The release of 1987 on Boomslang Records marks Bernhard Hollinger’s album debut as a
bandleader, bassist, and composer.
This record is dedicated to the impulsiveness and playfulness of dreams and the
subconscious. The fascination for this concept has its origins in watching David Lynch’s Twin
Peaks for the first time. Dreams, the mind and intuition remain vast, mysterious territories,
whose ambiguity was pulling Bernhard in. He drew inspiration from Lynch’s aesthetics and
symbolism, including the use of abstract, contrasting elements and breaking up time,
thinking more in parallel dimensions and effect, leaving space for individual interpretation,
projection and exploration. Sleeping Tapes pays tribute to the so-named audiobook by Jeff
Bridges and rounds off the album as the only non-original track.
For this journey Bernhard was surrounded by an international group of highly talented and
emerging, as well as established musicians, including e.g. Teis Semey, Grammy-nominated
guitarist Ashton Sellars, August Baronas, Matthias van de Brande as we
Bernhard Hollinger is a multi-layered artist, award-winning bass player, composer and
producer navigating in the spectrum of Improvised Music, Jazz, Beats, Avantgarde, Neue
Musik, Ambient and Electronic Music. His curiosity to go beyond genres through utilizing
intuition shines through his unique combination of the electric bass guitar with electronics
and effects. His musical career covers a diverse range of musical projects - solo, as a
sideman, and also as a bandleader - with international performances in europe, US, Chile
and Japan, e.g. at Concertgebouw in Amsterdam as support-act for Christian Scott and La
Serena Jazz in Chile as support-act for Lee Ritenour and Christian Galvez.
Besides, Bernhard is curating Lo-Fi Playground, a platform which is focusing on
experimental formats and adventurous music as well as hosting the monthly radio show
Space Lab Transmissions on 90mil Radio which is focussing on adventurous, improvising
musicians and doers in - but not only - the Berlin scene.