Friends Of Gas
| Friends Of Gas | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| origin | Munich , Germany |
| Genre (s) | Post-punk , noise rock |
| Website | friendsofgas.com |
| Current occupation | |
| Nina Walser | |
| Veronica Burnuthian | |
guitar |
Thomas Westner |
| Martin Tagar | |
| Erol Dizdar | |
Friends Of Gas are a five-piece post-punk - band from Munich . Characteristic for the band is the reduced and dissonant sound as well as the distinctive, throaty singing of the singer Nina Walser.
history
The childhood friends Nina Walser (vocals) and Thomas Westner (guitar) played music together in different compositions for a long time. With the guitarist Veronica Burnuthian, the bassist Martin Tagar and the drummer Erol Dizdar, today's Friends Of Gas finally formed . The band's music is reminiscent of Surrogate , Messer or the Einstürzende Neubauten .
At the end of 2016, their first album Fatal Schwach was released on the Staatsakt label , which was recorded in the Kafe Kult in the Bürgerpark Oberföhring . The reviews for the album were mostly very positive. On blogs.taz.de , Fatal Schwach was voted number two on the list of albums of 2016. The TV station Arte's music magazine Tracks reported on the band on December 22, 2016.
In mid-2020, the band's second album, Kein Wetter , was released again at Staatsakt. At the invitation of Markus Acher , the album was recorded in the "Alien Research Studio" in Weilheim .
Discography
- 2016: Tape ( EP on MC , Butzen Records)
- 2016: Fatal Schwach (album, state act )
- 2019: Carrara (EP, State Act)
- 2020: No Weather (Album, State Act)
Web links
- Website of the band
- Friends Of Gas at laut.de
- Friends Of gas at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Friends Of Gas. In: laut.de. Retrieved August 10, 2020 .
- ↑ Thomas Pilgrim: In the chopping step. In: plattentests.de , accessed on February 15, 2017
- ↑ Patrick Binder: Let yourself be carried away into a cosmos of anger and annoyance! In: laut.de , accessed on February 15, 2017
- ↑ Christian Ihle: Albums of the year 2016. In: blogs.taz.de , December 26, 2016, accessed on February 15, 2017
- ↑ Friends Of Gas. ( Memento of the original from February 16, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: tracks.arte.tv , accessed on February 15, 2017
- ↑ Jürgen Moises: Say good night to Hollywood. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. Retrieved August 10, 2020 .
