Brandão, Faber and Hunger Love You All!
Lockdown summer wasn’t all bad. “Ich liebe Dich” – an album shared by the percussionist Dino Brandão, and singer/songwriters Sophie Hunger and Faber – is one of the many unforeseen and unplanned projects that came to fruition purely because of it. “Ich liebe Dich” is released on 11 December 2020 by Two Gentlemen Records.
Percussionist Dino Brandão is in a band called Frank Powers and composes afro-folk songs under his own name. He is also a member of Sophie Hunger’s band, the singer/songwriter born and raised in Zurich whose latest Dan Carey-produced album “Halluzinationen” went to number 11 in Germany and number 1 in Switzerland. Faber is another singer/songwriter from Zurich. His last LP “I Fucking Love My Life” was a number 3 hit in Germany and also hit number 2 in Switzerland.
During the past Covid summer all three artists were stuck in Zurich, their tours and everything to go with these cancelled. Bored and frustrated, they happily agreed to take part in a live broadcast from a deserted bar on behalf of a local radio station, GDS.fm. A first rehearsal in Faber’s and Dino’s kitchen yielded a handful of exciting ideas. More rehearsals ins Sophie’s temporary studio in the Rote Fabrik next to Lake Zurich turned the ideas into proper songs. The live radio performances in early August gave the trio its finishing touches by creating a proper band spirit. Straight after these shows, all three decamped to a studio in the South of France. The resulting album is a beguiling surprise package of twelve songs about love, all sung in their native Swiss German language.
This is what they write on their brand new shared homepage: “I love you: a sentence that sounds like the beginning of the world and yet remains almost impossible to find in the Swiss-German musical tradition. This album is an attempt to bring love back to the center of reality.”
Dino Brandão
Sophie Hunger
Faber
Two Gentlemen Records
