Some additional
Senor Coconut information - the picture of 'Senor Coconut' shown on the album cover and generally included with all the artist bios is _not_ actually
Uwe Schmidt/
Atom Heart, just a suitably
tropical-looking friend.
The little scamp.
Also,
Atom Heart created the entire
Senor Coconut album himself, electronically - there is, as far as i know, no live playing on it at all, and certainly not an entire band. This makes the album even more amazing, in some ways - using
Kraftwerk-style programming techniques to do naturalistic, tropical-sounding covers of
Kraftwerk? Youch.
Senor Coconut recently played live at the
Ars Electronica Festival in
Austria, myself being present, and I was heartened to discover that, on touring, a real 8-piece band has been recruited, including two
marimba players, trumpet, trombone, percussion, and an excellent singer.
Senor Coconut (
Atom Heart) himself was manipulating dual samplers, and occasionally busted out an electronic sample-solo to complement the live experience.
At the Ars Electronica show, the band encored with their
mambo version of the most recent released
Kraftwerk song, "Expo 2000", which is not on the 2nd Senor Coconut album, and is only available on a separate single.
Incidentally, Lisa Carbon, often credited on
Atom Heart records and mentioned in the above write-up, _is_
Atom Heart. He's truly a man of many and
confusing pseudonyms.