It’s more than five years since Lali Puna released their third and latest album “Faking The Books”, and on April 1 the band will finally release their fourth studio-album “Our Inventions” on Morr Music. Almost all the members in the band have other bands and projects on the side of Lali Puna, and this is also the main reason for the long break. Markus Acher, one of the two main songwriters in the band, has a very successful career in The Notwist and he has been recording with them for a while now. While Acher has been focused on this, Lali Puna had to wait.
We actually interviewed both Valerie Trebeljahr, the singer and front-woman of Lali Puna, and Markus Acher five years ago, and this is what they said about their side projects and how they manage time schedules for so many different projects within the same band:
- “It’s not easy to have all these bands together and to make schedules. But it’s at the same time nice that there are so many bands and we found our way to deal with that situation. I think Markus’ main project is always the project he works with at that moment,” Valerie explains.
- “It’s difficult sometimes to not make too much with one band and forget the other. But at the moment it’s very equal with the different bands. They all have their special fans and places and times,” says Markus.
Valerie Trebeljahr’s main band is Lali Puna, but she likes to work with other artists too. In 2009, she collaborated with Yellow Magic Orchestra’s Yukihiro Takahashi on his brilliant album “Page By Page”. The song they made together, “Out There”, will also be on the new Lali Puna album in a different version. Valerie has also collaborated with artists like Styrofoam and Alias. As mentioned, Markus Acher is in The Notwist, and he also works with Tied & Tickled Trio and 13 & God. The drummer Christoph Brandtner is connected to Console and Tied & Tickled Trio, and Lali Puna’s newest member Christian Heiss on keyboards is in the sideproject Portmanteau.
Lali Puna will tour in may in Germany and Europe.
Here’s Lali Puna’s version of the classic Human League song “Together in electric dreams”:
Lali Puna – Together in electric dreams
…and here’s a spotify playlist of my favourite Lali Puna/Notwist + side projects songs:
lali puna | notwist | sideprojects
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