THERE IS / NOTHING TWICE
LP + download. 'There Is / Nothing Twice' are two separate ep's, merged together. One part made in their homey Ghent studio, the other recorded - and filmed! - live at Amerikaans Theater in Brussels.
| Genre | Pop |
|---|---|
| Style | Rock |
| Format | VINYL |
| Cat. no | GR012LP |
| Label | GENTLE RECORDINGS |
| Artist | STADT |
| Release Date | 08/03/2019 |
| Carrier | LP |
| Barcode | 5414165105343 |
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THERE IS / NOTHING TWICE
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TRACKLISTING
A1. STADT - Broken People
A2. STADT - Nothing Twice
A3. STADT - Today's a Work of Ages
A4. STADT - Afraid of Bei ng Fed Up
B1. STADT - Amplified
B2. STADT - Fluid Is Grand
B3. STADT - Thuissfeer
B4. STADT - Daily Comment
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Why not try their hand at a live album? Recorded in a studio, one take. So mething different. Or a movie? A live movie, maybe?
For the gentlemen of STADT, before they started recording their new album There Is/Nothing Twice, simply 'making a record' was not on top of the to-do list. It was rather 'somet hing', out there.
It didn't turn out to be a movie, nor a live album, and yet it also kind of did. 'Something' they now describe as two separate ep's , merged together. One part made in their homey Ghent studio, the other recorded - and filmed! - live at Amerikaans Theater, former television studios in Brusse ls, build in the late fifties. 'Something' that's equally hybrid and fluid as th e sound of STADT, a band who prefer to dig and embrace their very own pitfalls.
In 2015, after the release of their second LP Escalators, some of STADT affiliates went their various ways. Singer and synth maestro Fulco Otte rvanger and drummer Simon Segers make up 2/3 of the celebrated jazz trio De Bere n Gieren, while Ottervanger found a likeminded sparring partner in drummer Lande r Gyselinck (STUFF.) to bounce beats back and forth with BeraadGeslagen, and Seg ers joined the ranks of ethio-jazz troupe Black Flower and the voodoo trio of M DC III. The second Segers in the band, guitarist-keyboardist Frederic, went on t o produce for, and sometimes play with, several Belgian bands.
Bu t STADT is the sanctuary to come home to, the laboratory where they find the spa ce and freedom to experiment with space and freedom. This time resultin g in album with a level of trance and improvisation higher than ever before.
'A new beginning', as it goes during opening track Broken People. 'Every thing fallen down/ Into pieces/ Scattered around' ? while picking up the pieces, STADT does so with a teasing swagger, straight from the hips.
First single 'Nothing Twice' is the 'epic' (dixit the band) which functions as both th e key to and the outline of the album. 'Afraid Of Being Fed Up' is a murky jungl e boogie, with 'Amplified' they cross into the spheres of Yeasayer and early Gri zzly Bear, and 'Thuissfeer' is prog rock made in Disneyland.
'We'r e addicted to the new', the band says. 'Everything we produce has to be in a con stant state of flux'.
All in all, the name STADT is manifold, a place of constant, ever changing expression. Nothing twice, as they say.
