Keope
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- Keope is an artist collective experimenting with non-linear thoughts applied to the creative process.KEOPE is a duo living and working between Berlin and Presniča, having originally met for the first time in Santiago de Chile in 2005. The real adventure, however, only started in 2015 when they regrouped on the border between Italy and Slovenia, with the aim to record their debut album “Tropicalni” in an abandoned stone quarry. Spontaneity and a stripped-back setup form the key elements of the project. Based around electric guitar, drum machines and an analog modular synthesizer, the band rely on communication through music to direct their performance. KEOPE also welcomes guest singers, instrumentalists and performers from an array of styles and cultural backgrounds. In order to escape the constrictions of indoor recording studios and to enhance the contact with nature and the transcendent aspect of music, KEOPE create their art outdoors with a mobile recording studio set-up. Being in an open air space without the common sonic interferences results in a much wider, purer and more organic sound. For KEOPE, creating music is a sacred experience in which cosmic forces are involved – from stars to atomic vibrations. Each musical experience is unique and never to be repeated – a pure celebration of the now. KEOPE 's recorded music is therefore often a snapshot from live performances or jams which capture the environment in which it was performed as well as the artists’ momentary moods. The debut album "Tropicalni" seems to exist in a vacuum. Stylistically, the nine tracks here owe something to multiple genres and reference points - from folk and Balearic, to psychedelic and electronica, without falling definitively into any genre. Synths drift in breezily, floating around the wistful melodies. Acoustic guitars sparkle, while flutes and melodicas evoke a little South American shamanism, and the hypnotic beats hint at a deeper connection to dance rituals. This could account for the free-floating, otherworldly, aesthetic. The use of circular patterns – central to many music cultures around the world – has been fundamental in the recording of the “Saltamonte” EP, their first release on Bigamo. Here, KEOPE captured the spirit of their live performances, improvising around melodic and rhythmic themes, spontaneous interplay, and non-verbal musical dialogue. You can hear them develop a full narration from a simple rhythm, a guitar phrase or synthesizer sequence. Fascinated by Australian natives, whose ancestors are believed to create the world through the act of singing, KEOPE creates its own universe through its musical narration. The spirit that moves KEOPE’s research is not about telling some kind of truth, but is more about looking for a path that may finally lead to it. With the album “Triangulo”, which title celebrates the number three, KEOPE invited Alessandro Martini to participate in the creative process – a composer, singer and multi-instrumentalist who already featured on two songs of the “Tropicalni” album. Inspired by KEOPE’s most recent travels and performances through Mexico at the end of 2018, the atmosphere of “Triangulo” is hot and humid. If in “Saltamonte” they were staring at the jungle while being hit by the monsoon, here they have taken a long journey deep into it. On this new album we can hear KEOPE’s very own signature sound consisting of bold grooves, deep basslines and evolving guitar-loops. We can also recognize classic western song structures, like stone buildings emerging from the forest's mist. All the rest is just organic matter of leaves, flowers, monkeys and snakes.̸"Tropicalni" (12" vinyl album, Muting The Noise, 2017) "Saltamonte EP" (12" vinyl, Bigamo Musik, 2017) „Yenkl“ (incl. Trikk remix & live version, Bigamo Musik, 2019) „Triangulo“ (12“ vinyl album, Bigamo Musik, 2019) "A Night In Bacalar" (12" vinyl compilation, Kryptox/Gomma/K7! 2019)
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