„SONGS & WHISPERS“ – Circuit 04/2012
This time we serve a spicy Portuguese stew and a multinational Pizza...
A Jigsaw is Portuguese Indie-Folk band consisting of the three multi-instrumentalists musicians Joao Rui, Susana Ribeiro and Jorri. The band is named after the Belgium France , Italy , Spain , Belgium , Switzerland , Slovenia , Poland , United Kingdom , Austria , Germany , Spain Italy
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Influences: Tom Waits,Nick Cave
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In 2007 they released a concept album called Letters From The Boatman. A handful of guests, including some of the most prominent musicians of the Portuguese scene, took part of this project. The album climbed the charts on national radios, it was considered one of the best of the year and the band was also reviewed as one of the best live acts.
As to the second album, they decided to take matter into their own hands and gather some of the instruments they had met along the way. The result was a beautifully textured album with detailed arrangements. Like the Wolf is a return to the concept album format. The record has two mesmerizing duets with Arizona
In February of 2010 they released the deluxe edition Like The Wolf Uncut and began their Like The Wolf European Tour that took them to 12 countries, such as This trio returned with their much anticipated third album “Drunken Sailors & Happy Pirates” released November of 2011, that will be presented live in April of 2012 during the European Tour of CIRCUIT 04/2012.
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A Jigsaw ist eine Indie-Folk Band aus Portugal, die sich aus den drei Multi-Instrumentalisten Joao Rui, Susana Ribeiro und Jorri zusammensetzt. Der Bandname wurde von dem Song „Jigsaw You“ der belgischen Band dEUS inspiriert.
Im Jahr 2007 veröffentlichte die Band ihr erstes Album „Letters From The Boatman“. Eine Handvoll Gäste, von denen einige zu den prominentesten Musikern der portugiesischen Szene zählen, beteiligten sich an diesem Projekt. Das Album kletterte in die Charts der nationalen Radios und wurde von den Europäischen Medien als eines der besten Alben des Jahres bewertet.Influences: Tom Waits,
Are they a new wave country band? A traditional folk unit? Or a clever indie combo who dwell somewhere in the middle of both? Yes, yes they are. They’re all those things and so much more. Excuse me; the “quiet time” is calling - Tim Mass Movement (UK)
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Sleepwalker's station is the story of over a decade’s band history. The music grew around singer songwriter Daniel zur Nieden through the sophisticated touch by some great and brilliant fellow musicians making up the band. Sleepwalker’s station came to life in 1998 from the womb of the grunge era but increasingly evolved into more acoustic shapes and slowly absorbing all kinds of different influences from mainly folk but also various colours from jazz, trip hop, soul, emo and classical music though keeping its original indie "soul".Since then the line up and home base of the band has changed various times and by now has constitutes a concept not a band in a traditional frame but rather a network of brilliant musicians scattered across Europe linked by their common passion and the songs, written, performed and rewritten together.And while the music can be described as guitar and piano based, the cello has always played an important role in characterizing and emphasizing the band's sound. Through the percussion joining in, the sound of the band experienced an up-beat "rythmization" allowing wider differentiated song writing.
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Die Band setzt sich in immer wieder neuen und verschiedenartigen Konstellationen um den SingerSongwriter Daniel zur Nieden und so besteht diese mehr als Konzept als als Band im traditionellen Sinne zu verstehende Symbiose von12 Elementen aus 5 verschiedenen Ländern, die je nach Ort und Art des Auftritts in unterschiedlicher Besetzung auftreten. Hierbei ist es die Musik selbst, die den roten Faden durch das bunte Farbenkleid zieht, welches aus melancholisch, herbstlichen Folksongs bis hin zu ethnisch-indischen Melodien besteht.
Aufgetreten ist die Band in unterschiedlichen Besetzungen bereits in über 16 Ländern auf 4 Kontinenten - vom Nirvana in Darwin im Nordwesten Australiens zum Bâteau Ivre in der Normandie, vom Musician in den Midlands zum Raw sugar café in Ottawa.
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Influences: The Counting Crows, Dave Mathews Band, Nick Drake, Neil Young, Death Cab For Cutie, Dakota Suite, Bruce Springsteen, Van Morrison, Damien Rice, Tom Petty, Ben Harper, Mark Knopfler, The John Butler Trio, Red House Painters
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