Biography & Press
Klauss – Electronic Music
Teatro del Nudo - 2007
Klauss is a duo composed of Ernesto Romeo and Francisco Nicosia and was created in 1988 by Ernesto Romeo and Alejandro Vazquez based on the idea of forming a group where the different schools of the electronic music and the contemporary progressive music could flow. The name of the duo is inspired in the actor Klaus Kinsky who had the leading role in the film "Nosferatu".
The group bases its works on a minimalist rhythmic (mainly based on sequencers) and on a non-traditional electronic instrumentation creating oneiric environments and symphonic textures within a space open to sound experimentation and improvisation.
Klauss is well-known for the intensive use of electronic, analog, and digital equipment deploying a complex and unusual instrumentation in the concerts; said equipment is also used in order to elaborate its compositions and adapt its repertoire and instruments to the climate suggested by each stage space, every performance being a unique event. Klauss has given concerts in several of the main stages of the City of Buenos Aires, and in Barcelona, Bogota, Montevideo, Madrid, and New York.
By the end of 1997, Klauss edited "Cielos Móviles" ("Mobile Skies") with works composed between 1990 and 1995; at the beginning of 2000 "Metales Perfectos" ("Perfect Metals") was edited, a double album with the principal themes of the group´s repertoire since 1996 and several improvisations and new themes. Currently, Klauss is recording a new album and preparing its future presentations in New York city and in Europe and also editing its first album (unpublished) recorded between 1990 and 1991 which also contains some themes recorded in concerts throughout the last ten years.
About Klauss
WWW.SINFOMUSIC.ES, Spain 2006: "...a concert with magnificent sonorities, full of beautiful tonalities. Well-performed improvisations like in this case turn out to be pleasant, make us travel in time, in ecstasy, and it doesn´t seem the musicians are improvising, everything sounds as if rehearsed a thousand times; that´s why the way in which Klauss plays music is very unusual. A very good concert of this Argentinian group that has shown us a different way of understanding music. Klauss shows how interesting can be to understand electronic music on its global concept of art".
WWW.GTRSYNTH.COM, Spain 2006: "Klauss presented in Madrid a "mobile art, lively and imaginative repertoire … a remarkable concert".
WWW.FJARRE.COM, Spain, 2006: "Many of us still don´t have an idea of the new chance that Klauss gave us of enjoying live music…themes always elaborately long, with a good dosage of homogenous passages, with suggesting melodies and strains that were delightful for the public in a two-hour-concert that shouldn´t be indifferent to anyone. We must congratulate Klauss explicitly for having given us this new opportunity of attending such an event".
HARMONIE MAGAZINE, Francia, 2004: "Klauss n rien voir avec la techno/electro cold glaante des annes 90 et 2000, les titres ne sont jamais trop longs, ce qui vite l'indigestion, et les climats sont d'une lancinante beaut o les machines gardent encore assez d'analogique au cur des systmes pour se faire humaine et envelopper les sons d une chaleureuse mlancolie. Heureuse dcouverte trs riche en motions".
RADIODIFUSORA NACIONAL, Colombia, 2002: "After seeing Klauss´s great performances, current electronic music criteria and positions are re-evaluated".
TRIBULACIONES TV, 2001: "Klauss is probably the Argentinian most important electronic music group".
BUENOSALIENS.COM, 2001: "With themes like "Oscilaciones Espléndidas" ("Splendid Oscillations") or "Blau", Klauss could simply open the symphonic environment".
LOS INROCKUPTIBLES, 2000: "Klauss combines the experimental music and the progressive rock with space sounds and long improvisations based on the rhythm of a TR 808, getting them closer, {acercándolos, con desprejuicio hacia las modas, a esos extraños cruces entre el ambient y la psicodelia"}.
CLARÍN, 1998: "The current stage of the group, with spectacular, space-like, ultrasonic live shows and great songs like "Las Bikinis Asesinas" ("Killer Bikinis") or "Oscilaciones Espléndidas" ("Splendid Oscillations") keeps them up to The Orb and Orbital".
LA NACIÓN, 1998: "Klauss, the strenght of synthesizers, samplers, mellotrones, electronic drums, and several keyboards make it possible to build climates, sonorous landscapes, stories and mental flights following the path of the musical experimentation. Klauss expresses the challenge of getting to own this cyber universe we live in and that would be much better filled with music and stories".
MELLOTRON, 1998: "...it is very, very pleasant to watch an exponent of the Argentinian electronic music that is not only excellent but also at the level of the best well-known groups in the world. "Cielos Móviles" ("Mobile Skies") is a fascinating album which opens a broad range to the best music produced in Argentina".
DE:BUG, Alemania, 1998: "Klauss, den Tangerine Dream Argentiniens".
SYNTORAMA, Spain, 1991: "Klauss has a great number of analog instruments unusual to find anywhere. Its music is definitely cosmic: powerful sequencers on environmental textures, long and evolutionary themes, neatly and well-produced performed. The outcome is very interesting indeed".
