Oliver Hasse

All records stream

May 30th, 2013 by Oliver Hasse

All the records I have released so far are now streaming on YouTube and Soundcloud.

Just go to the music page to find the streams!

And here’s something new:

This winter, to experience a different speed, I carried my guitar and my backpack 800 kilometers through the north of Spain. Starting in Pamplona, I walked through snow storms, rainy days, wind, mud, cow shit, frustration, pain, tiredness, sunshine and happiness. I crossed mountains and rivers, found great people and lost them again on the road. I had the best cheapest wine and cheese, a few fantastic cooks at the albergues and so many different beds that I think of myself as a coinnoisseur of matresses now. Almost fourty pages of travel notes are waiting to be worked into something else and four new songs want to be recorded in May. Of the many pictures I took with my shitty camera, here are a few randoms:

After my return I needed a bit of time to adapt to the pace of civilization. Life out there is very different. Now I am playing concerts again, in and around Berlin and wherever they let me. I am just beginning to get organized. So come back, check the dates and until then, here is something from the very beginning: When I was a student, just before I started working on the first album, Leah and I played ‘The Wind’ and used another shitty camera to film ourselves.

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With The Wolves

Feb 16th, 2013 by Oliver Hasse

This is ‘With The Wolves’, a family of eight songs that I recorded mostly in winter 2012/13. I wrote a few of them during my travels in 2012 an then two or three when I started playing shows in Berlin. It’s only ‘Henry & Jane’ that I grabbed from some dusty shelf where I forgot it years ago. You can stream and download the album from soundcloud and use flattr to give something back. Thanks!

Tags: 2013, Acoustic, Cello, Electric, Guitar, Music, New Album, Organ, Piano, SInger-Songwriter, Songs, Vocals

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Dance The Devil

Dec 16th, 2012 by Oliver Hasse

So there’s this little creature, living in a hole. And its feeding from whatever keeps us from doing the things we feel we need to do in our lives. But you can go to that hole, dance in front of it and then, when the creature comes out, you pick your weapon. And then you win.

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Tuvalu

Dec 15th, 2012 by Oliver Hasse

We were recording ‘Shelter’ down in Deggendorf in the beginning of 2012. Friends were stopping by when two thirds of the album were finished and Jo borrowed us his old nylon guitar. I wasn’t feeling very comfortable at times when we started recording, mainly because there were these plans I had for the record, its songs, sound and what it might do for us. You know, sometimes playing music to people can feel just like any day job if you give too much room to those numbers and expectations. At the same time deep down I knew that it’s all about adventure and magic and hope, those very simple things that I tend to forget. So I wrote something…

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‘Shelter’

Mar 26th, 2012 by Oliver Hasse

Shelter Album Cover

Album number 5, ‘Shelter’, was released on March 24th, 2012. Most of ‘Shelter’ was recorded in Deggendorf in two weeks in March 2012. We conjured ghosts, learned to stay awake for a long long time and sometimes we’d even let go of all the silly things. You can listen to ‘Shelter’ right here…

Tracklist: 1 Shorelines, 2 Heather, 3 Modern Plays, 4 Pyramids, 5 Tuvalu, 6 Shelves, 7 Gone Fishing, 8 The Defeatist, 9 Shattered Chateau, 10 Caveman.
All lyrics are collected in the ‘Shelter’ songbook, which comes as a pdf right here: Shelter_Songbook.

Following the release of ‘Shelter’ in March, you can now buy the digital version of the album at all the online-stores out there. iTunes, Amazon, Musicload… the list goes on and on. Just pick your favourite one! Or send a mail and the real thing will find its way to you.

Shelter Paper Case & Stuff

Oliver would like to say thank you to Ava, Susanne, Patrick, Danny, Anja, Leah, Julia, David, Sascha, Johannes, Matze, Cille, Morten, Charles, Tom, Beate, Manon, Paul, Jochen, Farsin, Ismail, Stephanie, Natalia, Harry, Jo, Ingo, Leonard and Anika.
Anika would like to say thank you to you who is listening to this record and to Jesus, Ingo and Olli.
Ingo would like to say thank you to Anika and Olli for drinking his wine and for smoking his cigarettes. I love ‘em, but they’re insane.

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Acoustic Guitar, Vox, Piano, Harp, Organ, Glockenspiel: Oliver Hasse.
Vox: Anika Wendler.
Electric Guitar on ‘Pyramids’: Ingo Kleitsch.
‘Heather’ was written by Anika Wendler and Oliver Hasse and mixed and mastered by Oliver Hasse.
All the other songs were written, mixed and mastered by Oliver Hasse.