Long distance calling
| Long distance calling | |
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 Long Distance Calling live at Summer Breeze 2017 |
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| General information | |
| origin | Munster , Germany |
| Genre (s) | Post rock , post metal |
| founding | 2006 |
| Website | www.longdistancecalling.de |
| Current occupation | |
| David Jordan | |
| Florian Füntmann | |
| Jan Hoffmann | |
| Janosch Rathmer | |
| former members | |
| Reimut van Bonn (until 2012) | |
singing |
Martin Fischer (2012-2015) |
| Live and session members | |
| Petter Carlsen (since 2015) | |
Long Distance Calling is a German post-rock band from Münster . The band was formed in 2006 and is under contract with InsideOut Music . She plays instrumental rock music with relatively long pieces. According to the band, the band name can be understood as a " long-distance call" as well as a "call from far away". The main reason for choosing the band name was the harmony of the words.
history
Early years (2005-2006)
In November 2005 the guitarist Florian Füntmann , the bassist Jan Hoffmann and the drummer Janosch Rathmer got to know each other. After several jam sessions together , another guitarist, David Jordan, joined the band. The line-up was completed by Reimut van Bonn in March 2006. All members were already musically active before Long Distance Calling was founded. Janosch Rathmer and Florian Füntmann were also active in the melodic death metal band Misery Speaks . David Jordan played drums with The Ghost Dance Movement and Reimut van Bonn with Muad'dib . Bassist Jan Hoffmann previously played in the metal band Dogday .
Originally a singer was also wanted. After the band tried out several candidates over a period of several months and could not find a suitable singer, the musicians decided on a “sound person” - in this case Reimut van Bonn - instead of a singer. Another argument against a singer was to let the music speak for itself. At the end of 2006 Long Distance Calling released their demo DMNSTRTN . The title describes the word demonstration without vowels . The demo was positively received by the trade press. The magazines Visions and Rock Hard voted DMNSTRTN each for demo of the month.
Satellite Bay and Avoid the Light (2007-2010)
The band signed a contract for an album with Viva Hate Records. After appearances with A Whisper in the Noise and a tour in support of 65daysofstatic , the band recorded the debut album Satellite Bay within three days in April 2007 . The album was released in October of the same year and was positively received by critics. As a guest vocalist Peter Dolving of Swedish thrash metal band The Haunted in the piece Built Without Hands to hear. On the occasion of a joint tour with the Swiss band Leech , the split EP 090208 was recorded in 2008. Further appearances followed, including with dredg and at the Rock am Ring music festival .
Also in 2008 the band recorded another demo with the piece Apparitions and used it to apply to various record companies . Eventually, Long Distance Calling was signed to Superball Music. In November 2008 the band traveled to Koblenz to record the second album Avoid the Light , produced by Blackmail and Scumbucket guitarist Kurt Ebelhäuser . Here came Jonas Renkse of the Swedish metal band Katatonia in the play The Nearing Grave on guest vocals. Avoid the Light was released in April 2009. Long Distance Calling then went on tour several times and played in the opening act for bands such as Opeth , Katatonia and Anathema and also played at festivals such as Summer Breeze .
Long Distance Calling (2011–2012)
In spring 2011 the band worked in various jam sessions on their third, self-titled studio album , which was recorded in summer 2010 in the Horus Studios in Hanover . On the album, which the band produced together with Benjamin Schäfer, the Armored Saint and former Anthrax singer John Bush can be heard as a guest singer on the piece Middleville . According to drummer Janosch Rathmer, the band was completely satisfied with one of their studio albums for the first time. Since the musicians wanted to make it clear that this album should define the band, Long Distance Calling was named after the band. The album was once again consistently received positively by the trade press and was named album of the week by Visions or Focus magazines, for example . The band shot their first music video for the song Into the Black Wide Open .
