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holger kochs: guitar, vocals
christian dang: guitar, vocals
stephan kochs: drums
hilly: bass
contact
stephan & holger kochs
fon: +49 [0]2406-97181
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Biography
It all began in 1994 with the idea of founding one's own label
and the need to release their first EP. And so pale released the
debut "Krusty-Tag ep" on the newly founded soda records: 6 songs
somewhere between Buffalo Tom and the forgotten Doughboys with
the ability to tell everything within 3 minutes. Pale were heard
for the first time and all the overwhelming reviews that followed
surprised everyone including the band. 5 months and 4 songs later
Pale released their first full-lenght "Swear Jar" - the songs
of the debut had been remixed to be released again. Once more
the critics loved their output and concerts all over germany followed.
In 1996 bad news disturbed their scene. The former bass-player
left the band due to personal reasons. So a new one had to be
found, which soon was the case, so that only two months later
pale released the second album "Drop Pants For Food". Noisier,
faster and still with the idea of the perfect pop-song, they recorded
ten tunes with the help of bluNoise-mastermind Guido Lucas (Yage,
Blackmail, Sometree, etc...) 1998 singer and guitarist Holger
founded Reno Kid with ex-Leaving Vegas-singer Marc Isenbügel and
three friends, but left the band one year and three awesome releases
(including the "hearts pounding everywhere"-EP with Soulmate)
later. Three years had to pass before Pale finally released the
third longplayer, "Another Smart Move" (1999): 10 emotional-driven
songs arranged like a mosaic, influenced by Paul Weller, the intelligence
of Refused and the (so-called "emotional") half-times. A concept-album
and more. Their way of commenting and laying feelings into words,
music and their shows remain outstanding. 10 songs packed with
ideas, feelings and imaginations of three years.
2000. After joining Defiance Records, an outstanding label from
Cologne, which has already released stuff from great bands like
Yage, Tumult, Ambrose or Engrave, Pale are releasing their new
album "Razzmatazz (The Arts At The Sands)". A concept-album, telling
the the story of 22-year-old Israel, a jazz- and soulfanatic,
who returns after 1½ years to his homewtown and recognizes that
his place is far beyond his friends, his family and all the things
he had before. Only two things left. His love to music and a girl
called Anna. In the tradition of concept-albums, such as The Who's
"Quadrophenia" or The Jam's "Setting Sons", the songs, the lyrics
and the interludes on "Razzmatazz" are all about this guy. Situations,
thoughts and feelings of his life constitute snapshots within
the songs and thereby depict his story in the whole of the album.
Northern Soul and drumloops hit emo-guitars, samples meet overwhelming
harmonies, half-times become desperation. In the vein of Jimmy
Eat World's "Clarity" and Buffalo Tom's "Let Me Come Over", the
songs range from fragmental structures ("I See You, But I Won't
Stay Home") to 60's-beat-songs-arrangements ("Town Called Malice").
Like with all Pale-releases, the graphic-design of the album was
done by Stephan and Holger. A circumstance that underlines the
fact that Pale is capable of functioning as an autarkic and independant
unit, or rather community.
More Pics:
photo credits: Oliver Klobes
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