Fanfarlo biography
Fanfarlo are a London-based indie pop band formed in 2006 by Swedish musician Simon Balthazar, and Giles J Davis (who subsequently left before the release of the first single). They fuse elements of folk, indie rock and post-punk using eclectic instrumentation including trumpet, violin, mandolin, musical saw and clarinet.
The band, whose name comes from the Charles Baudelaire novella La Fanfarlo, started performing live in small London indie clubs in 2006, and released four limited edition 7" singles on London-based indie labels (one of which a split single with Sleeping States) throughout 2006-2008.
Their debut album Reservoir was recorded in October/November 2008 at Tarquin Studios, Connecticut, USA and was produced by Peter Katis (The National, Interpol). The album was released in February 2009 on the band's own label Raffle Bat and later licensed to the Atlantic imprint Canvasback, who released it in the UK and US in October 2009 and in Europe in April 2010.
Their single "The Walls Are Coming Down" was released during September 2009. The music video for the single was directed by Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard and features escape artist Roslyn Walker performing the Hanging Straitjacket Escape, a stunt first performed by Harry Houdini in the early 1900s. The stunt was also incorporated into the band's show at Webster Hall in New York on December 19, 2009 (this time by escape artist Michael Lee).
In early September 2011, the band announced on their website that their newest album, Rooms Filled with Light was finished and posted a video of the first song, "Replicate". They also announced a short tour beginning at the end of September in London and ending in Spain in mid-November, a tour that includes a few U.S. cities. The album was released on February 28, 2012 in the United States, and on February 27 everywhere else.
Members
- Amos Memon - vocals, drums and percussion
- Cathy Lucas - violin, keys, mandolin, glockenspiel, vocals, musical saw
- Justin Finch - bass, vocals
- Leon Beckenham - trumpet, keyboards, glockenspiel, melodica, vocals
- Simon Balthazar - vocals, guitar, keyboards, mandolin, saxophone, clarinet
In popular media
On 24 September 2009, the song "Ghosts" from the band's debut album
Reservoir featured in episode 6 of season 6 of
Grey's Anatomy. The band's 2007 single "Fire Escape" featured in episode 4 of season 6 of Fox's medical drama
House on 12 October 2009.
On 15 February 2010, the band made their US television debut appearance on the Late Show with David Letterman performing their single "Harold T. Wilkins, or How to Wait for a Very Long Time". They have subsequently also performed on Last Call with Carson Daly and on French TV channel Canal Plus.
In 2010, their songs "Comets" and "Luna" were featured in the Portuguese independent film Um Funeral í Chuva (literally, A Funeral in the Rain).
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