Buenoventura (Elektro Guzzi) - Gelb, Live

Buenoventura – Gelb (Release May 23, 2025) Debut album by Bernhard Hammer (Elektro Guzzi, Monochord, Maraskino) With Gelb, Viennese musician Bernhard Hammer releases his first solo album under his pseudonym Buenoventura – a fictional character as mysterious as he is colorful: ex-sailor, raver, punk, music lover. A kind of inner accomplice that allows Hammer to move freely through musical landscapes – beyond genre conventions, close to the moment. Gelb is an intuitive, minimalist guitar record full of hypnotic loops, glittering details, and organic energy. The electric guitar is clearly at the center – not as a classic rock instrument, but as a sonic research tool. Loops, bleeps, glitches, and simple, distinctive melodies condense into tracks that can flow as smoothly as they can blossom – somewhere between psychedelic sound exploration and technoid structure. Gelb is the distillation of decades of engagement with electronic, experimental, and minimalist music—only played on the guitar, the instrument Bernhard Hammer knows best and on which he can speak most directly. The title Gelb stands for attentiveness, for marked thoughts and bright ideas—like a highlighter on paper. Created in a few months, initially without a clear goal, Gelb is an expression of pure musical curiosity. Live, this energy is transferred directly to the stage with guitar and effects—spontaneous, raw, and free.