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Grandbrothers
country: Germany
genre: Electronic
styles: Compositional Ambient, Dusseldorf Electronic, German House, Prepared Piano
ABOUT THIS BAND
Grandbrothers are the sum of unique parts: Progressive Swiss engineer/mechanic/sofware designer Vogel and German-Turkish pianist Sarp. Their second album ‘Open' twins Sarp’s piano skills with Vogel’s talent for both building the formidably intricate mechanics with which he exploits his partner’s instrument and also designing its software. Sarp works at his ivory keyboard while, from behind his own computer keys, Vogel live-samples his partner’s notes, triggering further effects with the aid of homemade apparatus that physically manipulate the piano’s strings and body. “There are hammers I control,” he explains, “which hit different parts to make beats and percussive patterns. In the beginning, I just used an open circuit board I’d constructed without a proper case. It was very fragile and often didn't work. We always had a soldering-iron when we played live.” Their ambitious second album ‘Open' explores dimensions at which their debut ‘Dilation' only hinted. The greatest revelation for anyone hearing them the first time remains the element constant to everything they’ve recorded: every individual sound that Grandbrothers make stems from one single instrument, a piano. No wonder their music was once memorably described as “open heart surgery on a grand.”
Source [Spotify]Releases
Single
We Collide
out on May 20, 2025
via and others
Single
White Nights
out on October 13, 2023
via City Slang
LP
Late Reflections
out on April 14, 2023
via City Slang
Single
Daybreak
out on March 22, 2023
via City Slang
Single
Infinite
out on February 08, 2023
via City Slang
Single
Yonder
out on September 13, 2022
via City Slang
![Gnossienne No. 1 [Grandbrothers Rework (FRAGMENTS / Erik Satie)]](/Covers/image-thumb__29425__cover/62621bee4fc72.jpg)
Single
Gnossienne No. 1 [Grandbrothers Rework (FRAGMENTS / Erik Satie)]
out on April 22, 2022
via Deutsche Grammophon (DG)
Single
Organism (Mogwai Remix)
out on March 15, 2021
via City Slang
Concerts
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