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Renos Spanoudes chats to Stratos Copteros about his band THE FISHWIVES during Saturday’s Role on Hellenic Radio
Renos Spanoudes chats to Stratos Copteros about his band THE FISHWIVES during Saturday’s Role on Hellenic Radio.
The FISHWIVES were born out of late-night, side-street jam sessions during the National Arts Festival, 2013. They have performed on most well-known festival stages, countless dives and the odd train platform across the country. Songs flow seamlessly from a low tide of alternative/gothic folk to a high of progressive rock, with iconic vocal harmony, narrative lyrics and intricate instrumentation all present across this shore. The Fishwives’ debut album, 'ALGAE' was released in 2019, and has been described as echoing an entire 70's record collection without trying to reproduce what was.
The band is fronted by Lizzie Gaisford and Sarah-leigh Burger. Both write the songs, occasionally in collaboration, and alternate lead and backing vocals. Burger is chief guitarist, also picking up mandolin and ukulele, and Gaisford moves between guitar, keys and accordion. Powering the music are Strato Copteros on drums and Anton Brink on fretless bass – a rhythm section brotherhood spanning 13 years, with roots in the Eastern Cape blues outift, ‘SunshiP.’
In Fluorescence
The EP ‘In Fluorescence’ was recorded by Jo Ellis at Blue Room Studios, Ladismith, Klein Karoo. The title is a cumulation of references to the artwork and all four songs: reflection and refraction, moonlit waves, luminescent marine life, flowerheads, as well as the artificial light of places where certain song-characters might be institutionalised.
It opens with the eponymous ‘The Fishwife Song,’ a lament loosely referring to Hokusai’s shunga design, ‘The Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife.’ Second is the whimsical, melancholic abstract ‘Moon,’ followed by a tongue-in-cheek blues account of a femme fatale going by the name of ‘Daisy.’ The EP closes with the climactic ‘Same Day’ – somewhat prophetic in theme to the lockdown experience.
These are four of the band’s oldest songs and were present on the setlists of Burger and Gaisford’s earliest duo performances. Thus, they have been worked and reworked extensively, and have been influenced by past collaborations, manifestations and have been moulded by the development in the band’s style.
‘In Fluorescence’ was released at the National Arts Festival, Makhanda and is initially available on Bandcamp. It will be released on all streaming platforms on 16 December.
Songwriting Credits:
The Fishwife Song: Lizzie Gaisford
Moon: Sarah-leigh Burger
Daisy: Sarah-leigh Burger
Same Day: Sarah-leigh Burger
https://www.facebook.com/thefishwives/
linktr.ee/fishwivesband
Listen to the podcast here:
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By Tulla CritsotakisRenos Spanoudes chats to Stratos Copteros about his band THE FISHWIVES during Saturday’s Role on Hellenic Radio.
The FISHWIVES were born out of late-night, side-street jam sessions during the National Arts Festival, 2013. They have performed on most well-known festival stages, countless dives and the odd train platform across the country. Songs flow seamlessly from a low tide of alternative/gothic folk to a high of progressive rock, with iconic vocal harmony, narrative lyrics and intricate instrumentation all present across this shore. The Fishwives’ debut album, 'ALGAE' was released in 2019, and has been described as echoing an entire 70's record collection without trying to reproduce what was.
The band is fronted by Lizzie Gaisford and Sarah-leigh Burger. Both write the songs, occasionally in collaboration, and alternate lead and backing vocals. Burger is chief guitarist, also picking up mandolin and ukulele, and Gaisford moves between guitar, keys and accordion. Powering the music are Strato Copteros on drums and Anton Brink on fretless bass – a rhythm section brotherhood spanning 13 years, with roots in the Eastern Cape blues outift, ‘SunshiP.’
In Fluorescence
The EP ‘In Fluorescence’ was recorded by Jo Ellis at Blue Room Studios, Ladismith, Klein Karoo. The title is a cumulation of references to the artwork and all four songs: reflection and refraction, moonlit waves, luminescent marine life, flowerheads, as well as the artificial light of places where certain song-characters might be institutionalised.
It opens with the eponymous ‘The Fishwife Song,’ a lament loosely referring to Hokusai’s shunga design, ‘The Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife.’ Second is the whimsical, melancholic abstract ‘Moon,’ followed by a tongue-in-cheek blues account of a femme fatale going by the name of ‘Daisy.’ The EP closes with the climactic ‘Same Day’ – somewhat prophetic in theme to the lockdown experience.
These are four of the band’s oldest songs and were present on the setlists of Burger and Gaisford’s earliest duo performances. Thus, they have been worked and reworked extensively, and have been influenced by past collaborations, manifestations and have been moulded by the development in the band’s style.
‘In Fluorescence’ was released at the National Arts Festival, Makhanda and is initially available on Bandcamp. It will be released on all streaming platforms on 16 December.
Songwriting Credits:
The Fishwife Song: Lizzie Gaisford
Moon: Sarah-leigh Burger
Daisy: Sarah-leigh Burger
Same Day: Sarah-leigh Burger
https://www.facebook.com/thefishwives/
linktr.ee/fishwivesband
Listen to the podcast here: