Indie Folk in 5 languages!
Sleepwalker's station
Experiencing a live concert by Sleepwalker's Station is like going on a smooth little trip around the globe, picking up little impressions and souvenirs from each and every country and region this musical journey takes you to.
With their songs in 5 languages and 4 dialects the Italian-German-Spanish Indie World Folk project manages to blend various styles like indie and folk with more traditional styles like flamenco, tango or music from the Alps and chanson, of course, without losing their authentic original roots.
Each song is a traveling tale about the adventures of the Don Quixote, Sir Captain Franklin, Ulysses’ end- less odyssey or Coelho’s Alchemist wrapped in tunes from the west coast of Ireland or the Andes.
When Singer/songwriter Daniel del Valle decided that he wanted to be a full time musician he gave up everything he had in order to follow this dream to live from his music.
Live experience:
On tour since 2011 in changing line ups, playing over 1.000 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)...
Reviews:
“Sleepwalker’s Station, a truly international band, earlier this year released “Lorca,” an indie-folk album sung in five languages and four dialects. Together since 2001, the band has played more than 800 shows in Europe and America — including some major festivals — and the group is on its way to the States for a string of U.S. dates.
In advance of the band’s NYC shows at Piano’s upstairs (Nov. 20) and Rockwood Music Hall (No. 24) and a Sofar Sounds show sandwiched in between in Philadelphia, we chatted with singer-songwriter Daniel del Valle via email from Berlin.”
Michael Lello, Highway81 Revisited Magazine http://highway81revisited.com/sleepwalkers-station-us-tour-interview/#more-15465
“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 mu- sic.”
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 Sleepwal- ker’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 unpredic- table version of it. While the album starts with an instrumental song, it is followed by one sung in Spa- nish, 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 musi- cian and singer Íriis. But that’s just us, you should find your favourite song – your favourite place – your- self.”
BEEHYPE 03.07.2018
