Party: BE FOREST && WINDOW MAGIC && BROTHER GRIMM - ASTRA STUBE

Party: BE FOREST && WINDOW MAGIC && BROTHER GRIMM - ASTRA STUBE

BE FOREST –
In spring 2011 Be Forest‘s debut album, "Cold", was released, causing an earthquake among the music press in Italy and abroad. Music zines started buzzing about the "Pesaro scene": a town on the Adriatic coast of Italy that gave birth to bands such as Soviet Soviet, Altro, and Brothers in Law. The "Pesaro movement" brought out sharp sounds, chilly atmospheres, and new energies. As the band describes it: "Pesaro is not a city for young people, there are less and less venues to play at, especially during the winter. Perhaps this lack is exactly what motivates kids to embrace music so passionately".
In the meanwhile Be Forest‘s sound travelled across the globe reaching the ears of many new fans, and convincing Japandroids to have Be Forest open for their European tour. After having performed an amazing cover of Japandroid’s "I Quit Girls", going on tour with the band was an absolute dream come true. Be Forest was born as a trio: guitarist Nicola was joined by Erica on drums and vocals and Costanza on bass and vocals. For this sophomore album, "Earthbeat", the band gained the services of Lorenzo Badioli, who takes care of the new electronic parts of Be Forest‘s sound. If with "Cold", their sound was characterized as "dark", with "Earthbeat" the sun seems to have risen, brightening the Riviera. Be Forest‘s melodies have always had a dreamy lightness as their striking feature, but now it is possible to feel a new warmth. A soft touch between the classic 4AD and the more recent XX, a new and involved liveliness is heard in Be Forest‘s sound. It’s no surprise that "Earthbeat", recorded in Pesaro by Paolo Rossi at Studio Waves, was completely produced by the band itself. After the excitement made by their debut album, people started wondering where Be Forest‘s talent would go: "Earthbeat" is the best answer we could ever expect.

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WINDOW MAGIC –
Sometimes you hear a sound and may be not quite sure what it is. Or what it was. If you are fascinated by the mystery of noise, tape music is an artichoke, a rough diamond, a welcome phantom with many faces. Window Magic melts found sounds, manipulated source material and field recordings into tape deck ghosts and drones that haunt, flutter and sing. From a very early age growing up in East-Berlin, Andreas Bonkowski was fascinated by tape recorders and shortwave radio stations, filling C60s of his late night finds and experimenting with cutting techniques to make his own versions of songs and broadcasts. This fascination never left, though his other musical adventures with "Corwood Manual" or "Siva." somehow took very different routes to explore other diverse territories. With his two 2012 releases "Ghost Photography" and "Reversal" something else was started: Window Magic opens a portal to someplace else, channeling sounds that move outside the workings of time.
After a busy year of reworking material by other artists, Window Magic returned by the end of 2013 with his album "Circular" which broadens the pallet of sounds and treads on many new grounds. Layers seem even more indistinguishable than before, voices from the most unforeseen sources proclaim strange things while a spectrum of treated sounds swirls and rolls & noises murk in every corner. All joining a stream of consciousness of a very unusual kind.

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BROTHER GRIMM
Nach seiner Zeit bei der Band "Sandy Bird", wandelt Sänger und Gitarrist Dennis jetzt als "Brother
Grimm" auf Solopfaden. Mit Gitarre, Loop Station, Schlagwerk und seiner Stimme kommt er
inzwischen deutlich direkter und mitunter auch agressiver daher. Er befindet sich zwischen den
Zeilen, zwischen den Genres. Er ist lauter als zuvor und leiser. Und er ist allein. Brother Grimm spielt "Noisy-Desert-Soul" und beschwört dabei die Stille, den Minimalismus, das Repetitive und verfällt in sonische Orgien aus sich immer und immer wieder überlagernden Soundschichten, welche am Ende die Vision vervollständigen und sie zugleich zerstören!
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Links:
http://beforestofficial.tumblr.com
http://www.facebook.com/beforest3
http://www.wwnbb.net/artists/beforest
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http://windowmagic.pm
http://www.facebook.com/Window-Magic-207700035943453/
http://blooha.net/windowmagic
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http://facebook.com/brothergrimmband
http://brothergrimm1.bandcamp.com