Johnny darling

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Johnny darling
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General information
Genre (s) Alternative rock
founding 2003, 2013
resolution 2008
Website http://www.johnnyliebling.de
Current occupation
Ralph Beulshausen
Chris Kiel
Martin Fekl
Kim Kiesling
Rüdiger Hensel (until 2013)
Miriam Büscher (since 2013)

Johnny Liebling is a German band from Hamburg, founded in 2003.

The band name is derived from the character "Johnny Favorite" from the movie "Angel Heart". The band has released three albums so far.

history

In 2003, the producer team Martin Fekl and Kim Kiesling decided to make live music again after a long period of pure studio work. They teamed up with singer Chris Kiel, with whom they had already shared the soul rock band “Lovekrauts” in the nineties, as well as singer Ralph Beulshausen and drummer Rüdiger Hensel. Initially founded as a session project, the band played regularly in Hamburg's trendy bars and released their first EP . Johnny Liebling quickly became popular, so the record company Universal, noticed the band, offered her a recording contract. After two albums, Johnny Liebling took a longer creative break. In 2013 the band formed again. Miriam Büscher joined the team on drums.

style

In the early days, the band's sound was strongly influenced by jazz, in the style of Tom Waits and the "fake jazz" of John Lurie's "Lounge Lizzards", elements of polka and Latin were also represented. Called "dope jazz" by the band itself, the first concerts were improvised over long distances, something that was later moved away from. The main feature was always a “wild”, unpolished approach. Later, the band oriented itself more towards a more stringent and rockier sound, which has strong sixties, psychedelic, beat and krautrock influences à la Can with twang and fuzz guitars, organs and hypnotic rhythms. Nick Cave with his Grinderman project is also mentioned. The line-up consists of an electric guitar, a double bass (partly alienated with effects), as well as two very contrary singers who practically embody the band's Janus-headed dual identity. Plus economical, often bulky sounding keyboards and drums. Every now and then a trumpet, played by singer Ralph Beulshausen, sets the tone.

The lyrics are reminiscent of film noir, sometimes also of popular morality, songs from the 20s / 30s, often Kafkaesque overdrawn. It's about the shattered human nature, the feeling of life on the edge, the existence on the edge of society, which is viewed with suspicion, but also about intoxication and the brief, but all the more ecstatic exhilaration.

Discography

Albums

  • 2007: Just not home
  • 2005: golden times

EPs

  • 2004: dope jazz

Music videos

Web links

Individual evidence