Ausputzer was (or still is?!) is an experimental Dutch/German indie band, based in Groningen, The Netherlands, and fronted by Meindert Talma.

The group was formed in 2009 and recorded a début album in Hamburg, Germany, in 2009 and 2010, but the music remained unreleased for more than a decade, until Talma's record label Excelsior Recordings made the self-titled album available digitally in May 2020.

Meindert Talma, the project's founding father, songwriter and vocalist, is also know as a solo artist under his own name and, longer ago, as frontman of Meindert Talma & The Negroes.

The name Ausputzer is derived from a German soccer strategy: the 'Ausputzer' is the German equivalent of a 'sweeper', playing behind the defence.

Personnel:

Meindert Talma - vocals, piano, synthesizer
Jan Klug - theremin, saxophone, bass clarinet, flute
Fons Sluiter - double bass
Corneel Canters - drums Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.