With their brute Dadaist art project koenigleopold, Lukas König and Leo Riegler became known to the broad masses. They did not see their future in roaring with drunk guys in village discos "Hoit die Goschn". In their old line-up and new form they now publish as König Riegler a rejection of mass suitability and an announcement in terms of artistic attitude and experimental Hip Hop: FAME OVER was released exclusively digitally on JazzWerkstatt Records on June 12th, 2020, presented live on June 17th, 2020 at the Radiokulturhaus and available online via music & streaming services.
FAME OVER was released as uncut material, which was created during a two-day session at MINUSGROUNDZERO Studio and whose sound aesthetics were significantly influenced by electronic engineer, producer and recording director Nik Hummer. It's a new "point zero" where Leo Riegler and Lukas König start here after they disbanded koenigleopold and didn't play together for four years.
With Schnackenberger, KG, Send me Money, i am so stille and Fame Over, König Riegler improvise themselves and us into their subconscious. With computer and turntables Leo Riegler samples the live played, field recordings and other recordings from tabloid media and high culture, pitched, looped, processed, effectuated, modulates the sounds and turns them into mutants of themselves, warped, distorted, blown up. His saxophone sounds like motorized beasts, snake incantations or cries for help from the deep sea. Orchestras echo, opera singing squeezes out, voices mate with dystopian-futuristic sounds, metallic nervous clatter, electronic chirping, frequencies that run like background conversations and android beeps that soar.
Opposite to this, Lukas König plays drums, bass on the synthesizer and trumpet from one hand, creating a base that automatically holds together homogeneously and organically. Playing everything at the same time on the one hand increases the simplicity of the music, but on the other hand allows to improvise extremely complex rhythms.
"We are two planets rotating simultaneously."