Release concert with Marcel Braun, Björn Mauder, Benjamin Lillie
In a time that cries out for something new, that demands the unexpected and even gives enough fuel to finally create something really new, because the supposedly new is only understood and read as a reproduction of the old and then compared with what already exists, it is apparently impossible to be new.
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G.P.A.D
Because: everything has been there before. You have heard, seen and experienced it countless times. It reminds you of the past, you want to be like it was back then, you know it from somewhere. You can compare it with someday. There is no need to fool yourself.
And yet: when you decide to make music, something new just happens. For some people, because they want to, for others, because they don't want anything else, and for others again, because they have time and are bored. At some point you're ready, you show it to friends who say what they think and you let yourself be impressed, unsettled, draw strength from it, celebrate, explain, argue, think, change, show it again, change it again or just leave it.
G.P.A.D is a new band that you don't know you need until you hear it for the first time. Marcel Braun, Björn Mauder and Benjamin Lillie: three artists, musicians, theater people, colleagues, friends. They met in 2013 through their work at the Deutsches Theater Berlin.
Björn Mauder (a full-time sound engineer at the theater), can play bass and guitar (although he's only allowed to play bass in G.P.A.D, which is actually a shame, but OK) comes from rock 'n' roll, after countless performances in the Lutherstadt Eisleben children's choir, played in various groups from grunge to blues to stoner rock, and very extensively and well.
Marcel Braun (also a sound engineer) is a trained classical drummer with perfect pitch and training at the UdK Berlin, has played with David August at festivals all over Europe and has a love for techno, plants and political debates.
Benjamin Lillie, synthesizer and voice of the band, can't really play an instrument, was kicked out of his first band at the age of 12 because the lyrics were too dirty and discovered his love for rap music a summer later, only to find himself acting on the biggest theater stages in the country a few summers later.
Mauder, Braun and Lillie make music that wants nothing and is therefore everything. G.P.A.D is simply there and that's a good
