ms. john soda

Pop / Electronica

Munich, Germany

Billboard

During the past years Ms. John Soda was a little robot on t-shirts, tour leaflets, on the first album's cover "no p. or d." released in 2002. A robot, this analogue way of imagining the digital world. The human being imagined as a machine with all its little faults, doubts and passions. Because this is what Ms. John Soda stands for: An analogue idea of digital music - or precisely vice versa. Also with all their little faults, doubts and passions. "Things may seem somehow unsure in times", it says in one of the questioning moments of "notes and the like" (2006), the latest album release of the Munich based band who is a part of the Berlin based Morr Music universe. "There is no view that's not produced in one person's mind", it says in another place.
Stefanie Böhm sings through her and our world beyond all too simple truths. She shows us images. More clearly she shows how these images become blurred and fade. "hiding / fading", being a song on the first album.
From the bedroom electronics of an early seven inch released in 1998 Ms. John Soda grown to a notable live band within the years. There is Stefanie Böhm in the focus, her bass guitar, her precise voice, her lyrics. There is Micha Acher (as known from The Notwist and The Tied and Tickled Trio) as a driven counterpart, lost in rhythm, rocking far away from rocking. And there is Carlo Oesterhelt (aka Carlo Fashion) with his charmingly clever piano tunes. Laid back and right in the middle, the drum patterns of Thomas Geltinger who also does this job in the instrumentalband Couch.
Loud and soft, warm and wide-awake, hungry and hymnal, repetitive and relevant. Happy who once was able to experience one of the energetic concerts of Ms. John Soda.