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"(...) artistically, they are completely self-contained and even their english lyrics are convincing which makes them a very enjoyable exception within the German music scene. And they know how to combine coolness and harshness with the great implicitness of feminine pop music at the same level as Pretenders, PJ Harvey or Patti Smith. A very fine debut!" - Musik Express, Germany
Soulful and 'academic' pop, coloured in a cloudy black by singer Ibadet Ramadani - Super700 are the band of the summer, not only in their hometown Berlin.
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Most band members studied music and you can hear their Jazz backgrounds. But
the longer you listen, the more you get captured. The music is confusing and infatuatingly romantic. And melancholic. However, it soon becomes clear that singer Ibadet Ramadani neither needs encouragement nor protection.
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The only studid thing about this great band is the name (...) This is the most electrifying thing since long. - Rolling Stone Germany
“This debut album sounds pleasurabaly uncomplicated. The definiton of the style is not. This playful jazzy triphop pop has a melancholic feeling in it. Thanks to the unbelievably charming voices of the three sisters Ramadani it is a spring record anyway. Record man Tim Renner (Head of Motor Music, formerly President of Universal Germany) and producer Gordon Raphael know this is the next big thing. And it’s up to you to make that come true.” - Uncle Sally's, Berlin
Super 700 ARE super. "You just got to hear them" has become the rumour upfront of their permances (...)
On stage, the septet wraps all insruments and voices in a moonlight foil and develop a superb virtuosity in balancing the spooky and the romantic, whilst the musical director on the bass hold everything when it comes to improvising or things tend to get epic (...)
Super700 will enter many stages and the next album will be even better" - Spex, Germany
Already in 2005, Super700 made the people happy with their debüt mini album "When Hare and Fox Had Fun".
In the meantime they in many clubs with their soulful songs and tight triprock instrumentation caused moving moments - eye whitnesses report about a very special experience.
Now they present more of those 'slightly different' popsongs on their self-titled longform album. It is an irresistable sound performance and a diversified blend that grooves you into a surreal world of being, causes goosebumps on your skin and at the same time makes you want to move your body.
This is explosive melancholy that never ends in dark dispair. Kepp your eyes and ears open. - Intro, Germany
With their self-titled album, Super700 prove there is still hope for upcoming German bands
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Finally it emerged from the co-operation with producer Gordon Raphael who already worked wit the Strokes and Skin. Musically it moves between Indie Rock and Electronica with great vocals and partly reminds of Lucious Jackson or Wir Sind Helden - but in English. Melancholic songs to rock both the clubs and your living-room. - Musikmarkt (German record trade magazine)
"Reading the bible, you will stumble over the number seven constantly. We often use seven bar forms for our songs". Says Michael Haves of Super 700.
Super 700 are four educated musicians and three somewhat spooky female singers with Albanian roots who with eyes like whimsical laser beams could make you believe anything they say. Even more unsual: they are all sisters. And they harmonize wunderfully.
Basically the band plays timeless Indie Rock music, however sometimes with hypnotic synthesizer moments, sometimes harder and more complicated.
When meeting Gordon Raphael, he was so overwhelmed by their music that he spontanously offered to produce their album. Now it is being released and it lives on the three sister's sinister vocals, the intense instruemtation and the surprising tempo changes. A complex but still catchy album. - Visions
This is an extraordinairy band, the most astonishing and futuristic band heard for long. The Berlin based septet Super700 breaks with rules defined by genres and creates a sound cosmos of its own.
"We do accept nice elements but we also like scratch at the surfaces, sometimes even quite rudely", says bass player Michael Haves. Luckily there is also this beautiful centre in the band, singer Ibadet Ramadani and her sisters Albana and Ilirjana,
who breath magic into the songs - athmospheric Indie Rock with poetic vocals, soulful and very hypnotizing. - WOM Journal
Discography
Album: Super700 (2006)
Mini album: "When Hare and Fox Had Fun" (2005)
Singles: "Here Goes the Man", "Self Control" (both 2006), "I Love the Rain" (2007).
A new album will be recorded in autumn 2007.
All three singles were playlisted at various German stations, “I Love the Rain” was Song of the Week and Top Tune in June at KCRW/Los Angeles.
Seven songs from the current album are being streamed in the media section of the band's homepage (http://bands.motor.de/super700/media), the same goes for the "Here Goes the Man" and "Self Control" video clips.
Furhtermore you can listen to four tracks and watch the "Self Control" video at http://myspace.com/super700
Super 700's new album will be released in early 2008.
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Bio
Super700 are one of the best recieved bands having come out of Germany in the last couple of years. For their current - self-titled - album, which was produced by Gordon Raphael (Strokes etc.) and released through Motor Music, they got tremendous reviews and response from the nationwide German media, both in the press and on radio.
They have successfully been touring Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, Hungary, Poland Holland etc. and also contributed various tracks to the score for the awarded movie "Dancing with Myself" which was premiered at the prestigious Berlinale.
Last autumn, Super700 were the musical highlight at Transmission in Vancouver and in late spring 2007 they smashed the Musexpo in Los Angeles where they performed three days in a row. Here they were also spontanously invited by Nic Harcourt, the music director of California’s influential radio station KCRW, to perform and be interviewed extensively on his show 'Morning Becomes Eclectic'. This can be watched and listen to here: http://www.kcrw.com/music/programs/mb/mb070504super_700. One month later their song “I Love the Rain” became Song of the Week and Top Tune for June at KCRW.
Furthermore and following up the successful US appearances, they were featured with ‘Self Control’ in the UK on Record of the Day as just that.
Singer Ibadet Ramadani of Albanian origin and German bass player Michael Haves first met in Amsterdam where they both studied music. After moving to Berlin, they founded Super700. For the band's line up, please see above.
Super700 stands for a new generation of Berlin musicians. They don´t fit into existing schemes or categories and they care very much for sophisticated compositions and intensive atmospheres. The occasionally melancholic sound is created by rough guitar parts, conspicious synthie sounds and carried around extended drums into different musical extremes.
Super700's sound results from a blend of Pop, Trip Hop, Independent, Electrical and Noise, which scratches the popmusic sphere. Hardly any band creates such a magic athmosphere on stage as Super700 do. They are simply the most electrifying band around.
There is a very nice portrait of the band - incl. excerpts from a live performance at the Musexpo in Los Angeles and a very charming interview - which was broadcast in the States by IMF: http://www.imf.com/link_player.html?video_id=2376
Currently Super700 are performing at Central European festivals and preparing for autumn shows (pls. see calendar).
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