Blone

An album that shouldn’t even exist. A band that never wanted to form in the first place. Two musicians who usually explore totally different soundscapes. And yet, here they are: the band and the album. Blone is the new project by Tara Doyle and Erol Sarp. Their album, “This Time Next Year,” sounds very different than the singer-songwriter songs Tara usually performs under her full name, Tara Nome Doyle. Different than the piano-based instrumental electronica that Erol releases with Lukas Vogel as Grandbrothers.

When Tara wanted to use a break from touring to experiment, she immediately thought of Erol: “But I wasn’t sure how he would react. After all, Grandbrothers don’t use vocals at all,” she recalls, “so I simply cast my net and asked him.” The answer? Positive.

How does Blone sound? Somewhere between dream pop and trip hop, it embraces influences from electronic music and soul with lyrics about longing, about dependence and of the urge for independence. Lyrics that sometimes contradict themselves, because that's the thing with feelings and life: never straightforward, contradictory, sometimes even messy.

You can get a rough idea on „I Feel Tired (All the Time)“, the first song of Tara’s and Erol’s collaboration. Dark wave meets huge pop music, hymnal vocals meet a kind of exorcism. Blone (the name is relating to the Norwegian term for mountains that appear to be blue from afar) have already managed to attract a small following within the team of the movie „Corpus Delicti“, the soon to be released film adaptation of a Juli Zeh novel featuring Hannah Herzsprung and Alexander Fehling. „I Feel Tired (All the Time)“ is used in the credits of the movie.

But Blone is also about merging the different cultural backgrounds of the two musicians. Like Tara’s Norwegian-Irish roots that inspired the band name, relating to the Norwegian term for mountains that appear to be blue from afar. Erol’s Turkish family history also becomes part of the music, from the Saz to the deferred rhythms of the songs.

A spontaneous idea turned into an independent band with „This Time Next Year” being its first multifaceted chapter.