Foreign Poetry are composers and multi-instrumentalists living in the UK. Having worked together throughout the twenty-tens the duo turned their attention to this project in the winter of 2016.
Moritz Kerschbaumer and Danny Geffin already have a rich history of playing in and producing various bands together, but this latest project marks the first time they’ve collaborated together so closely.
The two of them first started working together when Moritz joined Danny’s erstwhile project, The Geffin Brothers in 2011. They’ve collaborated ever since, albeit from different countries, snatching studio time together whenever possible.
The writing style resulted in a series of tracks with layers of exceptional musicianship and texture, with the unique outcome of a two-piece with the backing of a full band at their arsenal. The recording was completed with sessions at Pataca Studios in Lisbon, adding embellishments and extra percussion with Anna Louisa Etherington (violin), Alice Febles Padron (backing vocals), Luís Walter Benjamin Nunes (drums and backing vocals) and Tony Love (drums).
‘Grace and Error on the Edge of Now’ works as something of a concept album tackling a variety of larger abstract notions as well as politics, the environment and the intricacies of life and human relationships.
Foreign Poetry have just released their brand new video for ‘MHL’ via Portuguese independent label Pataca Discos. It was shot by Apprat Lux between Hackney Wick and the Alps around Switzerland, two places that were important in the development of the music itself.
The video has been released following their debut performance at the prestigious NOS Primavera Sound festival in Portugal alongside the likes of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, The War On Drugs, Father John Misty, Mogwai and Idles.
