thoth
Electronica, Experimental, Krautrock, Psychedelic (Germany)
Thoth is an electronic project for psychoactive soundscapes,
which using frequencies that affecting the hormones and the brain. The
project is run by the German musician Thomas Hopf.
He is also a sound engineer who works for the German cinema, but furthermore he is a magnificent multiinstrumentalist & an accomplished &
experienced sound wizard par excellence, with a superb sense of phantastic
tunes & intoxicating moods, who conjures terrific
psychedelic soundscapes, in which you can perfectly dive in and experience outright new states of
consciousness.
He creates colorful musically stories, with his fabulous, imagination inspiring, cinematic music, which have the perfect ballance between classical 60's and 70's Psychedelic Krautrock and Neo-Krautrock.
Thomas Hopf was among others, the drummer of Yellow Sunshine Explosion (one of the most important bands of Germany's "Eighties Psychedelic and Garage Revival") and Damo Suzuki's & Michael Karoli's
(both from the most
important band ever, the Krautrock Legend Can)
solo - tour & studio
activities.
A Yellow Sunshine Explosion show together with the Damo Suzuki band, in the Balver Höhle, lead to the fact that Damo Suzuki joined YSE. Despite of overwhelming critic and numberous gigs sadly not much happend, so Yellow Sunshine Explosion split in 1992 & Thomas Hopf moved from Dortmund to Cologne.
Michael Karoli and Damo Suzuki, who both were deeply impressed of his superb drum skills, after a few collaborations and listening to Yellow Sunshine Explosion's marvelous "Legendary Tape", wanted to work together with Thomas, so he a.o. still is playing music with Damo Suzuki and did an US-tour with him and Michael Karoli, in 1998, which got enormously good feedback and resulted in the great TV documentary "Over the Air", by Peter Braatz which was broadcasted in 1999 for the first time.
Afterwards he played drums at Michael Karoli's Can - solo project until his death in November 2001.
He also played drums for several studio recordings and live concerts, for bands and members of bands like Embryo, Amon Düül II, Faust, Can's Jaki Liebezeit and many many more.
Up to today, Thomas Hopf is playing drums and
percussions for several artists and in various bands like Frankensteins
Ballet, in 2019
Thomas Hopf joined Aumega Project and re-released Yellow Sunshine
Explosion's superb
debut
album & "The
Legendary Tape". He also released as well some never before released YSE recordings, which shows the superior & mind blowing psychedelic sound Yellow Sunshine
Explosion created in the 80's and early 90's & his previously unreleased,
terrific solo work.
Now you can also convince yourself of his skills as a solo artist! You can
hear his previously unreleased musicaly creations, from the early 80's till today
and you will certainly not be
disappointed!!!
Aumega Project is very happy and feels honored, to be allowed to present this gem to the world!!!!!!!
Thomas Hopf is also a solo artist and also a member of
