NOTIZIE PRINCIPALI
Sutrastore was born in the beautiful autumn of 2000. The band consists of Kaat Arnaert (vocals), Christophe Calis (vocals, keyboard, guitar and laptop), Patrick Cherchye (vocals and guitar), Jan Delannoy (keyboard) and Jan Dirick (drums).
In 2001 the national radio station Studio Brussel selects one of their songs for a Demopoll cd. At that time the members of Sutrastore are focusing on producing a high quality demo release themselves. They manage to do it all: recording on PC, production, mixing, mastering,... The following songs appear on this demo release: Sutraworld, Lotus, Clouds, Unexpected.
In 2002 this demo release gets Sutrastore selected for ‘100 procent puur’, a project organized by Poppunt whose mission it is to support young bands and dj’s in Belgium. That’s how the band gets to play on some of the most popular Belgian festivals like Gentse Feesten, Hove Live, Kaapstadfestival, … In December 2002 their website www.sutrastore.com goes online.
2003 begins great for Sutrastore: Poppunt releases a compilation cd with a song of the band. In this period Sutrastore starts thinking of releasing their first album, but to many gigs have to played and to many competitions have to be (almost) won. Sutrastore is second at the Nova Music competition and first at Ruislee Buist. Furthermore, they win a day of recording at the famous studio of Ancienne Belgique (Brussels). Their song Time appears on Anyone seen my rubber duckie, the first compilation album of the electronic music collective Je m’en Fish. This will be the starting point of an interesting cooperation with this brand new collective.
In 2004 Sutrastore presents the low budget video clip Clouds. The band also works hard on their first album. In cooperation with Stef Van Alsenoy, the sound wizard of Ancienne Belgique, they put the final touch to some songs. As a result Ifuwannitoo appears on the Je m’en Fish Sampler 2004 and Clouds is elected best trip-hop song 2004 in Brazil by Tripofagia.
2005 is an important year for Sutrastore. On the 5th of May their first EP Love Evolution 1.0 is finally released worldwide! It is distributed by AKH records in The Netherlands, Je m’en Fish in Belgium and by Bertus distribution in all other countries. The reviews of Love Evolution 1.0 are pretty damn positive and the band continues to develop their own sound en care for intriguingly good music. Sutrastore also starts to look further than the Belgian music scene. They present their album in Ankara (Turkey), they open the cultural season in Ulm (Germany) and do a small tour in Slovenia and Austria.
Christophe Calis 19 settembre 2005 05:12