Fatcat (radio band)
| Fatcat | |
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_jm14121.jpg) Fatcat at the Tent Music Festival 2016 |
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| General information | |
| origin | Freiburg im Breisgau , Germany |
| Genre (s) | Wireless |
| founding | 2013 |
| Website | wearefatcat.com |
| Current occupation | |
| Kenny Joyner | |
| Jakob Monninger | |
| Fabian Gyarmati-Buchmüller | |
| Ferdinand Klamt | |
| Damien Stath | |
| Jakob Jung | |
| Paul Hofer-Bottomley | |
| Stefan Appear | |
Fatcat (also spelled FATCAT ) is an eight-member funk band from Freiburg im Breisgau that was founded in 2013 by music students from the Freiburg Jazz & Rock Schools .
history
Even before the actual formation of the band, there was an instrumental formation under the name Project Mayhem . In March 2013 singer Kenny Joyner joined the band. With a new direction of style, the band was renamed Fatcat. Her first in-house production, New Funk , was released in 2013 . In 2014, the second in-house production, Get On Up, followed, as well as the first music video for the single Light Up (in Full HD ), produced by students from the Offenburg University of Applied Sciences . In November 2016, the band released their debut album Champagne Rush , she with producer Tommy W. ( friends , Massive tones etc.) in Terra Sound Studio in Stuttgart recordings and produced under the label Orange Goose Records . The first advance single, Glitter & Gold , was released with the accompanying music video in October 2016.
In 2016 the band played at festivals such as the Jazzopen Stuttgart , the Voices Festival in Lörrach and the Zelt-Musik-Festival in Freiburg. FATCAT appeared as a support band for international artists such as Chaka Khan , Jamie Cullum , Saga and Anastacia . In 2017 the band played at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland. In 2018 the band made their first appearance at the Fusion Festival in Lärz and played at Bellevue Palace at the invitation of Federal President Frank Walter Steinmeier. In 2019 the band released their third studio EP Love Child and played on the Baltic Soul Weekender on Weissenhäuser Strand.
Discography
| year | title | annotation |
|---|---|---|
| 2013 | New funk | Studio EP (in-house production) |
| 2014 | Get On Up | Studio EP (in-house production) |
| 2016 | Champagne rush | Studio album, producer: Tommy W., released on Orange Goose Records |
| 2018 | Live at Music in the Park, Montreux Jazz Festival 2017 | Live album, released by Orange Goose Records |
| 2019 | Love Child | Studio EP released on Orange Goose Records |
| 2020 | GOOD.zip | Studio album |
Music videos
| year | title | annotation |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Light Up | Single, producer: Benjamin Schnitzer |
| 2015 | Jumpin ' | Concert recording, producer: PixandCutz |
| 2016 | Glitter & gold | Single, producer: PixandCutz |
| 2016 | Champagne rush | Album release show, live recording - producer: Marc Schütrumpf , Neoxfilm GmbH |
| 2017 | How do you want it? | Live session, producer: PixandCutz |
| 2017 | Wishing Well | Live session, producer: PixandCutz |
| 2017 | Daydreamer | Live session, producer: PixandCutz |
| 2018 | Stolen Diamond | Single, producer: PixandCutz |
| 2018 | YO! (Move Your Ass) | Single, producer: Thunderberg Films |
| 2018 | Candlelight | Single, producer: Thunderberg Films |
| 2019 | Candy pink | Single, producer: Thunderberg Films |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Fatcat: Debut album for the bubbly feeling. (No longer available online.) Chilli Freiburg GmbH, June 19, 2016, archived from the original on September 14, 2017 ; accessed on September 14, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Fatcat: Your currency is the radio. In: fudder.de of July 3, 2013
- ↑ Chaka Khan FATCAT Support 2017 , Festival program, accessed September 21, 2017
- ↑ see ZMF 34th Festival 2016
- ↑ Debut album: Fatcat from Freiburg want to take off now , Badische Zeitung, August 26, 2016
- ↑ FATCAT. (No longer available online.) Fondation du Festival de Jazz de Montreux, archived from the original on September 14, 2017 ; accessed on September 14, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Fusion Festival. Retrieved July 4, 2019 .
- ↑ Federal President's Office: Program of the Federal President's 2018 Citizens Festival. Accessed on July 4, 2019 .
