Ms. John Soda 'Notes and the Like' album

It all began in 1998. With a vinyl 7inch published by Hausmusik, the label from Landsberg, bavaria. With three small, intimate songs, the best of them was called "Meine Welt in Schokolade" - a crafty, playful and also defiant title. Stefanie Böhm had recorded these songs at home, on a compact and easy to use four-track-recorder. With her bass guitar, her voice, a few keyboards and other things with buttons on them.

It all began around Weilheim, Landsberg, around Munich. It all began when a former band project called Ogonjok came to its end. In that band context, Stefanie Böhm and Micha Acher had released two records on Hausmusik as well. And since, a contribution for Morr Music's first label compilation "Putting the Morr back into Morrissey" (2001) Micha Acher became also a part of Ms. John Soda. Together they recorded the album "no p. or d." together in 2002 which was published on Morr in September 2002.

At that time Stefanie Böhm had just become part of the band couch from Munich, as keyboardist and later also as a guitarist. Micha Acher was, and is, known as a key member of alternative to indietronic band The Notwist and the electronic jazz group Tied & Tickled Trio. He's also known for the musical walks in bordering area with the noisy Village of Savonga, for the flugelhorn played on concerts of Kante from Hamburg, for the celebrated 13 & God, a collaboration of The Notwist and Themselves (Anticon Label, San Francisco).

With their album "no p. or d." Ms. John Soda also started to play live. And by playing live they started to impress. Their concerts are different to their studio records, louder, more physical and more direct. In Germany, Europe, North America. A video for "no. one" was shot, realized together with the French artists' collective Metronomic.

The EP "while talking" has preserved these concerts' atmosphere of autumn 2003 in an almost unfiltered way. There is an expressive Misses John Soda, accompanied by good friends who belong to the band for a long time already: drummer Thomas Geltinger (Couch) and Carl Oesterhelt, protagonist of the charmingly clever discourse-pop-context from Munich, musician for FSK and formerly for the Merricks. He recently recorded two albums under the name of Carlo Fashion, placed somewhere between chamber music and the minimal moods of contemporary classic. Published - and at that point we come full circle - on the label Hausmusik from Munich, bavaria.

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