Will-o'-the-wisp (band)
| Will-o'-the-wisp | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Synth rock , electro pop , pop |
| founding | 1996 |
| Website | http://www.irrlicht.ch/ |
| Current occupation | |
| Daniela Dietz | |
| Markus Nauli | |
synthesizer |
Renato Kienberger |
synthesizer |
Marc Homberger |
| former members | |
singing |
Markus Meier (until 2005) |
guitar |
Peter Skrotzky (until 2010) |
guitar |
Stefan Fuhlroth (until 2003) |
guitar |
Nathan Plancherel (until 2005 or from 2010 to 2014) |
Irrlicht is a Swiss band that was founded in 1996.
Band history
With the presentation of the album End.Klang in 2005, founding member Markus Meier (as well as Nathan Plancherel) bid farewell. Due to the now sole singing of Daniela Dietz (formerly a singer with Illuminate ) and the lack of Meier's formative spoken chant and his lyrics , a change in style became clear.
In October 2006, after almost two years, another concert took place at which the current band members could be heard for the first time. In December 2007 the album Bilderbuch was released , which received a positive response in the press. The vote for "CD of the month December" or fourth place in the annual charts of DepecheMode.ch was worth mentioning.
On January 9, 2009, the band celebrated their tenth stage anniversary in the Dynamo Club Zurich , and all band members who were no longer active could be seen live together for one evening.
In 2010 the band returned with the album Pygmalion . Due to a change of label and distribution (Danse Macabre or Alive!) The CD was withdrawn and re-released in autumn 2011. In February 2012, Collection 1997–2011 was followed by a Best Of, which documents the band's career.
With the album Près du miroir , the band released new material again in October 2014. The resulting single Dans ce miroir placed the band in the DAC (German Alternative Charts) in October / November 2014.
With an EP in 2017 (Werden Werden) and an album in 2020 (Patience), the band released more songs on a regular basis.
Music genre
Until about 2001 it was still at home in the area of the New German Death Art , later the music tended towards electro-pop and German-speaking pop . The initially exclusively male, recitative spoken song was replaced by Daniela Dietz's female voice. Technoid rhythms and electro or future pop elements replaced the mood of the early years, which was once heavily influenced by dark waves .
Discography
- 1997: Poor fool, kill you your thought
- 1998: Chalice of the Rose (Maxi)
- 1999: time
- 2000: Thought Splinter (EP)
- 2001: Seraphina's Garden
- 2003: De / Cadence
- 2005: End.Klang
- 2005: Into the Night (Maxi)
- 2007: picture book
- 2010: Pygmalion
- 2012: Collection 1997–2011
- 2014: Près du miroir
- 2017: Will Stay (EP)
- 2020: Patience