A.S. FANNING + LOUIS BRENNAN | Silent Green - Berlin
Schedule
Wed, 28 Feb, 2024 at 07:00 pm
Location
silent green | Berlin, BE
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Kumpel & Friends and Greyzone Concerts proudly present:A.S. FANNING & LOUIS BRENNAN
28.02.2024 - Silent Green
Doors: 19h | Start: 20h
Presale: 20,- € plus fees
Tickets: https://www.greyzone-tickets.de/produkte/784
Dublin-born musicians A.S. Fanning and Louis Brennan, now based in Berlin and London, are two of the most interesting and darkest songwriters of our time. In spring 2024, they will be on the road in Germany on an extraordinary, collaborative tour: a double concert with a joint band that ironically calls itself "The Traveling Circus of Misery" and gives the best apocalyptic songs by A.S. Fanning and Louis Brennan a new form.
Their songwriting ranges from tragedy to farce and draws on the rich tradition of Irish poetry, themes of displacement, death, post-colonialism and other abysses of human existence. In the carefully crafted sound architecture of a large analog rock band, pieces of music are created that are equally enchantingly beautiful, deeply sad and sometimes even funny.
Released in May 2023, A.S. Fanning's third album, "Mushroom Cloud", has been described as "exactly the kind of darkly shimmering, beautifully melancholic masterpiece [...] that Fanning has been carrying for a long time" (Bedroom Disco), a "multi-layered, transparent work with enough monumental caputnik blues and psych-rock elements to keep it from possibly sinking into obscurity" (musikreviews.de). The predecessor "You Should Go Mad" (2020) is carried by Fanning's warm baritone, which is occasionally reminiscent of Nick Cave and thematically deals primarily with mental illness, and bubbles eclectically and melancholically between 60s psychedelia and gothic rock'n'roll.
Louis Brennan released his second album "Love Island" in November 2022. Recorded at the legendary Rockfield Studios in Wales, it has been described by Lonesome Highway as "an essential album for our time". It follows his debut album "Dead Capital", co-produced by A.S. Fanning in Berlin and described by Americana UK as "an outstanding album, deep, dark and attention-demanding". Brennan has performed at Ramblin Roots Revue, Red Rooster Festival, Folk In The Park and an official showcase at Americanafest UK and has built a formidable reputation on the London roots music scene as part of a loose collective of songwriters and musicians.
The concerts are part of the "Zeitgeist Ireland 24" project, an initiative of Culture Ireland and the Irish Embassy in Germany.
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