Limelight
JEGONG
A fortuitous loan of a drum kit has led to a meeting and melting of minds.
JeGong: dream team.
PRESS/MELANIE ALTANIAN
FEW ARE THE musicians for whom sharing their instruments with members of other bands is a pleasure, but for Reto Mäder and Dahm Majuri Cipolla the request from the latter to the former proved fortuitous – they ended up forming the psychedelic industrial behemoth JeGong.
“I was playing with Finnish avant-garde metal band Sum Of R on a European tour heading to the Roadburn Festival and, at the same time, Dahm was playing drums with experimental music ensemble Watter, touring Europe and heading to the same festival,” recalls Mäder.“Both bands played about 18 gigs on their tours, and in two clubs we were booked on the same evening. Dahm asked me if he could use the Sum Of R drums. So, on the one hand we got talking and, on the other, it saved a lot of time for the stage change between the performing bands. In turn, we could deepen our conversation and learn about our mutual interests in krautrock, film soundtracks and experimental music.”