How did the two of you meet?
Philipp: We met in Thuringia and we were both playing in two very loud rock bands. We we shared a rehearsal room and I think it was one or two years later there was a jam session out in the woods with about ten musicians who participated. It was there that we noticed that we played well together.
Alex: We had also done a previous collaboration before the Woods Sessions.

So you were both playing in harder rock bands before, but the music that you make together is so dreamy and gentle and much more like pop music. What brought you to this genre?
Philipp: The loudness. I think is depends on the person, but for me, I played in a very crazy band, and I wanted to try something totally different. The experience was so new and also very interesting.

Do you prefer playing pop music?
Alex: Yeah

In regards to your EP “Aurelia“. Is it named after the species of Jellyfish?
Alex: The sounds of the words are, the jellyfish doesn’t represent a specific meaning. You can add your own ideas to this word. For us it could represent a type of depth.

Are you touching on some deeper subject on the “Aurelia EP“?
Alex: Yeah, there is a connection, the lyrics are mainly about personal things, but also rising out of the deep in a personal level. So you can connect the abstract idea of Aurelia to the concept behind the album.

You seem to have a love for being in the wilderness, would you ever consider going to another place or city to record?
Alex: Not to record, but to write. I think that we have to go to a place where we can concentrate on writing a new album, kind of like the woods sessions, where there are no other influences. As for recording, we already have our own studio where we do all of our recording.

Would you ever want to do it in Berlin?
Philipp: No, it would be too much. We need to really focus on the music and Berlin wouldn’t be good for us in that way.

What does hope and passion mean for you both?
Alex: To own a little cabin in the forest and never leave the woods. Never. That’s hope.

BOMBEE – Tourdates

presented by NOTHING BUT HOPE AND PASSION
21.02.2014 – DE – Chemnitz – Atomino
22.02.2014 – DE – Gera – Sächsicher Bahnhof
25.02.2014 – DE – Mainz – Schon Schön
26.02.2014 – DE – Göttingen – Heimathafen
27.02.2014 – DE – Hamburg – Marx
01.03.2014 – DE – Berlin – Privatclub
08.08.2014 – DE – Freiburg – tbc.
09.03.2014 – DE – Karlsruhe – Jubez
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