NEULANDER is Adam Peters and Korinna Knoll. They are based in New York City.

In the early 80's Adam Peters began as keyboard player and orchestral arranger in ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN. Since then he has been associated musician, arranger or producer with BETH ORTON, FAMILY OF GOD, SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES, LLOYD COLE and THE TRIFFIDS amongst others. He has also written film scores and made the music for the cult tv series "Disinfo Nation". Singer/artist Korinna Knoll, is originally from Austria. She graduated in Fine Arts in Hamburg, Germany. Korinna then moved on to New York where she met up with Adam.

Adam and Korinna began writing together in 2002. As the songs and ideas took shape so NEULANDER came into being. With a handful of shows around New York, an extraordinary gig at a castle in Sweden, and an exciting debut recording has already led to the New York Times as describing Neulander as a hot tip for 2003. "Neu taking on The Human League in battle" "Neulander are melodic, unusually cool and slightly aloof".

NEULANDERs debut recording "Sex, God + Money" (disko B 119) already made it into the Playlists of the likes of JOHN PEEL and got praise like "Four marvelous songs, of which every single one is a perl. I wished it would never stop.
Neulander make us desire more." (de:bug/germany) or "The spiritual heirs to Kraftwerk"

Time Out New York said :
"New Yorkers may think of The Strokes as the city's poster band, but we'd be better off endorsing Neulander - it sounds like 2004 not 1979.
Neulander have succesfully crafted intimate electronics that eschew down tempo cliches, and low key dance numbers that blissfully marry classic
songcraft with state of the art beats"
and this from Q magazine :
"4 stars! Excellent..... melodic Euro accented electronic rock ..... daring, fresh and new"

Neulander write strong and defined songs whilst using deconstructed electronic arrangements. The music and the voice mesh together creating a timeless and almost ancient quality. The lyrics seem to suggest Russian poetry colliding with an abstract and personal response to the confusion of 21century media culture.

A drum machine, 2 keyboards, a cello, a boy and a girl in gigantic baroque luscious minimalist overdrive.

Tracklisting: 1.Sex, God + Money 2. If You Could 3. Girl Out Walking 4. Flying 5. Middle East 6. Blue Bird Party 7.Just There 8. Sometimes 9. Schauspieler 10. People's Love

download "Flying" from the forthcoming album
"Smoke + Fire".

album sampler prelistening

DB122 CD / LP
Release: March 2004