At this concert experience above the sea, the pier becomes a stage. Where the excursion boats set sail during the day, in the evening popular musicians take to the stage for a breezy open-air concert.
Rough and overcast. That’s how people think of northern Germany. This atmosphere has shaped them and their sound: the guitar-pop duo Gutbier & Vogeler from Hamburg.
As songwriters, Lisa Gutbier and Arne Vogeler like to immerse themselves in moods, picking up on nuanced observations of their surroundings as well as their inner worlds, and intuitively weaving these together in their music. You can undoubtedly hear their connection right away.
If you imagine pop as a smooth structure, they roughen it up, sand down edges where there weren’t any, and turn it into something with real texture. The sound—vintage without sounding musty and dominated by guitars—makes the German lyrics sound wonderfully un-German. As a result, the stories they tell often come across as melancholic and somber, yet with a clear sense of conviction, as is evident in songs like “Nachts im September” or “Nicht alleine hier.”
Paired with their two voices, which blend perfectly, the result is a solid mix that’s quite reminiscent of Springsteen or Fleetwood Mac.
