NamNamBulu
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Genres | Synthpop, Futurepop |
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Website | www |
NamNamBulu is a German synthpop/futurepop[1] band, consisting of Henrik Iversen (lyrics and vocals) and Vasi Vallis (songwriting and arrangement). Their 2005 release Alone reached #53 on the Deutsche Alternative Charts. The band split up in June 2005. NamNamBulu reunited in 2013 for 10-year anniversary tour, including dates at Wave-Gotik-Treffen (after 2004).[2]
The band is located in Switzerland/Germany. Vasi Vallis, born in Greece, is responsible for all aspects of composing and arranging the songs and producing remixes: from the first idea, arrangement and production, to the end result. Vasi also does the "NamNamBulu" remixes for other bands. Henrik Iversen (Norwegian/Danish) is singer and lyricist. He is also the main performer on stage.
History behind the name
[edit]"The name goes back to about 1988, where in college Stefan and Henrik came up with the plan to make some music. So we did... with an Atari ST and a DX21 and DX7. Of course only one of the two could hack on the machine, so the other would have to do something else - in our case that was reading magazines. Stefan at the time was much into history, reading about the Vietnam war... he regularly bought a mag called "NAM" which was about this war. As we would alternate in reading and working, this became the first part of the name: NamNam.
The 'Bulu' has a totally different background. As we would use to go for a beer every now and then, we picked the BULU from an engraving that you could find on Swiss beer glasses from 'Cardinal' beer, just saying 3dl / BULU. What BULU means exactly, we have no clue, but we added it to the band name. There you go: NamNamBulu.
Well.... NNB never got far back then. Stefan made some instrumental pieces, that I might still find on a MD (Minidisk) somewhere. But it wasn't until I met Vasi, that we picked up the name again - even though it might sound a bit funny still :).
By picking a band name away from the commonly used terminology, NNB is trying to avoid being stuck in a cliché, which would prevent the band from evolving in any musical direction that it might find applicable."
Discography
[edit]- Blind?, July 27, 2002 (EP CD)
- Memories, June 10, 2003 (Mini CD)
- Distances, July 14, 2003 (CD)
- Sacrifice (with Lights of Euphoria), September 30, 2003 (7" vinyl)
- Expansion, May 10, 2004 (EP CD)
- Alone, January 31, 2005 (Mini CD)
- Blinded!, April 25, 2005 (EP CD)
- Distances (Black edition)!, 2010 (CD Remastered Re-Release)
- Sorry 2014 (EP)
- Borders 2017 (CD)
- Distances 2022 (CD)
References
[edit]- ^ "Best Record And Music". Nilaihah.com. Retrieved 4 October 2020.
- ^ "~ Offizielle Seiten Wave-Gotik-Treffen Leipzig ~". Wave-gotik-treffen.de. Retrieved 4 October 2020.