 Tarwater have recorded several albums of mostly instrumental music usually tagged as post-rock.Jestram and Lippok met in an East German punk rock band, and began recording together even while Lippok recorded with To Rococo Rot and Jestram worked in his Bleibeil studio.The first Tarwater album debuted with 1996's 11/6 12/10, released around the same time first album came about.