Fatcat (radio band)

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Fatcat
Fatcat at the Tent Music Festival 2016
Fatcat at the Tent Music Festival 2016
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

  1. 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / chilli-freiburg.de
  2. Fatcat: Your currency is the radio. In: fudder.de of July 3, 2013
  3. Chaka Khan FATCAT Support 2017 , Festival program, accessed September 21, 2017
  4. see ZMF 34th Festival 2016
  5. Debut album: Fatcat from Freiburg want to take off now , Badische Zeitung, August 26, 2016
  6. 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.montreuxjazzfestival.com
  7. Fusion Festival. Retrieved July 4, 2019 .
  8. Federal President's Office: Program of the Federal President's 2018 Citizens Festival. Accessed on July 4, 2019 .