Joachim "JOE" Harmut, more than 40 years of Blues and art

JOE playes Skiffle, Blues and Rock music since 1961.
JOE who lives now in Düsseldorf comes from Essen-Kettwig and belongs to the primary rocks of the Blues on the Rhine and Ruhr. Joe played in one year in the 60s 200 Gigs in clubs, bars, dance bars. Since the 70s JOE makes in Düsseldorf, Cologne electronic art Rock and produces in his studio pressure graphic arts, artist's books. Exhibits at home and abroad. Arts centers, galleries, museums, libraries, int. art and book fairs. Publications in books, art catalogs, literature-annual writings.
Since 1995: experimentally dadaBLUES
JOE: song, guitar, bass, drums, ukulele, bluesharp, kazoo, keyboard, drumcomputer, sampler, sound generator, ring modulator, net hum, nature sounds, hammer, saw among other things. Recording: LoFi dictaphone, mono cassette recorder, digital recorder, 4 tracks recorder in the sitting room, studio, rehearsal room, sound studio and live.
Five Nr.1 hits in 2001-2003 in the mp3 jazz / Rock charts, more than 30,000 downloads
CD: totally crazy "this trash is music", CD: VanillaBlues, CD: dadaBLUES JOE

TRACKS:

01. Das ist DadA	07. War is' wahr
02. Joe Guitar	08. Drippin' Note
03. Runnin' Blues	09. Elvis im Radio
04. I want you Baby	10. Entchen Blues
05. Love Song	11. Real Blues for U
06. Klüngelskerl Blues	12. fusion jazz

dadaBLUES JOE
I have taken over from DadA no program, but have pulled out fragments, e.g., noise music which played a role in the Dadaismus or the form of the sound poems where pointless unwords were recited, were screamed out loud and were sung. I quote not the phonetic abstraction of the sound poems, but use single words, everyday language which gets the musical rhythm by repetitions. Example song text: DAS IST ALT - DAS IST NEU - DAS IST DA - DAS IST DADA (THIS IS OLD - THIS IS NEW - THIS IS THERE - THIS IS DADA) These words which are reduced to few letters have their own strength and become a part of my music. I use syllables not like skat song in the Jazz, but might transport at least one sensibly word which I repeat then, like in the song: war is' wahr, it is war, ist wahr.
LoFi-Music likewise belongs to the dadaBLUES concept. Among the rest I work with devices which allow only LoFi admissions or sounds the HiFi do not generate would be realizable. In addition, LoFi is a homage to the avant-garde of the mechanical sound storage, electronic music and the radio. There sound variations belonged to everyday life. I have never listended in the 50th / to the 60s Elvis, Stockhausen, John Cage in HiFi.

Improvisation and composition
I play a bass or rhythm figure on the guitar, tape this by foot counter with the echo Loop sampler and let this Loop run as a background. Afterwards I improvise melodicly about that point and pile up the sounds and notes to clusters. This technology is a compositional aid for me to develop songs. Example songs: Drippin’ Note, Runnin’ Blues. If I improvise in addition song, I write down the words afterwards, do from it a text, develop the song or leave the music resulted for herself. I also do sessions with friendly musicians, I compose the texts and songs, nevertheless alone.
dadaBLUES is art music which combines with my pictures too multimedial.
I make Multi-Media and Art-Rock since 1971. DadA lives - DadA blossoms! dadaBLUES JOE

Since 2002 I do again Blues, Skiffle, Rock music with my band VanillaBlues and the Jo Martin Trio.