End of June noticed the, now effectively put in, Community Music Chat Team challenge: Artists Wanted – Share Your Talent With The Community attain it is fifth version.
Today, we’ve the pleasure to satisfy the German band from Bochum Wir hatten was mit Björn, winner of this version, with their tune “RUINS“.
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The musical journey of WIR HATTEN WAS MIT BJÖRN began in 2012 with singer and composer Maika Küster and trombone participant Maria Trautmann. The band makes use of to current its music as Indie Jazz/Pop, and to explain it as an ecclectic expertise, defying style guidelines. They ship a heat, delicate, intimate, tender and clever sound mixing acoustic devices and a contact of digital sounds, actual introspection of human being.
Credit Photo: Marcus Engler
I had the possibility to ask this gifted band some questions for introducing them higher to the Spotify Community. You can learn our dialog under:
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■ How did you meet? How did you resolve to create a duo and the place does the title of the group come from?
We met on a prepare in 2011 after we each studied at Folkwang University. There was a mutual falling in love and a whole lot of shared style in music. So it felt very pure to start out writing songs collectively. The band title took place after we as soon as sat collectively in Maria’s kitchen…
■ For Maria: You are taking part in the trombone. It’s not a standard instrument to start with as a child. Where does your love for this instrument come from, and when did you begin taking part in it?
I began taking part in trombone on the age of 12 and it was a really pragmatic determination. There was a necessity of trombone gamers in lots of native youth orchestras and massive bands so I received to play with lots of people at a younger age. A bit later, after I purchased my first instrumental CD (Tommy Dorsey) and I realised that the trombone has a really distinctive and singing sound which I fell in love with, so I stayed with the instrument.
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■ For Maika: When you began to sing, did you apply classical singing or did you immediately begin with Jazz? You additionally play the guitar, is that this your base for composing?
I began with Jazz singing. Me and Maria each studied Jazz Performance in University. A bit later I took classical singing classes. At some level it was clear that the very best method to achieve freedom in singing and be capable of entry all attainable colours in my voice is to apply classical approach, as a result of it’s like a grasp self-discipline of singing. When you’ll be able to sing that type of type you’ll be able to sing all the things. It relies upon how I compose, typically on the piano, typically on the guitar.
■ Your first album “Oh What Pretty Thing” was launched in 2017. At this time you have been taking part in with Manuel Loos as your drummer. In 2018 you have been joined by double bass participant Caris Hermes. What made you are feeling that you simply needed to prolong your duo to grow to be a quartet?
We desire to play in a quartet as a result of it offers us extra dynamic prospects on stage. The rhythm part helps to create the dancy vibes.
■ Your music could be very intimate, are you able to inform us a bit about your artistic course of? Do you improvise loads? How are your lyrics coming collectively?
Plenty of time passes from the primary concept for a tune to the completed model of it. In between there are a whole lot of steps, they positively embody improvisation, but in addition engaged on the lyrics in a really concentrated and not-improvised means. The music we try to make roughly consists of those two elements, one is discovering new buildings by way of improvisation, the opposite could be very dedicatedly fascinated with what we wish to say. So writing lyrics might be achieved from a really intimate perspective, sitting on the piano, attempting to determine melody, concord and lyrics – attempting to realize the imaginative and prescient of a tune and the message in our heads. The different a part of the music occurs along with the band within the rehearsal room.
■ On “RUINS”, your unique acoustic sound marks an evolution with the introduction of digital sounds. Was it, for you, apparent to widen the rendering of your music?
It was a acutely aware alternative to make use of all the chances of devices and sounds we’ve within the manufacturing means of the album so as to serve the message of every tune. We fell in love with the extra depth that comes with using the digital sounds and synthesizer harmonies.
■ Your final single “RIVER“, launched on the finish of June, begins like a good looking intimate ballad and turns right into a magical haunting comfortable digital dance-pop tune. Is this the musical path to count on in your album “ON THE RUINS” coming this september?
“RIVER” is certainly the tune with the widest vary of types and probably the most extremes on this sense. However, you’ll be able to positively count on a diversified and colourful album the place every tune has its personal soundscape.
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■ I assume that, like each musician, you may have different artists inspiring you, and perhaps, some that you’d love work with. Can you inform us a bit extra about them?
If Maika ever received the possibility to work with Kendrick Lamar, she can be reeeeally glad. Other inspirations embody Devendra Banhart, Little Dragon … but in addition a whole lot of associates we work with carefully are a giant inspiration to us.
■ I’ve learn that you simply carry out reside with the total quartet, but in addition as a duo Voice/Trombone improvising and creating music within the second. What does this fashion of performing offer you musically?
This is definitely all you want and might transport the purest model of the tune, melody with bass line, two devices contrapuncting. So it helps us to get to the essence of a tune and to get to know one another by way of improvisation.
■ Thanks loads for all these solutions giving the chance to the Spotify Community customers to get to know you higher. I’ll end with one final query:
Imagine that I can provide the Keys of the World, what would you do with them?
Make ressources accessible for everybody … and kill the wealthy! 😀
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Maika Küster—Voice
Website http://www.wirhattenwasmitbjörn.de/ Label Booking Lena Müller |
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| Credit Photo: Marcus Engler |
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