* En anglais uniquement
Anticon label members
Themselves (
Adam "Doseone" Drucker,
Jerry "Jel" Logan,
Dax Pierson) and Germany's
the Notwist (
Markus Acher,
Micha Acher,
Martin Gretschmann, Martin Messerschmid) have never been strangers to genre-exploring collaboration (
Doseone's involvement in
Subtle and
cLOUDDEAD, the
Acher brothers in
Village of Savoonga, and
Gretschmann's work as
Console), and the idea of creating a record together had been brewing for some time in the minds of
Themselves, who had been listening to
the Notwist's
Neon Golden during their European tour.
Notwist vocalist/guitarist
Markus Acher was in the audience at a
Themselves show in Munich, and a joint tour was informally arranged.
13 & God were spawned during the last of many bus breakdowns during this tour, and in September 2004, after months of sending demos back and forth, the two groups united in Munich and spent 17 days there, recording
13 & God's self-titled debut in
Micha Acher's Transistor Studios. ~ Marisa Brown