Raftside: "We Have the Sun"
After his previous album Empty Star (released on vinyl in late 2017) with the singles "Broken drive" and "The sun is not fake" which he presented across Europe (Theater Basel (CH), Kunsthalle Osnabrück (D) …) as well as at the Sirens Call festival in Luxembourg in 2019, Raftside, a solo project by visual artist and songwriter Filip Markiewicz released his new single and video “We have the sun” on May 7, 2020.
Composed, produced and produced entirely in confinement in his home studio in Hamburg and published on his label Emptypop Records, Raftside aka Filip Markiewicz returns to his rock inspirations with the song "We have the sun", and a video clip with a pop-experimental aesthetic. The Luxembourg artist will be releasing a series of music videos in the coming months which will culminate in the publication of a vinyl album accompanied by a book of drawings and a cine-concert performance which will be called like the album Ultrasocial Pop (end of 2020).
The Ultrasocial Pop project is supported by the Bert-Theis grant, awarded each year by Focuna Luxembourg. Before representing Luxembourg at the Venice Biennale in 2015, Filip Markiewicz invented his Raftside project during his visual art studies at the University of Strasbourg around the year 2000, trying to link the history of art and the history of rock. Mainly influenced by alternative rock music, pop art and Volksbühne theater from the 2000s, Raftside is inspired by the Dadaist movement and a certain form of Art-rock, creating a hybrid mixture of songwriting and electro sampling. Filip Markiewicz aka Raftside produces all his video clips and visuals, constantly trying to create a cinematic atmosphere in his music. In the mid-2000s, the German music magazine Intro described Raftside as "a mixture of The Strokes and Kraftwerk" ... Over the years, Raftside has performed numerous performances in art centers and galleries in Europe as well as playing numerous showcases and concerts with different musicians, sharing the stage with The Streets, Broken Social Scene, The Wedding Present, Deerhunter or The Organ… and played at festivals with Placebo, Daft Punk, Metronomy, Flavien Berger or Cat Power.
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