Hope (band)
| Hope | |
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 Press photo (2017) |
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| General information | |
| origin | Berlin , Germany |
| Genre (s) | Indie , post-rock , noise |
| founding | 2014 |
| Website | www.thisishope.de |
| Current occupation | |
singing |
Christine Börsch-Supan |
guitar |
Phillip Staffa |
Keyboard, synthesizer |
Martin Knorz |
Drums |
Fabian Hönes |
Hope is a four-piece band from Berlin . Her music moves between indie , post-rock , noise and ambient / electronic . Her self-titled debut album was released on October 20, 2017 on Haldern Pop Recordings .
history
In 2009 Christine Börsch-Supan, Phillip Staffa, Martin Knorz and Fabian Hönes founded the band “Mamsell Zazou” in Würzburg. After five years of making music together and releasing an album, the band renamed themselves to "Hope" with the release of the single Nude in June 2014. The first concert under the new name took place at the Fusion Festival 2014 in Lärz. The upheaval was accompanied by these words from the band, which describe the path and the dispute that led to the renaming:
“The last five years have churned us up, torn us apart and spat us out again, changed fiber-deep. Five years in which we got lost and lost, worn out and lost. Five years that made us let go. To leave us, to leave the listener. And it took us five years to write this one song: This is where we settle down, from here we want to move on. Be, be fragile, be small, be big. Flow."
In April 2015 Hope released the single Raw . For the recording of the song, the four musicians locked themselves up for one night on a floor of a Berlin factory building with the Milanese director Riccardo Bernardi and played the song for several hours in a row. All audio and video recordings for Raw were made that night.
On January 1, 2016, the band performed together with the Algiers group at the Volksbühne Berlin , and in July 2016 the band released the single Cell on the Berlin indie label Sinnbus .
In September 2016 Hope began recording her debut album with producer Olaf Opal . For this purpose, the band set up a temporary studio in the kitchen wing of the former Grabowsee sanctuary and recorded the eight songs on the album live within a week. After touring together with Idles and Algiers, the finished album was released on October 20, 2017 on the Haldern Pop Recordings label with an exclusively black artwork on white vinyl, CD and download.
The album received mostly positive feedback in the international music media. "So (Hope) invents what we have all needed for a long time: a new German way of singing in English", wrote Daniel Gerhardt on Zeit Online , the magazine Intro titled "Die neue Deutsche Wucht". The British music magazine Louder Than War attested Hope a "new, angrier zeitgeist".
In January 2018 the WDR- Rockpalast released a recording of a concert in building 9 in Cologne, in April Hope went on an album release tour in Germany. In the summer of 2018 Hope u. a. at the Haldern Pop Festival , Fusion Festival and in collaboration with the room choreographer Moritz Majce at the Pop-Kultur Festival Berlin. In addition, Hope recorded two songs for an upcoming single / EP in Bristol in July 2018 with Jim Barr, the bassist of the British band Portishead .
In September 2018, two appearances at the Reeperbahn Festival in Hamburg followed, at which Hope was also nominated for the ANCHOR Award . A recording of the ANCHOR concert is available at Arte Concerts.
Discography
Albums
- 2017: Hope (album; Haldern Pop Recordings )
Singles
- 2014: Nude (single, self-published)
- 2015: Raw (single, self-published)
- 2016: Cell (single, Sinnbus )
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mamsell Zazou. Retrieved September 25, 2018 .
- ↑ http://www.thisishope.de
- ↑ Hope: HOPE - RAW. April 26, 2015, accessed September 25, 2018 .
- ↑ Hope: HOPE / Live at Volksbühne Berlin. February 20, 2016, accessed September 25, 2018 .
- ↑ Hope ›Haldern Pop | Festival | Label | Bar. Retrieved September 25, 2018 (German).
- ^ Destroyer, Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile: New albums on sound carrier . In: ZEIT ONLINE . ( zeit.de [accessed September 25, 2018]).
- ↑ Hope new single Kingdom . In: Louder Than War . August 14, 2017 ( louderthanwar.com [accessed September 25, 2018]).
- ↑ Jörg Maas: Hope - Cologne, Building 9 2017. January 29, 2018, accessed on September 25, 2018 .
- ↑ Hope | ANCHOR - Reeperbahn Festival International Music Award. Retrieved September 25, 2018 .
- ↑ Hope | Reeperbahn Festival 2018 | ARTE Concert. Retrieved September 25, 2018 (German).
- ↑ http://haldernpop.com/band/hope/
- ↑ Nude, by Hope. Retrieved September 25, 2018 .
- ↑ Hope: HOPE - RAW. April 26, 2015, accessed September 25, 2018 .
- ↑ Sinnbus: HOPE - CELL (official video). July 14, 2016, accessed September 25, 2018 .