Adam Tan
 
“I can’t remember when I lost my feelings. Can you give me yours tonight?” as the first single “No Feelings” of the Berlin band Adam Tan goes.
But the trio doesn’t lack in feelings at all, what becomes obvious when listening to the EP “EVERYTHING IS DIFFERENT”. Powerful alternative rock music comes together with sophisticated lyrics of topics between love and death. Great melodies with pop appeal meet uncompromising guitars.
 
We never would presume to teach someone by means of our music. Finally, we just want to make music which is fun to us and which is maybe also fun to other people or which moves them. We neither want to communicate a certain message, we just write for the moment.
 
The six songs on the coming EP range between the genres alternative, progressive and pop. They were produced under the direction of “Prime Anger” Productions, Sebastian Braunreuther and Hannes Kelch, in Berlin.
 
The EP “EVERYTHING IS DIFFERENT” is released under the Berlin indie label DREIKLANG Music on 25 July 2014. Now it’s time to kick doors for Marcus Feder, Marvin Schwarz and Tim Herman.
 

© Maria Nowotnick, 2014

The history of Dorian Gray starts at the end of the 80's as a musical project going counterflow for that period. 

The first era of the band, in fact, thanks to important live shows such as Arezzo Wave III, the main Italian independent and underground rock festival, gives off to a hard and nocturnal, psychedelic and theatrical sound, many years anticipating some contemporary trends yet to come.

Thanks to the peculiarity of their sound and performances on stage, the band was choosen within a 40 top proposals list to represent Italy at the Beijing Italian Expo in 1992.

Dorian Gray was actually the first European rock band to play in Chinese Republic. 

On the way back from China, in September 1992, the band signed with Angelo Carrara (Battiato and Ligabue producer) to realize their first album “Shamano” (Target/WEA), whose first 3.000 copies printing went sold out. 

The following two years saw Dorian Gray playing an almost uninterrupted tour and appearing on the main musical tv shows of the time (Rai Uno “Notte rock”, “Roxy Bar”), as well as undergoing continuous changes in the line-up under the supervision of vocalist Davide Catinari, the last remaining member of the original line up.

The second work of Dorian Gray, “Matamoros” (Interbeat) sees the light in 1995: it’s a sort of concept album about the sense of the limit, and it brings the band to conquer a place in the top 10 indie rock band in Italy chart, according to Rockerilla’s Rockpoll. Despite its approximate mixing, the record gets positive reviews from the national press and it also gets some abroad promotion, with Dorian Gray being included in the cast of Freiburg’s Europop Festival.

Among upcoming tours and tv apparitions (“Segnali di fumo” to top them all) 1997 arrives, bringing “Il veleno della mente” (Flying/LM), the third, extremely hard work of the band. Under the direction of producer Paul Chain, Dorian Gray achieves a rough and visionary album, which gets more enthusiastic rewies from the critic. 1998 brings more important live shows (Beach Bum Festival with Faith No More), but the stress and psychophysical attrition coming from neverending touring outline the band’s splitting. Soon before the final act some tracks are recorded with the production of Paolo Favati (ex Pankow): they will appear on the semi-anthological “Tempi supplementari” album. 

The last official act of the Old Testament of Dorian Gray is the conquest of the Lunezia Prize in 1999. Fernanda Pivano (Beat Generation leader translater in Italy) hands in the prize to Davide Catinari, who – together with other winners Daniele Silvestri and Vasco Rossi – turns to be acknowledged as one of the most interesting authors in the national landscape.

The new millenium brings at first the new single “Narcosuper” (Mescal/Sony), recorded by Davide Catinari in 2003 under the name DVega together with Giovanni Ferrario (ex Scisma) and Andrea Viti (ex Afterhours), then – in 2005 – the album “Tempi supplementari” (K-Factor/Audioglobe), a collection of unedited, remixed and video tracks which rekindles the attention and interest of public and critic on the Dorian Gray project.

Dorian Gray’s New Testament era starts from here: the new album ”Forse il sole ci odia” was released by the end of 2008, and immediately brought the band to the ancient splendour, with a national tour, a British one, a German one and the Career Award at M.E.I. - Indie Labels Meeting.

