BÄNDI

INFO: ÜBER BÄNDI
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"Der Tango ist der Blues der Finnen", soll der Altmeister des finnischen Films Aki Kaurismäki einmal gesagt haben. Und BÄNDI ist die einzige deutsche Band, die Finnischen Tango spielt. Das tut sie mindestens genauso leidenschaftlich wie die Finnen - allerdings nicht ohne eigene Akzente zu setzen. BÄNDI mixt die tieftraurigen Ohrwürmer der 60er Jahre mit Bossa-Rhythmen und French-Beat-Versatzstücken. Da schnuckeln Geige & DD14-Drums mit zarten Elfenstimmen, die E-Gitarre tändelt mit traurigen Tenören und in wunderschönen Liebesliedern werden blonde Mädchen im Stroh vernascht. Crazy listening!
Die Presse über BÄNDI:

"Großartiger Finnischer Tango kommt mittlerweile auch aus Frankfurt" (RBB radiomultikulti)
" … mitreißend, charmant und ein wenig melancholisch. Jetzt ist die erste CD der Formation erschienen, eine frische unprätentiöse Sache in witziger Aufmachung" (FAZ)
"Mit Leidenschaft der Kuriosität gefrönt" (HR-Online)
"Musik, die da weitergeht, wo Russendisko und Balkanbeat an ihre Grenzen stoßen" (Frankfurter Rundschau)
"Bei BÄNDI steppt nicht nur der Bär" (Frankfurter Rundschau)
"Voller Witz und von großem Unterhaltungswert" (Journal Frankfurt)
"Die Musik für die finnischen Momente im Leben" (hr2 Kultur)
Finnischer Tango ist, wie große Teile der finnischen Musik überhaupt, sehr speziell. Unter den speziellen Bands ist Bändi noch einmal etwas Besonderes. Der Tango klingt, als wäre Helsinki die Nachbarstadt von Casablanca. Eine Barsängerin verzaubert die männlichen einsamen Herzen, während die - deutsche- Band den Tango nach Südamerika zurückträgt. (FOLKER 3/2008)
Im Radio bei RBB Radio multikulti, HR2, Radio Bremen, WDR, NDR Tangomania, Radio X Sisu Radio u.a.
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English version: ABOUT BÄNDI:
“Tango is the Finnish blues,” Finnish film maker Aki Kaurismäki once said. This quite wondrous and strange land of music has much more to offer than just its popular musical traditions such as “Humppa” and “Rokki”. A very different kind of tango has emerged: Finnish tango. Russian romantic tunes and German military marches are both essential compositional styles of Finnish tango – which today is the crucial ingredient to any great Finnish dancing, drinking and bonding event.
BÄNDI is the only German band that plays Finnish Tango and they do it with the same amount of passion as the Finns themselves – however, not without adding their very own special touch. BÄNDI combines the traditional Finnish doleful, but catchy tunes of the Forties, Fifties and Sixties with bossa nova, blues, rumba and country elements: moaning violins flirt with jazzy drums and the gentle elfish voice of Pilvet Karkaa. E-guitar riffs nestle against sad sounding tenors and thus create the perfect soundtrack for anybody in love. Crazy listening – and a top-quality cultural exchange.
It all began with a trip to the Baltic Sea from Turku to Stockholm. Drummer and artist Thomas Salzman had the pleasure to meet the beautiful Finnish girl Anna: blonde, always in a good mood and very well built. She sang a lovely song for him which touched him deeply and would not let him go for the rest of his life - the passion of Finnish tango finally got him. Full of spirits, he managed to gather a small group of like-minded people in less than a decade: BÄNDI. Singer Kristina Debelius, the band’s beautiful face and smoky-elegant voice adds her very own charm to Finnish tango. Singer Tobias Frisch shows his unique skills by conveying the great era of tenors to the intimate atmosphere of a club with a good amount of irony and jauntiness. The jazzy, Southern American drum sounds of Thomas Salzmann complement the virtuosic guitar playing of Volker Denkel and the skilfully mastered string bass of Johannes Kramer.
So that’s exactly why BÄNDI wants to hit number on the Finnish charts. Oh, and by the way: BÄNDI is Finnish for band.
THE PRESS THINKS ABOUT BÄNDI
Great Finnish Tango is coming now also from Frankfurt (RBB - Radio-Multikulti)
"Music which continues where Russion disco and Balkan beat reach their limits" (Frankfurter Rundschau)
"Wallowed with passion and oddity" (HR Online)
"Extremely danceable" (Journal Frankfurt)
Played on air by: RBB Radio multikulti, HR2, Radio Bremen, WDR, NDR Tangomania, Radio X Sisu Radio u.a.
CD RELEASE: BÄNDI- Satumaa-Finnischer Tango CD
BÄNDI is proud to present their first CD. 13 Finnish Tangos arranged by BÄNDI are avaliable right now. The CD was released by the nice and fine Label Stalburg TheaterTonträgerei Frankfurt.
You can order the CD there or at our International distributor:
Danza y movimiento Hamburg
http://www.dym.de
or you send us a mail with your request and "YEAAAH BÄNDI YEAAAH" in the header to: [email protected]. Kiitos!
About the CD:
You just have to look at the CD cover in order to know that this is not a typical tango production. No legs wrapped in fishnet stockings or other twisted bodily parts, no embraced dance couples or obscure streets. Not at all, here we see two jaunty elks dancing. Satumaa is at the same time melancholic and jolly. It is a mix of tango, and march, country, jazz and a lot more. Kristina Debelius (voice, stage piano, organ), Volker Denkel (western guitar & electric guitar), Thomas Salzmann (drums, percussion), Tobias Frisch (voice, violin, kazoo) and Johannes Kramer (double-bass) catch their audience with this mixture and they don’t let go. Willingly, we listen to the sighs from the bottom of Kristina’s heart and to her somehow husky voice, even if we don’t understand any Finnish. Please listen to this:
Tanja Darwisch, Hamburg Feb. 2008