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Among the wave of New Year lists and commerce driven promotion for promising bands Stillman presents you five high potential bands the traditional music media have never heard of. These are the 5 upcoming bands we follow on their road to fortune and fame in 2014 (random order).
“By doing everything myself, it all has to go through the same process and through the same hands.” Beside writing her own songs, Diede Oosterveen plays all the instruments herself and also creates her own artwork and videoclips. After a lot of writing in her attic room, last summer she decided to rent a farm and build a temporary studio in it to record her debut album. If you want to support her album, click here. She recorded ten masterpieces of the most delicate dreampop that will be released in 2014. We can’t wait.
This noiserockband arose after a wasted jam session in the former DDR and is named after the Polish soundguy of that evening. After David Stapel and Wessel van der Kroef headed back to Amsterdam they recorded their first Bartek songs on casette. These limited edition casettes rippled like wildfire through the Amsterdam underground. The ‘grundligkeit’ of Bartek erupts in doom-drenched popsongs covered with heavy guitar sounds. This year Stillman takes care of them as they head to the top. First fruit of our labor: their upcoming gig at NO MILK TODAY, february 18th, at Bitterzoet.
CUT_ started last summer when guitarist and producer Sebastiaan Dutilh was asked to DJ at Magneet-Festival. As he did not really care for DJing at the time, he turned it into an electronic improvisation act with vocalist Belle Doron. CUT_ is an electronic live act based on live composition and looped vocals. They allready received great response and had numerous gigs last fall, including Shoeless in Toren and two weeks in a row at the Van Gogh-museum. Their music is inspired by the moment, so every show is unique. In 2014 they will release their first studio song together with a video.
After writing and composing more than a hundred of songs on his guitar and piano this singer-songwriter is ready to present his work to the public. With a throat like Eddie Vedder he strums and sings like his life depends on it, and it actually is! Each live show he serves the audience a great mix of americana songs and delicate blues ballads. On his last show on NO MILK TODAY he played with his great backing band consisting of Merlijn Nash, Maarten Moerland and the guys from Navarone. No guts, no glory!
Who is IX? IX is the alterego of Marnix Dorrestein. Last year he won ‘De Grote Prijs Van Nederland’ with his former band Über-ich. This multi-instrumentalist and producer is now with his new solo project in the business of eclectic pop. The sound of IX combines a feeling of underground New York with happy Brazil and rainy Britain. IX allready released a couple of music videos at the end of 2013, and rumour has it that this will be followed by his debut EP in 2014.
