2006). It colours the painting Cold Cream already drafted in 2005; famous Icelandic singer Bj?rk calling it her song of the year tells us much less about the song than the song itself. For years, Namosh has been making a name for himself in the international electronic music and performance scene. He never saw himself as only a creator; but rather as part of a dialogue in which he found his form of expression in (and through) chant and dance. Inevitably ahead of all that chearfulness lies: the infamous second album. 2009’s Keep It for Later follows up on its precursor’s calmer songs and pours their smooth feeling into an album-length mould. It foretells a lively, more danceable follow-up counterpart. Namosh still lives for the stages, but working on the creation of music takes up more and more time. At the end of this expansion lie three years of complete musical retreat. Since 2013, everything happens in solitude. Far from the close Then suddenly, all confusion clears up: What’s been flowing out, whirling and piling up finds an order and builds an album. The lessons learned in isolation manifest in(to) public. Everything is in balance, in (all-encompassing) unity. More electro-funk, more pop and more east anatolian influences, simultaneously – how is that supposed to work? We do not know. It is not that interesting to explain music and its influences anyhow, so we do not. A much more attractive question is: „Does it work?“, because ist does. The basslines and drums seem to come from the funk, percussion and synthesizers could derive from freestyle or breakdance. Namosh most probably is not even himself able to tell apart all influences that went into his new work. So we leave it at that old, simple phrase: The Album speaks for itself. Which is funny if one just spent some paragraphs talking about it. Namosh's third full-length Album "Music Muscle" will be released Weltgast. The world tour follows. Just like all his other records, Namosh wrote Music Musclefor the stages he lives for; the stages he lives on.
