Boris Klabunde

Boris Klabunde (* 1978 in Kassel , Germany) is a German guitarist, singer and songwriter.

biography

In autumn 2000 Klabunde moved to Berlin , where in the following years he released the albums Blackwater Clock (2001) and Mirror Microphone (2002) , which he had produced himself with the help of a four-track recorder . In addition, he played his first solo concerts with Clark Nova in the singer-songwriter style. “A little folk, a little bossa nova and even influences from French romanticism. Klabunde plays hand-made music in the best sense of the word, ” were the first reviews.

The first studio production and the first collaboration with producer Carsten Ernst followed with the third album, The Big Goodbye (2004). Musically still simply instrumented, but now at a distance from the LoFi production method of the previous albums, Klabunde established itself in the Berlin singer-songwriter scene. The intro wrote about him: “The young Mr. Klabunde from Berlin sees himself entirely in the folk and songwriting tradition of Nick Drake and Bob Dylan, which of course is not meant as a corset or yardstick. Ergo there are acoustic numbers arranged in a subtle or spartan way: "Tomorrow Knows (I'm Doing Fine)" impresses with a wonderfully beautiful cello, which impressively supports the intimacy of its pleasantly narrating voice ”. The publication was followed by extensive tours across the republic (including Hamburg, Bremen, Dresden, Leipzig, Frankfurt, Mainz, Ulm.) And in 2005 the work on the next album, for which Klabunde left the solo path.

Klabunde recorded the artistically arranged indie folk album Pale Blossoms (2007) with a nine-member band, which was received positively by the audience and critics alike: “Folky filigree pop, wonderfully arranged with strings and everything that the acoustic instruments gives away. We'll put Klabunde under observation first. " //" For his new album "Pale Blossoms", Klabunde just pretends to be sitting on his sofa with folk, country, a keen pop consciousness and even some soul, and he does it very skillfully, with the guitars and the string arrangements for the eleven tracks on this album. ” Klabunde also toured live with a band for the first time and played around 90 concerts in Germany, Austria and Switzerland in 2007/08.

In the spring of 2008, Klabunde was already working on new song material, but decided to take a musical break and continue studying music and media studies. From the previously unpublished recordings, he recorded the song Paper Planes together with Martin Tetzlaff at the end of 2008 , which appeared in the spring of 2009 on Bernhard Eder's compilation My Melancholy Friends .

With the release of the single Flightline , Klabunde officially ended his break in the spring of 2013 and can be seen live more often since then.

Discography

• 2014 - Across The River (Single)
• 2013 - Flightline (single)
• 2009 - Paper Planes (Single)
• 2007 - Pale Blossoms (album)
• 2006 - Desabrigado (single)
• 2004 - The Big Goodbye (album)
• 2004 - Live on 4-Track (EP)
• 2002 - Mirror Microphone (album)
• 2002 - Airport 47 (EP)
• 2001 - Blackwater Clock (album)

Web links

• Official website
• Klabunde on Facebook
• Klabunde on band camp
• Klabunde on last.fm

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Klabunde biography. Retrieved October 2, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Tanja Festor: "In sensual depths". In: Hessische Niedersächsische Allgemeine (Kassel). December 13, 2003.
3. ↑ Home match ticker . In: Intro . June 7, 2006 ( online [accessed October 2, 2017]). Home match ticker ( Memento of the original from October 3, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ Klabunde biography. Retrieved October 2, 2017 . 
5. ↑ THOMAS MAUCH: BERLINER PLATTEN: Living room programs: sometimes well and comfortably furnished at Klabunde, sometimes with the twist to excess on the monitor pop DVD . In: The daily newspaper: taz . November 23, 2007, ISSN  0931-9085 , p. 28 ( taz.de [accessed October 2, 2017]).