Killbody Tuning
Emotional, contemplative and epic, the music of Killbody Tuning
is a world of instrumental soundscapes shaped by ambient, rock
and post-rock.Since taking off in
2005, the Swiss band has always tried to depart from the
conventional forms of rock. After their warmly received debut
EP, The French Hunter(2008), Killbody Tuning have delved into
different artistic projects. In 2009, the band arranged several
songs by Philippe Léotard for the play Clinique de la Raison
Close, produced by the Swiss theatre company Passaparola.
Played live by the band during the performances, these
remarkably modern versions of the songs gave Philippe Léotard’s
lyrics a more atmospheric dimension.One year after this first
successful experience, Killbody Tuning wrote the score for
“Dernière Chasse”, a short film written and directed by the
young Swiss filmmaker Julien Humbert-Droz. In order to develop
this new projectin an innovative way, the band composed new
instrumental pieces out of the movie soundtrack. This creative
process gave birth to Killbody Tuning’s new album,
47°0'40.00"N/6°42'20.00"E, which received positive and enthusiastic
reviews throughout Europe.After touring Switzerland and France
in 2011 and 2012, Killbody Tuning spent a whole year writing
and rearranging new pieces under the careful guidance of Julien
Fehlmann (The Ocean, Coilguns, ...). Recorded live and
released on Hummus Records (Coilguns, TheFawn, Louis Jucker, Red
Kunz, ...) Hello! Welcome, so far...(2014) fully expresses the
intensity and powerful emotions of the music of the band.
After almost two years playing concerts in Switzerland and
France, Killbody Tuning wrote a totally new score for Darren
Aronofsky’s masterpiece π. The band played the soundtrack live
during the film screening at 2300 Plan 9 festival in front of
an amazed sold out audience. An hour and a half of organic
and instinctive music, which could not be abandoned in this
mathematical maze. Killbody Tuning kept its essence and recorded
Pictorial(2018), a raw album made out of hypnotic riffs, dark
chaos and bright melancholy.