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Paula & Karol • Berlin • Schokoladen
Paula & Karol • Berlin • Chocolates
Event by: Schokoladen, Dynamite Konzerte
Location: Schokoladen, Ackerstraße 169, Berlin - Mitte
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PAULA & KAROL / folk-indie-pop, warsaw/hamburg
- instagram.com/paulaikarol -
+ tba.
at Chocolates. doors 7 p.m., concert starts 8 p.m. tickets at the doors or in pre-sale --> https://vvk.link/3y7dypc
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850km lie between Hamburg and Warsaw, a long journey that the duo Paula & Karol are happy to travel even after fifteen years of collaboration, including four albums, an EP and many concerts, to work together on their heartbreaking airy, light and sun-drenched pop music. The two have gathered a family of bands around them who record their music between the very different worlds of Paula in Hamburg and as a professor of the sociology of digitalization in St. Gallen and Karol as a DJ, composer, producer and concert agent in Warsaw. The five have become friends for life over the years: “Even if life gets a bit strange, we’ll always be playing music” is the band’s motto.
The album title Lifestrange is a word created by Paula & Karol’s bassist Jakub Czubak. It's his expression for when things in life go differently than planned - and it fits well with the band's emotional state during the creation of the album. All songs were written before the start of the pandemic, during a time of great social and political uncertainty in Poland and elsewhere. The recordings then had to take place in two stages: before the start of the pandemic with the entire band in the studio, later each band member alone with the sound engineer Jacek Trzeszczyński. It was later produced and mastered at numerous “Zoom Happy Hours” by Arjen Mensinga in Utrecht together with Paula & Karol.
Inspired by artists such as the early Hall & Oates, Bob Dylan or the band Whitney from Chicago and under the impression of the current situation, the album has probably become the most eclectic in the band's history to date. Americana meets psychedelic folk and 1970s dad rock. Paula comments on the sound: "I really like the new vibe we created on this album. It's more slick, but it's still heartfelt. I feel there is a bit more coolness, less of a folky and 'be happy' vibe than we usually do."
PAULA & KAROL / folk-indie-pop, warsaw/hamburg
- instagram.com/paulaikarol -
+ tba.
at Chocolates. doors 7 p.m., concert starts 8 p.m. tickets at the doors or in pre-sale --> https://vvk.link/3y7dypc
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850km lie between Hamburg and Warsaw, a long journey that the duo Paula & Karol are happy to travel even after fifteen years of collaboration, including four albums, an EP and many concerts, to work together on their heartbreaking airy, light and sun-drenched pop music. The two have gathered a family of bands around them who record their music between the very different worlds of Paula in Hamburg and as a professor of the sociology of digitalization in St. Gallen and Karol as a DJ, composer, producer and concert agent in Warsaw. The five have become friends for life over the years: “Even if life gets a bit strange, we’ll always be playing music” is the band’s motto.
The album title Lifestrange is a word created by Paula & Karol’s bassist Jakub Czubak. It's his expression for when things in life go differently than planned - and it fits well with the band's emotional state during the creation of the album. All songs were written before the start of the pandemic, during a time of great social and political uncertainty in Poland and elsewhere. The recordings then had to take place in two stages: before the start of the pandemic with the entire band in the studio, later each band member alone with the sound engineer Jacek Trzeszczyński. It was later produced and mastered at numerous “Zoom Happy Hours” by Arjen Mensinga in Utrecht together with Paula & Karol.
Inspired by artists such as the early Hall & Oates, Bob Dylan or the band Whitney from Chicago and under the impression of the current situation, the album has probably become the most eclectic in the band's history to date. Americana meets psychedelic folk and 1970s dad rock. Paula comments on the sound: "I really like the new vibe we created on this album. It's more slick, but it's still heartfelt. I feel there is a bit more coolness, less of a folky and 'be happy' vibe than we usually do."