Lily Yellow

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Lily Yellow
General information
Genre (s) Electro pop
founding 2008
Website lilyyellow.ch
Current occupation
singing
 Nina Gutknecht
guitar
 Simon Rupp
Keyboard
 Peter Estermann
bass
 Andreas Aeberhard
Drums
 Marc Hemantha Hufschmid

Lily Yellow is the artist name of the Swiss singer Nina Gutknecht (* 1984 in Bern ) and the name of her band.

biography

Gutknecht first appeared as a singer when she was twelve. She studied flute and jazz singing at the Lucerne School of Music . She is a prize winner of the Friedl Wald Foundation and teaches singing at the Aaretal Music School in Münsingen .

As an interpreter, she appeared as the front woman of the soul group Gundi and with the women's band X-elle . In 2008 she founded the band Lily Yellow and released their debut album Yes I Say No in February 2012 . She describes Lily Yellow's style as "melancholy electro-pop, with a portion of trash".

Discography

Gutknecht has worked on the following albums:

  • Gundi: Eugene (2006)
  • Gundi: Live Mühle Hunziken (2007)
  • Gundi: Walking On The Line (2009)
  • Quetzal: 5:45 (2010, with Veronika Stalder, Urs Müller, Simon Iten, Lukas Mantel )
  • X-elle: You Better Get Up (2010)
  • Lily Yellow: Yes I Say No (2012)

Yes I Say No was positively received by the Bern press. The federal government praised the “captivating debut album” as a “bold, cheeky, musically impressive work ... which is stylistically difficult to grasp”. According to the Berner Zeitung, “pop appeal and soul feeling rub against dark folk and atmospheric trip-hop and yet complement each other in a miraculous way”. Trespass.ch praised Lily Yellow's courage to forego “shallow arrangements” and “palatable retro sound”, but noted that the experimental sound and the “mysteriously intricate melody” made access to the album difficult.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Perrine Bishop: Lily Yellow: "I can never decide what I want" , Berner Zeitung of February 10, 2012
  2. ↑ a b c d e Lily Yellow: " About, " accessed March 12, 2012
  3. ↑ a b c d Julian Zahnd: Make gold out of yellow ( Memento of the original from June 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / agenda.derbund.ch archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , The Federation of March 1, 2012
  4. ↑ a b Lily Yellow - Yes I Say No , trespass.ch, February 14, 2012
  5. ↑ X-elle : Bios  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 4.4 MB)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.x-elle.ch   , accessed on March 12, 2012
  6. ↑ a b Michael Gurtner: A piece of musical happiness , Berner Zeitung of February 29, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Lily Yellow
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gutknecht, Nina (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss singer
DATE OF BIRTH 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern , Switzerland