ANNE LAPLANTINE

Anne Laplantine, native Frenchwoman and citizen of Berlin by choice, belongs to the rare species of musicians who speak a unique musical language. We even venture to claim that it's a new language in the field of electronic pop music. Concerning structure and composition, Anne Laplantine's music owes more to the baroque fugue than to the track-format. In addition to that, her sound is also very un-electronic, because Laplantine uses all kinds of acoustic instruments as sources for her sounds: flute, guitar, bass, glockenspiel and melodica to name but a few. With limitation as the motor of her music, Laplantine develops a music of incredible harmonic density and with a totally individual sound-aesthetic.

Over the years, Anne Laplantine has deliberately confused her audience by recording for different labels under many different guises: As MICHIKO KUSAKI she had a release on the Vienna-based "Angelika Köhlermann"-label, for "Tomlab" she recorded as ANGELIKA KÖHLERMANN and ANNE HAMBURG. Her upcoming album DICIPLINE on our Autopilot-homelabel "emphase records" will be the first release under her given name.

DISCOGRAPHY

2004: anne laplantine and semuin "starts" (happy zlotty) Bremen
2004: one track remix of electronicat : "birds want to have fun"
"Re:electronicat" (angelika koelhermann) Wien

album releases

june 2004: "anne-hamburg" album CD (tomlab) Koeln
april 2004: anne laplantine and momus "summerisle" (analog baroque) London
march 2004: anne laplantine "dicipline" (emphase) Berlin
june 2003 :"anne-hamburg" 3x7inches (tomlab) Koeln
may 2003: "anne hamburg" (datamusik.dk) Koppenhagen
march 2002: angelika koelhermann "care" (tomlab) Koeln
april 2001: anne laplantine "live à dijon" (alice in wonder) Dijon
january 2002: michiko kusaki "don't do that" (hiao hiao hiao) Chicago
juin 2000: anne laplantine "alison" (alice in wonder) Dijon
december 1999: anne laplantine "nordheim" (gooom disques) Paris
october 1999: michiko kusaki "bye bye, babe" (angelika koelhermann) Wien

compilations:

december 2003: participation on the album "semi peterson" from sluta leta (mego) Wien
juillet 2003: 2 tracks on the compilation from the label (skipp) France
may 2002: participation on the album "karaoke a cappela" from Hypo (active suspension) Paris
january 2002: participation on the album "software" from Hans Platzgumer (doxa records) München
december 2000: compilation"christmas album" (evenement) Paris
august 2000: compilation"gooom tracks" (gooom disques) Paris
juin 2000: compilation"french tour" (technikart) Paris
may 2000: compilation"formotiondisconfort,callflightattendantforbagdisposal" (peter i'm flying) Rennes
february 2000: "Re:kusaki" remix record of michiko kusaki (angelika koelhermann) Wien
mai 1999: split Ep: michiko kusaki/DMX krew "let's rock baby" (breaking records) London

actions:

march 2003: "elbe memory" 25cl of Elbe in the Spree (Berlin)
december 2002:" cross" painting of a white cross on the pavement where my white bike has disappeared (Berlin)
october 2002: "été" installation with xavier gautier: three loops running: video projection of webcam pictures, electric train and music -Console (Paris)
april 2002: "Plattenspieler" Dj set with two pick-ups, two microphones, two speakers, and 7 inches (Koeln)
March 2002: "pornography" concert collaboration with nicolü: cover version of the whole album "pornography" from "the cure" with guitar, bass, keyboard, and voice (Hamburg)
2001: "nordheim label" cassettes releasing of one different project from different artists, in 5 copies every week, during 26 weeks (Paris)