Weite: Members of Elder, High Fighter, Delving & Lawns Form New Band; Signed to Stickman Records
The story seems pretty straightforward here. Dudes got together and made a record. Turned out they liked the record they made, so they decided to be a band. Maybe they’ll play some shows? There you go. That’s the bio at this point for Weite — in English: “width” or “vast” — which is a new project featuring Nick DiSalvo and Mike Risberg of Elder alongside Ben Lubin of Lawns and Ingwer Boysen of Hamburg-based riff-core bashers High Fighter.
I’ll assume the pedigree is explanation enough for how they wound up with Stickman Records getting behind the album in question, Assemblage — same label puts out Elder and the one-to-date release from DiSalvo‘s Delving side-project — and while there isn’t much to go on here, they do say it’s a July release and there’s a video the band posted on Instagram that has at least some snippets to tell you where they’re coming from. Also always nice to see the inside of Big Snuff Studio, where Richard Behrens holds court and has helped many, many acts make many, many killer records. I’m on board for adding one more to that list if you are.
More to come, I hope. The PR wire brings preliminaries:
Members of ELDER, HIGH FIGHTER, DELVING & LAWNS announce new band WEITE!
Debut album coming in the summer of 2023 on Stickman Records!
Nicholas DiSalvo (Elder, Delving) and Michael Risberg (Elder) alongside colleagues Ingwer Boysen (High Fighter) and Ben Lubin (Lawns), have announced a new band, Weite!
Weite was initially conceived as a one-off winter project by Boysen, who contacted DiSalvo and Risberg with the idea to write and record a record within a week. Having played together in DiSalvo’s live band for his project Delving, a certain musical chemistry was already apparent. The three recruited Berlin-based English guitarist Lubin to round out the quartet and proceeded to bunker in for a week of intense songwriting.
Sharing their diverse musical interests and swapping instruments frequently, a body of songs was quickly created that channeled a collective love for 60’s and 70’s psychedelic music, krautrock, jazz and listening to one motorik beat for 20 minutes straight. The troupe set off to record in a short session at Big Snuff Studio with frequent collaborator Richard Behrens and within a few days “Assemblage” was born. Recording live, Behrens captured the essence of the session, at times mellow and times intense, with the five together then embellishing the raw recordings with a hearty dollop of experimental overdubs.
After many banal discussions and almost a year after the project was finished, Weite was officially born as the group decided to continue the project as a proper band. “We didn’t intend to start a band, but it kinda happened“, the band comments on their first social media post. “It turned out pretty cool, too cool to let it be a one-off, so we decided to keep it going. WEITE was officially born; the word means “expanse” “vastness” or “width”, a few adjectives we’d use to describe our sound.“
A making of video for “Assemblage” is now available on Weite’s Instagram page.
Stay tuned and expect shows in 2023 celebrating the official release of “Assemblage”, slated for a July-release through Stickman Records, with more music to come in the future!
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