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4th time around

About Me


Contact mail: [email protected]
Contact phone: +41 78 683 15 37
Deutsch:
4th Time Around (Helium Records/RecRec) hocken in Basel und docken an die dunklen Seiten der Singer/Songwriter-Traditionen an. Dafür steigen sie auf die Bühnen dieser Landstriche und bringen die Leute zum Heulen.Nach dem ersten Minialbum (2004) kürten Leute vom Fach wie Christian Fighera (Gentlemen Music) und Marc Elsener (Kulturredaktor WoZ/St. Galler Tagblatt) 4th Time Around am grössten Basler Bandfestival „Bscene“ überraschend zur besten Band. Es folgte Airplay auf DRS3, Radio X Basel und Radio 3fach Luzern sowie Konzerte mit Bands wie I Am Kloot, Arab Strap, The Sadies, Lightspeed Champion, Minor Majority, St. Thomas, Grizzly Bear, Jolly & The Flytrap, Lovebugs, Fingerpoke, Dead Brothers, William White - und dies in schmucken Lokalen wie Abart Zürich, Boa Luzern, Rote Fabrik Zürich, Kaserne Basel, Palace St. Gallen, Fass Schaffhausen, Hirscheneck Basel, Kraftfeld Winterthur, Kreuz Solothurn, Treibhaus Luzern, Centre Fries Fribourg. Im Sommer 2006 verschanzten sie sich im Studio und spielten während langen, dunklen, hämoglobinarmen Monaten ihr erstes Album „A Morning Prayer“ ein – 12 Exzerpte, in deren Zentrum der Song steht, aber an der Peripherie wieselt und wuselt es in allen Variationen. Mandolinen zirpen, Orgeln holeien, und die Stimmen singen vom einsamen Bier auf der Veranda, vom brennenden Jerusalem und den miesen Morgenstunden, an denen die Schrotlinte oft näher liegt als die Kaffeetasse. Manche sagen: Americana. Andere: Grosse Nachtmusik. Recht geben wir beiden.
English:
4th time around (Helium Records/RecRec) from Basel, Switzerland have signed away their passion to Alternative Country music. They chant about love, death and devil, and go for banjo, mandolin und harp. 4th time around play Alternative Country and Neofolk, but decline the clichés of the of the genre. They neither wear cowboy hats nor have any idea what the air in Tennesse smells like. But they love unspectacular, commited and poetic songwriting. After the first EP in 2004 elected practitioners (which means Swiss music journalists and stuff...) 4th time around on the biggest music festival from Basel to the best band. Airplay on Switzerland’s and Germany’s most known radio stations followed. The band played shows all over the map with bands like I Am Kloot, Arab Strap, Lightspeed Champion, Minor Majority, Grizzly Bear, St. Thomas, Lovebugs and the Dead Brothers. 2007 the first album "A Morning Prayer" was released. M.U.S.I.C., man. No kidding.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 25/01/2006
Band Website: http://www.4thtimearound.eu
Band Members: four. male. the quiet, but sympathetic type, sort of.
Influences: dunno. life, maybe?
Sounds Like: good songs.
Record Label: Helium Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

RECORD RELEASE "A MORNING PRAYER"

Now it's time, rulers of the free world! 4th time around bring their posh'n'fancy record into the light. The name: "a morning prayer". The show: 15. September, Parterre Basel/CH. Check: www.parterre.n...
Posted by on Fri, 24 Aug 2007 06:27:00 GMT

This is the new Shit

Listen to this, fellas! Three tracks from our oncoming world-selling record now here for you on myspace. Unmastered rough-mixes, we know, the rest will follow. Things look bright
Posted by on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 04:54:00 GMT

Get it on

hello there, ye soulseeking enigmas in the outer sphere.2 new hot nights with 4th time around - check the dates. und we finally finished the recording of our oncoming album. good work, we all agree.
Posted by on Tue, 20 Mar 2007 17:37:00 GMT

Some Changes

Some of you might already have heard of it, but here's the confirmation: 4th time around have shrinked to the max. things are getting very well with our new man on the drum - pirmin - , but 4th time a...
Posted by on Sat, 20 Jan 2007 04:02:00 GMT

He's the Man

Primin, from Lucerne, drummer. We played our first show together last friday at Treibhaus/Lucerne, looks like we can work together. the future looks bright.What else? There's another show scheduled on...
Posted by on Wed, 25 Oct 2006 00:39:00 GMT

it's the beat, baby. the beat.

true. very true. but there ain't no. we lost our faithful & humble roberto, our sambaman behind a wall of drums. he left for playing with some other funky jerks or whatever the hell they are. anyw...
Posted by on Mon, 14 Aug 2006 00:20:00 GMT

back from studio

well well, what a nice week it was. spent 7 days at helium studios/basel, recorded a lot of guitar stuff, drums & bass. things will be finished the next weeks/months, hope you'll find some new tracks ...
Posted by on Mon, 24 Jul 2006 23:49:00 GMT

Rock Action, Folks

Well, that was terrific. Thanks everybody for coming to our BScene-show, hope you liked our freaking out madman. At the end of the show there were kinda confusing minutes, no? but hey, we lost control...
Posted by on Wed, 03 May 2006 02:22:00 GMT

new shows

And again: some new shows scheduled. they'll take place in - hold your breath - Basel, Basel and Basel. oh, did i forget to mention Basel? well then, here you are: Basel. and not to forget: the scary ...
Posted by on Tue, 25 Apr 2006 13:17:00 GMT

Neuer Bandraum und viele gute Vorsätze

Also wir haben uns wieder mal eine Menge vorgenommen, von dem wir wohl nicht mal die Hälfte werden halten können, aber mal ehrlich: das hat auch nie...
Posted by on Thu, 02 Mar 2006 09:39:00 GMT