Sunday Munich
Sunday Munich is band formed by Sarah Hubbard-vocals and lyrics, and Avis-cello, piano, guitar, loops and programming. Sunday Munich is the most original and darkly beautiful project we ever heard. Their music is and amalgamation of many different kinds of music. Its ethereal but not so gossamer that it floats away. It is grounded and raw with pain and emotion. Scratchily old record loops, heart wrenching vocals, creeping fear is part of Sunday Munich's music. The first album they did was called "PNEUMA" which is a representation of situations in your life when you take all the hatred and despair the world has dumped on you, all the puts-down and lies, the violated childhood memories and demolished hopes of a loving-couple happy ending, and then to take it all in your hands and tear it apart into ugly red blots and jagged shards into their ugly smug faces, twisted and dark with your righteous anger, but turned beautiful now, too, by your own art?? Sarah sings, Avis constructs an alternately hypnotic and fiercely chaotic musical setting around her, starting with cello, keyboard, and then jumping from gentle guitar to powering dub beats from throbbing bass to buzzing static. Heavy on the electronics, but also on human emotion.. Sunday Munich is a goth pop group for melancholy triphop listeners. Their album "PNEUMA", merges gothic female vocals, at times like the cranes, and other times deeper and more articulated, with Portishead instrumentation, like the heavenly grooves samplers. Their second release "VINCULUM" is a more light album. Drum loops and sampling meets ethereal vocals. A mixture between trip hop and cocteau twins. Vinculum is a hypnotic collage of pulses, beats, and hunting female depressive voices. Sunday Munich, mixture between trip hop, classical, and drum n bass, and noise genres with a reflective female vocalist Portishead resemblances are obvious. Sunday Munich is certainly not a goth band, instead they are two piece, vocally strong act, not afraid to use both time to master instrumentation and cutting edge technology.