MEMBERS
Jochen Brandt
Arne Kittler
Andi Schoon
Jens-Rainer Berg

BIOGRAPHY
Jullander have found their sound or rather their sounds. They often enjoy these without losing themselves in their music. Then again, interferences and dissonances do have their appropriate place. Jullander are not interested in keeping anything - let's call it Rock - ostentatiously outside and in doing so deeming it forced and overcome. On the other hand, it's also not a question of trying to re-hash it in a somewhat nostalgic attitude. A distorted guitar is not a significant gesture here, first of all it's timbre. In this sense one can appreciate the Ornette-Coleman quote that Jullander use in the last song of their album "John Symmes' Welt": "Let's not play the background, let's play the music."
Coleman was all about Jazz, which he didn't want to let degress into an atmosphere-providing sound carpet. Jullander are concerned with a type of music that, by the unhappy name of "Postrock", once promised a great range of freedom and possibilities, but then began to degenerate into a confining and predictable genre and ultimately into mere style.
Failure and specifically failure of artistic things represent a recurring theme in many of the songs on "John Symmes' Welt". It begins with the story of the soccer player Reinhard Libuda, who, in the 60s, was an admired "genius on the field, […] who got stuck once he left it". Then we hear the conversation between two culture sponsors, who, looking for a little glamour, end up investing in the wrong theater project ("Alte Meister"). The song "Gesammeltes Schweigen" relates the situation of four distinguished gentlemen in their advanced years, whose opinions nobody cares about anymore. And "Erster Aufzug" depicts a technical innovation - an elevator - that continually breaks down. Finally John Symmes himself makes his appearance in the album title. He as well had only mixed success with his 19th century mission to prove that the earth was hollow.
Musically, "John Symmes' Welt" consists of four equal, but distinct voices that complement each other and yet allow each other to be heard. One can sense that the people here have made an agreement and set off on a common path. With two guitars, a bass and drums, Jochen Brandt, Arne Kittler, Andi Schoon and Jens-Rainer Berg conceive and mold their songs, with occasional support on saxophone by Philip Andernach. Jullander play beautiful music that is perfectly aware of itself.
Felix Müller /Andi Schoon

Jullander are from Hamburg, Germany.
The vinyl version of the album is released by
German label Beau Rivage

www.jullander.de

JULLANDER PRESS
A two-quarter instrumental band whose obvious strength is the feeling for duration, style, word and chord. Everything fits." Spex

"Postrock is elsewhere, because if someone rocks, it is Jullander. But they do it with elegance, dignity and devotion and in doing so they pick up the thread that was all to often lost in aesthetic arts and crafts. In their best moments they reach, in an interplay between dissonance, beauty and mean frequencies, an emotional intensity that takes one s breath away." Notes

"compact guitar composition oscillating between concentrated quiet parts and loud eruptions full of momentum" Prinz

"late-rock bomb" New York Times

"Jullander serve to quell the raging issue of the moment do Germans dig Slint? with a no-nonsense nod in the affirmative. 'Enderlin' is staple glacial math-rock, albeit with clearly audible lyrics that happen to be in German. Its ancillary track 'Hannah' suggests Jullander can, however, shake the discipline's shackles and glide with no little beauty." NME

"This wax is dense. Jullander flow warm and dark....An instrumental blend of beauty and spoken words are joined with a touch of Louisville charm...fluent and emotive with ringing guitar tones over soulfull bass and pounding drums. Jullander is coated in silver but heavy like iron." Indyrock.com

JULLANDER
John Symmes' Welt (cd)
After a couple of 7" and one 10", Jullander finally arrive to a full length.
Musically, “John Symmes’ Welt” consists of four equal, but distinct voices that complement each other and yet allow each other to be heard. You can sense that the people here have made an agreement and set off on a common path.
With two guitars, a bass and drums, Jochen Brandt, Arne Kittler, Andi Schoon and Jens-Rainer Berg conceive and mold their songs, with occasional support on saxophone by Philip Andernach.
Jullander play beautiful music that is perfectly aware of itself.
Their calmer pieces with strange melody lines can remind you sometimes on Dianogah or Couch, others, somewhat bulkyer brings to mind June of 44 or Paul Newman, but don't even think that this is enough to describe their sound.
Their sound is really their own - unique melodies, stylish singing, jazz skillfulness and pop qualities you shouldn't miss.