"I asked how are you, you took a day to reply..."
When listening to the German indie-folk, indie rock duo Spoon and the Forkestra you realize right away that Emily-Mae Lewis' vocal aesthetic is, well, everything. The emotional structure of her voice is incredibly telling. The timbre, the cues contained in the way she speaks as a singer has it's own hard gravitational pull. Combined with Timo Zell’s emotive bass lines against Emily's strident guitar movements and it is forever easy to get pulled in.
"Karma 8" from their current debut EP "The Fondest Flinch" has soft reflections and truly hard post punk / indie rock edges (I thought of Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs a wee bit for whatever reason). Emily shares:
“I wrote Karma 8 in 2018 when I realized I had to have a difficult conversation, One that I, fun fact, am yet to have. In the lyrics, I weighed out talking vs. moving town - back then as a joke, but turns out I took my own stupid advice a bit too seriously and moving town won.” says singer Emily-Mae Lewis.
Other songs on the EP dive into huge joyous pools the might be dressed in powerful, whimsical chamber pop clothes like the wonderfully dramatic "Pirates". The fast falling stair stepping "Blue" is exquisitely beautiful. Like a dark and light lullaby it takes you on surreal journey. The simmering pressure of "Blink Twice" slowly edges up as Emily's lyrics unveiling a story with plot twists and spaces in between the lines containing unknown back stories that you want to know. The feeling is dramatic and vast and feels like the next Netflix binger that you want to be addicted to.
Other songs on the EP dive into huge joyous pools the might be dressed in powerful, whimsical chamber pop clothes like the wonderfully dramatic "Pirates". The fast falling stair stepping "Blue" is exquisitely beautiful. Like a dark and light lullaby it takes you on surreal journey. The simmering pressure of "Blink Twice" slowly edges up as Emily's lyrics unveiling a story with plot twists and spaces in between the lines containing unknown back stories that you want to know. The feeling is dramatic and vast and feels like the next Netflix binger that you want to be addicted to.
-Robb Donker Curtius
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THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:
https://www.facebook.com/spoonandtheforkestra/
https://www.instagram.com/spoon_and_the_forkestra/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbSQE5_s_KognbwMQEIEIGA
https://open.spotify.com/artist/4ZixKXXklKlrAanAX3ICak
Amid the intimate silence of the night, Spoon and the Forkestra roam their music through messy woods and enchanted kitchens, tell bedtime tales of sleepless nights and shout odes to life against strange walls.
It’s a wondrous nostalgia that surrounds German indie-folk duo Spoon and the Forkestra. Timo Zell’s delicate basslines gently dance around the fragile and powerful voice of Emily-Mae Lewis who seems to be whispering her pictorial stories directly into their listeners’ ears.
Spoon and the Forkestra turn their stages into a playroom: colorful and always a little messy, but streaked with gloomy shadows that dance on the walls.
Folky elements meet psychedelic melancholy, the freedom of punk meets the sensuality of jazz and soul. We are experiencing a musical embrace – both slightly beautiful and a little gnawing at the same time; a reverberating kind of intensity stimulating awareness for the long-gone.
Many coincidences ensure the collision of singer-songwriter Emily-Mae Lewis and bassist Timo Zell in early 2017: while Emily-Mae enchants their audience in northern Germany, is awarded the music prize "Krach + Getöse" and nominated for the "New Music Award", Timo studies music in the south. As they transform poems from overflowing notebooks into music with their warm voice and their guitar, he kneels for nights on end over spherical, unique bass sounds with which he enriches a wide variety of projects as an accomplished studio and live musician. They long to share the stage with someone, he wants to break new musical ground. The both of them find each other in 2017 in a deserted corridor in search of a coffee machine and two years later, on a Berlin curb of the summer of 2019, they form Spoon and the Forkestra.
As 2020 shuts down the world around them, Spoon and the Forkestra buzz with creative energy. The releases of their first three singles Mosquitoes, Pirates and The Flaws of Attraction hit the nerve of the time and are featured on numerous national, as well as international blogs as well as single performances and daily rotation on some of Germany's most influential radio stations.
Arriving in the here and now, Spoon and the Forkestra keep opening new doors: A new partnership with the music publisher Freibank gives the band the opportunity to present themselves at the international showcase festival Reeperbahn Festival in September 2021.
Spoon and the Forkestras latest single Mary Lou, released in late August 2021, kicks off the drum roll to Spoon and the Forkestras debut EP The Fondest Flinch, due out in the fall.
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THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:
https://www.facebook.com/spoonandtheforkestra/
https://www.instagram.com/spoon_and_the_forkestra/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbSQE5_s_KognbwMQEIEIGA
https://open.spotify.com/artist/4ZixKXXklKlrAanAX3ICak
Amid the intimate silence of the night, Spoon and the Forkestra roam their music through messy woods and enchanted kitchens, tell bedtime tales of sleepless nights and shout odes to life against strange walls.
It’s a wondrous nostalgia that surrounds German indie-folk duo Spoon and the Forkestra. Timo Zell’s delicate basslines gently dance around the fragile and powerful voice of Emily-Mae Lewis who seems to be whispering her pictorial stories directly into their listeners’ ears.
Spoon and the Forkestra turn their stages into a playroom: colorful and always a little messy, but streaked with gloomy shadows that dance on the walls.
Folky elements meet psychedelic melancholy, the freedom of punk meets the sensuality of jazz and soul. We are experiencing a musical embrace – both slightly beautiful and a little gnawing at the same time; a reverberating kind of intensity stimulating awareness for the long-gone.
Many coincidences ensure the collision of singer-songwriter Emily-Mae Lewis and bassist Timo Zell in early 2017: while Emily-Mae enchants their audience in northern Germany, is awarded the music prize "Krach + Getöse" and nominated for the "New Music Award", Timo studies music in the south. As they transform poems from overflowing notebooks into music with their warm voice and their guitar, he kneels for nights on end over spherical, unique bass sounds with which he enriches a wide variety of projects as an accomplished studio and live musician. They long to share the stage with someone, he wants to break new musical ground. The both of them find each other in 2017 in a deserted corridor in search of a coffee machine and two years later, on a Berlin curb of the summer of 2019, they form Spoon and the Forkestra.
As 2020 shuts down the world around them, Spoon and the Forkestra buzz with creative energy. The releases of their first three singles Mosquitoes, Pirates and The Flaws of Attraction hit the nerve of the time and are featured on numerous national, as well as international blogs as well as single performances and daily rotation on some of Germany's most influential radio stations.
Arriving in the here and now, Spoon and the Forkestra keep opening new doors: A new partnership with the music publisher Freibank gives the band the opportunity to present themselves at the international showcase festival Reeperbahn Festival in September 2021.
Spoon and the Forkestras latest single Mary Lou, released in late August 2021, kicks off the drum roll to Spoon and the Forkestras debut EP The Fondest Flinch, due out in the fall.
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Spoon and the Forkestra, indie rock, EP "The Fondest Flinch", deep story telling, sonic journeys, post punk, indie folk, big musical narratives, Emily-Mae Lewis, Timo Zell, "Karma 8", Germany,
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