sænder & komparse - BandsPrivat Konzert

In the organizer's words:

Ahoy,
they're doing it again!
sænder & komparse are coming back on tour in 2024 for a few dates together to present their new albums.
You can expect 2 names, 2 sets by 2 Cologne artists with 2 guitars, 2 voices, beats, noise and lots of frippery.

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komparse (SingerSongwriterIndiePop with German lyrics)
You can't reinvent the wheel, but you can reinvent yourself. If you leave everything behind, start from scratch, throw the TV out of the window and loose thoughts out of your life, maybe something new will happen. And a komparse knows that. Because in the end, we are all one - with wet clothes, broken shoes and the beauty of opportunity.
Clacking beats, glockenspiel melodies, soundscapes of harmonium and guitar melodies, basses, sometimes booming, sometimes subtle, and stories from life told in German: Komparse from Cologne.
► https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbnCcqJri-d1hqWZl-hJuONrpyaSfD_DZ
"Minimalist hymns. Torn from everyday life and dedicated to it. They come and go, these songs, out of nowhere, like the moments they set to music."
(Christoph Schrag - Radio Fritz)
"They manage to touch with their music. Sounds cheesy - but it is."
(jmc-magazin.de)
"Here, not every word has to be hammered into shape with a mallet, here the good feeling about the sad line counts more than the cheap rhyme."
(MPMBL)
"Zitzewitzen's cleverly crafted Sprechgesang and the interplay of nourishing electric guitars and almost disembodied electronic elements have a high recognition potential."
(gaesteliste.de)
"Light-footed indie pop between Tomte and Gisbert zu Knyphausen."
(laut.de)

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sænder (IndieLoFiShoegazePop with German lyrics)
... is the sound of some big city, charming, weird, sexy, smart, very cool, lofi-klacker-knarzig, post-wave, schrammel-punky & lots and lots of ShoegazePOP.
► https://www.youtube.com/@snder-music3533/playlists

local indie types like Aydo ABAY say:
"Music for and by people who live music"

or colleague Robert Drakogiannakis ( Angelika Express)

"This is the very beautiful and pure definition of indie rock" (niels frevert)

"sænder? that's that english guy you don't know if he's coming to the soundcheck or if he's only going to show up 5 minutes before showtime - and then throw his big city anthems into the audience like a frisbee through the cologne folk garden."
"Sænder is a shoegazer by nature and likes noisy, washed-out British-style guitar riffs: Ride, My Bloody Valentine, New Order. However, Sænder is not an introverted Englishman, but a Cologne boy who wears his heart on his sleeve. And so, over the massive wall of sound of guitars and drum machines, he spits euphoric, melancholy lines about life as a slacker king in a brash voice and in German." - (Oliver Minck)

Sænder, the savior and keeper of the "indie" principle and Cologne's only one-man power pop band, makes a brilliant comeback with "Ahoy Rock'n'Roll".
(Eric Pfeil, die Realität, Rolling Stone, Musik Express)

Good that such incorrigible types still exist.
(Cologne City Review)