GINA ÉTÉ Facing the Trouble with Faces
What is “Prosopagnosia?”, you may ask. Well, the word describes an inability to recognise people by their faces. It is also the title of GINA ÉTÉ’s long awaited second album, out now via Backseat. Never one to shy away from complex ideas and concepts, ÉTÉ took her own struggle with facial recognition as a starting […]
Reeperbahn Festival – 22 – 25 Sept 2021 – Hamburg, Germany
How we missed the Reeperbahn Festival! The hybrid version forced on us last year by the Corona virus turned out to be not bad at all, the best, certainly, that could be expected in a difficult situation. However, we are mighty glad to be physically back in Hamburg this year, returning to all the things […]
Gina Été “Erased” but Not Erased
After a handful of highly acclaimed EPs, singer/songwriter Gina Été has at last released her debut album. Entitled “Erased By Thought” it came out on Motor/Edel on 21 May 2021. Like earlier Été-records, it was produced in San Francisco by John Vanderslice who has worked with the likes of St. Vincent, Spoon, Mountain Goats and […]
Gina Été is all analogue
It is no mean feat to impress THE John Vanderslice (Mountain Goats, Spoon, Death Cab for Cutie, not to mention a series of highly praised solo albums) enough for him to want to record your debut-EP in his very own Tiny Telephone studio in San Francisco. 25year-old Gina Été has managed it. The six songs that […]
