Venedig by Niohn 500

NB : Every single cent from the profit this release generates will go to trusted Palestinian fundraisers and to Amnesty International. Both ourselves and the band have decided we don't want to make any personal money out of it. By buying and downloading the release, you'll also get bonus cover art !

Hallo ! Hier ist KonenTon !

Still in 1986, after some concerts which went sometimes good, sometimes not (such as moments where the Commodore 64 programming the songs would not work), the band added 2 more people in its lineup, namely Eva Frosch (the sister of Franz) and Rahel Basler (a childhood friend of Eva).

They decided to record and release a second album, named “Venedig”, Venice in German, since Phillippe had gone to the town 2 years prior for an anarchist congress, and appreciated the town very much. He also photographed several places that would be featured on the original cover of the album, which Philippe will make for the first time.

As for the album itself, it takes a less all-over-the-place approach, maybe due to Philippe writing several texts. In any way, more serious subjects are talked about, notably racism, depression, abusive families, new technologies…Niohn takes more position on subjects, and lean to the extreme-left. And far fewer instrumentals, except for Give Warning To The World which is however very well-done, you could very well imagine serious lyrics.

For copyrights reasons, “Cara Mia” and “Neue Männer Braucht Das Land” from the original release aren’t on this re-release. We do apologize for this situation.

Swiss synthpunk/experimental band. It preceed "HET", and was active from 1985 to 1986.