Pedro Goncalves Crescenti, Peter Rubel, and Joel Roters alias International Music (two thirds of them otherwise known as The Düsseldorf Düsterboys) have consistently developed their own colorful and minimalist rock sound since their debut album, oscillating between 60s beat & boogie, 70s krautrock, 80s new wave and 90s shoegaze and post-rock.
In other words, pretty much everything that a formation of bass, drums, and guitar can produce in terms of joyful music. Tension and release, thinking and feeling – International Music are something like a quantum-dynamic superposition, a field of tension from which new questions and answers arise, depending on life and emotional situation.
Their self-image: "We make timeless melancholic music."
And indeed, there is a subtle melancholy in Roter's stoic drums and the interplay of Ruble's and Goncalves Crescenti's bass and guitar melodies – which International Music know how to counteract or reinforce at will with subtle humor.
Pedro Goncalves Crescenti, Peter Rubel, and Joel Roters alias International Music (two thirds of them otherwise known as The Düsseldorf Düsterboys) have consistently developed their own colorful and minimalist rock sound since their debut album, oscillating between 60s beat & boogie, 70s krautrock, 80s new wave and 90s shoegaze and post-rock.
In other words, pretty much everything that a formation of bass, drums, and guitar can produce in terms of joyful music. Tension and release, thinking and feeling – International Music are something like a quantum-dynamic superposition, a field of tension from which new questions and answers arise, depending on life and emotional situation.
Their self-image: "We make timeless melancholic music."
And indeed, there is a subtle melancholy in Roter's stoic drums and the interplay of Ruble's and Goncalves Crescenti's bass and guitar melodies – which International Music know how to counteract or reinforce at will with subtle humor.