Squintaloo

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Squintaloo
General information
Genre (s) skirt
founding 1995
Website www.squintaloo.de
Founding members
Heinrich Schiffers
Klemens Klarhorst
Tomas Svensson
Daniel Eichholz
Current occupation
Maurizio Menendez
Heinrich Schiffers
Enrico Antico
Klemens Klarhorst
Daniel Eichholz

Squintaloo is a German rock band that is inspired by various styles of music from electro , avant-garde , rock and prog to death metal .

history

The band was founded in Wolfsburg in 1995 - initially as a pure instrumental formation: electric guitar , electric bass , synthesizer and drums . After Squintaloo had completed several concerts, the first music album was released in 1998 with the title Latantriga, Latantriga! .

The four musicians, who have lived in Berlin since 2002 and perform regularly, released their second album in 2005 with the simple title Squintaloo . In 2007 the band formed anew and can be heard with singing voice ever since. In 2009 the third studio album Sibirskoblast was released .

The two musicians Eichholz and Schiffers are u. a. Members of the bands 2raumwohnung and Schulz and Sons .

Reviews

“ What should this music be compared to, should it be explained? It sounds so strange and unique that the question arises as to whether it can be compared with anything at all. "

“ The spacey instrumental pieces move between playful 70s progressive rock, straight metal and wild free jazz power, always surprising and really creative. "

"Atmospheres with a depth, as we know them from Pink Floyd , meet floating guitar melodies a la Bill Frisell and Pat Metheny , while the drums celebrate an incredibly cleverly staged network of inspiring grooves in well-oiled polyrhythms ."

Discography

  • 1998: Latantriga, Latantriga!
  • 2005: Squintaloo
  • 2009: Sibir coblast
  • 2017: Overboard!

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfsburg Courier , 06/2001
  2. ↑ Guitar & Bass - The Musicians' Magazine , 08/2005
  3. ↑ Sticks - magazine for drums + percussion, CD of the month, 09/2005