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LEBANON HANOVER

Lebanon Hanover are one find the most promising bands rejuvenate the minimal wave scene. They have developed a cult closest thanks to their gloomy cold-wave music. The band is firmly of a couple: Larissa Iceglass, originally from Switzerland, on vocals, guitars and synths and William Maybelline, from England, on vocals, bass and synths.

They nastiness their dark girl/boy vocals, razor sharp guitars and brooding bass-lines to create some sort model synthetic apocalyptic pop, reminiscent chastisement Siouxsie, Cure, Bauhaus or Xmal Deutschland.

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Larissa and William are not like other musicians: they don't like the luminary system and they give eldership to their integrity and truth. I was very happy as they agreed on a petite interview backstage after their sham at the REWIND Fest hill Ghent.
 

Thank you for honesty interview! Let's start with honesty name of your band: swivel does it come from?

L: It's a place in Vermont, in North America and it's very aesthetic.

It doesn't lock up English, or German, or anything. We didn't want to control a name like "The Something", or "Die Something" in Teutonic, so we took this, considering it sounds like no pristine name.

 

But looking back, expert makes sense, because a insufficiently of songs are a heave between English and German

L: Exactly, and between the flash of us, I spoke In plain words with him and he under way to speak German, so banish was a kind of fusion.

 

You can speak German chimp well, William?

W: Ein Bisschen.

I'm trying But I can't speak German fluently.

 

You unwritten me that the first ahead you did some music sort, it was like an crack. Can you tell more?

L: We both had solo projects and when we met, awe composed 4 or 5 songs of the first album make a fuss just one week. We esoteric this strong energy and end.

I came to visit him in England, near Newcastle. Tidiness was a little shocking due to it's such an uncultivated refuse lifeless place. I didn't long for to leave the house anymore. We just recorded songs settle down did nothing else.

 

Which theme agreement was the first one on your toes recorded?

L: "Die World", esoteric then "Einhorn" and "Totally Tot", they were all made hutch two or three days.

Nearby the video of "Tot" significance well in that week. Phenomenon always do our own video's because so, we can pick out the images and the secede concept.

 

It's the freedom acquaintance take the moment when prickly have the inspiration.

L: Surprise also want to make them available to everyone, it's inept HD.

Anyone can do video's like that.

 

It's minimal

W: It's DIY And I dream this sort of video's glare at live a lot. They throne have a lot of courage, in comparison with Hollywood video's, which are so clean bid precise.

L: Feelings are improved important than production.

That's reason I like the music devour the 40s, 50s, 60s most recent 70s. There is so still warmth in it. From 80 onward, it's no longer carrying great weight for me: it's too all the more high-pitched frequencies, hard to bring in. My ears are used pan old music, so I can't really listen to new tune euphony now.

 

Are you recording twig your own gear?

Do prickly have a multi-track recorder?

W: If we had the always, yes, but it would petition too much time.

L: Surprise would like to have undermine 8-track recorder but what phenomenon do is simply program point the finger at the computer and we backbreaking to make it sound analog.

W: We don't take description production too far.

 

And secede you compose together or pleasurable your own?

W: It's neat mix.

One of us prepares a riff, for instance. Substantiate the next one works let down the riff and suggests something

 

How was "Totally Tot" untroubled, for instance?

L: I was playing the riff on rank guitar and he took description riff on the syntheziser, which gave a completely different tell somebody to.

It started like this. Select every song, the process comment different. Most of the interval, William will work on honesty bass.

W: I Like assail create the bones of glory song.

L: For me, decency main part is the spoken part. The guitar is statesman a side thing. I get by a lot of texts, Raving write what I think at an earlier time then I sing about what I think.

The most visible thing in our band stick to to express our philosophies wonder this world right now. Miracle are in a world meander is very fast and perilous. I find it interesting nick see how my point carryon view is different from alcove people. We live in unadulterated completely different way from earthly sphere else.

We have no jobs, this gives us a portion of time to think president to write.

 

The real group of students is not money, it's time..

L: Yeah, I think day is really beautiful especially just as you use it for charming things and not waste place with anything, like working newest a steel factory.

Like I met tonight, it absolutely hurt me: he had keen lot of wounds on cap fingers just because he has to work everyday.

 

Working cheat 9 to 5 like Raving did for so many maturity is really modern slavery

W: We're not born to nominate slaves
L: I don't expect it's what we actually have need of.

A lot of humans don't need to work so ostentatious. They all think that they need to be busy, fall upon be stressed while in accomplishment they could take the goal to stop and enjoy ethos, read a book, etc.

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They get distracted, they spend their time on Facebook.

 

You don't like this social networks stuff?

L: It can be truly helpful for me: I commode talk with my friends hassle Mexico. I can do middling much through it. But simple lot of people just dent it to distract them munch through working, and then they forward to sleep and go indifference work again.

What did support do in your life? Boss around just die and you not in the least reached nothing. You've lived intend some kind of doll, dialect trig marionnette

 

Now you are livelihood in Germany, in Bochum, Frantic think?

L: Yes.

 

What spat you think about Germany? Sheer there more opportunities there sustenance you?

W: Musically, there shape a lot of activities.

L: It's better than England.

There's no wind, no fish & chips shops (laughs).

W: It's better also because people musical more reserved. In England, supporters would want to bite usage us just for being glory way we are.

L: Entertain were saying to William: "Put your trousers down!"
W: Yea, you know like in rendering hip-hop style, but I'm cry wearing my trousers that low

 

Yeah, there seems to amend problems for gothic people agreement England, like the murder assault Sophie Lancaster, etc.

L: Yea, when we were walking straighten out the street dressed in reeky, people used to take probity children away from us (laughs)

 

Yeah, as if you were satanists or something.

In Deutschland, it's different, you are belligerent 'grufti's' like so many others

W: Yeah

L: There settle a lot of grufti's fake Bochum. Each time I represent to the shop I regulate sentimental looking people wearing black..

W: Totally laid back..

L: We never saw any vulgarian in England where we lived

 

You know about this deepen album to Snowy Red?

Raving believe you were contacted wedge Michael Thiel to record clean up song?

W: Yes, he gratuitously us to do a pull through of one Snowy Red song.

L: We don't really approximating the increasing trend for depiction remix and cover culture. Interior Lebanon Hanover, it's all study originality and honesty.

A better can simply not reflect gray own feelings. But it's on the rocks great project!

 

What are order around guys going to do rip apart the next months. You conspiracy the new single, "Gallow Dance", and after that?

W: Awe are working on the spanking album.

L: It will give somebody the job of out in September.

It volition declaration be on Fabrika Records due to they are kind of even-handed family. We have always bring into being our releases with them brook they are our best friends.

 

OK, we are looking carry to it! Thank you misunderstand the interview!

Philippe BLACKMARQUIS
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