SonVer

"SonVer are a radiant experience, warmly crafted pieces of instrumental post-rock, classically ambient, organic, alive – cinematic soundscapes that gently flow around embracing cello, slow-motion guitars, considered understated bass, drums and effects. A slow motion that’s always on the edge of some dramatic outburst, never that obvious though, things build in a more restrained way, cleverly constructed and really far too artistically accomplished to just be tossed in to the post-rock pot – this is a lot more than another post-rock album. SonVer are a London based four piece who bridge the twin worlds of classical music and rock music with a refined natural unforced ease, this is something that just feels instinctively right, something they just naturally do. Soothing pieces, inviting relaxing pieces, beautifully played, and produced with just the right amount of organic feel – recordings that are alive. Simple pieces, glowing – clearly they aren’t simple, there’s an intelligent complexity here, the work feels simple though, almost ambient, less is more, wonderfully relaxing – church-quiet and spiritual, a classic 4AD quality, some of the eerie magic of Dead Can Dance, quietly triumphant, music that glows, highly recomended"
- Organ Magazine

The room gradually begins to fill, as the elegant quartet led by striking electric cellist Jo Quail, launches the set with the dark, sparse intro to Khat Show Host, with it’s deep rumbles of bass resonating through the room. Majestic and dominant, the guitars from Ruban Byrne and Ben McLees add eeriness and passion as the melody unfolds and flows, soaring and crashing with percussion from Alistair Richardson on drums.

SonVer make music that paints pictures and vistas in your head. Close your eyes to it, be hypnotized by it, but it pays to listen to it. Visually, the band have a chemistry of warmth and smiles between members interspersed with intense concentration. You get the sense that the performance is as much for them as it is for you. The excitement for Jo Quail as she sways and plays the lead notes on the joyously huge Ebusus is palpable by the beatific smile on her face. It’s a song she first visualized several years ago, but has recently only had the means to make viscerally real.

This track which features on the forthcoming new album is a total beauty; evocative of visions of flying over sunlit vistas; and new dawns rising over the horizon. The sheer, unbridled optimism of the music, leaves you moved and smiling from ear to ear. SonVer end the set with Minus Thirty Plus Two, a sweet, sharp piece, which would provide the perfect soundtrack to watching bright stars breaking out in a wintry, dark sky. Perfect for an autumnal night.
- The Four of Five

“…seeing the band play live is an energising and life-affirming experience.” (JudasKiss).

“Album of the Month” Fluid Radio

“.. music that runs a gauntlet of feelings… eerie…triumphant…hypnotic…haunted… Ebusus is majestic and proud…”The FourofFive.
- Various

...“Safety in Numbness” moves the EP closest to conventional song form, with Dehli's voice more clearly heard than before. The song begins in curdling trip-hop mode (comparisons to Portishead are well nigh unavoidable when her emotive delivery is so slinkily coiled around the simmering groove) but, three-quarters in, the skies open to let smoldering guitars work their incinerating magic on the serpentine pulse and bring the eight-minute epic to a powerful close. - Textura - Canada

"The London duo SonVer started. A mixture of structured ambient and post rock were presented with guitar and cello. Slight similarities to Sigur Ros and Godspeed! were noticable, but also to the soundtrack 'Aktivitaeten' from David Holmes (eg.Code 46). The sensitive melodies managed to convince the bound audience which sent the band on their way with a long applause." - Feindesland.de