Unplugged | No |
Cover band | No |
Members | 1 |
Downloads |
City | Facebook Fans | Spotify Monthly Listeners |
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Columbus Your location | – No data | – No data |
Sep / 2014 | • | Breda Barst Festival | Breda (NL) | |||
Aug / 2014 | • | Summerbreeze Festival | Dinkelsbühl (DE) | |||
Aug / 2014 | • | Aquamaria Festival | Plattenburg (DE) |
Label / Release | Type | Year | |
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M.i.G.-music | |||
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Hidden from View | Album | 2013 |
Suburban | |||
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The ways of the Gingerpig | Album | 2011 |
It characterizes the versatility of the band that went through turbulent times but came back out cleansed. The quartet became a trio and rediscovered itself. With the new album Hidden From View, the band unleashed and forged into a compact collective that is ready for the limelight.
Hidden From View
In 2011 Gingerpig surprised the music world with The Ways Of The Gingerpig. A wayward mixture of seventies-rock, blues, fusion and post-metal. The record garnered excellent reviews but for many the ways of the Gingerpig seemed almost too versatile. A secret tip among connoisseurs but difficult to label. The title of the new album seems to be a direct reference to that.
Restriction means freedom
When keyboard player Jarno in 2012 decided to call it quits so to venture into the wide world, the band stood at a turning point: continue as a three-piece or look for a replacement keyboard player. After recording the song 'Ugly Heart' as a trio (April 2012) it was decided to move onwards without a keyboard player. The band went back to the basics and started working on more rock- and song-oriented material. Hidden From View is the result: the nine songs sound catchy on the album and stand firmly upright live. The obvious limitations of working as a three-piece also meant freedom. Freedom to play pounding rock (like in 'Nothing') and to leave the sound-experiment for what it is if the song has no need for it. Founder and singer/guitarist Boudewijn Bonebakker: "We're past the jams, more or less outgrew them."
Future
The band has become a tighter collective that plays even tighter. Gingerpig is ready to capture its self found essence to a broader audience. Bonebakker articulates the mission as follows: "Make the love for music audible, and that in the best achievable way."