last minute christmas deal for last minute christmas shoppers

Purchase any of our items in our store for 5 € (+ shipment): be it our tree-shirt, the flop-shirt or flop-bag, or our "first, best & worst" EP as digipack, autographed by Jan and Stephan themselves - only until wednesday, 21st of december!

1 more year - charts

watch out 2011 - it looks like you´re going to be replaced soon. And what a year it was in so many ways! I leave this to anyone´s guess without getting political or personal. One thing is sure, though: there´s a lot of work coming up for all of us; and hard working people need hard working musicians to help them escape from their day-to-day in an appropriate and inspiring way. may we all play our part. here are a few examples of who inspires us:

bauhaus - bela lugosi's dead

cambodian rocks - a2

paul mccartney - check my machine

tv on the radio - forgotten

david lynch - good day today

offwhyte - beta alpha

john jacob niles - go away from my window

anika - i go to sleep

stephan bodzin - sonnenwind

molly nilsson - won´t somebody take me out tonight

Little Girl (video)

This is a demo version of our song "Little Girl" from our upcoming LP "Second Painting". We think it fits the grey and cold atmosphere of Berlin fall/winter season perfectly, which is why we release this video now - before the song will be completely finished for our new record. Enjoy! And in case you´re sipping on long drinks in the tropics just imagine how sexy looking for love in winter jackets can be... or just have one on us.

Born in a Cell

This is your first impression of our song "Born in a Cell", which will be featured on our upcoming LP. The performance took place at .HBC in Berlin on saturday, Nov. 12th 2011. It marked the end of an amazing concert and we are glad to announce another show in Berlin on thursday, Dec. 8th, at King Kong Klub in Mitte. We´re going to play with Leila Albayaty and Benedikt Gramm and DJ Festmusik Auferlegt will once again spin some tunes for the party crowd.

New York Performance

Thanks, Jules ;-)

Jan Colourful, NYC, June 2011

November Charts

63 crayons - save us

modeselektor feat. thom yorke - shipwreck

why? - ha x4

grizzly bear - marla

modest mouse - night on the sun

captain beefheart - kandy korn [the mirror man sessions]

tricky - makes me wanna die

mr lif - post mortem feat. el-p, jean grae & akrobatik

arto lindsay - titled

james blake - i never learnt to share

Loose France Associate Charts

This is a selection of songs I was listening to or connecting to sth I encountered or experienced in Paris. I asked Stephan to throw in a few songs he associates with France and here we go:

10)blind willie mctell - dying crapshooter´s blues

9) beethoven - 7th symphony, 2nd movement

8) john coltrane - love supreme

7) françois de roubaix - les dunes dostende

6) laurie anderson - o superman (for massenet)

5) cibo matto - sugar water

4) sebastien tellier - look

3) serge gainsbourg - la decadanse

2) beach house - gila

1) ben chalets - belle-fille rendez-vous (version française)

// Jan Colourful

Harmless // music clip

I admit to took us a while to make a video for this song from our debut EP "first, best & worst", but now we´re happy to present "Harmless" to you with some visual support. The clip came to be on a road trip from New York to Los Angeles. It was made by a friend and we take on no responsibility for the content shown in the video. You can order the track on our bandcamp profile or at itunes, amazon and musicload. In case you want to order "first, best & worst" in digipack (hard cover) format, please write an email to: contact@evolbumpearl.com / it´s 10 euros incl. shipment within Europe, 15 euros worldwide.

Paris, Le Tigre

Here is an impression of Jan Colourful´s gig last saturday in Paris at "Le Tigre". Suit by Dior, shirt by Pavo by LaStrada, shoes by Mustang, socks by Martin and guitar by Sylvain. See more pictures on our flickr account.

Saturday in Paris

At quite short notice and thanks to our good friend Regis it came to be, that Jan Colourful is playing a solo gig at "Le Tigre" in Paris this saturday (8th of october 2011). The adress is 5 rue Molière, 75001 – Paris, Palais Royal. The gig will start around midnight. Here´s a link to the venue: http://tigrebylalternative.fr/programmation

don´t pull on the carpet you´re standing on - Charts

This time we decided to present a few of our favorite remixes in charts format. Enjoy and keep up the good spirits!

