Evol Bum Pearl goes COLOURFUL

We´re closing until further notice. Thank you for listening and supporting us throughout these last years. There is, however, light at the end of the tunnel: colourful-music.com

FLOP* Metapop Party + Jan Colourful LIVE

For about a year Jan Colourful, has been filing on solo material apart from his band project Evol Bum Pearl, presenting his latest results at selected shows at West Germany and Urban Spree in 2013. 2014 continues in the same spirit: only new material, no songs, just one ongoing popmosphere, radically reduced to guitar, voice and a few effects.

As part of his monthly FLOP* night at HERZ, this will mark the first live-show wihtin Colourful´s conceptual event, at which he´s usually seen and heard DJ-ing. The event will take place next Saturday,  March 22nd, and if you like you can join beforehand via fb here.

*FLOP is instance and chance

it´s a law and a crime

logic and contradiction;

no comparison or competition,

it´s old and new.

the true and only reason to label an era

found refuge in yet another stream of consciousness,

yet another turning around of conditions.

needed and longed for for too long already:

this is FLOP.

Notstandskomitee Loves You

What a way to start the year! It´s with pure pleasure and excitement, that we may announce: Malte Steiner made a remix of our song "I Love You" with his project Notstandskomitee. Malte and Jan Colourful met in a Neukölln basement in winter 2013. This collaboration is the result of an hour-long talk and their appreciation for each other´s music. Find more Notstandskomitee HERE 
and get an overview of Malte´s work and other projects HERE.

Jan Colourful and Beißpony live in concert

Dear associates, feel dearly invited to this very special concert night: Beißpony from Chicks On Speed Records and Jan Colourful from Evol Bum Pearl will be playing an exclusive show together.

Where?                 Urban Spree / Berlin                      
When?                  thursday, Dec. 5th: 8pm

For more details (in German), please visit THIS LINK. We are looking forward to see you there!

Music Video w/ Katharina Maister

In July we got together with our dear friend and dancer Katharina Maister for a collaboration project: we filmed her interpretation of our remix for Lonski & Classen´s beautiful "Strain Everything" at the former Stasi headquarters area and we´re really happy how it turned out and glad to share this very own piece of art with you today. It´s really by coincidence that we finished the video in the week of Halloween. And even though there´s no real connection between these two events, we think it fits perfectly for a release date. You´ll see what I mean by clicking the play button.

soundcloud update and other downgrades

As of today you can stream the whole Four Seasons Of Love EP on our soundcloud profile. As we´re working on our new EP (due beginning 2014; hopefully) no live shows are planned for the near future. There will be a few Colourful solo-shows, however. Keep an eye out, we´ll keep you posted.

Lonski & Classen - Strain Everything (Evol Bum Pearl Remix)

We found ourselves doing a remix for one of Berlin´s most promising bands - Lonski & Classen. They´ve been on tour with Yann Tiersen and that´s the very least to say about them (in praise). We found out it takes quite a while to get into this very new (to us) approach of making music. A worthwhile effort, though. Have a listen to this result of a year long "jouney" - we´re very proud and happy to present this first remix of ours to you. Now enjoy and move your abstract hips.

a masterpiece of remix...

Jan Colourful Solo-Show (w/ Ashley Paul) + Jannicke Låker film premiere

on Friday, 26th of April

Welcome to film premiere and concert at West Germany! The venue is at Kottbusser Tor (Skalitzer Straße 133, Kreuzberg) and the event is a result of a friendship collaboration: directors, actors, film-staff, and the band members of Evol Bum Pearl.


19.00 screening ABLAZE by Jannicke Låker -every 15 minutes until 21.00 (free entrance).



21.00 in connection to the concert by Jan Colourful we'll screen the music video I LOVE YOU by Jannicke Låker made to the song by Evol Bum Pearl.



21.30 concert by Jan Colourful, followed by a concert by Ashley Paul (door fee)

HERE´s to the event page and more details. Join!

10 choices for the voice of March

01_Charlotte Gainsbourg_Master´s Hands

02_Sixto Rodriguez_Crucify Your Mind

03_The White Lamp_Make It Good (Phon.o Remix)

04_Chelsea Light Moving_Groovy & Linda

05_Abba_Money, Money, Money

06_Apparat_Montreal

07_The Weathermen_5 Left In The Clip

08_Blawan_Why They Hide Their Bodies Under My Garage

09_Atoms For Peace_Default

10_Kasper Bjørke_Sunrise

Four Seasons Of Love / review

I would like to advert to a beautiful review of our Four Seasons Of Love EP (and release party) by Yolanda Leask for the "405" music blog. Follow THIS LINK to read the article.

