German Army is an experimental musical act from California centered around an American artist using the pseudonym Peter Kris (PK).
Together with bandmate Norm Heston (NH), they release music prolifically and almost exclusively as small runs on boutique cassette tape labels.
The recordings were released together as a split CDR on Kris's label, Kill Shaman, and two shows were played live (with Parts & Labor and Tyondai Braxton, respectively).
The band uses pseudonyms to maintain separation between their artistic and vocational lives, as PK is an educator at an institution (presumably in Southern California), occasionally teaching history of U.S. foreign policy.
The titles and themes of the releases often highlight indigenous cultures and their anti-colonial struggles with western nations—for example, internment of Japanese Americans in No No Boys (referencing the 1957 novel by John Okada), US military presence in Puerto Rico in Vieques, and American Indian resistance in Mangas Coloradas (named for the Apache chief, "Red Sleeves").