Berlin’s most productive band – no less than 10 albums in three years is their mission. We are talking about Berlin’s finest trio in terms of Postkraut, with drummer Christian Obermaier, guitarist Daniel Meteo and bassist/singer Yelka Wehmeier.

Yelka are oldskool in their promotional approach, instead they play residencies in Hamburg and Berlin with more international residencies to follow. Daniel Meteo is better known as the manager of Apparat, music publisher (Random Noize) and label maker (Shitkatapult), Yelka Wehmeier most recently as a bassist in the first line-up of Patrick Wagner’s band Gewalt, and Christian Obermaier, one of the most sought-after drummers in the Berlin indie world, playing amongst other in Schneider TM’s band. Christian and Yelka have been playing together in the Berlin post-rock band EAGLE BOSTON since 2013. YELKA now sounds much more brittle, minimalist. Which might be due to Daniel Meteo’s Magic Band-like guitar playing. But also due to the welcome absence of synthesizer pads.

When listening to the first YELKA productions, all the artfully crumbly bands of Post Rock suddenly come back to mind. The Sea & Cake or Karate, for example. But also musical harbingers like Captain Beefheart, Can or the electric Davis between Kraut and Jazz! Fun in the church-A&R Maurice Summen was so enthusiastic about the already recorded material that he spontaneously offered the trio a 10-album deal.

Excerpt gratefully taken from the “1976”-album review in (Backseat Mafia)