German duo Grandbrothers have a new album on the way, entitled Open, following their 2015 divine debut album Dilation. They had already enticed us with the sublime and ravishing first single ‘Bloodflow’ and with less than a month to go until the album drops, the pair have shared another marvellous track called ‘Long Forgotten Future’.

With an exploratory and open approach to their compositions, Erol Sarp and Lukas Vogel, who make up Grandbrothers, put again the grand piano as the album’s one and only centrepiece. “Just because we use the same instrument doesn’t mean that it’s the same music,” explained Sarp, adding:

“We always think about what physical impact the songs can have on the audience, for instance whether they can dance to them. We don’t only make music for listening to, after all. As much as we enjoy playing concert halls with the audience seated we also love to play at sweaty clubs where people are standing and dancing around us.”

Listen to ‘Long Forgotten Future’ below and grab Open when it’s out on October 20th via City Slang.

Photo: Mischa Lorenz

German duo Grandbrothers conquered our ears a couple of years ago with their divine debut album Dilation. So we’re pleased to know a new album will follow later this year. Entitled Open, the effort sees German-Turkish pianist Erol Sarp and Swiss engineer/mechanic/sofware designer Lukas Vogel continuing an exploratory and open approach to their music, with the grand piano as their one and only centrepiece.

Open will see the light of day on October 20th via City Slang but we can already hear a taste from it, the sublime and ravishing first single ‘Bloodflow’. It comes with video directed by Hugo Jenkins, who had this to say about it:

“When I first heard the track I was really intrigued by how certain parts repeated yet kept evolving in a way that felt amazingly effortless. This made me reflect on different forms of spirituality and therapy that often involve repetitive tasks. I tried to let this repetition inform the way the film is structured, often returning to a particular idea but revealing a little more each time we see it.

The feel of the music is just so emotive I felt an abstract exploration of memory, family and the mother/daughter relationship made sense to me. The environment I chose to explore this in was drawn from a personal experience I had a few years ago.”

To get excited for this release, check out the video for ‘Bloodflow’ below.

Dilation, the divine debut album from German duo Grandbrothers, came out earlier this year. With the grand piano as their core link, Erol Sarp and Lukas Vogel ally their classical training and technical wizardry on the piano to craft each song on the album in a singular way.
“We use a system of self-built hammers that trigger all parts (metal, wood, strings) of the grand piano in order to create all the sounds you hear including percussions”, explained the pair. “On stage that looks like an open heart surgery on the grand piano with a lot of cables attached.” They are offering a glimpse into these mechanical hammers, with their new video for the incredible album track ‘Arctica’. The video was made by Warped Type and you can watch it now.

Dilation is out now via FiLM.