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Thursday, January 23, 2020

Deutsch:

Grizzly Bird ist das Projekt rund um Singer/Songwriter Hans Gnendinger, der in FΓΌssen im AllgΓ€u aufgewachsen ist und in Berlin lebt. Bekannt fΓΌr seine an Nick Drake oder JosΓ© Gonzalez erinnernden FΓ€higkeiten auf der Konzertgitarre und seine greifbaren, Geschichten erzΓ€hlenden Texte, ist er seit einigen Jahren fester Bestandteil der Berliner Folkszene. In seinen Songs wΓΌhlt sich Hans durch das seltsame Dasein des modernen Menschen und findet darin Poetisches, Skurriles, ein bisschen Melancholie und immer wieder Stoff fΓΌr seinen subtilen Humor.

Auf Grizzly Bird's 2019 erschienenem Debüt Empathy ging es ausschließlich um Tiere und wie die Menschen mit ihnen umgehen. Nach der 2021 EP Somewhere Between über Sinnsuche und Zerbrechlichkeit, einer überstandenen Pandemie und zwei Sâhnen spÀter, widmet sich Grizzly Bird auf dem im Mai 2024 erscheinenden Album Creatures der großen Frage: Was sind die Menschen bloß für komische Wesen, die liebevoll Kinder groß ziehen und gleichzeitig ihre Lebensgrundlagen zerstâren?

Eine musikalische Familie fand Hans Gnendinger im Berliner Studio The Famous Gold Watch. Er schrieb Streicher-Arrangements fΓΌr Lotta St. Joan's Album Song for the Undecided und sang gemeinsam mit Mone und Lisa Akuah. Die Vinyl-Editionen von Somewere Between und Creatures wurden erfolgreich durch Crowdfunding finanziert.


English:

Born near the forests and foothills of the southern German Alps, Berlin-based musician Hans Gnendinger was never more than a stone’s throw away from a land of nature and myth. But it was on the streets and stages of Berlin that Hans honed his craft and success as a multilingual songsmith, guitarist, and performer.

Fronting the trio Grizzly Bird, Hans merges his raw storytelling verve and intricate fingerpicking with the rhythmic sensation and powerful dynamics of a rock band. Grizzly Bird can move their audience from folk harmonies and quiet contemplation to ecstatic indie rock grooves, sometimes within a single song. Carried by Hans’ clear, lyrical voice, their songs offer us compelling narratives, subtle humour and humble observations about the state of the world.

Hans began his career under the name Hans SΓΈlo, releasing two albums and touring around Europe both by himself and with a chamber pop ensemble. In 2017, Hans decided to ditch the ungoogleable Hans SΓΈlo moniker and restart with a new band. With Florian Dietrich on drums and Nils Wenzel on bass, he found the right musicians to create maximum sonic impression as a trio.

Grizzly Bird released their debut Empathy in 2019 via The Famous Gold Watch Records, a concept album about animals and how we relate to them.

In August 2020, Grizzly Bird entered The Famous Gold Watch studio to record four new songs, written during that strange spring and summer of the pandemic, leading to a new EP called Somewhere Between. Presenting a stripped down and focussed version of Grizzly Bird’s sound, Somewhere Between was released on June 4th 2021 on vinyl and CD. The band ran a successful crowdfunding and released music videos for The Drummmer's Trauma, The Lakes and Camomile & Rusk.


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