Belleruche

Band Biography / This Is How We Roll Like Sarah Vaughan Charlie Christian And Cut Chemist Stuck In A Dusty Second Hand Record Store With Wine And A Sampler Belleruche Make Turntable Soul Music. Kathrin DeBoer. Raised On A Pirate Boat Sailing The South Pacific Ocean With Only Billie Holiday And Spanky Wilson Records For Company Kathrins Voice Carries The Soul Of The Wind Off The Cape Mixed With The Grit Of Illegal Polynesian Rum Bars. Lyrics Written In Bottles Cast Into The Sea Found Their Way Into Three Continents Kathrin Jumped Ship And Found London. Ricky Fabulous. Leo. Baby. Following An Adolescence Chasing Girls And Heavy Rock Bands Fabulous Found Himself Trapped Working For A Maltese Gangster In A Frozen Northern Town. Whilst Keeping Warm Locked In A Damp Basement He Found A Stack Of Quarter Inch Tapes And Discovered The Work Of Grant Green And Django Reinhardt Which Gave Him The Energy To Slip Out Of Town Heading South On A Freight Car Clutching A False Identity And A Forty-Year-Old Guitar. DJ Modest. Growing Up In The Deep South In Engine Oil And Mud Modest Discovered Hiphop On A Stolen Radio Sneaking Into Clubs Through Broken Windows To Hear More. Building Turntables And Mixers From Scavenged Electronic Gear And Two Stroke Engines He Created A Soundsystem And Played Unlawful Hiphop Parties In Strange Woodlands To Farmers. He Coaxes Twisted Bluenote Solos And Broken Drums From Shure M44-7s Whilst Drunk On Moonshine. The Three Met In A London Street Market Whilst Running From The Law Banks And Parents. Whilst Holed Up In Modests Flat He And Fabulous Noticed Kathrin Singing Whilst Making Tea. They Formed A Plan And The Band Was Born Out Of A Shared Love Of Old Vinyl True Funk And Real Soul Music. read less