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Berlin musician, composer, producer and broadcaster, Gudrun Gut is a seminal figure in the German music scene. Through her ever-changing interdisciplinary music-based practice and regular output of recordings and performance activity, she has maintained a high profile in Europe for over thirty years. Not including compilations, Gut has artist credits on some 60 record releases. As the Chinese aptly put it on her recent appearances there, Gudrun Gut is 'Legendary Lady Artist from Berlin'. Gut came to prominence in the early Eighties, while a student at Berlin's Hochschule der Künste (1978-84), as a force in Mania D and the first incarnation of Einstürzende Neubauten and as one of a circle of young Shockmeisters known as 'Geniale Dilletanten'. Her all female band MALARIA!, (1981-1984) formed together with Bettina Koester and then joined by Manon P.Duursma, Susanne Kuhnke and Christine Hahn, was an extreme and notorious project that built a strong cult following in Europe and America. MALARIA! is part of the now mythic story of the Berlin underground in that tumultuously fertile period before The Wall fell. As evidence of their ongoing legacy, their hit, "Kaltes Klares Wasser" reached the German charts again in 2001 via a remix by CHICKS ON SPEED. Gut's next band was MATADOR with Beate Bartel and Manon P.Duursma. By 1990, through MATADOR, Gut was reinventing herself as an Electronica artist. She founded the record label, Moabit Musik and, while running a studio and producing sound tracks for film and radio plays, began two new recording and live performance projects; MADAME BOVARY and MIASMA with multi-disciplinary Canadian artist, Myra Davies. MIASMA (1991-2000) was a broadranging project that brought Gut to Canada three times to codirect a triptych of interdisciplinary digital media-based theatrical productions at The Banff Centre. In 1995, Gut founded The Ocean Club - an innovative conceptual frame for releases, curated club and festival programming, site-specific events and broadcasting. Since then there have been Ocean Club events worldwide and Gut remains an innovator in the production of new media connected international club events. One of these Oceanclub events was the Berlin label meet and music festival, MARKE B, founded in 2000 to showcase indie labels from the local scene. In 1997, Gut and Thomas Fehlmann began producing and hosting a Friday night two-hour radio program of Electronica, called Ocean Club Radio, on Radio Eins Berlin (still running and now syndicated). In the same year she started the label Monika Enterprise whose impressive catalogue now boasts over 60 exceptional releases. This well respected label, has given many young talents a way in to the industry and put out a stream of new material by innovative artists. Notably, the Gudrun Gut curated compilation series, 4 WOMEN NO CRY is a vehicle for her special interest in supporting emerging female creator / producers. As an artist, Gut continues to push herself, as a record producer regularly releasing new work and touring internationally as a performer. In April of 2008, she was profiled in a cover story by WIRE Magazine(UK). Gut's latest solo release is the cd I PUT A RECORD ON (2007) and her latest collaborative release is the cd, CITIES AND GIRLS (october 2008) with long-term creative partner, Canadian artist, MYRA DAVIES. Early 2009 saw Gut take to the road for some extensive solo touring around the world including dates in Australia, New Zealand, China, as well as festivals in Europe and the USA, including a lecture series as part of Visiting Artists Programme at the University of Colorado. In March 2009 Gut worked with sound-artist AGF for an exclusive BBC live session, and the two have gone on to develop these recordings into a full length album to be released later this year. Discography : WWW.M-ENTERPRISE.DE/GUT.HTML WWW.DISCOGS.COM/ARTIST/GUDRUN+GUT |
