Edge (band)
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 Edge at the Berlin 05 Festival |
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| General information | |
| origin | Hamburg , Germany |
| Genre (s) | Pop , rock , jazz |
| founding | 1995 |
| Website | www.kantemusik.de |
| Founding members | |
| Peter Thiessen | |
| Sebastian Vogel | |
| Andreas Krane (until 2004) | |
Keyboard |
Jens Vogt (until 1997) |
| Current occupation | |
Vocals, guitar |
Peter Thiessen |
Drums, percussion |
Sebastian Vogel |
bass |
Florian Dürrmann (since 2004) |
Guitar, percussion, vocals, etc. |
Felix Müller (since 1997) |
| former members | |
Piano , keyboard, electronics |
Thomas Leboeg (actually: Thomas Goebel) (2000–2015) |
Kante is a music band from Hamburg that was founded in 1995.
The music is a mixture of jazz with pop and (post; indie) rock elements. The band owes its reputation of belonging to the Hamburg school in particular to the sometimes melancholy and thoughtful lyrics .
Band history
The band was founded in 1988 by Peter Thiessen (guitar, vocals), who also played bass with Blumfeld from 1996 to 2002 , and Sebastian Vogel (drums), who had been friends since childhood and were also musically active together. In 1995 she was given the name Kante and, as a new band member, Andreas Krane on bass. Jens Vogt initially played the keyboard.
In 1997 her first CD “Between the Places” was released on the Berlin label Kitty-Yo . For the tour, Felix Müller joins the band on the second guitar and becomes a permanent member. While instrumental pieces still dominated for the most part on "Zwischen den orten", the second album "zweilicht" (2001) was characterized by sophisticated and thoughtful lyrics without neglecting the music. The fifth permanent member of the band is Thomas Leboeg (piano, keyboards, electronics). With “Zombi” (2004), Kante's music reaches its preliminary climax of melancholy and questions of meaning. Although instrumental pieces have become rarer with each album, sophisticated soundscapes and improvisations are still a central element. Musically, the band has developed: While on “Zwischen den Orte” they still had clear influences from soft machine and post rock , pop-rock elements came to the fore on “Zweilicht” (“The sum of the individual parts”, “In the first Light ”), but they were always rounded off with light jazz influences. "Zombi" is arranged and orchestrated much more opulently than its two predecessors, still contains many pop-rock elements ("Zombi", "Where the Rivers Sing", "Warm Evening"), but also scares off free jazz borrowings ( especially "New Babylon") does not return.
After a nerve-wracking production, bassist Andreas Krane left the band and was replaced by multi-instrumentalist Florian Dürrmann. After a long tour to the album in an elaborate line-up (Rainer Sell: trombone and Micha Acher: flugelhorn, trumpet), the band started working on their fourth album in summer 2005. In August 2006, Die Tiere sind unruhig was their most rocking record to date.
Since May 2007, Kante has been part of the cast of the production of Peter Handke's Traces of the Lost in the Vienna Academy Theater . For this, Kante composed new music, Peter Thiessen had a small speaking role. The band members also worked as musicians and actors in productions by Friederike Heller at the Berlin Schaubühne : for example in 2010 in The Good Man of Sezuan and 2011 in Antigone . Both at the Vienna Burgtheater in Doktor Faustus after Thomas Mann or in The Black Rider at the Schaubühne Berlin, the band was on stage as a musician during the performances.
After seven years primarily as a theater musician, in which several band members also became fathers, Kante brought out a new album in February 2015 with In der Zuckerfabrik , in which they summarize their theater music. In the spring of 2015, with Danton's death at the Staatsschauspiel Dresden , the theater production is still due, then, according to Peter Thiessen, a tour and a new album will follow.
reception
In the music magazine SPEX , Kante was named the second best newcomer band of the year. In Spiegel Online , the albums “Zombi” and The Animals Are Restless were among the “most important CDs of the year” (2004 and 2006, respectively). The Musikexpress listed the album "The Animals Are Restless" at number 1 of the 50 best records of 2006.
Discography
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Studio albums
- 1997: Between the Places (CD or LP)
- 2001: double light (CD or 2LP)
- 2004: Zombi (CD or 2LP)
- 2006: The animals are restless (CD, Ltd.CD / DVD-Set or 2LP)
- 2007: Kante Plays Rhythm Berlin (CD)
- 2015: In the sugar factory , theater music (CD, Hook Music / Indigo)
Best-of, live, remixes and re-releases
- 1998: Redirections (Remix Compilation, CD or LP)
- 2001: In the First Light (revisited) (Remix Compilation, 12 "-EP)
- 2006: Between the Places (re-release of 1997 album with bonus tracks)
- 2006: Zweilicht (re-release of the 2001 album with bonus tracks)
Singles and EPs
- 1993: Kante / Waldorf & Statler (7 "vinyl split single)
- 1997: Heiligengeistfeld (7 "split single with Freewheelin 'Knarf Rellöm)
- 2001: The Sum of the Individual Parts (Promo Single)
- 2001: In the First Light (Promo Single)
- 2001: In the first light revisited (12 "Remix - Maxi)
- 2004: Zombi (promo single or 7 "vinyl single)
- 2004: Warm Evening (promo single)
- 2005: Acoustics Sessions (download EP or on bonus DVD v. The animals are restless )
- 2006: I Saw It (promo single)
- 2006: The Truth (promo single or 10 "vinyl single)
Compilations
- 2005: I Can't Relax In Germany (book CD, below average )
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The band Kante and the Theater: Songs for Handke and Co. , Deutschlandradio Kultur from February 14, 2015, accessed February 14, 2015
- ↑ “A bit crazy” album “In der Zuckerfabrik” by Kante , review by Juliane Streich in the taz on December 19, 2014, accessed February 14, 2015
- ↑ New album from Kante Runter vom Großkünstlertum , Süddeutsche Zeitung from February 14, 2015, accessed February 14, 2015
- ↑ Musikexpress . tape 2007 , no. 01 . Axel Springer Mediahouse Berlin GmbH, 2007.
- ↑ Chart sources: DE AT