Löwenzahnhonig - Berlin @ Neue Zukunft

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Admission: 19:00
Start: 20:00

With Skylinekiss, the Swiss instrumental trio Löwenzahnhonig returns with a cinematic, slow-grooving single - somewhere between alpine zen surf, dreamy slow pop and chamber music psychedelia. A guitar shimmers like sunlight through the cracks of old barn wood, the bass narrates with patience and the drums breathe in landscapes rather than bars. One thinks of Khruangbin, Tortoise or Yo La Tengo - music for all those who not only listen to it, but drift with it. A quiet dance through memory and light.
It was high summer when Dandelion Honey moved into the barn. No studio, no city noise, no everyday worries. Just the air, heavy with sun dust and the scent of flowers, the milky light between the cracks in the wooden beams and a collection of instruments that sounded like they came from another time. There, where time pressure had no reception, Kirschblütenboogie was created - an album like a Super 8 film set to music: shimmering, yellowed, full of quiet precision. Löwenzahnhonig sound as if someone had taken the tempo out of pop music to give it room to breathe again. Guitar lines sneak through the window like rays of sunshine, the bass is a patient narrator, the drums prefer to think in landscapes rather than bars.
The music of this Swiss instrumental band is a poetic deceleration. Listening to it, you recognize fleeting shadows of Khruangbin, whose guitar lines seem to have been sent on a journey through time. But Löwenzahnhonig counter this with something of their own: a kind of alpine zen surf, dreamy yet precise. The term "retro" is a misnomer. What this music does is more archaeological. It unearths something that was buried under layers of volume and time pressure. In some moments, Dandelion Honey recall the cinematic vastness of Tortoise, the wandering clarity of Yo La Tengo, the lonely landscapes through which Ry Cooder once sent his slide guitar. And so you stand in front of this music like in front of an old photo album in an attic: you don't know anyone, but you can feel that it affects you.
And when you experience Löwenzahnhonig live, you finally understand that this music is more than just a backdrop. The band modulates the tempo with somnambulistic certainty, allowing pieces to flow, falter and expand like rays of sunshine in the afternoon. Their concerts are spaces of happiness - somewhere between somnambulistic transcendence and relaxed danceability. The latter in particular finds more space on the second album than on the debut record. This is exactly what makes the anticipation for the upcoming European tour so great: because what Löwenzahnhonig succeed in doing in the studio becomes a moving picture live. A concert like a journey through time. And a band that has long since earned its place in the memory of the present.

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