With Long Distance Calling the band reached their first chart position and reached number 36 in the German album charts . The editors of the German magazine Metal Hammer selected Long Distance Calling as the best album of the year in the post-hardcore / rock / metal genres. In the summer of 2011 the band played at the Reeperbahn Festival , the Rockharz Open Air and ProgPower Europe . After their own headlining tour in autumn 2011, a European tour followed in spring 2012 as a support act for the Canadian progressive metal band Protest the Hero . In April 2012 the band announced the friendly separation from Reimut van Bonn before the band appeared at the Maifeld Derby .
The Flood Inside and Nighthawk (2012-2014)
In September 2012 the band recorded their fourth studio album in the Megaphon Tonstudios in Arnsberg . After completing the recordings, the band announced the entry of former Fear My Thoughts member Martin Fischer into the band as a singer and keyboard player. In autumn 2012 Long Distance Calling played at the Euroblast Festival . The fourth studio album The Flood Inside was released on March 1, 2013 and entered the German charts at number 33 and 79 in the Swiss charts. At the same time, a headlining tour through Europe began, during which the band was accompanied by the opening acts Sólstafir , Audrey Horne and Sahg . Also in 2013, Long Distance Calling played again at Summer Breeze and at the first ever Metal Hammer Paradise festival in the Weißenhäuser Strand holiday park . The band donated all of the income generated from their online shop on November 22, 2013 to the aid organization Doctors Without Borders . The reason for the fundraising campaign was the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan , which had caused severe devastation , especially in the Philippines . An amount of a thousand euros came together.
In February 2014 Long Distance Calling played another European tour, this time with the bands Junius and Wolves Like Us in the opening act. After the second European tour, the band planned to record a purely instrumental Jam EP. The EP should be released in April or May 2014 on the band's own label Avoid the Light Records . The project was financed by crowdfunding via the Pledge Music internet platform . The EP titled Nighthawk was finally released on June 26, 2014. In the summer of 2014, the band played at the Festival With Full Force .
Trips and Boundless (2015 to 2018)
The band then began work on their fifth studio album. Since he wanted to concentrate more on his private life, Martin Fischer left the band after the recordings were finished. Fischer only contributed keyboards and sound effects to trips . The new singer was the Norwegian Petter Carlsen , who however did not become a permanent member of the band. At the same time, the band signed a new contract with InsideOut Music, who released the album on April 29, 2016. The album was named album of the month by the German magazine Metal Hammer and reached number 23 in the German and 66 in the Swiss album charts. The German Phono Academy awarded trips as the best production in the field Rock / Metal from.
Simultaneously with the release, a European tour began with the supporting bands Tiny Fingers and Rendezvous Point . At the end of 2016, the band played four concerts in the opening act of Amorphis , which celebrated the tenth anniversary of their album Eclipse , before Long Distance Calling headlined a few concerts where only instrumental songs were played. On February 10, 2017, the debut album Satellite Bay was re-released along with the demo DMNSTRN . Both works were remastered by guitarist David Jordan . In May 2017 the band played a small tour under the motto An Evening with Satellite Bay and in the summer at Summer Breeze.
After the concerts, the musicians withdrew to their rehearsal room for several months in order to prepare for their sixth studio album. The band wanted to go back to their roots and recorded a purely instrumental album that contains neither guest musicians nor vocals. Boundless was released on February 2, 2018 and reached number 24 in the German and 22nd Swiss album charts. For the first time, it made the leap into the Austrian charts, where the album took 88th place. On August 4th, 2018 the band played at the festivals Wacken Open Air , Das Fest and the Euroblast Festival. At the end of 2018, a tour with the support group Motorowl followed .
Silent Film and How Do We Want to Live? (since 2019)
In April 2019, on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the second studio album Avoid the Light , the band played three special concerts as part of the Seats & Sounds tour, at which Long Distance Calling played in front of a seated audience for the first time. The concerts took place in the Scala Ludwigsburg and the cultural churches in Cologne and Hamburg-Altona . In addition, the band played at the Deserfest and the Rock Hard Festival. On November 1, 2019, the band released their first live album Stummfilm - Live from Hamburg (A Seats & Sounds Tour) , which was recorded at the Hamburg concert in April 2019. The live album reached number 59 in the German album charts.
