{"id":9091,"date":"2015-04-02T12:48:40","date_gmt":"2015-04-02T12:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tabsout.com\/\/?p=9091"},"modified":"2016-01-03T19:03:53","modified_gmt":"2016-01-03T19:03:53","slug":"tabs-out-obscurity-and-escapism-exploring-german-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tabsout.com\/?p=9091","title":{"rendered":"Tabs Out | Obscurity And Escapism: Exploring German Army"},"content":{"rendered":"

Obscurity And Escapism: Exploring German Army<\/span>
\n4.2.15 by Mike Haley<\/a><\/span><\/span>
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Within the past few weeks alone Peter Kris has released two cassettes tapes. One on the Portuguese imprint A Giant Fern<\/a>, and another that I talked about<\/a> with Tymbal Tapes<\/a>. But who is Peter Kris? Peter Kris is the chief administrator of sorts behind the majorly productive, sonic overcast that is German Army. But who is German Army?? Exactly.<\/p>\n

Since 2011 German Army, who’s name was chosen by Sam McPheeters of Born Against and Men’s Recovery Project, has been releasing persistent, thoughtful, and coolly haunted music anonymously,\u00a0in both solo and collaborative\u00a0forms, with members using handles like Chin Genie, Meatball Maker, and Peter Kris. German Army, or GeAr as they tend to use, implement a style of vocals and instrumentation that has a way of casually sliding\u00a0under the skin in a creepy but inviting way, like an eel that can get you high. They also show no signs of discomfort while channeling the occasional sun drenched melody\u00a0as they create outsider music focusing on “important themes of vanishing world culture.” Their earliest output\u00a0came by way of cassettes on\u00a0Night-People<\/a> (“Papua Mass” C40), Skrot Up<\/a> (“Body Linguist” C30), and Hobo Cult<\/a> (“Sedentary” C32), with jams flowing steadily since then on the likes of Chondritic Sound<\/a>, No Kings<\/a>, Handmade Birds<\/a>, and (full disclosure) my label 905 Tapes<\/a>.<\/p>\n