First of all a BIG THANK YOU to all of you who had submitted to our SONGS & WHISPERS” CIRCUIT 01/2012
As “SONGS & WHISPERS” understands itselfs as a open and transparent network of people spread all over the place in Europe, we had been exchanging some emails and had been weighing up a couple of thoughts before we came to a final decision for CIRCUIT 01/2012. A team of four people listened to a lot of EPKs, watched photos and videos, read through your bios again and again and very often double checked the internet to get an idea what you all are like and where you are coming from.
1) We knew CIRCUIT 01/2012 is going to be our third anniversary. So we thought it should be something really special.
2) We always like the idea of getting as many artists, from as many continents as possible involved in our CIRCUITS.
3) We have seen quite a few acoustic instruments already and have been seeking for something which is unusual and new for us and the audience.
4) We wanted to have a wide range from a solo artist to a band line up as part of CIRCUIT 01/2012 and all artist sharing stage with others during their sets if possible
5) It could be six persons in total maximum according to the size of our artist flat.
6) We wanted to ease artist life touring CIRCUIT 01/2012. So there should be at least one artists having German language skills or having some experience in our CIRCUIT in general
7) Also travelling of artist should involve a reasonable and sustainable handling of resources. “SONGS & WHISPERS” was intended to use public transport at the beginning only. This did not work out due to the remote places we are going to sometimes. But we still focus on using as few cars with as many artists being transported in as possible to protect the environment in general.
Thinking about all this we came up with three artists for CIRCUIT 01/2012 selected via SONICBIDS:
GILLIAN GRASSIE (USA) (www.gilliangrassie.com)
HONIG (GERMANY) (www.honig.bandcamp.com)
ADAM DONEN (RSA) (www.adamdonen.com)
If you are not part of the line up this time, we will get back to you with a more personal feedback of course.
We encourage you to watch our upcoming gig offers for CIRCUITS in 2012 or apply for the second slot which available to all artists too.In case of any question please get in touch and sorry for our DENGLISH (Deutsch / English). I hope you get where we are coming from and what we are trying to explain.
For the “SONGS & WHISPERS” team
Heiko Grein