Tanner (band)
| Tanner | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Genre (s) | pop |
| founding | 2007 |
| Current occupation | |
| Christoph van Hal | |
| Philipp Weihe | |
| Steffen Häfelinger | |
| Ralf Drefke | |
| Emre Akca | |
| former members | |
Vocals, guitar, keyboard |
Jean-Michel Tourette |
| Ritchie Staringer | |
| Martin Hornung | |
| Justin Balk | |
Tanner was a German band from Hanover .
Emergence
Christoph van Hal met Jean-Michel Tourette at the Hanover University of Music , where both studied. In 2002 Tourette played together with van Hal in a band project that he had put together for his final exam. In September 2005 Tourette, whose band Wir sind Helden had meanwhile celebrated great success, hired van Hal and two other former classmates as a brass section for a concert by the band in Berlin's Wuhlheide . This group accompanied the band for the next three years.
In 2007, during a tour break from Wir sind Helden , van Hal and Tourette met to write songs together. The initial idea was to compose music with German-language texts for a big band . This eventually resulted in pop music with a comparatively strong wind section . At this time Ritchie Staringer was also a member of the band, bassist Ralf Drefke and drummer Emre Akca joined the band for the first recordings .
Tourette, who was heavily involved through his work with Wir sind Helden , did not want to participate as a musician in the newly emerging band . Instead, he took on the role of producer and songwriter, and he also accompanied the band on their first appearances. Staringer, who worked as a film composer , also left the project. They were replaced by Justin Balk ( guitar , banjo ) and Martin Hornung ( keyboard ). The band was named after the crime scene commissioner Christian Thanner , Horst Schimanski's partner portrayed by Eberhard Feik .
In the summer of 2009 Tanner recorded their first EP They call it TromPop . A music video was also created for the title “The spirits I called”. In autumn 2009 Christoph van Hal was a guest on the music show TV Noir together with Jean-Michel Tourette , where they presented some of the titles.
In 2010, Tanner played at the BootBooHook Festival, among others . In September 2010 it was announced that Tanner Wir sind Helden will support the Bring me home tour as the opening act.
At the beginning of 2011 Justin Balk and Martin Hornung decided to go their own musical ways. The guitarist Steffen Häfelinger and the keyboardist Nicolas Börger joined the team. In this new line-up, Tanner played again in March 2011 as opening act for Wir sind Helden . In April of the same year, the band undertook the “Mit Augen zu” tour.
Tanner were funded by the Initiative Musik in 2011 ; an album should appear in the same year.
Discography
- 2009: They call it TromPop
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ We are heroes: Information on tours and other items. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-596-17754-7 , pp. 98 ff.
- ↑ a b c d e f TV Noir : Interview with Tanner (Video) Published October 8, 2009. Accessed September 27, 2010.
- ↑ We are heroes: Information on tours and other items. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-596-17754-7 , p. 333 f.
- ↑ a b c Jasmin Dreger: Interview with Tanner Published on Regioactive.de on January 6, 2010, accessed on September 27, 2010.
- ↑ bootbohook.com: Tanner (D) ( Memento from August 20, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Retrieved September 27, 2010.
- ↑ News ( Memento of the original from May 3, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The 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. on the Tanner website. Entry from September 18, 2010, accessed September 27, 2010.
- ↑ News ( Memento of the original from May 3, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The 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. on Tanner's website, entry March 11, 2011, accessed March 14, 2011.
- ^ Initiative music: Tanner. 2011, accessed April 2, 2017 .
