Hungry, Hungry Ghost
Hungry, Hungry Ghost 1 is a one to five-piece band, founded in Berlin, but whose members come or have come from America,England and Germany. They refer to themselves as the first and only post-indie transcendentalist punk band in the world.
In 2007 they released an EP and a full-length album on the small Berlin-based indie label widerheim. 2
History
According to legend, the three founding members of the band (Haager, Flesch und Nehen) were introduced to each other by Wim Wenders at a wedding in Chicago. 3
They moved together to Berlin and spent most of 2006 and 2007 in the studio and eventually emerged with an EP and a full-length album. The EP was made available to download for free on their website and the album Sleeping English was released in October of 2007 through Berlin-based label widerheim. They then found two more members to complete their live outfit and played their first show at the historical Schokoladen club in Berlin in August of 2007.
At the end of 2008, the project moved back to Brooklyn, NY and Sleeping English will be re-released May 26th, 2009 via American indie label, Infinite Best, along with a brand new EP entitled Cycloptic Myopia. A song from the latter was first featured on NPR's Second Stage podcast in March, 2009.4
Discography
- Albums
- 2007 Sleeping English (CD / widerheim) (limited release)
- 2009 Sleeping English (CD / Infinite Best) (re-release)
- Singles / EPs
- 2007 Shingle Peelings EP (Internet Download / widerheim)
- 2009 Cycloptic Myopia EP (Digital Release / Infinite Best)
- Compilations
- 2008 Mercedes-Benz Mixed Tape Music Magazine (Song: The Magpie)
- 2008 Mamallapuram Mixtape 2008 (Song: Complimentary Maps)
- 2009 NPR All Songs Considered: Second Stage Podcast (Song: Breathing Animals)
Videos
- 2008 Complimentary Maps 5 (Director: Sven Flesch)
- 2008 Blind 6 (Director: Sven Flesch)
- 2009 Breathing Animals 7 (Editor: Alex Haager)
Mp3s
- Made of Iron (2007)
- Ghost's Song (2007)