In the past I’ve written about quite a few bands that have appeared in the classic German compilation tape “Frischer Morgentau” that was released by Steinpilz Tonträger (Stein 1) in 1993. I’ve written about Die Wurzelsepps, Les Chaplinn’s, Friends Ahoi, Die Busfahrer, Moosblüten, Die Kupferschmiede, Fluffy Pillows and more. But there are still quite a few bands on that tape that up to this day remain a mystery to me. One of them is Black Cream who appear last on the tape with the twelfth song on the B side.
That song is called “Now, That I’m Gone” and it is really great. You wonder immediately where they were from. If German or maybe British. I can’t tell. I don’t have any other info about them. I know the cassette sleeve had some info about each band. And yes, up to this day I regret not getting a copy from Peter Hahndorf when I visited him in Breman ages ago. I didn’t like tapes then. Go figure. Peter, who is behind Twee.net, is the brother of Ulli Hahndorf who was behind the label Steinpilz Tonträger as well as compiling this tape.
Luckily Discogs has scans of all the tape booklet. There i find that the address for Black Cream is the same as for the label. Does it mean that this band was German? That it was Ulli behind this band? Ulli was also part of Moosblüten. It may as well be.
The little info that comes for Black Cream doesn’t reveals some interesting bits: “The song tells the story of someone leaving his lover from the point of view of the one walking away, instead of the typical perspective of the person who is left. The song was written 14 months ago after a concert of noise-pop band Resurface. Black Cream actually is no real band, it exists for this song only.”
So a one-off.
That’s sad. The song is great. At least I would love to find out if it was Ulli, or if it was someone else, behind this band.
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