Based by Canadian-American Ricardo Ryan, who handles the vocals, guitar, and harmonica, and Swiss Christian Fonjallaz, who performs bass, synth, and sings backing vocals, and later joined by completed drummer, Pascal J Kramer, Sonic Rade are an alternate rock group based mostly in Geneva, Switzerland. The trio, who take their influences throughout a variety of musical genres, from 50s rock proper by way of to the trendy day stylings, have turn out to be a a lot wanted staple within the Geneva music scene, and are actually interesting to a world viewers.
Sonic Rade’s second album, ‘Sideways’, captured 4 first-round poll nominations for the 2017 Grammy Awards, they usually’ve continued to keep up an everyday touring schedule throughout Europe. Sonic Rade just lately launched their fourth studio album, ‘Acacias’, with the Italian label VDM Data.
‘Masquerade’, their newest single and lead monitor from ‘Acacias’, is a veritable firestorm, reminiscent of the 80s with dramatic synths layered over distorted alt energy cords, with the melancholic melody paying homage to Reducing Crew’s, ‘(I Simply) Died In Your Arms’. That’s the place the similarities finish nonetheless, because the haunting lyrics take over, outlining the despair surrounding the hollowness of expertise. “You recognize it’s all a masquerade”. Nothing is really actual.
Vocalist Ricardo Ryan offers it his all, belting out the haunting lyrics, whereas later treating listeners to an unimaginable and sudden harmonica solo.
The music video for ‘Masquerade’ takes one other leaf out of the Eighties rock playbook, with a nod to New Wave noir, and shot totally in stark black and white. Photographs of the band taking part in in an underground area, interspersed with clips of a girl as she finds her method by way of the abandoned streets of Previous City, in Good, France. The impartial tones of the video are an ideal mirror to the sombre sound of the music, giving us an extremely fascinating expertise, each auditory and visible.
Watch the music video for ‘Masquerade’ beneath, and discover out extra about Sonic Rade and their music on-line on their official web site, Twitter, and Instagram.
