Sleepwalker's Station
Munich, Bavaria, Germany | Established. Jan 01, 2011 | INDIE
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If beehype was a folk band from Europe, we might sound just like the border-blind collective Sleepwalker’s Station.
Formed in Bergen, Germany, the band has been gaining experience, inspirations, material – and members – for 20 years already. And you can immediately hear it on their new album, “Lorca”, which was recorded with 22 musicians from around Europe. It’s clearly “folk”, but it’s the most unpredictable version of it.
While the album starts with an instrumental song, it is followed by one sung in Spanish, and then comes a number of other languages and dialects from around the continent – Italian, French, German, English, Catalan, Venetian, Andalusian, Bavarian…
Our favourite song on the album, “Si Jetais”, is sung in French, but it features Icelandic electronic musician and singer Íriis. But that’s just us, you should find your favourite song – your favourite place – yourself. - various
Discography
"Lorca" 2018
"Reptile skin" 2014
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Bio
Sleepwalker's station
Colourful soundscapes of a traveller's soul.
In his songs Singer/songwriter Daniel del Valle alias sleepwalker's station is telling stories about his journeys across the globe, from the green west coast of Ireland, across the vast Indian ocean to the deserted centre of Australia. With Nick Drake's philosophy, Dylan's roots and the dreams of counting crow's Mr.Jones.
Sleepwalker's Station is an Italian-German-Spanish Indie World Folk project with songs in 5 different languages and 4 dialects blending various styles like Indie and folk with more traditional styles like flamenco, tango, music from the Alps or the Andes and chanson.
Live experience:
On tour since 2011 in changing line ups, playing over 1000 live gigs across Europe and America.
Including festivals like Glastonbury (UK), SXSW (Texas), Open Flair (Germany), No sin Música (Spain), MEI (Italy), Westway Lab (Portugal) East side music days (Berlin)…
critics/reviews:
“Whilst unsurprisingly Sleepwalker’s Station compose fairly complex and intricate constructions, the out-put is light and relaxing on the ear. Through the use of different instrumentation across songs the band delivers a sparkling freshness to each track. With the maturity of the cohesion of the unit, there is a strong bond between the players, which emerges to the audience as confident and sympathetically delivered music.” Tim Whale, Indie band blog, June 9, 2012
“If beehype was a folk band from Europe, we might sound just like the border-blind collective Sleepwalker’s Station.
Formed in Bergen, Germany, the band has been gaining experience, inspirations, material – and members – for 20 years already. And you can immediately hear it on their new album, “Lorca”, which was recorded with 22 musicians from around Europe. It’s clearly “folk”, but it’s the most unpredictable version of it.
While the album starts with an instrumental song, it is followed by one sung in Spanish, and then comes a number of other languages and dialects from around the continent – Italian, French, German, English, Catalan, Venetian, Andalusian, Bavarian…
Our favourite song on the album, “Si Jetais”, is sung in French, but it features Icelandic electronic musician and singer Íriis. But that’s just us, you should find your favourite song – your favourite place – yourself.” BEEHYPE 03.07.2018
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