TORTUGA BAR
139 videos • 365 views • by Antikörper TV TORTUGA BAR Bandcamp: https://tortugabar.bandcamp.com/ TORTUGA BAR is the latest project by Mark Kowarsch (formerly of Speed Niggs, Sharon Stoned and Elektrosushi). The band's debut, Narcotic Junkfood Revolution, took three years and a bunch of top-class guest musicians to produce, and it was released 2009 by VierSieben Records. Mark Kowarsch's music career spans almost 20 years, beginning back in 1989 with indie-rock trio Speed Niggs, consisting of Mark, Jan Beigel and Christopher Uhe. The band's debut album Boston Beigel Yeah!! was album of the month in SPEX magazine, whose readers later voted the band Best Newcomer in an end of year poll. Their second, Another Valley On The Long Decline, features the track Paint It Sweet with Evan Dando (The Lemonheads) on vocals, a track which Dando referred to as “one of the best tracks I've ever worked on”. Following the release of their third album 667-Right Between The Dicks, the band split in 1992. During their three years together, the band played shows with era-defining bands including Soundgarden, The Lemonheads, L7, Yo La Tengo, Giant Sand, Maureen Tucker, The Clean, Jad Fair & Half Japanese, Miracle Workers, The Fuzztones and Soul Asylum. After the split, Kowarsch and Uhe formed the quirky, lo-fi rock outfit Sharon Stoned. Following an acclaimed Tape 7” EP debut on Berlin's City Slang Label, the band signed to Sony/Columbia, releasing two albums, License To Confuse and Sample & Hold, which took in special guest contributions from the likes of Evan Dando (the band supported The Lemonheads throughout their 1996 world tour), Lou Barlow (Dinosaur Jr, Sebadoh), Tuesday Weld, Furtips and members of HP Zinker, Die Goldenen Zitronen, Tocotronic and The Notwist. 1994 Mark Kowarsch went on to form the indie-pop outfit Elektrosushi together with his wife Vanessa Kowarsch, Christian Hagedorn and William Honda. The band released one self-titled album on Noisolution which featured punk legend Mike Watt (Minutemen, fIREHOSE, The Stooges) and Stereo Total. Elektrosushi are chiefly remembered for 1998's brilliant, surreal, indie-dance cover of Barry White's classic Can't Get Enough Of Your Love with Dirk Von Lowtzow (Tocotronic) & Charles Curtis, which stormed college radio, particularly across the US, Japan and Australia. During this period, Mark played drums in the Riot Grrl Band Klitpop and became a member of the Likely To Be Dropped DJ Team with Klaus Cornfield & Rocco Clein (R.i.P.). It's then that Mark began to write the first songs for Tortuga Bar, and three years on, he's champing at the bit to get on the road again. 2015 Tortuga Bar & Sharon Stoned released the 4 Record Non-Profit Free Download Project 74 On 47-for more Informations: http://www.tortugabar.bandcamp.com In these days Mark host his own monthly radio show Antikörper on ByteFM, he runs the RIOT RADIO Podcast and he also writes for OX Fanzine. (Stuart Goodwin, evandando.co.uk) SPEED NIGGS: 1989 - "Boston Beigel Yeah!! LP/CD 1990 - "Evan Dando & Speed Niggs" Vinyl '7 1990 - "Speed Niggs & AJZ Bielefeld Posse" Vinyl '7 1990 - "Another Valley On The Long Decline" LP/CD 1992 - "667 - Right Between The Dicks" LP/CD ELEKTROSUSHI: 1994 - "Absolut On Ice/CTX 1300" (Noiseworks) Vinyl '7 1994 - "Heavenly" (Hausmusik) Vinyl '7 1995 - "Elektrosushi" (Noisolution) CD 1995 - "Don't Stop" (Label Des Jahres) Vinyl '7 1996 - "Can't Get Enough Of Your Love" (100 Guitar Mania Records) Vinyl '7 SHARON STONED: 1995 - "Tape EP" (City Slang) Vinyl '7 1995 - "License To Confuse" (Snoop Records/Enemy Records) CD 1996 - "Sample & Hold" (Sony/Columbia) 2LP/CD 1996 - "Down" (Sony/Columbia) CD 1997 - "Your Very Own EP" (Sony/Columbia) LP/CD 2015 - "All Death All Of The Time 1995-2015" (47 Records) 2CD TORTUGA BAR: 2009 - "Narcotic Junkfood Revolution" (47 Records) LP/CD 2009 - "Storm EP" (47 Records) Online EP 2014 - "Live at Alte Pauline" (Bandcamp Free Download Album) CD 2015 - "Live" (47 Records) CD 2015 - "Rarities" (47 Records) CD 2015 - "Remixes" (47 Records) CD TORTUGA BAR Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tortugabarmusic TORTUGA BAR Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/tortuga-bar-of... TORTUGA BAR Bandcamp: https://tortugabar.bandcamp.com/ Kontakt: comaswing@hotmail.com http://www.comaswing.de