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SUMMARY:Ebbb
LOCATION:Hafenklang
DESCRIPTION:“I like that it can't be pigeonholed\,” says Lev Ceylan of 
 Ebbb’s genre-eschewing debut EP\, All At Once. “We really do love plot
  twists – where it just explodes into something completely different.”
 \n\nDespite being together for barely a year\, the band (comprised of prod
 ucer Ceylan and vocalist Will Rowland\, with added live drummer Scott MacD
 onald) have already landed on something truly singular. Fusing pulsing rhy
 thms\, immersive electronic production\, sparkling melodies\, layered voca
 l harmonies and beats that veer from ambient to industrial\, the result is
  an idiosyncratic hybrid of sounds. One that the group describes as “Bri
 an Wilson meets Death Grips.”\n\nThe three all met through playing in pr
 evious bands and sharing stages\, while remaining friends. Ceylan had neve
 r forgotten Rowland’s unique and soaring voice and so when he began maki
 ng some solo electronic productions\, he knew who he wanted to sing on top
  of them. Rowland’s background in attending Westminster Abbey Choir Scho
 ol means he’s a vocalist with a range\, ability and versatility that few
  others possess. “I loved it at the school and I think all of the melody
  writing I do now and everything that we're doing\, even on a subconscious
  level\, is impacted by that\,” Rowland says.\n\nWhen the pair started w
 orking together\, there was an immediate connection and an ability to go b
 eyond where had been possible before. “By having Will’s voice it’s l
 ike you're not trying to imitate extremes\,” Ceylan says of the producti
 on process. “If you have an idea\, you can actually execute it to its fu
 ll extent.” And in turn\, Rowland was soon having to adapt his voice in 
 new ways to shape around Ceylan’s distinct compositions. “In any band 
 scenario that I've been in before as the singer\, I haven't pushed myself 
 to nearly the same degree\,” Rowland says. “Ebbb has pushed me to new 
 heights.”\n\nSongwriting began in January 2023 and by April they were pl
 aying their first show. “Because it's electronic\, I was always thinking
  there should be some headroom for intensity and energy\,” says Ceylan. 
 “So I asked Scott to play drums.” The result quickly became something 
 incendiary. The melding of Ceylan’s engulfing and enthralling production
  and beats\, with Rowland’s endlessly capable vocals\, along with MacDon
 ald's added stomp\, quickly resulted in the band being one of 2023’s wor
 d of mouth live sensations. “It was completely new and very exciting ter
 ritory to be in\,” says MacDonald. “It felt like a whole new world for
  me to attack.”\n\nAll three members have relocated from other cities an
 d countries to be together to focus on the project\, such is the hunger ar
 ound it\, along with the immediate sense of potency and potential it has o
 ffered. “The scope and ambition of it has already got a lot bigger\,” 
 says Rowland.\n\nThe five-track EP that they quickly produced is a bedroom
  recording\, but some shabby\, lo-fi recording it is not. While it contain
 s a feeling of raw\, primal energy\, fuelled by a series of unfurling twis
 ts and turns\, it is also meticulously crafted. “It’s like we are tryi
 ng to crack some sort of formula in searching for the perfect melody\,” 
 says Rowland. “I try loads of iterations to try and get the perfect melo
 dy for each bit.”\n\nBe it driving rhythms\, mesmerising grooves\, or im
 maculately stacked vocal layers\, “there is a constant intensity with no
  drops in it\,” Rowland says. “But that intensity can mean either the 
 heavier stuff or the intense beauty of it.”\n\nEbbb exist in a constant 
 state of duality and dichotomy\, often ricocheting back and forth between 
 pristine beauty and gut-rumbling noise\; or even existing in both states s
 imultaneously. This can be heard from the opening ‘Himmel’\, a song th
 at steadily builds from a choral-esque soundscape before a pneumatic drill
 -like beat enters\, as Rowland’s voice glides with grace over the grindi
 ng rhythm. “That song encapsulates the two sides of the sound we have qu
 ite well\,” says Rowland. “Having the more ethereal\, dreamy vocals bu
 t with that undercurrent of the low rumblings. It’s kind of like heaven 
 and hell.”\n\nTo further add to this feeling of opposing worlds being ex
 plored\, the track itself is a straight-forward love song on the surface\,
  but it’s also a meta depiction of the songwriting process taking place 
 in real time. “I talk about lying in a ‘bed of sound’ as if bathing 
 in the music itself\,” says Rowland. “The words try to capture the eup
 horia of different creative ideas gelling together.”\n\nAnd this sense o
 f euphoria derived from gelling different ideas together can be felt throu
 ghout the EP. ‘Torn’ is\, as Rowland describes\, “possibly the stark
 est example of the ethereal and choral vocals juxtaposed with the heavy el
 ectronic production.” The result is a genuinely beautiful and unique ama
 lgamation of mangled sounds that somehow manages to sound both exquisitely
  enchanting yet head-twistingly experimental at the same time.\n\nhttps://
 ebbb.bandcamp.com/\n\nhttps://www.instagram.com/ebbbbbbbbbbbbb_/\n\nBoleto
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