"Raised by snakes - kidnapped by aliens"

johnplayer@notmail.org

DJ // Producer // Live Act // Hardau Records // Co-Founder of Tropical Continent & Alors Festival // Part of Trippy Advisor 😵‍💫

13.12.25 D-Wiesbaden, Kreativfabrik (Saalschutz Live & DJ Set)

Clubs / Festivals played (Live & DJ):

Pudel Club Hamburg, Silbergold Frankfurt, Lethargy Festival, GDS.FM Dachterassenday, Alors Festival, Off The Radar Festival, Feel Festival, Zukunft Club Zürich, Klaus Zürich, Kauz Zürich, Hive Club Zürich, Kraftfeld Winterthur, Tankstell St. Gallen, Palace St. Gallen, Château Jolifanto, Lettenfest, Street Parade, Kapitel Bollwerk, Dachstock Reitschule, Perlaton, Locke, ://about blank, Photobastei, Schneiderei etc.

2001 - 2017, 2023 - ... Saalschutz Live & DJ MTDF: 
Dachkantine, Rohstofflager, M4Music, Moods, Nordstern, Silbergold, Übel & Gefährlich, Pudel Club, Lethargy Festival, Festsaal Kreuzberg, Melt Festival, Brunnen 70, Club Gretchen, Rosi's, Zukunft, Villa Wuller, Dachstock Reitschule, Reeperbahnfestival, Ritter Butzke, Mokka, Kiff, Chiemsee Summer, Gurten Festival, Fluc/Wanne, Musikfestwochen, Pop up Festival, Knaack, Egocity, Sihlpapier, Rüdigerstrasse, Hafenklang, Poolbar Festival, Weltbühne, IFZ, ://about blank, Photobastei and many more...

Following the release of a number of EPs on Swiss, German, British and Australian labels, Trinidad will release their debut album ‘Palm Trees & Thirty Degrees’ on October 16th 2020. The album draws on the Swiss-based trio’s experience of sustaining the energy of festival and club shows, while also providing the perfect background to a relaxed summer evening with friends.

The project provides an opportunity for the trio to indulge in a range of musical influences, blending together a mix of synthesizers with the haunting tones of a church organ, the warmth of a string quartet and regality of an opera singer. The album grew organically, with inspiration taking hold beyond the confines of the studio: the bonus track recorded with a Jamaican reggae singer in the back of a VW bus in Greece. Soundscapes from Colombia to India were captured and embedded.

With "Palm Trees & Thirty Degrees" Trinidad guide listeners on a journey to a tropical paradise; to a wonderful, perhaps peculiar place of confidence, created and shaped by the mental theatre of the moment.

The soft kiss of a warm breeze hits you as you adjust to your new surroundings ("Desembarco"); leaving the static chatter of your thoughts behind in the "Lobby" (feat. MonoAbe) of your mind; you allow yourself to imagine what the evening holds in store (”Kopfkino”); But first, there’s a drink in the ”Sunset Bar”, a refreshing cocktail "Luciola" that serves as a gateway for you to plunge into the night. A night of unlimited possibilities, the first instances a blur ("Sagrada"), as time starts to lose its meaning ("Tempus Fugit"); everything spins, everything is possible, everything is ("Elevate"). Suddenly, hours (or is it days?) have passed - it doesn’t matter; what matters is the first sign of dawn, the unmistakable warmth dissolving the darkness (”Alma”); the beat slows, and you feel the "Libération" of the new day; looking around you see the moments you’ve shared etched on the faces of your friends ("Fleeting" feat. Julia Portmann); It is not goodbye, it is only "Au Revoir".

The album was produced by Trinidad in their own studios in Bern and Zurich. It features collaborations with a number of artists: Cornelia Aeschbacher Firmin (Hang), MonoAbe (Mallets & Percussion), Jack Williams (text of "Fleeting"), Julia Portmann (vocals), Zenyth (vocals) and Michael Meier (electric bass). The songs were mixed by Marcel Schneider, mastered by Benjamin Fay. Raïssa Lara Lütolf was responsible for the graphic design.

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