A year later, Long Distance Calling was nominated for the German music author's award in the Composition Metal category on the grounds that the band had the "vision of creating an innovative and audiovisual soundtrack that is unique in the German music landscape"
On June 26th, 2020 the seventh studio album How Do We Want to Live? , which was produced by Arne Neurand. Eric A. Pulverich from the band Kyles Tolone can be heard as a guest singer . The album reached number seven in the German and number ten in the Swiss album charts. On July 2, 2020, the band wanted to play a release concert in the Autoarena Oberhausen , where the audience can watch the performance from their cars. For private reasons, the concert had to be canceled without replacement.
style
Long Distance Calling play instrumental rock music. Due to the numerous repetitions of individual passages, the pieces by the band are relatively long. With a playing time of 4:56 minutes, the track Like a River is the shortest in the band's history. The longest piece is Flux with a playing time of 12:36 minutes. The music is partly underlaid with voice samples . The play Fire in the Mountain , for example, contains excerpts from Kafka's prose text Before the Law . Long Distance Calling names post-rock and progressive rock bands such as Isis , Tool , Mogwai, dredg and Porcupine Tree as the most important influences . On later albums influences from classic rock , funk and boogie were added.
Ever since their self-titled album, Long Distance Calling see themselves more as an instrumental rock band than a post-rock band. Bassist Jan Hoffmann described the music of Long Distance Calling as harder, more progressive and more rhythmic than that of other instrumental bands. On the fourth studio album The Flood Inside , half of the pieces are songs with vocals. Drummer Janosch Rathmer justified this with the fact that the musicians wanted to do something new, as they were very satisfied with the previous songs with vocals. In an interview from 2016, Jan Hoffmann saw the band's unique selling proposition that they have both instrumental and vocals.
With their album Boundless , released in 2018 , the band returned to pure instrumental music. Janosch Rathmer noted that the musicians did not feel so comfortable with the singing, while Jan Hoffmann also cited declining audience numbers at concerts and many negative comments in social networks as reasons for the return to instrumental music.
“For me, instrumental music means the possibility of being able to live it out without a limit. Music without singing is more exciting, because more cinema is produced in the head, because no text is told in advance, with a guide to where the journey is going. "
Golden Silence Festival
The first edition of the Golden Silence Festival has been announced for November 2, 2019 . The festival is organized by Jan Hoffmann and Janosch Rathmer and takes place in Münster's Skaters Palace . The special thing about the festival is that only artists perform who make instrumental music without singing. According to Rathmer, such a festival would be “unique” in Germany. According to Janosch Rathmer, the name of the festival has two meanings. On the one hand, the title refers to the phrase "Talking is silver, silence is gold", which would fit the instrumental direction of the festival. On the other hand, the title is intended to remind you that “in times of social media , you should think first before you say something. Sometimes it would also be good to just shut up ”.
In addition to Long Distance Calling as headliners, the bands Monkey3 , Mutiny on the Bounty , Kuf and Curls & Nods also performed at the first edition .
Discography
Studio albums
| year | Title music label |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, music label , placements, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | ||
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 AT
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 CH
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| 2007 |
Satellite Bay Viva Hate / Cargo Records |
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First published: October 5, 2007
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| 2009 |
Avoid the Light Superball Music / SPV |
- | - | - |
First published: April 24, 2009
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| 2011 |
Long Distance Calling Superball Music / EMI |
DE36 (1 week) DE |
- | - |
First published: February 18, 2011
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| 2013 |
The Flood Inside Superball Music / EMI |
DE33 (1 week) DE |
- |
CH79 (1 week) CH |
First published: March 1, 2013
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| 2016 |
Trips InsideOut Music |
DE23 (1 week) DE |
- |
CH66 (1 week) CH |
First published: April 29, 2016
# 7 on the German vinyl charts |
| 2018 |
Boundless InsideOut Music |
DE24 (2 weeks) DE |
AT65 (1 week) AT |
CH22 (1 week) CH |
First release: February 2nd, 2018
# 11 on the German vinyl charts |
| 2020 |
How Do We Want to Live? InsideOut Music |
DE7 (3 weeks) DE |
- |
CH10 (1 week) CH |
First release: June 26, 2020
# 10 of the German vinyl charts |
Nominations
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Web links
- Official website
- Long Distance Calling at Allmusic (English)
- Long Distance Calling at laut.de.
