Hey Troublemakers!
We've had a heck of a past few weeks! It started with our Tour of Czechia with Deloraine. This was the first time that we could test out some new equipment and also bring Todd on stage with us on Drums. We've known Todd for a decade now from the Berlin music scene. He is a brilliant drummer and a good friend of the band. While we were performing with "Just Like Clay" in Switzerland earlier this year, he approached us while playing as a part of a street project called "Buckit" and mentioned that if there were ever any shows where we needed a drummer, that he now was quite available. We thought immediately to this time in the Fall. After a few rehearsals together and a test spin at Admiralspalast (as you do...), we were ready to hit the road together for some bigger shows with Deloraine.
Todd absolutely smashed it! His experience as a street drummer really vibes with us, and he comes with a lot of musical ideas. The feedback from the 3 shows we played with him were immense! So much so, that it felt absolutely necessary to ask him to be the drummer for our big Prologue show on the 14th in Saxony!
The Prologue. This has been years in the making. In some ways, the idea was first born in the Pandemic, but it was far from the right time to try and realize such a project. As the years went by, it remained a lucid dream, but the ingredients weren't right. It began during our "cooking nights" in 2020. We would regularly invite friends over to ours for dinner and discuss life and different projects and aspirations. Renaldo Verde is one of those friends. Renaldo is an architect and a visual artist from Venezuela, who studied at University in Germany 15 years ago. He's been living in Berlin since, and become a part of our friend circle back in 2017. We were always impressed by him, because he was constantly being invited by different "Festival of Lights" events to travel all over Europe and do "Mapping" on different buildings. His concepts are brilliant.
During those Dinners 5 years ago, we started dreaming about a project that we could work on together. One that followed a story. One that added an immersive and dynamic component to our music, while at the same time allowed us to still be free and energetic on stage. As the idea for an entire Novel and Story-Album came to fruition over the past year, it was only logical that we would finally realize the project that we've dreamt of doing together. And so, with the input of the scenes from 5 tracks for the story, Renaldo has built an immersive projection sequence that will carry the story throughout our performance. This will debut on the 14th of November as the first part of the show!
This Video was the first recording of our test run without drums. It was a way to see if the images fit the story. It's far from final, but it gives you a peak of the quality and the scale at which we are trying to build. This is a fraction of what we envision to come from this show...
We hope seeing these scenes intrigues you to know more, because it is an exciting venture for us. Our creative minds are flowing!
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