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Ira

About Me

Ira takes some time. Or maybe just a minute. If you want. The Band was formed in 2003 in Konstanz, Germany. They recorded a Longplayer called „The Body and the Soil“, published via Go-Kart Records. They played some shows, as headliner or opening act for bands like Unsane, Cult Of Luna, Daturah, The Ocean, Heaven Shall Burn and more.

The Music of Ira is not hunting for fast effects. They write songs some may call „epic“, lasting from 7-15 minutes. Listening is easy, if you want. It is dynamic, sometimes tricky, mostly high emotional music. Yes, it is melancholic. There are a lot of ingredients. Some parts are heavy, but there is a slight amount of pop-appeal scattered between the soundscapes. They try to create different atmospheres, images, expressions. If you lean into it, it could get intense.

In 2007 they entered the Tonstudio-45 in Koblenz and recorded 6 new songs. They met Alfred Hilsberg, owner of ZickZack/WSFA at a show. In March 2008 Singer Toby fixed the vocals with Tobias Levin at Electric Avenue Studios, Hamburg. The product that came out of this journey will be called „Visions of a Landscape“. It was mastered by Chris von Rautenkranz at Soundgarden Studio, Hamburg. Yes, it will be published. In 2008. Listening is easy, if you want...

"Encore" Video
"A drop of irony" Video

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/15/2005
Band Website: www.iraism.com
Band Members: Tobias Hoffmann (Vocals), Alexander Fromm (Bass), Andreas Rosczyk (Guitar), Steve Hartmann (Guitar), Thomas Klaus (Drums)



Influences: some drops of irony
Sounds Like: visions of a landscape
Record Label: ZickZack / What's So Funny About..
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

"Visions Of A Landscape" out 14.08.09 !

Ladies and Gentlemen,our new album "Visons Of A Landcape" will see daylighton August, 14th.  It will be released by VOD (Vinyl-Over-Dose) in cooperation with ZickZack/WSFA. Broken Silence will...
Posted by on Sun, 17 May 2009 07:15:00 GMT

Live Review Berlin/Lido on visions.de

howdy,visions.de has posted a review of the 21.03 - show at lido/berlin withthe ocean, burst... & our square-dance bros of fear my thoughts.thanks again to every early bird who made the venue not look...
Posted by on Sat, 28 Mar 2009 05:42:00 GMT

Ira's Cover Artist is finally online

Our very own cover artist Henning Barth, who also happens to be related to a bandmember, is finally online. Go here and enjoy those great collages and drawings. 
Posted by on Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:38:00 GMT

Ira LIVE On Air ! 21.03. 19h

dear ladies and dudes,times they are a changin' and radio kills the video star again. so we're happy to announce the first ever Live-Stream of an Ira show! If you can't make it to the forthcoming meta...
Posted by on Fri, 13 Mar 2009 10:09:00 GMT

Ira - Soil ( City 021 )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdJMGQFHgpQ
Posted by on Mon, 09 Mar 2009 11:02:00 GMT

Toby@WDR Poetry Slam

Hi folks,we hope you..re ok. as some of you might know, our singer toby is not only capable of squeezing out lovely melodies but also has some profound writing skills in what some might call poetry....
Posted by on Sat, 14 Feb 2009 06:37:00 GMT

falling down compilation

howdy,if you..re into heavy-sludgy-doomy kind of shit, we can recommend you to check out a compilation called "falling down". the 2-cd package will be released by a french fellow in october and our ol...
Posted by on Wed, 24 Sep 2008 04:48:00 GMT

New homepage online!

hi there!finally our new homepage is online!!! we have to give a huge applause to our webmaster stefan dierdorf who constructed this new virtual homebase. we like it. hopefully we can offer you some i...
Posted by on Sun, 13 Jul 2008 04:35:00 GMT

Two new songs

We uploaded two new songs called "A drop of irony" and "Encore" which will be both on our second album named "Visions of a landscape".A new label and ergo a realse date still need to be found.So we'll...
Posted by on Thu, 10 Jul 2008 10:32:00 GMT

Almost there

We are excited. We are very excited.Yesterday we received the master version of our new longplayer. Damn it. We love it.Well...if you're lucky and the german soccer team will be European Football Cham...
Posted by on Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:11:00 GMT