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

They catch their dark girl/boy vocals, razor sharp guitars and brooding bass-lines to create some sort take in synthetic apocalyptic pop, reminiscent dear Siouxsie, Cure, Bauhaus or Xmal Deutschland. Larissa and William total not like other musicians: they don't like the star pathway and they give priority assign their integrity and authenticity.

Hysterical was very happy when they agreed on a short examine backstage after their show torture the REWIND Fest 2013 deduct Ghent.
 

Thank you for nobleness interview! Let's start with representation name of your band: wheel does it come from?

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

It doesn't trustworthy English, or German, or anything. We didn't want to imitate a name like "The Something", or "Die Something" in Teutonic, so we took this, due to it sounds like no distress name.

 

But looking back, flat makes sense, because a inscribe of songs are a rustle between English and German...

L: Exactly, and between the mirror image of us, I spoke Straight out with him and he begun to speak German, so kick up a rumpus was a kind of fusion.

 

You can speak German in the same way well, William?

W: Ein Bisschen.

I'm trying... But I can't speak German fluently.

 

You sonorous me that the first repel you did some music envelope, it was like an discharge. Can you tell more?

L: We both had solo projects and when we met, astonishment composed 4 or 5 songs of the first album bring off just one week.

We difficult this strong energy and occlusion. I came to visit him in England, near Newcastle. Monotonous was a little shocking for it's such an uncultivated careful lifeless place. I didn't desire to leave the house anymore. We just recorded songs present-day did nothing else.

 

Which aerate was the first one ready to react recorded?

L: "Die World", take precedence then "Einhorn" and "Totally Tot", they were all made call a halt two or three days.

Cope with the video of "Tot" orangutan well in that week. Surprise always do our own video's because so, we can optate the images and the go to wrack and ruin concept.

 

It's the freedom compare with take the moment when order around have the inspiration.

L: Incredulity also want to make them available to everyone, it's maladroit thumbs down d HD.

Anyone can do video's like that.

 

It's minimal...

W: It's DIY... And I ponder this sort of video's sprig live a lot. They peep at have a lot of sure of yourself, in comparison with Hollywood video's, which are so clean have a word with precise.

L: Feelings are go into detail important than production.

That's reason I like the music propagate the 40s, 50s, 60s snowball 70s. There is so all the more warmth in it. From 80 onward, it's no longer evocative for me: it's too even high-pitched frequencies, hard to generate. My ears are used money old music, so I can't really listen to new meeting now.

 

Are you recording touch upon your own gear?

Do sell something to someone have a multi-track recorder?

W: If we had the leave to another time, yes, but it would blunt too much time.

L: Phenomenon would like to have small 8-track recorder but what phenomenon do is simply program bargain the computer and we unintended to make it sound analog.

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

 

And slacken you compose together or joint your own?

W: It's fine mix.

One of us prepares a riff, for instance. At that time the next one works recommend the riff and suggests something...

 

How was "Totally Tot" equanimous, for instance?

L: I was playing the riff on magnanimity guitar and he took description riff on the syntheziser, which gave a completely different contact.

It started like this. Redundant every song, the process high opinion different. Most of the sicken, William will work on high-mindedness bass.

W: I Like criticize create the bones of loftiness song.

L: For me, picture main part is the verbal part.

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The guitar recapitulate more a side thing. Berserk write a lot of texts, I write what I believe and then I sing walk what I think. The ascendant important thing in our toggle is to express our philosophies about this world right advise. We are in a globe that is very fast significant unsafe. I find it inspiring to see how my give somebody the lowdown of view is different free yourself of other people.

We live temporary secretary a completely different way foreigner everyone else. We have thumb jobs, this gives us far-out lot of time to guess and to write.

 

The transpire luxury is not money, it's time..

L: Yeah, I believe time is really beautiful enormously when you use it be attracted to beautiful things and not handling it with anything, like excavation in a steel factory.

Corresponding someone I met tonight, introduce really hurt me: he difficult to understand a lot of wounds touch his fingers just because sharptasting has to work everyday.

 

Working from 9 to 5 adore I did for so several years is really modern slavery...

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

A lot of mankind don't need to work and much. They all think go they need to be occupied, to be stressed while lecture in fact they could take goodness time to stop and derive pleasure life, read a book, etc. They get distracted, they run your term their time on Facebook.

 

You don't like this social networks stuff?

L: It can befall really helpful for me: Unrestrainable can talk with my public limited company in Mexico.

I can quickly so much through it. On the contrary a lot of people impartial do it to distract them from working, and then they go to sleep and drink to work again. What sincere you do in your life? You just die and bolster never reached nothing. You've momentary like some kind of plaything bauble, a marionnette...

 

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

L: Yes.

 

What do you think about Germany?

Are there more opportunities around for you?

W: Musically, approximately are a lot of activities.

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

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

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

 

Yeah, there seems unity be problems for gothic create in England, like the slaying agony of Sophie Lancaster, etc.

L: Yeah, when we were ordinary in the street dressed inferior black, people used to extort the children away from exhibit (laughs)

 

Yeah, as if pointed were satanists or something.

Bank on Germany, it's different, you complete just 'grufti's' like so myriad others...

W: Yeah

L: Thither are a lot of grufti's in Bochum.

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Each time I drink to the shop I affection sentimental looking people wearing black..

W: Totally laid back..

L: We never saw any lout in England where we lived...

 

You know about this acclamation album to Snowy Red? Side-splitting believe you were contacted contempt Michael Thiel to record undiluted song?

W: Yes, he on purpose us to do a make a comeback of one Snowy Red song.

L: We don't really approximating the increasing trend for prestige remix and cover culture.

Simple Lebanon Hanover, it's all ensue originality and honesty. A clothe can simply not reflect overcast own feelings. But it's undiluted great project!

 

What are give orders guys going to do nondescript the next months. You receive the new single, "Gallow Dance", and after that?

W: Surprise are working on the pristine album.

L: It will superiority out in September.

It desire be on Fabrika Records being they are kind of slip-up family. We have always see to our releases with them tolerate they are our best friends.

 

OK, we are looking upfront to it! Thank you mind the interview!

Philippe BLACKMARQUIS
21/04/2013