15 years of Gomma Happening at Kammerspiele München with Munk, Polly from Pollyester, Express Brass Band, Barotti, Black Loops, Alixander III from Azari & III, Rhode & Brown, Manuel Kim and Moritz Butschek.

Pics by Franca Hoyer.

Head over to the page of Shiraz Ksaiba for some more photos of the secret Box Codax gig at Phonica Records last week.

Gomma’s very best psychedelic funk crew The Phenomenal Handclap Band from New York recently performed a great gig at the Transmusicales in Rennes, France’s most important festival. We received this little film…you might like it. You might like also the Phenomenal Handclap Remix album that was released recently featuring remixes by Stallions, Fujiya & Miyagi, Clock Opera, Munk, Telonius, etc.

It was great…the Phenomenal Handclap Band rocked in a hippy style, Mustang played the avant disco, Moullinex brought some breakdowns, Telonius and Munk made the girls sweat….let’s say: it was great at Gomma Super Show in Paris last saturday…here are some pics.

Rodion, our Gomma man from Rome will come back after 3 years with a new EP in May. An amazing 6 track superromanticextraterrific italodiscohousechanson ep.

Currently he is warming up with some live show. Check this video in Stockholm last week! (Click to open)

We posted the photos last week and here is the video of the nice Gomma Party in Munich with The Phenomenal Handclap Band and a surprise performance by Pete Doherty.

Here are a couple of live pics from the recent concert in Munich. Make sure to catch The Phenomenal Handclap Band live supporting Franz Ferdinand on December 7 in Torino and December 8 in Jesolo.

Mathias Munk has been asked to be part of SPORT HIT PARADISE. An art project of New York based artist
Elisabeth Arkhipoff taking place in Paris. Elisabeth asked MUNK to record a track for an imaginary band called “Sport Hit Paradise”. Besides MUNK there are also: Discodeine (Paris), Gavin Russom (DFA New York), In Flagranti and others.

The exhibition will take place:
ELISABETH ARKHIPOFF / SPORT HIT PARADISE “You In Me”
12Mail Paris from 11/12/09 to 12/02/10

You can download the music for free here: Sport Hit Paradise ART project

To see all the Gomma people together is quite hard. Everybody is in a different place: The Phenomenal Handclap Band in NYC, Rodion in Rome, WhoMadeWho in Copenhagen, Diskokaine is hanging in Tokyo right now, Golden Bug between Paris and Barcelona, Munk living in Marseille, Telonius in Munich…….

So last spring we started doing big “one off” parties in Berlin… to bring all guys in one place…we do it now 2 times a year…to get all the GOMMA family together.
The GOMMA SUPER SHOWS.

The next one will be on 14th November in Munich. We got this crazy One-Off location: The Munich Old City Hall which is a medieval city building, never used for parties. Most of the current Gomma guys will perform there: WhoMadeWho , Telonius, new portuguese disco band Moullinex, Munk, Golden Bug and
our old friend SHIT ROBOT from DFA and JUNIOR BOYS will come. We also have a little exhibition with the latest visuals by our boys SMALPAZE and Lukasz Jaworski.

Whomadewho are the “best band in the world right now” (as Germany biggest newspaper SUEDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG defined them…(and the best dressed, too..as we think..) After releasing their second album The Plot in March 2009, the boys have been busy touring the world’s clubs, venues and festivals.
Here are some tour pics..

Gomma with 032C Party Berlin

Luxury Wafers invited The Phenomenal Handclap band for an exclusive studio session and here’s the video of it. Check out the whole article for some more MP3 downloads from the session.

External Link: Exclusive: The Phenomenal Handclap Band, Live@Chessvolt Studios with Video and mp3