Christoph Heemann

Christoph Heeman's recordings with H.n.a.s. and as a solo act reflect his inheritance of a number of rich European legacies: Kraut-rock, the industrial cut-ups of Nurse With Wound and Cabaret Voltaire, and the idea of the invisible soundtrack which has intrigued many independent-minded producers from Brian Eno to Paul Schütze. In 1983, the teenaged Heemann formed H.n.a.s. (hirsche nicht aus sofa, roughly translated as Moose Without a Sofa) with Achim Flaan (aka Achim P. Li Khan).



Amidst a parade of obscure cassette-only releases on their own Dom Records, the duo's first major album, 1985's Abwassermusik reflected an interest in collages of samples, tape loops and found sounds, often repeated ad infinitum. For 1986's Melchior, an expanded H.n.a.s. lineup worked with the very sympathetic Steven Stapleton (of Nurse With Wound) and issued the album on Stapleton's United Dairies labels. The group released two more LPs during 1986-87, Im Schatten Der Möhre and Küttel im Frost (both on Dom).

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