Crystal Fighters
| Crystal Fighters | |
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 The band in Salzburg in 2011 |
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| origin | Navarre ; London |
| Genre (s) | Electronic |
| founding | 2007 |
| Website | www.crystalfighters.com |
| Current occupation | |
| Sebastian Pringle Gilbert Vierich Graham Dickson Eleanor Fletcher Clarissa Land |
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| former members | |
| Mimi Borelli Laure Stockley Andrea Marongiu († 2014) |
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The Crystal Fighters are an English - Basque electronic band based in London .
Band history
The band, formed in 2007 in the Basque Navarre , performed at several festivals with the pianist Jools Holland and toured with Foals in 2010 . The following year she visited cities such as Brussels, Oslo, Paris, Stockholm and Berlin on a concert tour through Europe. The British Sebastian, Gilbert and Graham recorded their debut album Star of Love , which was released on October 4th 2010, in a London studio together with Laure and Mimi, two singers with Basque roots. Gilbert stated in an interview that he sees the album as a "statement against the cultural homogenization of Europe". Before that, they were mostly known on the internet through remixes by bands like La Roux , Buraka Som Sistema , MGMT and MIT .
On September 12, 2014, drummer Andrea Marongiu died unexpectedly while on tour. The cause was a heart defect.
Music genre
The style of their music describes the band as "fast dance music with instruments from the Basque Country , synthesizers and vocals" by about Txalapartas or Basque flute beak Txistu in and these with elements of techno and Low Fidelity mix. The Süddeutsche Zeitung described their music as a “strange, beautiful mix of tribal pop and electro”, one of the 2011 “most hyped bands in the indie scene”.
The group named Bakar, the late grandfather of a band member who worked on the manuscript of an opera called "Crystal Fighters", after which they named themselves, as a significant influence on their music. According to the band, the work is supposed to be a seemingly esoteric late work on the cycle of life with allusions to Basque tradition, mythology and especially the music of the region.
Discography
Albums
- 2010: Star of Love (Zirkulo / PIAS )
- 2012: Star of Love Remixes (Zirkulo / PIAS)
- 2013: Cave Rave (Zirkulo / PIAS)
- 2016: Everything Is My Family (PIAS)
- 2019: Gaia & Friends ( Warner Bros. Records )
Singles
- 2009: Xtatic Truth
- 2009: I Love London
- 2010: In the Summer
- 2010: Follow / Swallow
- 2011: At Home
- 2011: plague
- 2012: Champion Sound
- 2012: Earth Island
- 2012: Love Is All I Got (with Feed Me )
- 2013: You & I
- 2013: Wave
- 2013: LA Calling
- 2014: Love Alight
- 2016: All Night
- 2016: Ways I Can't Tell
- 2016: Good Girls
- 2016: Lay Low
- 2017: Yellow Sun
- 2018: Boomin 'in Your Jeep
- 2018: Another Level
- 2018: Goin 'Harder ( feat.Bomba Estéreo )
- 2019: Wild Ones
- 2019: Runnin
Guest Posts
- 2019: Summer Luv (Whethan & The Knocks feat.Crystal Fighters)
swell
- ↑ Chart sources: DE AT CH
- ↑ Crystal Fighters on laut.de, accessed on June 16, 2011
- ↑ Crystal Fighters musikexpress.de of February 2, 2011
- ↑ Andrea Marongiu, drummer of the Crystal Fighters, is dead. Musikexpress.de, September 15, 2014, accessed on September 15, 2014 .
- ↑ How bizarre! Süddeutsche Zeitung of May 26, 2011
- ↑ Crystal Fighters: Basque is now spoken in London ( Memento of the original from May 14, 2011 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. Intro.de of February 4, 2011
Web links
- Official website
- Crystal Fighters at laut.de
- Crystal Fighters at Allmusic (English)