Get Well Soon sates itself on the filmusic of Nino Roto.
Get Well Soon is the brain-child of – as NME says – ‘the German Wunderkind’ Konstantin Gropper. Wunderkind? Yep, Gropper can indeed turn his hand to anything: he is a classically trained singer, multi-instrumentalist and award-winning (film)composer. His third album, with the attractive title ‘The Scarlet Beast O’ Seven Heads - La Bestia Scarlatta Con Sette Teste’ is soon to be released. An album title that reveals much. Think Nino Rota and Daria Argento, that is: ‘Italian Genre Cinema Music’. So film forms the theme and pretty much every song has a filmic connotation. Just consider the track ‘You Cannot Cast Out The Demons (You Might As Well Dance)’, an ode to pretty much all the women who ever played in a Hitchcock film. Not so very surprising when you realise that Gropper spent the past year writing one film score after the other and in ’09 also provided the soundtrack for ‘Palermo Shooting’ by Wim Wenders. Get Well Soon performs live as a 6-member band.
Opener will be Bolivian born performer David Lemaitre. Lemaitre’s voice reminds one of José González and Zach ‘Beirut’ Condon. His debut-EP 'Valediction' organically combines electronica and folk. Lemaitre is currently working on his debut album in Berlin.
GET WELL SOON - Roland I Feel You [Official Video] from bildundtonfabrik on Vimeo.