Thank you for an amazing night!

Thanks to all who came out and made our record release show a night to remember. Special thanks to poqpoq and Festmusik Auferlegt for making the crowd bounce until the early morning. Now that our CD is out, get a copy of Four Seasons Of Love by contacting contact@evolbumpearl.com. / Jan

Photo by Articulated Light

exclusive EP stream on VICE´s noisey-blog

Follow THIS LINK to stream our new EP "Four Seasons Of Love" (to be released on CD tomorrow, 23rd of February 2013) completely and exclusively on VICE´s music blog noisey - only for one week! May this also be a reminder for our record release show tomorrow evening at Urban Spree in Berlin City. Doors are open from 9pm. In case you´re part of the one and lonely social network facebook, you may join the event HERE.

Record Release // pre-order CD now

As promised we hereby proudly announce the record release of our new EP "Four Seasons Of Love". CD´s can be pre-ordered at the price of 7,- EUR (+ shipping fee) via contact@evolbumpearl.com from this very moment on. The EP contains four tracks plus two bonus tracks: one remix by Funkstörung mastermind Chris de Luca and anther one by our friend Playpad Circus. The CD will be available from the 23rd of February 2013, the exact date of our record release party at Urban Spree (Revaler Straße 99, 10245 Berlin). We´re going to play an exclusive live-set presenting all tracks off "Four Seasons Of Love" in addition to some old and new treasures. This will be our first live-show in what seems like ages and we´re darn excited about it. Save the date and tell the world! We are looking forward to seeing you numerously (everything counts in large amounts - you know it). Watch the video of our new single "I Love You", directed by Jannicke Låker, here:

Merry Post-Apocalypse-Charts

01_grizzly bear - guny-shy

02_tarwater - inside the ships

03_angelo badalamanti - laura palmer´s theme

04_cant - be around

05_recondite - drgn

06_henrik schwarz - take words in return

07_erykah badu - the healer

08_imandra lake - ilus aeg

09_darkness falls - the void (trentemøller piano version)

10_stephan bodzin - vendetta

FINALLY...

we got some bad news for you, especially for those of you, who wanted to get our brandnew EP "Four Seasons Of Love" in CD-format for each of their family members as a christmas present. It´s not going to happen before next year, sorry. The good news, however, is that from now on this release of ours is available on iTunes and Amazon (among other online stores). Let me hereby encourage you to follow the links and embed your ears in our soundscapes. The official release on a physical medium will take place early next year. Enjoy. // Jan

I Love You / new track, new video

Today, exactly two weeks before our new EP Four Seasons Of Love will be released on iTunes and further online platforms, we are more than delighted to share the video for our new single I LOVE YOU with you. It was shot at Prora by our dear friend Jannicke Låker, who not only created an extraordinary storyline for the song, but also a fantastic visualization of the matter. Thank you Jannicke and thank you Toni Schneider, Claudia Reinhardt, Roman Kanonik and Jan Dietrich for your precious commitment and endeavors. 

warm feet, cold shivers - Charts

01_Kahil El'Zabar - He's Got The Whole World In His Hands (Henrik Schwarz Remix)
02_Young Marble Giants - Wurlitzer Jukebox
03_Kieran Hebden and Steve Reid - The Sun Never Sets (James Holden Remix)
04_Reinhard Lakomy / Rainer Oleak - Hochzeit
05_Kaspar Bjørke - Heaven (Nicolas Jaar Remix)
06_Fever Ray - If I Had A Heart
07_Redshape - It´s In Rain
08_Exercise One & Mathew Jonson - Lost Forever In A Happy Crowd
09_Zebra Katz - W8WTF
10_Hot Chip - Flutes

Free Limited Pre-Edition of Four Seasons Of Love EP

(at least here in Berlin) it´s starting to get cold as f***, so we need to keep our limbs and ears warm in order to resist the season´s challenge. Perfect time for T-Shirts and bags! If you get any of the merch-items now at our web store you´ll get one of the remaining handnumbered limited-to-50-copies pre-release editions of our new EP Four Seasons Of Love - for free! ...deal of the year, I swear.

last night

...we had an amazing preview of Jannicke Låker´s music video for our new track "I Love You" at Hochparterre. Thanks to everybody who came out and especially the crew, who made this extraordinary piece of art possible: Toni Schneider, Roman Kanonik, Jan Dietrich, Claudia Reinhardt and of course Jannicke Låker. For those, who missed it - the video is soon to be seen on this site.