Apparatjik

Apparatjik [ æpərætʃɪk ] is an international supergroup. The band consists of bassist Guy Berryman, Coldplay, Mew - the singer and guitarist Jonas Bjerre, the a-ha guitarist and keyboard player Magne Furuholmen and music producer and drummer Martin Terefe.

As a band name chose the four musicians, the Swedish word for apparatchik, the designated party official or a bureaucrat in the former Eastern bloc countries.

Band History

Berryman, who is a professing a- ha fan, already worked in 2004 with Furuholmen together. At the onset of Furuholmens 2005 erschienenem first solo album Past Perfect Future Tense had Berryman Coldplay and his colleague Will with Champion. On the second solo album A Dot of Black in the Blue of Your Bliss worked with Berryman again.

The Swedish producer and songwriter Martin Terefe, who was also involved in the recording of Past Perfect Future Tense, later produced, among others, the a-ha albums Analogue (2005) and Foot of the Mountain ( 2009).

Berryman, Furuholmen and Terefe produced in 2008 together with the Danish musician Jonas Bjerre ( Mew ) with ferreting their first song together under the name of Apparatjik for the Survival International charity album Songs for Survival.

After completion of the piece, the four musicians produced in Furuholmens Studio more pieces that they released gradually on their MySpace page.

In November 2009, appeared with Electric Eye 's first single as a download on their website. The first live appearance was Apparatjik on 1 February 2010 as part of the club transmediale in Berlin. The band played at the club WMF in a specially built for this race cube. On the same day the band's debut album We Are Here appeared.

Their second album, Square Peg In A Round Hole was published in November 2011 on Apparatjiks iPad App Apparatjik World. The official release will take place on February 12, 2012. The piece Combat Disco Music was released as a download as the first single from the album Back in March 2011.

Discography

Albums

  • 2010: We Are Here ( Meta Merge Un Recordings)
  • 2011: Square Peg In A Round Hole ( Meta Merge Un)

Singles and EPs

  • 2009: ferreting (Download)
  • 2009: Electric Eye (Download)
  • 2010: Antlers / Electric Eye (7 ", limited to 1000 copies)
  • 2010: 4 Can Keep A Secret If 3 Of Them Are Dead (Download, EP)
  • 2010: Data Scroller (Download)
  • 2011: Combat Disco Music (Download)
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