In a way driving in a van is the greatest part of the tour…
Interview: Friederike Suckert
Die siebenköpfige Kapelle Acollective aus Tel Aviv war am 29. Juli 2014 in Berlin zu Gast und vor ihrem energiegeladenen Konzert haben mir die Brüder Idan und Roy Rabinovici noch ein kleines Interview in der Escobar gegeben. Das Interview war kurz, denn das Leben on the road hinterlässt Spuren, die Funken waren aber auf der Bühne wieder da. Die Band besteht seit ihren Teeniezeiten, gern haben sie Tel Aviv mit ihren spontanen Straßenkonzerten unsicher gemacht. Diese Mischung aus Folk und Elektro ist ganz eigen und live ein Ohrenschmaus, der auch ins Bein geht. Reinhören solltet ihr ins Album „Pangea“, das bereits am 07. Juli 2014 erschienen ist, allemal! Ich kann mir gut vorstellen, dass diese Jungs bald in den Hipster-Olymp gehoben werden – zu Recht!
Is this your first time in Berlin?
No, it’s our second time. We like that city very much. We came here today from Munich in our Van.
Are you all friends? How did you find each other?
We’re brothers and we all are friends, we met over the years and made music together.
You’re so many guys, do you have different influences in music?
Yes we have, but we tried at this album to find a common ground.
You are driving around in a van. What kind of music are you listening to?
That’s a wonderful question. When we drive, there’s always a driver and a DJ. And the DJ gets the autonomy to play any music he wants. But you can be voted off, if it really sucks. In a way driving in a van is the greatest part of the tour, because you’re very close and you can hear what everybody’s listening to and you get to share a lot of music and it’s really nice. The van is constantly filled with music.
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And you’re always listening to the same kind of music at the same time?
There’s always one person at least who’s complaining and then they put their headphones on.
Is your tour an European-Tour?
It’s an European-Tour. We’re playing in Lithuania, Germany, England, Latvia and then South Korea. Yes, that’s not Europe. We’re going to fly there and play on a Festival next week. But we’re on the road for a month and a half, so it’s pretty long.
And how did you put all the destinies together? Did friends ask you to play here and there?
No, it’s through our booking agency.
And what do you prefer most: playing in a club or at a festival?
Depends on the day. Somedays festivals are the best things and sometimes you just want a nice club-show. It’s a very different kind of energy. In Europe, the people that come to festivals are hardcore and that’s a great thing because you can have a good time in the middle of the day, you get a ridiculous amount of energy, but sometimes it’s just beautiful to be in the pitch dark of a club, everybody’s listening and that feeling of intimacy in a close space you usually don’t get on a festival, so it depends on the festival and the club maybe.
Do you sometimes miss the kind of Pop Up Concerts you made?
We still do them now and then. But it becomes more and more difficult to do them for technical reasons. There’s so much to do for getting the stage ready. I think, if logistics wasn’t an option, we would do a lot more shows than we do. It’s just the matter how we could make that mobile.
