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Wand, Pult
PICK OF THE DAY
You cannot miss this event.
In the organizer's words:
Powerline Agency presents
WAND
+ special guest PULT
+ special guest PULT
Admission 19:00 Start 20:00
"Plum" is Wand's fourth LP since the band formed in late 2013, but their first new album in two years. After a tumultuous initial period of writing, recording and touring at a frenetic pace, their latest document marks a period of relative patience; a refocusing and a push towards a new democratization of both process and musical surface.
In the late winter of 2016, the band expanded its core lineup of Evan Burrows, Cory Hanson and Lee Landey with two new members - Robbie Cody on guitar and Sofia Arreguin on keyboards and vocals. The new ensemble moved naturally from the beginning to a different way of working as they learned to listen to each other and trust this new format. The songwriting process was deliberately shifted to the practice room, where the band spent hours a day for several months improvising freely while recording as much of the activity as they could manage. Previously, wall songs were generally brought to the group, which consisted largely of vocalist and guitarist Cory Hanson. Now, new songs were harvested from a growing cloud of archived material, then fleshed out and negotiated together as the band rhythmically alternated between the permissive space of jamming and the obsessive space of critique. This new process required more honest communication, more vulnerability, better boundaries, more mercy and perseverance in a year that by now had caused everyone involved a great deal of romantic, familial and political grief. They learned more about their instruments and their perceived limitations. Much else fell apart in their personal lives, in their bodies, and the bodies of those close to them. In this way, Plum lengthened like a shadow under a dusky orange; or rather "Weird Orange", an affectionate name for the color of a roulette-selected, on-tour batch of Golem vinyl ... a figure of speech, an inside joke, a talisman, a bookmark, a mood ring. And in the meantime, the changing weather, the radio signals, the helicopters overhead. The strange orange softened, darkened slightly and melted into a plum. Plum's music concentrates teeming, dense, sometimes wildly multichromatic sounds into Wand's most conscious statement yet, over which hovers the shadow of a long evening of loss and longing. Plum carefully locates the band's line of flight from the warm and comfortable shallows of genre anachronism, an eyes-closed, mouth-open leap towards a more freely associative and contemporary logic of pastiche that more honestly reflects the ravenous musical om - nivorousness of the five people who wrote and played it.
PULT is the musical output and studio project of friends Niklas Tschaikowsky and Jascha Kreft (Kadavar / Odd Couple). They modestly blur the genre boundaries between hard kraut, 70s film music and folk. The project began in the summer of 2020 as a remnant of a previously planned meeting of friends who wanted to create cinematic, danceable and hard instrumental music that celebrates the beauty of playing together.
In their latest work, PULT creates soundscapes that evoke the feeling that Bo Hansson has a musical connection with the Allman Brothers, Grateful Dead, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Jimi Hendrix. Recently, the project has been updated by more friends to present it in a live setting.
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Location
Organizer | Booking Agency
Live Embassy
Köln
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