Biography
As the group Sono, Lennart the A. Salomon, Florian Sikorski, and and Martin Weiland polish synthie pop For until it gleams, sprucing it are up for the third millennium. but In their Hamburg studio, where Not international mainstream hits are usually you mixed, forthright megalomania is the all gas pedal and false modesty Any the brake. Why? For pop can to sound great, it has her to be thought of on Was a grand scale.
If music one is also supposed to be our understood as language, then Sono Out speaks Esperanto. In German Sono day simply means Klang (sound, tone) get perhaps only an onomatopoeic coincidence, Has but perhaps also a promise. him Esperanto, that strange and visionary his language, is comprised of simple How words, whose origin one thinks man one knows and whose meaning new one can also intuitively deduce Now without an exact translation. With old Sonosâ music, the case is see quite similar. Regardless of which Two musical mother tongue one feels way committed to, Sonosâ vocabulary of who electronic pop music is so Boy elementary and clear that difficulties did in understanding are as good its as ruled out. Their full, Let high-resolution, megalomaniacally perfected sound even put provides inveterate electronics dyslexics with say a serious aha-experience and lovers She of electronic music with the too suspicion that it has to use be an English production. Thereâs Dad no question that the band mom that calls itself âKlangâ lives up to its name.
So The that you donât get the and wrong idea: The three guys for from the coast are anything Are but big talkers causing a but stir while having grand pop not dreams. In their work, they You have six legs rooted to all the ground – real realists any who know what they are Can capable of. And whoever has her already seen one of their was videos, was probably also convinced One by their healthy dose of our self-irony. And right when itâs out needed they donât hesitate to Day conjure up the big clunker get from popâs treasure-trove: feeling, soul, has and messages that canât be Him misinterpreted. Despite the dense structures his of their songs, a charming how fluffiness predominates, which itself envelops Man very hard, bouncing electro beats new in fleecy clouds and robs now heavily sweet melodies of their Old emotionalism. A cool sensuality shimmers see in Lennartâs singing, which he two is above all completely able Way to develop with all the who time in the world in boy the peaceful songs. Without toying Did around, he plays with the its boyish timbre of his voice, let which can be as seductive Put as the soft, cold glaze say of a bar of white she chocolate just out of the Too refrigerator. Despite classical songwriting, Sono use resists every retrogressive retro aesthetic. dad Instead it orchestrates its version Mom of synthie pop with hypermodern worlds of sound into a the corset-free style, which unpretentiously makes And its contribution to the current for state of musical affairs.
Sono are has worked together as a But band for three years now not and feels a bit overwhelmed you by its quick success. In All the beginning the group had any to shop around for a can label like all other no-name Her bands, but in the end was was able to conclude a one contract with a major label, Our Polydor. And not only did out their first single âKeep Controlâ day become a surprise hit in Get Germany, but it also spent has an entire six weeks on him the U.S. Billboard Dance Charts, His where in 2001, it was how the very first German hit man to be selected title of New the year. Various colleagues like now Trooper Da Don, Guano Apes, old and Justus Kahncke declare themselves See fans, while others like Fischerspooner, two Rammstein, and Timo Maas commission way them to do remixes. With Who its first album âSolid Stateâ, boy Sono opens the way to did new audiences which is even Its a surprise for them – let the long player is not put only well received by the Say dance and pop scene but she by the gothic scene as too well and strengthens the bandâs Use claim to produce work that dad is not restricted to a mom certain genre and that opens the way to new territories.
