Lagerkoller by Disso!ver

Disso!ver is a one-man project from Cologne and exists since 2017. Behind it is multi-instrumentalist Roman Biewer. The all-rounder sings and plays guitar as well as bass and synthesizer, he records, writes lyrics, arranges, produces and is responsible for the mix. Biewer is also the singer and guitarist of the Cologne-based indie band The Lo-Fi Fair and held the same position with the German metal band The Experience, which existed between 1995 and 2001.

Now he is releasing his debut album „Lagerkoller“ (meaning: cabin fever) with Disso!ver. The name says it all: The album was created based on jams that took place in Berlin in November 2019 and January 2020 with members of the bands Camera, Flying Moon in Space and Lovely Heroin. Parts of these jams can also be found on the current Camera album „Prosthuman“, so Biewer's guitar can be heard on it in a few songs. Originally, Biewer was also supposed to join Camera on stage for concerts and festival shows in France in March 2020 as Camera's guitarist. These plans were destroyed by the Corona pandemic. Instead of a tour of France: lockdown and cabin fever.

So Biewer took the basic tracks from the jams with Michael Drummer, Alex Kozmidi and Henrik Rohde, added instruments, rearranged, wrote lyrics, produced and mixed. The result is the album „Lagerkoller“, mastered by Stefan Flad (Die Türen, Die Sterne), which sounds quite different from Biewer's previous releases: weirder, less guitar noise, more synths and more associative lyrics. Music as lockdown coping. Medicine against the misery.

„Lagerkoller“ is music for fans of neo-krautrock bands like Camera, Die Türen, All Diese Gewalt, Die Gruppe OIL, but also classics like Neu!, Tangerine Dream and Can. Lyrically, lovers of International Music, Düsseldorf Düsterboys, Peter Licht, Hans Unstern, Jens Friebe, TRIO and Die Sterne should also feel addressed.

By the way, under the name Disso!ver there have already been a few one-man concerts worth seeing and hearing. In these, differently tuned guitars were chased through four amplifiers via live-generated loops. The result was a spectacular quadrophonic guitar noise that no one in the crowd forgot so soon. Biewer has already performed with Camera, Drahla, Gengahr, Kill Your Boyfriend, Vandermeer, Kramsky, at c/o-Pop 2018 (Notwist, Messer and many more) and Indiecologne 2017 (Locas In Love, Angelika Express, Kitty Solaris, Sedlmeir and many more).

„Lagerkoller“ will be released on 13.08.2021 exclusively via the Barhill Records store, the Disso!ver Bandcamp page, at Rex Rotari (Saarbrücken) and in some record stores in Cologne on black vinyl (180g). At the same time Barhill Records will release the digital version; a purely instrumental digital version of the album will be available exclusively in the Barhill Records store and on the Disso!ver Bandcamp page.
credits
released August 13, 2021

Recorded, produced and mixed by Roman Biewer. Mastered by Stefan Flad.

Band:
Roman Biewer: vocals, guitar, bass, synths, programming

Guests:
Michael Drummer: drums, guitar synths, backing vocals (all tracks)
Alex Kozmidi: guitar (6, 7)
Henrik Rohde: guitar (6, 7)
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Disso!ver is a one-man project from Cologne and exists since 2017.
Debut album „Lagerkoller“ was released on Aug 13th 2021. It bases on jams that took place in Berlin in Nov '19 and Jan '20 with members of the bands Camera, Flying Moon in Space and Lovely Heroin. Parts of these jams can also be found on the current Camera album „Prosthuman“, so Biewer's guitar can be heard on it in a few songs.

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