Individual evidence
- ^ Matthias Manthe: Satellite Bay. laut.de , accessed on September 21, 2007 .
- ^ A b c Markus Endres: Long Distance Calling - Interview on "Satellite Bay". Metal.de, accessed on April 28, 2019 .
- ↑ a b c Anja Distelrath and René Bogdanski: Basic discussions in the Tourbulli. The West , accessed June 11, 2008 .
- ↑ Thoralf Koß: Interview with Long Distance Calling. Musikreviews.de, accessed December 28, 2012 .
- ↑ a b Peter: Demonstration without vowels. Schallgrenzen.de, accessed on December 28, 2012 .
- ↑ Alexander Mayer: Unexplored in February. Visions , accessed December 28, 2012 .
- ^ Matthias Olejnik: Interview with guitarist Flo on "Long Distance Calling". Metal.de, accessed on April 28, 2018 .
- ^ Peter Kubaschk: Long Distance Calling: Interview with Janosch. Powermetal.de , accessed on December 28, 2012 .
- ↑ jba: record box: The Streets / Long Distance Calling / Alex Cuba / Césaria Évora. Focus , accessed December 28, 2012 .
- ^ Metal Hammer, Jan 2012, p. 39
- ↑ Oliver Paßgang: The tour of the year. Powermetal.de, accessed on April 28, 2019 .
- ↑ Online editing: Newsflash. Visions, accessed December 2, 2013 .
- ↑ Instrumental Jam EP. Pledge Music, accessed January 20, 2014 .
- ↑ Peter Kubaschk: LONG DISTANCE CALLING: Contract with InsideOut, album in April. Powermetal.de, accessed on January 21, 2016 .
- ↑ Yan Vogel: "It was an accident that the record became so hard". laut.de , accessed on September 8, 2018 .
- ↑ Online editing: Newsflash (Japandroids, Long Distance Calling, Red Fang and others). Visions, accessed October 11, 2016 .
- ↑ Alexandra Michels: Long Distance Calling: "Boundless" album will be released in February. Rock Hard, accessed November 27, 2017 .
- ↑ Long Distance Calling - Seats & Sounds Tour 2019. Metal.de, accessed on July 15, 2019 .
- ↑ Alexandra Michels: LONG DISTANCE CALLING - Nomination for the German Music Author Award. Rock Hard, accessed January 30, 2020 .
- ↑ Peter Sauer: Power of the instruments. Westfälische Nachrichten , accessed on March 3, 2020 .
- ↑ Simon Bauer: LONG DISTANCE CALLING - Oberhausen Autoarena concert canceled at short notice. Rock Hard, accessed June 30, 2020 .
- ^ Matthias Olejnik: Interview with Jan Hoffmann about the split EP "090208". Metal.de, accessed on April 28, 2018 .
- ↑ Boris Kaiser: That's life . In: Rock Hard , February 2013, page 6
- ↑ Thomas Kupfer: Dream trips in the mountain hut . In: Rock Hard, May 2016, page 40
- ↑ Daniel Thomas: Back to the comfort zone . In: Visions, issue 299, page 64
- ^ Peter Sauer: Musical freedom. Westfälische Nachrichten, accessed on July 15, 2019 .
- ^ Pjer Biederstädt: Unique in Germany. Westfälische Nachrichten, accessed on July 15, 2019 .
- ^ Long Distance Calling - Trips (vinyl). GfK Entertainment , accessed on June 29, 2020 .
- ^ Long Distance Calling - Boundless (vinyl). GfK Entertainment, accessed on June 29, 2020 .
- ↑ Long Distance Calling - How Do We Want to Live? (Vinyl). GfK Entertainment, accessed on July 12, 2020 .