Berlin avant-pop trio Bodi Bill pre-empt the release of their forthcoming 2022 album ‘I Love U I Do’ with an exclusive EP drop this November in form of 3 tracker ‘Peruhu’ out through Sinnbus records.
The ‘Peruhu’ EP showcases yet another facet of the band’s impressive sonic arsenal. The songs for the EP came to fruition many years ago but was only completed this year during the recording process for the upcoming album.
Lead singer Fenk details the track: “While writing and producing songs back then in our rehearsal space in a musty Berlin basement, I wasted countless thoughts on how great it could be to jog up and down the Andes, sweating into the mountains, seeing the jungle, and the people, the rocks and cliffs. And suddenly i was in possession of a plane ticket to Lima and completely confused. Apparently confused enough to track down the first version of this song just before I left.”
He goes on to add: “I love mountains, big mountains, the Andes: Peru, Bolivia, hardly a day goes by without longing… And besides that, this is of course a romantic song, about being in love in itself, not only about being in love with nature. Of course the song would not have become this beautiful without the drumming of Jörg Wähner (Apparat) and Tom’s tasteful Wurlitzer tones. So I am very glad that it took until now to finish it!”
The title track is accompanied by two B-sides. “Oh Oh Oh” derives from an older song idea as well, going back to a time when Fenk was drawing wolves all the time. He explains: “It’s more of an abstract wolf howling. Out of some wilderness, where somewhere deep in the frozen forest an airplane crashed, in an area so far away from anything, that nobody even bothers to go there.”
And finally there’s “Requiem For The Reaper”, which has it’s origins somewhen in that period in between Bodi Bill and The Das. The recording also features founding member Alex Stolze, whose gentle violin textures gave the track just the right finishing touch.
Following a hiatus of seven years, Bodi Bill returned in 2019 with a series of acclaimed releases ‘Kiss Operator’, ‘What If’ and ‘Better Than Reality’, offering a continually evolving approach to their music. ‘Peruhu’, is the next new single release carving the path towards the band’s new album “I Love U I Do”.
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BODI BILL
Bodi Bill are pioneers of a modern musical eclecticism of Techno, Folk and Indie. Out of nowhere and without much screaming they grow up and into the hearts of the listeners, making themselves indispensable there and overflowing them with beautiful regularity in sweaty live shows. At the temporary climax of the band, other experiments become more interesting and important. Since 2012 Fabian Fenk and Anton Feist have been carrying tenderness into techno with The/Das, while Alex Stolze is working with UNMAP as well as under his own name on linking urban pop music with the intimate sound cosmos of traditional instruments. Above all, however, they leave an empty space that has not yet been filled.
Bodi Bill, then as now, is all about the exchange of ideas and creative processes, which do not take place in seclusion, but in attentive interaction. The band reflects a large circle of creative friends, who sometimes work together loosely, sometimes more closely, and whose motivation is always based first on content. As nodes in an irregularly knotted net, Bodi Bill bring the energies together again. With newly found calmness they throw old working methods and internal structures out of the pile, challenge themselves and ask counter questions rather than give answers.
The new music of Bodi Bill opens the view to the coming time and to what the band always was and always is: the joy of experimenting, the mutual creative motivation, the unconditional curiosity.