ARKITEKTS are Olaf Brüggemann (instruments, arrangements, recording, mix) and Werner Scheiblich (vocals).

They first met and started making music together more than thirty-five years ago in a seaside town in Northern Germany.

Werner left their first band, and soon both left town to pursue lives and careers. None of them ever returned, and none of them became an architect, by the way.

Time has passed between the first humble demo cassette - if anyone remembers what that was - and these new recordings. ARKITEKTS are family men and fathers, but the music has always been a true companion for both, in different projects and forms.

Now they are looking ahead to the past. What are the influences they shared long ago? Who are the favourite artists they can agree on today? What are just songs they both love, for one reason or another?

Piece by piece, ARKITEKTS are paying homage to great pieces of music and great artists, doing it in style. ARKITEKTS style.

Oh, and ARKITEKTS do write their own music, just not together. For their solo ventures, check Satellitemen and One Twisted Soul

  1. Love Will Tear Us Apart
    Writers: Sumner / Curtis / Hook / Morris
    Original performers: Joy Division

  2. Slippery People
    Writers: Frantz / Byrne / Harrison / Weymouth
    Original performers: Talking Heads

  3. Love Is Blindness
    Writers: Clayton / Evans / Hewson / Mullen
    Original performers: U2

  4. Teenage Kicks
    Writer: John Joseph O' Neill
    Original performers: The Undertones

  5. Always Crashing In The Same Car
    Writer and original performer: David Bowie

  6. Make You Feel My Love
    Writer: Bob Dylan
    Original performer: Billy Joel

  7. Lover Lover Lover
    Writer and original performer: Leonard Cohen

  8. Hard Woman
    Writer and original performer: Mick Jagger

  9. Hearts Are Trump
    Writers: Krawinkel / Remmler
    Original performers: Trio

  10. I Like Your Absence
    Writer: Julian Dawson
    Original performers: Julian Dawson and the Flood

  11. Less Cities More Moving People
    Writers: Brown, Woods, Curnin, West-Oram, Greenall
    Original performers: The Fixx

  12. Rebel Rebel
    Writer and original performer: David Bowie

  13. Cuts You Up
    Writers: Murphy/Statham
    Original performer: Peter Murphy

  14. De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da
    Writer: Sting
    Original performers: The Police

  15. (When You) Call Me
    Writer: Paul Weller
    Original performers: The Style Council

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Arkitekts - Arkitekts

Songs arranged, recorded and mixed by Olaf Brüggemann at Studio Hungover
Vocals recorded by Werner Scheiblich at First Take Factory

Produced by Olaf Brüggemann and Werner Scheiblich

Olaf Brüggemann: programming, keyboards, guitars and bass
Werner Scheiblich: vocals
with Dirk Ehmke: bass on Slippery People

Cover design by Kathy