.:: Hailing from North Somerset, UK, Blueneck formed in the early part of 2000 initially as a four piece. Founder members Duncan Attwood, Ben Paget, Johnny Horswell and Ben Green proceeded to forge their career on the West Country’s thriving live circuit. They soon added a fifth member, Michael Maidment to enable a fuller live sound and have since played with such acts as Aereogramme, Crashland, Cult of Luna, i like trains and Thirteen Senses.
Steering away from conventional songwriting, Blueneck’s music has developed into a cinematic soundscape of ambient atmospherics, dark skeletal rhythms,haunting vocals and swirling crescendos, all created with analogue synths, sparse piano and huge, soaring guitars - the band have a distinct subtlety and craft about their music that forces the listener to engage and immerse oneself into their world.
In time, the band steadily dropped conventional gigging in favour of a studio environment, where their music has been allowed to evolve in a direction unrestricted by what can be readily produced on stage, to enable their complete musical vision to be realised. Having already produced a series of demos, each one evolving further into atmospheric territory than the last, the band have teamed up with producer and musical visionary Corin Dingley to go to work on their full-length debut.
Blueneck self-released their first full length album in 2006, entitled ‘Scars of the Midwest’ after having spent a year and a half locked away recording in the hills of deepest Somerset, having delivered a dark, dynamic masterpiece which puts the band truly in a class of their own. Operating in a similar “post-rock territory to that of Godspeed! You Black Emperor, Sigur Ros and Mogwai with a nod in the direction of Radiohead’s Kid/Amnesiac period, Blueneck are now captivating audiences with their enigmatic live performance and building a growing army of support Europe-wide. Be sure to catch them on this year’s festival circuit, and look out for a new record in 2007.
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