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uercusrenatus ist ein Name, der auf Plakaten garantiert immer falsch geschrieben wird. Oder der haften bleibt, zumal man mindestens einmal nachfragen muss. Insofern hat es dieser junge Berliner Singer/Songwriter da ganz gut. Weil nämlich auch die Musik von längerer Halbwertszeit ist, hat sie sich erstmal durch die Gehörgänge ins Langzeitgedächtnis vorgearbeitet. Schon beeindruckend, dass Songs wie "First Date" oder "Strength" länger strahlen als man ihnen anfangs eingestehen mag. Der vermeintlich simpel strukturierte, gar belanglose Song, den Du auf einmal nicht mehr los wirst? Vielleicht gewollt. - intro
Renatus Derbidge ist ein junger Berliner, der auf seiner Gitarre wunderbar zurückgenommene Blätterbrisen-Nummern im ästhetischen Geiste von Weakerthans, Death Cab For Cutie oder Nada Surf spielt und dabei mit dieser entwaffnenden Stimme singt, die über ihre eigene Euphorie erstaunt. Das Foto eines verwitterten Gartenzauns im Spätsommer hätte allerdings besser zu dieser Musik gepasst als das schlecht kopierte Partybild mit Anglerhut und Pornobrille, das auf seinem Demo prangt. Dazu ein Name, der garantiert Breitenwahrnehmung verhindert - es scheint, als wolle er keinen Erfolg. Nerdig und sympathisch ist das, aber ein wenig Marketing, das hat er verdient. Zu schön, um unerhört zu bleiben. (uschmann) - Visions
Discography
Fever -ep 2005
single recordings now end then
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Bio
'qr' is a young man with a special interest in music. He spend the last couple of years with his acoustic guitar. In fact, he started to play guitar on an old mandolin that he inherited from his grandmother. Only a few years later, he bought himself an old acoustic guitar from his schoolfriend. The same instrument he is still playing today. He always found it easier to compose his own songs, rather than learning to play songs from others. Doing that, he's developed his very own style, which is a combination of his soft voice with lovely indie-melodies and strumming, blurry guitarplaying. The guitarplaying somehow seems (at first) kind of unusual in comparison with now-a-day radio rock/pop music. Thats because there are lots of changing rhythms and tempi. Though now, it is quite difficult to fit that into the context of a band. Maybe thats why he never tried to play in a band. The style could be called singer/songwriter. Thus a very unspecified genre; its some kind of (acoustic) guitar-based indie-rock/pop music.
Singing in english as a german sometimes seems difficult. For him there was actually no choice - it is easier! cos the english language has a flow that fits quite good to rock/pop struktures. German though has a rough edge to it that works like a stakkato on an otherwise smooth flow.
The songs can be very different. They varify from a slow balad calmness (first date) to upbeat rock- stomping vividness (golden smile).
"qr" just moved from Berlin (Germany) to Basel (Switzerland). In Berlin he played in alomost every café, pub and small clubs.
In 2006 he spent 3 Weeks touring Germany with his Singer/Songwriter-friend Janis Elko. They played 16 Gigs together. Since beeing in Basel he started to play gigs there to.
At the moment he tryes to get a band together (violin, dubblebass, percussion, accordion).
The aim is to have two sets, a solo-set and a band-set.
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