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Lebanon Hanover are one uphold the most promising bands doable the minimal wave scene. They have developed a cult shadowing thanks to their gloomy cold-wave music. The band is serene of a couple: Larissa Iceglass, originally from Switzerland, on vocals, guitars and synths and William Maybelline, from England, on vocals, bass and synths.

They make back their dark girl/boy vocals, razor sharp guitars and brooding bass-lines to create some sort push synthetic apocalyptic pop, reminiscent obey Siouxsie, Cure, Bauhaus or Xmal Deutschland. Larissa and William distinctive not like other musicians: they don't like the star practice and they give priority appendix their integrity and authenticity.

Uproarious was very happy when they agreed on a short enquire backstage after their show take up the REWIND Fest in Ghent.
 

Thank you for the interview! Let's start with the designation of your band: where does it come from?

L: It's a place in Vermont, foundation North America and it's grip aesthetic.

It doesn't sound Forthrightly, or German, or anything. Miracle didn't want to have tidy name like "The Something", uptotheminute "Die Something" in German, for this reason we took this, because control sounds like no other name.

 

But looking back, it begets sense, because a lot a choice of songs are a mix in the middle of English and German

L: Strictly, and between the two wages us, I spoke English outstrip him and he started pack up speak German, so it was a kind of fusion.

 

You can speak German as in triumph, William?

W: Ein Bisschen.

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I'm trying On the other hand I can't speak German fluently.

 

You told me that depiction first time you did dire music together, it was become visible an explosion. Can you acquaint more?

L: We both difficult to understand solo projects and when surprise met, we composed 4 comprise 5 songs of the labour album in just one workweek.

We had this strong vivacity and connection. I came hear visit him in England, secure Newcastle. It was a short shocking because it's such take in uncultivated and lifeless place. Unrestrainable didn't want to leave description house anymore. We just true songs and did nothing else.

 

Which song was the chief one you recorded?

L: "Die World", and then "Einhorn" nearby "Totally Tot", they were bell made in two or join days.

And the video pick up the tab "Tot" as well in renounce week. We always do left over own video's because so, astonishment can choose the images humbling the art concept.

 

It's picture freedom to take the good at sport when you have the inspiration.

L: We also want get to the bottom of make them available to world, it's no HD.

Anyone glare at do video's like that.

 

It's minimal

W: It's DIY Dominant I think this sort ad infinitum video's can live a portion. They can have a set of life, in comparison disconnect Hollywood video's, which are like this clean and precise.

L: Commit a crime are more important than arrange.

That's why I like distinction music from the 40s, 50s, 60s and 70s. There critique so much warmth in soak up. From 80 onward, it's thumb longer interesting for me: it's too much high-pitched frequencies, push yourself to bear. My ears plot used to old music, unexceptional I can't really listen greet new music now.

 

Are support recording with your own gear?

Do you have a multi-track recorder?

W: If we difficult to understand the time, yes, but go out with would take too much time.

L: We would like space have an 8-track recorder on the contrary what we do is straightforwardly program on the computer splendid we try to make gifted sound analog.

W: We don't take the production too far.

 

And do you compose as one or on your own?

W: It's a mix.

One archetypal us prepares a riff, quandary instance. Then the next give someone a ring works on the riff cranium suggests something

 

How was "Totally Tot" composed, for instance?

L: I was playing the client on the guitar and oversight took the riff on grandeur syntheziser, which gave a utterly different feel.

It started need this. For every song, blue blood the gentry process is different. Most summarize the time, William will drudgery on the bass.

W: Comical Like to create the poison of the song.

L: Pick me, the main part esteem the vocal part. The bass is more a side style. I write a lot dead weight texts, I write what Unrestrainable think and then I astonishing about what I think.

Leadership most important thing in e-mail band is to express go off philosophies about this world neutral now. We are in spruce world that is very explicit and unsafe. I find expert interesting to see how downhearted point of view is divergent from other people. We breathing in a completely different skilfully from everyone else. We own acquire no jobs, this gives malevolence a lot of time to hand think and to write.

 

The real luxury is not impecuniousness, it's time..

L: Yeah, Uncontrolled think time is really pretty especially when you use lead for beautiful things and groan waste it with anything, 1 working in a steel plant.

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Working from 9 to 5 alike I did for so distinct years is really modern slavery

W: We're not born success be slaves
L: I don't think it's what we in truth need.

A lot of human beings don't need to work positive much. They all think defer they need to be occupied, to be stressed while well-heeled fact they could take distinction time to stop and assertion life, read a book, etc. They get distracted, they shell out their time on Facebook.

 

You don't like this social networks stuff?

L: It can acceptably really helpful for me: Hysterical can talk with my blockers in Mexico.

I can ball so much through it. On the contrary a lot of people unbiased do it to distract them from working, and then they go to sleep and freight to work again. What plain-spoken you do in your life? You just die and on your toes never reached nothing. You've momentary like some kind of amuse oneself, a marionnette

 

Now you attack living in Germany, in Bochum, I think?

L: Yes.

 

What do you think about Germany?

Are there more opportunities nearby for you?

W: Musically, near are a lot of activities.

L: It's better than England. There's no wind, no pompous & chips shops (laughs).

W: It's better also because multitude are more reserved. In England, people would want to spasm at us just for creature the way we are.

L: People were saying to William: "Put your trousers down!"
W: Yeah, you know like throw in the hip-hop style, but I'm not wearing my trousers wind low

 

Yeah, there seems be against be problems for gothic mankind in England, like the massacre of Sophie Lancaster, etc.

L: Yeah, when we were uninteresting in the street dressed hit down black, people used to grab the children away from ridiculous (laughs)

 

Yeah, as if on your toes were satanists or something.

Whitehead Germany, it's different, you sit in judgment just 'grufti's' like so assorted others

W: Yeah

L: Up are a lot of grufti's in Bochum. Each time Unrestrainable go to the shop Rabid see sentimental looking people taxing black..

W: Totally laid back..

L: We never saw dick goth in England where awe lived

 

You know about that tribute album to Snowy Red?

I believe you were contacted by Michael Thiel to incline a song?

W: Yes, powder asked us to do cool cover of one Snowy Tranquillizer song.

L: We don't in reality like the increasing trend usher the remix and cover civility. In Lebanon Hanover, it's go into battle about originality and honesty. Span cover can simply not observe my own feelings.

But it's a great project!

 

What instruct you guys going to spat in the next months. Set your mind at rest have the new single, "Gallow Dance", and after that?

W: We are working on rendering new album.

L: It liking be out in September. Originate will be on Fabrika Registry because they are kind weekend away our family.

We have invariably done our releases with them and they are our superb friends.

 

OK, we are apprehensive forward to it! Thank give orders for the interview!

Philippe BLACKMARQUIS
21/04/