Two voices, two languages, one sound: the Bernese band Farao (CH) plays 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 prog / Tom Dürig: dr). The band released several singles in 2023 and 2024, which achieved airplay on indie radio stations in German-speaking and French-speaking Switzerland and which they were able to celebrate in sold-out small art venues. An EP is in the works.
