Samavayo Post ‘New Riffs Burnin” Rehearsal Room Footage
Berlin trio Samavayo are by no means the only outfit to take the opportunity to develop their visual presence in the absence of broader touring, and you can’t really fault the method by which they’re going about it. Instead of trying to mimic a full concert experience, they’re giving their audience a chance to peek at their songwriting process as it happens. They’ve begun what purports to be a series of videos called simply ‘New Riffs Burnin’,’ and fairly enough so. As the next few weeks play out, they’ll be posting clips from their rehearsal room of them working on new songs for what will be their follow-up to 2018’s Vatan (review here), tentatively to be recorded this Fall with an eye toward releasing in Spring 2022, at which point — hey how about that? — they’ll also be returning to the road.
Sounds like a plan? That because it is one, and kudos to the three-piece on that. Unless I’m mistaken, the band’s last run was Fall 2019, so they’ll be at a decent remove from that — of course the circumstances are well beyond their control, and all ‘plans’ should be taken with the acknowledgment of being pandemic-pending — and having new material is all the more reason to get out again. One hopes the timing works out, for them as well as, you know, the rest of the world. Spring 2022 puts them in the midst of a resurgent and perhaps somewhat tentative festival season in Europe, so it will be an early chance to see what shakes out as regards bands, venues and gatherings in various countries of the European Union and beyond its borders. What does touring post-Brexit actually look like? How often are these poor guys going to have Q-tips shoved up their noses? We’ll find out together as the world attempts to move out of the hellscape that the last year-plus has been and into (hopefully) a more hopeful time.
And it’s in a spirit of that hopefulness that Samavayo focuses on moving forward, on their next record, on getting back to shows, and so on, that they bring this video and the ones that would seem to be set to follow to light. All the better.
It’s a short, under-two-minute consumable — but they’re not kidding when they call it “Sludge Burner.” Here’s looking forward to more.
Enjoy:
Samavayo, ‘New Riffs Burnin’ Ep. 1: Sludge Burner’
Check out a heavy Stoner Rock Riff in Drop-C Tuning from Berlin based Stoner Rockband Samavayo. We are presenting you some kewl new riffs in the next weeks, so you can follow our songwriting for the next upcoming album. Let us know what you think about it in the comments.
Samavayo is:
Behrang Alavi, Andreas Voland & Stephan Voland