Release date: 07.08.2012


This is the recording of the first meeting of Thomas Maos, Tuebingen, and the Hamburg based Duo phase~in with Sylvia Necker and Gunnar Lettow. They met in Tuebingen at a small bunker called TRESORRAUM and you now can hear the result of it: PANZERKNACKER, which means "safe-cracker" or "beagle boys".

Gunnar Lettow - bass & live-electronics & fx,
Sylvia Necker - raumstation & fx,
Thomas Maos - dobro, electronics.

Recorded live at the Tresor / Kunstamt Tuebingen_Germany June 2011


1. Tresorraum 2d
2. Tresorraum 1b
3. Tresorraum 1c
4. Tresorraum 1d
5. Tresorraum 2a
6. Tresorraum 2b
7. Tresorraum 1a


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Copyright (c) 2012 by PANZERKNACKER.
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.




Thomas Maos  
thomas maos / electronic guitar

on my record  "chill in drill out" I combine abstract and tonal elements. my work on that record is influenced by the sound aesthetics of noise, rock, minimal music and contemporary classical music. although I am educated a "normal guitarist", it is not important for me to sound like a proper guitar player. instead, the electric guitar is only a medium to express my musical ideas.

the electric guitar, as everybody knows, has endless sound variations. so, for my recordings it was very important to restrict myself to a few materials in every piece, and concentrate on them while elaborating the composition.

all pieces were recorded live. with the exception of two titles (nr. 10, 13 ) I used no overdubs.

strange, but a lot of contemporary dancers like my record an use it for dance pieces.

I hope you enjoy these tracks.
send me a mail, and let me know what you think of it.

contact: thomas.maos@gmx.net

www.elektrogitarre.de
YouTube channel
Wikipedia entry
www.camp-festival.de
Frau Bach

a nice interview with Thomas Maos appeared at the Prepared Guitar blog (2014):
Thomas Maos: 13 questions

and some recent live performance videos,
filmed at ZKM, Karlsruhe/Germany, 2018:
Megadrohne 2
Der Bach mündet im Glas
Becker's Last Match
Gerührt, nicht geschüttelt

and lastly, his first Silent Art Orchestra album is now available on Spotify:
Silent Art Orchestra on Spotify



Thomas Maos live in Basel, Switzerland, 2008

Releases by Thomas Maos on Zenapolæ


Release date: 07.08.2012


This is the recording of the first meeting of Thomas Maos, Tuebingen, and the Hamburg based Duo phase~in with Sylvia Necker and Gunnar Lettow. They met in Tuebingen at a small bunker called TRESORRAUM and you now can hear the result of it: PANZERKNACKER, which means "safe-cracker" or "beagle boys".

Gunnar Lettow - bass & live-electronics & fx,
Sylvia Necker - raumstation & fx,
Thomas Maos - dobro, electronics.

Recorded live at the Tresor / Kunstamt Tuebingen_Germany June 2011


1. Tresorraum 2d
2. Tresorraum 1b
3. Tresorraum 1c
4. Tresorraum 1d
5. Tresorraum 2a
6. Tresorraum 2b
7. Tresorraum 1a


Full Downloads

zen84.zip (complete album with artwork)





Copyright (c) 2012 by PANZERKNACKER.
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.




Release date: 07.08.2009


Improvising music for an imaginary science fiction movie.


01 altair 1 17:45
02 altair 2 15:15


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zen063.zip (complete album with artwork)




Copyright (c) 2009 by Thomas Maos. Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.



Release date: 07.08.2008


contemporary pieces for electric guitar

all pieces are composed and played in realtime
no overdubs or digital editing (but for #10, 13)
all sounds are created on guitar

recorded 2004 at kaserne studios, tübingen, germany
mastered by gerd lorenz, rangendingen



01 metamorphose 5:21
02 metalrag 5:41
03 modern talking 2:21
04 chloe 3:08
05 filterwand 1:55
06 broken glass 3:48
07 echoes 7:42
08 whisper 1:50
09 feed me back 5:18
10 potatoe 5:46
11 blown up 2:31
12 good vibrations 2:44
13 schwefelregen 7:48
14 skippnas 3:28
15 I loved the twin towers 6:23
16 toco ext. 4:24


Full Downloads

zen049.zip (complete album with artwork)




Copyright (c) 2008 by Thomas Maos.
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.



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