姓名: EdwinaandDeko 英文名:- 性别:男 国籍:- 出生地:- 语言:- 生日:- 星座:- 身高:- 体重:-
Raw and real: they are an Australian-Italian, acoustic folk duo based in Berlin. To hear their story, read on...
Meet Edwina & Deko, two travellers who left their homes by the sea and met in a German class in Berlin.
Deko (Enrico Decolle), is a songwriter, musician and producer from Trieste in northeastern Italy, where the mountains meet the sea. Forced to choose between music and his career as a sociologist after university, he chose to be himself: a musician at heart. He became well known as an independent rock musician in Italy through his bands “Alias” and “Breakfast”, but as the band's enthusiasm dwindled he needed new inspiration, which he found in Berlin. The city's unique acoustic music scene made him realise he could reinvent himself as a one man band and inspired him to record his first solo album, The Last Goodbye, in 2011.
Meanwhile in the antipodes Edwina Dunn was growing up listening to the Beatles and Don McLean on vinyl. She inherited her brother's guitar at age 15 and taught herself to play it just well enough to be able to sing along with her Beatles songbook. During the years she spent at law school in Sydney and Paris and then working as a lawyer in London, the guitar mostly collected dust, until she moved to Berlin.
One snowy weekend in March 2013 during a short break from touring the duo locked themselves away in a studio in East Berlin, along with their co-producer Jacopo Vannini and sound engineer, Tobias Neugebauer, and recorded "Berlin Seasons" in only three days. It was no mean feat, but recording the ten songs almost totally live, they managed it. The result was an authentic album with a pure, acoustic sound and raw emotion typical of their live performances.
Edwina & Deko are an on-the-road project. They have taken their music from Germany, Italy and France all the way to Australia. Their album is also a tour in itself, geographically, seasonally and emotionally. Edwina & Deko sing about everything from the cruelty of war (Innocent) to gentrification and daily life in their adopted city (Berlin and Sunday), homesickness and home (Take me Home and Black Friday), hard times in love (Leo, On my Way, Finally Flow) and to contrast these more melancholic and emotional tracks, a couple of lively, tongue-in-cheek serenades (Josephine and Romeo). In early 2014 Edwina & Deko will be on the road again, touring Germany then Australia, and working on material for the next album, anticipated for release late 2014.