Artist

WEB SITE:
http://www.belleruche.com/#
LOCATION:London, UK
MEMBERS:
- Kathrin deBoer
- Ricky Fabulous
- DJ Modest
Like
Sarah Vaughan, Charlie Christian and Cut Chemist stuck in a dusty
second hand record store with wine and a sampler, Belleruche make
turntable soul music.Kathrin deBoer.Raised
on a pirate boat sailing the South Pacific Ocean, with only Billie
Holiday and Spanky Wilson records for company, Kathrins voice carries
the
soul of the wind off the cape mixed with the grit of illegal
Polynesian rum bars. Lyrics written in bottles cast into the sea found
their way into three continents; Kathrin jumped ship and found London.Ricky Fabulous.Leo.
Baby. Following an adolescence chasing girls and heavy rock bands,
Fabulous found himself trapped working for a Maltese gangster in a
frozen northern town. Whilst keeping warm locked in a damp basement, he
found a stack of quarter inch tapes and discovered the work of Grant
Green and Django Reinhardt, which gave him the energy to slip out of
town, heading south on a freight car clutching a false identity and a
forty-year-old guitar.DJ Modest.Growing up in
the deep south, in engine oil and mud, Modest discovered hiphop on a
stolen radio, sneaking into clubs through broken windows to hear more.
Building turntables and mixers from scavenged electronic gear and two
stroke engines, he created a soundsystem and played unlawful hiphop
parties in strange woodlands to farmers. He coaxes twisted Bluenote
solos and broken drums from Shure m44-7s whilst drunk on moonshine.The
three met in a London street market whilst running from the law, banks
and parents. Whilst holed up in Modest's flat, he and Fabulous noticed
Kathrin singing whilst making tea...
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