A few years ago Buddy & The Huddle recorded a debut album that was inspired by Cormac McCarthy´s gothic novel "Suttree", which the British Uncut magazine called: "The result sounds like a cross between early Captain Beefheart and Ry Cooder´s evocative soundtrack to Paris, Texas."

Next was the "Short Stories..." album which showcased the epressive pipes of singer Andrea Bibel.

Never shy of big concepts Roland Kopp and Michael Ströll (who are Buddy & The Huddle) wanted to record an album about the genius, famous inventor and weird human being Thomas Alva Edison. "Take A Ride Into The Life Of Thomas Alva Edison" consists of 23 songs, fragments, ideas, soundscapes - ranging from the Lambchop-ian "Little Postcards" (about the invention of the telegraph) to -style instrumentals, from powerhouse
R`n´B in "Bright Lights Big City" (about illuminating New York with his lightbulbs) to downright noisy interludes. They sound like the Shadows on bad acid, like a Motown band with acoustic instruments, like Tom Waits fronting a Lounge Orchestra, they combine all kinds of different styles of American music to tell this story. There is a lot happening within a gig and you will be surprised more than once.

Then Buddy & The Huddle are returning with another ambitious project, again they are choosing a cult novel and compose music around the story. This time it is Tristan Egolf's "The Lord Of The Barnyard", an unsparing view of life in a town where inbred Appalachia and Middle America overlap and intermingle. John Kaltenbrunner, an only child, is born on the heels of his father's death. At an unusually early age, the boy shows a flair for farming
and a desire to be left alone, two things that make people pick on him in increasingly vicious ways. John's life plan is to drop out of school when he hits 16 and mind his own business. But he loses everything, alienates everyone, and through a series of increasingly outrageous mishaps winds up serving three years work-release felony time on a river barge. When he comes home to Baker, no one recognizes him: John had expected, maybe even hoped for, a little something more to herald his arrival - some burning crosses or
lynch mobs on the lawn, a coven of Methodists to picket his re-entry, a banner-wielding committee from the school board, anything at all. But to his disbelief, he found the streets quiet and empty. The streets don't stay that way for long as the tale truly turns on the garbage strike organized by John and his gang of fellow misfits. As a result, Baker comes apart at the seams and all the citizenry reveal their true natures. There is plenty of room in these pages to admire a wild and imaginative look at a slice of life cut from the underbelly of Middle America. This is the story that has been put to music using a wide range of instruments, all kinds of Americana influences and arrangement skills that would make Tom Waits proud. The book is a hilarious masterpiece (Uncut), the record a wonderful interpretation.

They have unleased their musical subconsciousness in their latest album called "How We Spent Our Childhood", rummaging in their record collections, shoe boxes with mix tapes and delving into parts of the brain usually reserved for traumas. As a result, a lot of detritus surfaced. A lot of possibly embarrassing material. However light is shed both on songs ignored unjustly and those justly celebrated.
Willing listeners are taken by the ear and unintentionally led down memory lane, where not only experiments were made with the other sex and mind-blowing substances but also whole nights spent discussing which band was the best: this one or the other.
The Buddies have translated the pieces in their own style. Great cinema, hymns of an epoch, soundtracks of our lives.

Roland Kopp	.	vocals, guitars, percussion
Michael Ströll		guitars, monochord, turntables, vocals
Radek Szarek	.	vibraphon, marimbaphon, percussion
Gunther Rissmann		double-bass
Stefan Nast-Kolb	.	cello, accordion, banjo
Werner Treiber		drums, percussion
Bettina Ostermeier		accordion, clarinet
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