Wucan

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Wucan
General information
origin Dresden , Saxony , Germany
Genre (s) skirt
founding 2011
Website www.wucan-music.de
Current occupation
Francis Tobolsky
Electric guitar
 Tim
Patrik
former members
Pätz
Drums
 Ollie
Drums
 Marc
Drums (session)
 Leo Vaessen

Wucan is a Saxon rock band from Dresden that was founded in 2011.

history

In December 2011, singer Francis Tobolsky placed an ad in a student magazine with the intention of forming a band. Guitarist Tim and drummer Pätz joined her over the next four weeks, after which the first rehearsals followed. In November 2012, the bassist Patrik completed the band. In April of the following year, the first two demos Frank and Dopetrotter were published on YouTube . In October 2013 the first appearance in the Heavy Duty Club in Dresden followed. This was followed by further appearances, and the group was from now on supported by the former Noise Records founder Karl-Ulrich Walterbach . In January 2014 further demo recordings followed in Berlin , before the EP Vikarma with producer Michael Gerlach was recorded in March . In addition, Pätz left the line-up as a live drummer, but remained part of the band. In the summer, Ollie was added as a new drummer, after which the EP was released on Metalizer Records in November . After only eight appearances, the band was already represented at the Hammer of Doom Festival . In January 2015, Ollie was replaced by Marc. Then began work on the debut album in February. In March they went on tour with Siena Root . Marc also left the band. With Leo Vaessen as the drummer, the album was recorded in May and June. The recordings for this took place with producer Richard Behrens in the Big Snuff Studio in Berlin. The album was released in September of the same year under the name Sow the Wind .

style

According to laut.de you can hear “ hippiesque retro rock sounds” in the songs . On the EP Vikarma you can hear retro rock in the style of the late 1960s and early 1970s. The group was influenced by bands like Kansas and Boston . Boris Kaiser from Rock Hard noted in his review to Sow the Wind noted that Wucan still stronger than the genre colleagues Kadavar , Zodiac , Samsara Blues Experiment and Heat on Krautrock served. The tough approach in the songs reminds me of Lucifer's Friend , Eiliff , Night Sun , Weed and King Pin Meh . In quieter passages, the female vocals sound a bit like Melissa Etheridge , otherwise parallels to Frumpy would emerge through the singing . Occasionally, influences from funk and flute-based folk rock would be incorporated. In the 16-minute song Wandersmann , influences from psychedelic rock are incorporated and Father Storm sounds a bit like Jethro Tull . Michael Rensen also reviewed the album in the same issue. The vocals are "krautrockig-staid" and the electric guitars process influences from classic rock . He too heard things in common with Jethro Tull.

Discography

  • 2013: Frank (demo, self-published)
  • 2013: Dopetrotter (demo, self-publication)
  • 2014: Vikarma (EP, Metalizer Records )
  • 2015: Sow the Wind (album, MIG )
  • 2017: Reap the Storm (Album, MIG)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Wucan. laut.de , accessed on December 20, 2015 .
  2. ↑ a b Info. Facebook , accessed December 20, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Boris Kaiser, Michael Rensen: Wucan . Sow the wind. In: Rock Hard . No. 341 , October 2015, p. 107 .