1) themselves - live trap (hood remix)

2) nathan fake - charlie´s house (apparat remix)

3) cannibal ox - the f-word (rjd2 remix)

4) thom yorke - skip divided (modeselektor remix)

5) sigur ros - hún jörð (recycled by hassbræður)

6) roots manuva - witness (modeselektor remix)

7) nosaj thing - fog (jamie xx remix)

8) joke ilsøe - feeling good (trentemøller remix)

9) beck - broken drum (boards of canada remix)

10) gorillaz - dare (dfa remix)

Special Bonus Track: The Vaselines - Lithium (Nirvana Cover)

Colourful and the infamous blue wall

Here´s an acoustic pretaste of what you can expect from EBP´s upcoming record (due 2012). It was recorded in August 2011 in the heart of Kreuzberg, Berlin.

Charts #3

adding ten more to the score:

siriusmo - einmal in der woche schreien

gui boratto - chromophobia

13 & god - death minor

caribou - melody day (four tet remix)

luciano pavarotti - ave maria

tame impala - why won't you make up your mind?

st. vincent - black rainbow

massive attack - psyche

trio - tooralooralooraloo - is it old & is it new

jim backus and friend - delicious!

EBP everywhere

my dear friend A. stumbled over this by chance in a town she was visiting. the world can be so small...

Colourful in the living room

Charts #2

no theme - just some profile. Enjoy:

1) 'Moonshake' - CAN

2) 'Listening Wind' - Talking Heads

3) 'Distant' - Cloé

4) 'An Empire of Coffee' - Matthew Herbert

5) 'Temptation' - New Order

6) 'Original Faubus Fables' - Charles Mingus

7) 'Femme Femme' - Sophie Daumier

8) 'Insignificance' - Jim O´Rourke

9) 'Corduroy' - James Holden

10) 'Rusty Nails (Shackleton Rmx)' - Moderat

fall in august / first of our charts

We´re delighted to announce that things are happening. We used the time after our reformation to turn our rehearsal space into a proper studio, which now looks even better than this:

Apart from that we´ve decided to strengthen ties with you - our dear fans - by entertaining you with more or less frequent EBP-charts; starting now. Enjoy the summer if you come across it.

01. eid ma clack shaw (bill callahan)

02. hands (four tet)

03. day oh day (lonski & classen)

04. variations (nicolas jaar)

05. straight off the d.i.c. (cannibal ox)

06. orang outan (jane birkin & serge gainsbourg)

07. ba ba boom (the jamaicans)

08. neonlicht (kraftwerk)

09. christine (siouxsie and the banshees)

10. i get a kick out of you (frank sinatra)

Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes

Dear followers, 

different circumstances have led us to the conclusion to go on as a duo (without Andrew and Adriano). We are now facing the challenge to become deeper involved with our computers´ capabilities and EBP-fans can expect the band to sound live a lot more like on their recordings. We´re going to spend the next few months mainly on recording and producing the overdue first EBP-LP. Jan is going to perform a few solo-gigs in New York and all over the US during june. Fall will have us back with a brand-new sound and a fresh face for shows and releases. In the meantime you should check out our updated website, buy a shirt and/or a bag there, visit us on bandcamp and buy our songs there, and keep yourself updated on this very blog. Oh - and there is an Evol Bum Pearl flickr-account now, that feeds you with photos of the band´s life. Have a great summer. 

// Jan & Stephan

Tour Pics / March 2011

 

News for March, 2011

Andrew is back from India and Evol Bum Pearl is about to hit the public with a number of concerts in March. There are shows in Berlin, Munich and Augsburg. Look at “Dates” to check when and where exactly EBP´s playing. Two nights will be hosted by EBP at Antje Øklesund in Berlin – and there will be special guests! So be sure to mark these dates in your calendar! Apart from that we´re happy to announce that a new website is in progress.