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Indie Alternative Duo, "the Travellers" Sign with Expat Records
By StudentFilmmakers.com
posted Jul 29, 2011, 09:42
The band renowned for its vintage sound influenced by sixties psychedelia and seventies groove, has chosen to partner with the Indie label for a string of future musical releases.
The band renowned for its vintage sound influenced by sixties psychedelia
and seventies groove, has chosen to partner with the Indie label for a string
of future musical releases.
(London, United Kingdom) It was during their travels that Indie alternative
duo ‘the Travellers’ met: Dusseldorf, Zurich, London, Roma, Stockholm,
Strasbourg, Bordeaux, Rennes and soon back to London. The combination of cultural
experiences, landscapes seen, as well as their love for the sixties & the
seventies psychedelia, groove & rock, paved the way for a new music project,
"the Travellers." ?
Lead singer Gemma, began singing and studying piano from a very early age.
Italian by birth, she moved to London to study interior design. Robert P, Swedish
by birth, grew up in London and learned to play guitar by listening to old Led
Zeppelin and The Who records from the age of 10. He played in various bands
and subsequently toured the pub scene in the nineties, but became fascinated
by the new upsurge of electronic music thus diverting attention to this new
genre. Constructing a studio based around an Atari 1040ST that Gemma bought
him as a present when they became a couple, they produced an electronic album
called “Tapping Teapots”.
Both Gemma & Robert P compose, write, produce and mix all the tracks and
play all of the instruments to a backdrop of drum-loops. Although studio technology
has been embraced, a very traditional method to writing and performing makes
the music organic and human, a far cry from quantized electronica. This approach
is also used when performing the band’s acoustic live set, with Gemma
on vocals, Wurlitzer electric piano & melodica and Robert P on acoustic
guitar.
Jeff Libby CEO of Expat Records comments on the signing, “we are very
excited about indie alternative duo ‘the Travellers.’ They effortlessly
create sixties psychedelia and seventies groove with a modern twist that transcends
generations. These guys really are something quite special.”
Indie alternative duo "the Travellers" will be releasing the single
‘Waiting’ followed by a full-length album in 2011.
Resources:
http://www.expat-records.com/thetravellers
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