If you happened to have been up at the Griffith Observatory in L.A. on a certain evening in 1993, you might have seen Achim and myself standing in front of a moon map there, staring at that privileged crater with the famous foot print in it. And you might have overheard Achim saying, "If we ever have to form a band or something we should call it 'Sea Of Tranquility'."

Just over a year later we found that we did have to form a band (or something), as the result of a song (strangely enough) which now exists in three different versions: a 1981 version recorded with a discarded egg-slicer and a dusty sofa (masquerading as a lyre and a bass drum), a 1985 Dauerfisch version recorded with cello and violin (played by two neighborhood gals), and (last but not least) a multilingual version that Achim and I recorded together in 1994.

Two fellows from Frankfurt am Main stumbled across this third recording and suggested that we release an album with them on their newly founded label, Weisser Herbst Produktion. Well, why not? The Sea Of Tranquility album, LANDED, was released in the Spring of 1995.

Nice. Nice label, nice reviews, lovely fan-mail, but all occuring in such small circles... we felt almost as though we were working in secret... and the new tracks and remixes we'd recorded after LANDED's release didn't want to be kept secret. We've been working in their behalf ever since.

Our situation has changed quite a bit in the meantime. And our name has changed, from Sea Of Tranquility to 'Twas This. We are hoping to release a second album around mid-1997... may the Moon be with us.

I won't tell you what inspired the name 'Twas This, but I will give you a couple of hints (no -- 'Twas This is not a take off on Take That, for heavens' sakes). Hint no. 1: check out our FREUNDE (friends) page ; pick the right link and you're already headed in the right direction. Hint no. 2: turn to page 55 of the paper-bound edition of a book which I am, quite cruelly, not going to tell you the name of... Let us know if you find anything.

If you'd like to read what the press had to say about LANDED, please click the little "articles" guy . We've included an American write-up by Kevyn Dymond and two German write-ups from ZILLO magazine.

Thanks for tuning in... tune in again for updates...
Love and peaches, Laura. Berlin, 1997.