Apple's In Space

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Apple's In Space
General information
origin Germany / Norway
Genre (s) Alternative , indie , folk , rock , punk
founding 2012
Website apples-in-space.com
Founding members
Vocals, guitar, bass, banjo
 Phil Haussmann
Singing, piano, accordion, organ, synthesizer
 Julie Mehlum
Current occupation
Vocals, guitar, bass, banjo
 Phil Haussmann
Singing, piano, accordion, organ, synthesizer
 Julie Mehlum
Bass, banjo, slide guitar
 Janusz Hüsges
former members
Piano, harmonium, accordion
 Julian Lembke
Drums, percussion, electric guitar, producer
 Richard Pappik
Drums
 Jonathan Sieweck

Apples In Space is a Berlin alternative / folk rock band. So far you have released two EPs and two studio albums and played numerous concerts, including a. as the opening act for artists like Element of Crime , Villagers and Thees Uhlmann .

history

Julie Mehlum met Phil Haussmann at a party in summer 2010. They started writing songs together and playing them on the street. The two mostly spent the first two years of cooperation and friendship in separate cities. In winter 2011 Phil Haussmann moved to Oslo to produce and release a first EP with Julie Mehlum. Farewell, Little World was completed within a few days and released in April. For this EP the band name Apples In Space was created .

The two songwriters spent the next few months in Oslo. Since their musical career did not seem to be making headway, they moved to Berlin in the summer of 2012. Since then they have composed music for a feature film, a television film and a theater production, and have released a second EP. Her debut album, produced by Richard Pappik in Berlin, was released on February 19, 2015 with guest musicians such as Julian Lembke , Patrick Reising , Tobias Unterberg and Sven Regener .

Mehlum and Haussmann had a musical guest appearance in Leander Haußmann's film Hai-Alarm am Müggelsee .

Jonathan Sieweck (drums) and Janusz Hüsges (bass) have been permanent members of the band since autumn 2015.

The second studio album The Shame Song was released on November 11, 2016.

style

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Haussmann and Mehlum write poetic, English-language texts on very personal and social topics such as eating disorders and addiction, depression and "abusive relationships". The two singers mostly sing in unison and alternate between singing and screaming. Apple's In Space are careful never to do the same thing twice - if the first album was mostly a lo-fi folk record, The Shame Song is a raw “full-band” album with distinct influences from protopunk and the 90s folk punk. Apple's In Space play every song live and without a metronome in order to maintain the dynamics of the performance.

Instead of cello and trumpet, The Shame Song uses sound carpets from accordion, organ, piano and synthesizer, all recorded by Julie Mehlum.

Another feature of Apples In Space is that they do everything themselves from the artwork to the homepage and music videos to the album release on their own label Nick & Nora Records.

Discography

Albums

  • 2016: The Shame Song (Nick & Nora Records)
  • 2015: Apples In Space (Apples In Space / Tonpool)

EPs

  • 2012: Farewell, Little World (Apples In Space)
  • 2013: The Never Read Letter (Apples In Space)

Singles

  • 2016: All My Things (Nick & Nora Records / recordJet )

Film / TV / theater

  • 2016: People Of Love & Rage (Germany / Italy, Daring House, full-length documentary, dir .: Stefano Casertano)
  • 2016: 1989 (Italy, dir .: Francesca Mazzoleni, short film)
  • 2014: Hamlet (Germany, Berliner Ensemble, dir .: Leander Haußmann)
  • 2014: Polizeiruf 110: Kinderparadies (original song: "The Never Read Letter", cover of Bob Dylan's "You're A Big Girl Now", BR, Germany, dir .: Leander Haußmann)
  • 2014: Hai-Alarm Am Müggelsee (original song: "Vespa" and on-screen performance, X-Films, Germany, dir .: Sven Regener & Leander Haußmann)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The official homepage of berlin-based folk / alternative band Apples In Space.
  2. ↑ Apples in Space - amazon.de
  3. ↑ Giuliano Benassi: Indie Folk from Berlin with a lot of passion. In: laut.de. Retrieved June 15, 2017 .