Everyone has their very own way of handling this special situation we’re all in, The Meanwhile Project Ltd duo went down to the basement for you and recorded some live & unplugged songs to shorten the time until the release of the new album Marseille on April 17 via Kapitän Platte!
Watch and listen at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yydaOjATAA
Beatblogger has a neat review of the album, they say:
“The way is the destination of “Marseille”, as where the journey is supposed to lead to is actually never clear. Instead, the individual songs let themselves drift and work with cautious caution, which sometimes turns into pure joy of playing. The wild mix with post-rock build-up comes off well, the combination of emotional moulting and cautiously cracking build-up is just as moody. Meanwhile Project Ltd. pull together different ideas and form entertaining tracks out of them, pleasantly sophisticated but still outrageously catchy. The presentation seems unusual in the best sense of the word, but maybe that’s exactly why it’s so fantastic. What sounds a bit strange at first, literally blossoms and wants to be consumed with pleasure. In other words: a gripping experience from start to finish.”
Meanwhile Project Ltd. has been making music together for more than 20 years and played together in alternative rock band Lunatic Skydance, which was active from the late 90s to mid 2000 and had a broad fan base. Marcell is also a member of the Cologne electropop duo Schmackes & Pinscher.
With Meanwhile Project Ltd., the duo combines their most personal musical preferences, how different they may be. Epic post-rock-crackers and folky singer-songwriter ballads meet dust-dry Americana songs and experimentally playful Indie-Rock. Influences from bands as diverse as dEUS, Motorpsycho, the Villagers or Calexico flash up here and there.
Initially conceived as a short-lived solo project, Meanwhile Project Ltd. developed steadily from 2008 onwards. After some self-released releases, the digital release of The Judas Hole trilogy followed in 2012/2013, which included the first album The Judas Hole as well as two related EPs and was distributed by Dutch netlabel WM Recordings and the Cologne-based label Songpark. In the internet the release was a viral success, and attracted a lot of positive attention.
In April 2020, after a somewhat longer break, the second album Marseille will be released, this time also in physical form as a vinyl LP on the Bielefeld label Kapitan Platte. With the musical support of many guest musicians (among others the Cologne Subway Jazz Orchestra) and the renewed collaboration with the Austrian producer Hannes Jaeckl (Ampersand, Sans Secour, Komplizen der Spielregeln), a grandiose and multi-layered album has been created, which is definitely suitable for the next head cinema show.
After Meanwhile Project Ltd. have performed live so far mainly as a singer-songwriter duo, there will be a release tour in the course of the Marseille album release in May 2020 in a full band line-up.
Tracklist
1. Marseille
2. Selina
3. Idols Shaking Hands
4. Insect Boy
5. Lost On Demand
6. Emigrant
7. Tired Boy
8. Golden Sunrise
9. Seventyeight
10. Ghost With A Toy
Links:
https://www.facebook.com/meanwhileproject.ltd
https://meanwhileprojectltd.bandcamp.com
