Kai Althoff is a Cologne, Germany-based artist who makes installations, videos and drawings often involving invented stories and has a long-running musical project with Stephan Abry and a cast of occasional collaborators called Workshop.
From Michael Crumsho writing for dustedmagazine.com:
As it stands, even though many claim the band’s earlier debts to bands like Can and Faust, this newer incarnation owes as much to classic pop songs as it does to their fellow countrymen, albeit songs obviously filtered through those Krautrock sensibilities. Imagine, if you will, a Belle & Sebastian or an Elephant Sixer indebted more so to Kraftwerkian motorik rhythms than to Brian Wilson style harmonies and you just might have it. Any way you choose to look at it, Workshop is a strange and intriguing listen that is definitely worth checking out.
