Apparatjik
It’s about time we posted about a less well known band, that’s what we’re hear for after all so here is one that caught my ear, the beats are synthy, chilled yet upbeat. It’s a bit different to what we’ve posted in the past but we’re sure that our readers will enjoy this band
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The lineup: Jonas Bjerre (lead vocals, guitar), Magne Furuholmen (guitar, keyboards), Guy Berryman (bass), Martin Terefe (drums).
The background: Supergroups have long been thought of as the places that rock musicians go when their original bands run out of steam. But there have been some quite good ones in the last decade or so. There was at the end of the 90s the second incarnation of Art of Noise (featuring Trevor Horn, Anne Dudley, Paul Morley, Lol Creme of 10cc and guest rapper Rakim), and more recently there was Damon Albarn’s the Good, the Bad & the Queen. Depending on how conservative your tastes are, Apparitjik will either strike you as a hotchpotch of people you hate, or a strong collection of disparate musicians and studio rats, comprising Guy Berryman of Coldplay, Magne the second most handsome one from A-ha, who have enjoyed something of a critical reappraisal of late, Jonas Bjerre of Danish prog-popsters Mew, and Martin Terefe, who was in 2009 the tenth most successful producer in the US Hot 100 singles chart, just behind Kanye, will.i.am, Max Martin and Dr Luke.
It’s interesting to see who the alpha male is here. Put it this way: you would never know that Berryman was involved. If you’re a fan of Mew’s complex but melodic progscapes and A-ha’s windswept, existentialist techno-pop, you’ll love We Are Here, which is a Mew album in all but name while also recalling the harder moments from the A-ha catalogue”
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They’ve got ideas, too, have Apparitjik, and bring a conceptual heft to bear on the project. They are, they proclaim, “a collective with cross-field collaborators in the worlds of music, art, fashion, and the scientific community”. And their first public performance took place inside a specially constructed cube inspired by the Bauhaus movement, itself an idea “congruent with the Apparatjik website, also based on a cube, which pays homage to the complex and controversial theories of quantum-theorist Max Tegmark, a quantum-mechanics professor at M.I.T. Boston, USA.” Blimey. You didn’t get that with Beck Bogert & Appice.
Quoted from the Guardian.co.uk – Written by Paul Lester
http://www.myspace.com/apparatjik
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