"Forse il sole ci odia" was out in a special cd-book edition, illustrated by Igort, international graphic novels guru. The band decided to mantain the same style for their latest album, "La pelle degli spiriti", out on March, 2011. 
The cd-book contains 9 tracks and the illustrations by Manuele Fior, Angoulême Prize 2011 for the best graphic novel.

Greguar is going by many names. Some call him Yves Noir, G. Dilla, G.Zilla or Dilla Breaker... others call him the Manmarino, Aquamarino, Luis XIV or Vitamin G, others know him as Ruggie, the Rugmeister. He currently busy producing five of the hottest bands to come: Young City Fish Balls, Chinatown's newest proto-indie-Reggae sensation, The Sean Penns a.k.a the future of minimal Maison-Reggae and Saint-Martyr, obscure and cryptic cold-wave-Reggae producer from the Island of Andaman, Panino Del Vecchio, a funked-up & decadent Reggae-italo-disco diva and the talented and independentist Scottish Reggae MC MacKenzie Tartan!

Wora Wora Washington is a Venice-based electrowave band. Founded in 2009, they have produced two critically acclaimed albums and are about to release their third one. Over 100 concerts across Europe, headliners and guests to some of the largest festivals in Italy, WWW have collaborated with a large number of DJs and remixers. Their new album is called “Mirror” and contains 10 tracks and 50 minutes of their latest work. 
Release date: 2nd December 2016

[EN. BELOW] Mauro Martinuz compone, organizza e incide musica per il teatro, la danza e i linguaggi del video. Dal 2007, collabora con la compagnia teatrale Anagoor (Leone d'Argento, Biennale di Venezia 2018) e lavora al servizio di coreografi e performer. Si occupa di colonne sonore, riprese del suono e missaggio per documentari e opere di videoarte. Shuttle Service, King of Tuna e Cosmos 76 sono alcuni pseudonimi che impiega per gestire gli impulsi della sperimentazione. Fa parte di Teatro Satanico dal 2012 ed è tra i fondatori e del gruppo electro-indie Eraclea.
Attraverso lo studio Bottega Sonora, si prende cura di musica e sound design per la comunicazione pubblicitaria. Assiste band e musicisti nelle vesti di produttore. 
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Mauro Martinuz composes, organizes and records music for theater, dance and video languages. He works for the theater company Anagoor (Silver Lion, Venice Biennale 2018). He composes music for choreographers, performers, and documentaries directors.

ric Eckhart never took the conventional path.

His formative musical years were spent heading a New Wave/Rock band in his working-class West Virginia hometown before an early mid-life crisis saw Eric leave his job, family and all his possessions and move to Ireland to start completely anew. The results were immediate.

His 2006 Irish debut album, ‘Lost and Found’ won the hearts of critics and fans alike which led to appearances on radio, TV and numerous tours and playing support for Broken Social Scene, Fionn Regan, Ocean Colour Scene and many others.

Once again searching for new horizons, Eric picked up sticks and moved to Berlin in 2008 to begin work on his critically acclaimed follow up album, ‘This is where it starts’. Eric and his band successfully toured across Germany and Austria receiving radio airplay and making numerous live radio performances.

Exploring models of how to work as an independent musician, Eric organized a pioneering project in 2012 that brought 100 independent artists together for one week to record, mix, design, promote, film and release his third album ‘Do-It-Together’ in a public space, in front of a live audience and live streamed and all without spending any money.

Fatherhood gave Eric time to slow down and focus on writing about his experiences as an independent artist and doing workshops and talks on the art of songwriting and how to help create your own alternative music industry at Berlin Music Week.

2017 saw Eric’s formal return to recording, this time working alone in a former WWII bunker turned recording studio in the heart of Berlin. Playing all the instruments, engineering, mixing and producing gave Eric a chance to truly come into his own as a songwriter and artist.

The result is Eric’s stunning new album, ‘Luminous’ due for release May  2019.

Ivan and the Visionaries are a rag-tag bunch of minstrels drawn together by a mysterious force during the death throes of 2012. They play rock, indie, blues, folk and anything else they can get their hands on.

Anika - Vox, violin, bass, guitars, ukulele
Shannon - Vox, guitars
Ralph - Vox, bass, harmonica, guitars
Ian - Vox, guitars
Marcel - Drums (maybe some vox, sometime)

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