news:
28.03.2025:
It's been 20 years since I began this incredible journey. B°TONG celebrates by releasing Zenihilist on Krater Recordings in May, and by going on tour in Germany. Zenhilist marks 20 years of delving in experimental electronics and evolves on the post-rock, song-like structures, that began with A Fleeting Moment Of Superabundance.
03.03.2025:
Officially released, the new Bu.d.d.A. & N album "13" is now out on Drone Records.
Bu.d.d.A. is Bund des dritten Auges is B°TONG & Emerge playing real instruments and ambient drone songs. Also available via bandcamp here.
26.02.2025:
Booked another tour for spring and Krater Recordings asked for another album. So... Zenihilist release tour is coming in May. Also Bu.d.d.A. is playing in Italy and Slovenia in April. The new album
"13" is out on Drone Records. Bu.d.d.A. will play the songs from the album live.
23.12.2024:
Wrapping up the year now... it's been very prolific with two new releases and two succesful tours, plus some festival appearances too. Next show? Who can say? Next release will be N & Bu.d.d.A. "13" on Drone Records. It will be available on CD and digital...
19.11.2024:
The B°TONG show with Björn Peng has been cancelled due to political (?) reasons. I have no clue, you'd have to ask Hirscheneck... B°TONG is anarchist, nihilist and pagan. A new N/Bu.d.d.A. album is due on Drone Records this year - or maybe early 2025.
28.06.2024:
The new album {Mass} is out on Zoharum! Get it here
14.05.2024:
After two succesful tours we are working on the next N / Bu.d.d.A. album, which we recorded while on the road. There will be two more B°TONG shows this summer - I will perform with Tochtli, the Butoh dancer at Kasko, Basel on 29th June, and I will travel to another Bruitisme festival in the Vosges mountains 13th July. Meanwhile, the "A Fleeting Moment Of Superabundance" vinyl has been officially released by Les Nouvelles Propagandes and Nuit & Brouillart. It has a become hommage to the late Stéphane of Force Majeure and Vincent who printed the silk-screen sleeves. May they rest in peace.
17.04.2024:
Here it is, the first teaser to the new album by B°TONG & Claus Poulsen. Video made by Claus can be found here.
Also catch B°TONG on his exclusive German dates in April. Go to "upcoming dates" for more info.
19.03.24:
The new album "A Study In Motion" made together with Danish artist Claus Poulsen last September is available from Krater Recordings (subsidiary of Audiophob) and this is the artwork:
13.03.24:
Both Krater Recordings and Zoharum have announced release dates for the next B°TONG releases.
"A Study In Motion", which was recorded together with Claus Poulsen, will be out on CD by the end of March (Krater Recordings, a subsidiary of Audiophob). "{Mass}" is a 2xCD and will be out on Zoharum by June.
28.02.2024:
Both Bu.d.d.A. and B°TONG are set to go on short German tours in April (see "upcoming dates"). Bu.d.d.A. will tour together with N (Hellmut Neidhardt) and present the album they made together. B°TONG continues to promote the "A Fleeting Moment Of Superabundance" album, available here.
07.12.2023:
B°TONG has hd a very busy autumn this year playing shows in Norway and Denmark, and then going to Poland for the Fab_In festival both as B°TONG and with Bu.d.d.A.
Auf Abwegen released the great N/Bu.d.d.A. album on vinyl and as download.
Next there were two shows in Germany, of which one was the last ever event at I.N.M. Frankfurt, which can be viewed here. Zoharum expressed interest in the next B°TONG album and wants it a 2xCD! There is also an album that was made with Claus Poulsen while in Denmark. We will be selling it to a label soon...
10.05.2023:
Two shows with Bu.d.d.A. supporting Bohren und der Club of Gore coming up. 18th May Kaserne, Basel (CH) and 26th May Kantine, Augsburg (D).
28.03.2023:
The new album A Fleeting Moment Of Superabundance can now be bought via the b°tong bandcamp site, as well as from Force Majeure and Les Nouvelles Propagandes. Next show is in Basel at Sudhaus, 18th April.
08.11.2022:
XXI W.I.F. is over and it was a blast. Met one of my label bosses and he said the new record is ready. So more news on that very soon... Next dates will be in February 2023 when Bruitisme holds its jubilee event in Lyon. Trying to build some dates around that together with Tamagawa.
14.09.2022:
The new record is printed... "A Fleeting Moment Of Superabundance" will be ready soon. The label is now only waiting for the silk-screened sleeves to be ready.
B°TONG will finally play with a butoh dancer! Sat 17th in Bern, I will perform together with Tochtli at Space Between Festival. In October it's off with Bu.d.d.A. We will tour two weeks together with Drekka (USA). These are the dates:
09.10. Club Debil, Dresden (D)
10.10. Mdme Claude, Berlin (D)
12.10. Stary Zidovsky Hrbitov, Telc (PL)
13.10. TBC, Nachod (CZ)
14.10. Zamek Cultural Center, Poznan (PL)
15.10. Prdzychodnia Sklot, Warszawa (PL)
16.10. Fab In 3 Epillogue, Lodz (PL)
17.10. Scena Supernova, Krakow (PL)
18.10. TBA, Ostrava (CZ)
19.10. Barka, Zlin (CZ)
20.10. Tri Ocasci, Brno (CZ)
21.10. Punctum, Prague (CZ)
22.10. Club W71, Weikersheim (D) B°TONG
23.10. AKK, Karlsruhe (D)
Upon return another B°TONg show together with Tochlti here: 29.10. Glubos Jubilee Fest, Basel, and then off to Wroclaw Industrial Festival XXI where I play Sat 5th November.
29.06.2022:
Soon off with Bu.d.d.A. for a handful of dates culminating in an appearance at Bruital Furore Festival in Hamburg. The new album "Diese Anmut von Trophöen" is out on Zhelezobeton/attenuation circuit". It is avilable on CD, casette and digitally and features guest appearances by Drekk (with whom we will tour later this year), Bees of Common Eider/King Eider and Bebawinigi.
The new B°TONG vinyl - "A Fleeting Moment Of Superabundance" - could well be ready in September/October. It has two long tracks and is the first B°TONG album recorded by playing real instruments. It will be released by Les Nouvelles Propagandes/Force Majeure in France.
03.06.2022:
B°TONG will perform at this year's Wroclaw Industrial Festival! Some more solo shows will be announced, but for the most part, this year, it will be Bu.d.d.A. playing and touring. The new album should be realeased by October.
25.02.2022:
Short update... a new release is pending, a vinyl/CD album on Force Majeure/Les Nouvelles Propagandes. Also we are working on a new Bu.d.d.A. release for the upcoming tour in July. The Bu.d.d.A. album will hopefully be released in time for the autumn tour with Drekka (USA). B°TONG meanwhile has been confirmed for Wroclaw Industrial Festival 2022! And the latest album, "The Eradication Of The Individual" on Oxidation, is now being distirbuted by Cold Spring.
