Farao

Biography

Two voices, two languages, one sound: the Bernese band Farao (CH) brings subtle pop in English and dialect. The everyday heroes in their songs keep relationships fresh with handwritten letters and love songs, dare to take a step forward again after setbacks and philosophise along the All and the nothing. The band sings sometimes thoughtfully and longingly, sometimes with quiet (self-)irony and deliberately leaves their listeners room for interpretation. Musically, these stories are accompanied by the typical Farao sound: this means atmospheric keyboard play, bouncy grooves and logo-like guitar parts.

The band cannot be called a newcomer: Farao has already given concerts in the Mahogany Hall in Bern, in the Bären Buchsi or the Schützi Olten in a previous line-up and until 2006 under the name Bephone. "20 Minuten" once wrote that the Bernese band Farao "plays songs from the heart"; and the "Berner Zeitung" said that Farao's songs present "stories that life just writes - sometimes amusing, sometimes non-conventional, sometimes melancholic".

In 2018, Farao came together in a new line-up (Sereti Venzin: voc / Matthias Kägi: voc, keys, synth-bass / Carlo Capun: git, voc, bass, dr programming / Tom Dürig: dr). The band used the Corona turmoil to record several songs from their pool of material. The first demos played right away on indie radios like Kanal K (Aarau) and LoRa (Zurich) at the beginning of 2023. In 2023, the band released the English track "I Used To Sing Love Songs" and the dialect song "Ei Schritt vüre" (A Step Forward). In 2024, the band launches their third single "Life Has Just Begun", an EP is in the works.