Belau
Budapest-based electronic duo Belau released their last record Colourwave in May.
Formed by two childhood friends Peter Kedves and Krisztian Buzas, the duo combined electronic music with female vocalists to create their new 12-track album. Colourwave features numerous singers/songwriters such as Sophie Barker, Amahla, Sophie Lindinger, Ayah Marar and many more.
The new album paints an ode to nature and the sea with the help of electronic and Caribbean sonorities.
Belau played almost 200 shows in 23 countries at renowned music festivals like Primavera, Eurosonic, Electric Castle, Sziget, SXSW and more.
Colourwave is available now.
Introduce the band - where are you from?
Belau is an electronica duo: Peter Kedves and Krisztian Buzas. In the live performances it’s a 4 piece band, from Budapest, Hungary.
What's the band's story?
We know each other from age ten, we were classmates and friends and in late 2015 we starting making electronic/trip-hop music, after the first successes we developed to a band.
How would you define Belau, the band?
Electronica projet who would like to give you some chill moments.
You released your album Colourwave in May - how would you describe this album?
Colourwave is a multi-layered concept release that on the basis is trying to represent a path to self-awareness by using the sounds of the nature mixed up with precise and modern beats. It also hardly relies on the messages and instructions of the nature that surrounds us - especially the sea - and on top of that Belau continued the geographical concept - familiar from The Odyssey-era - that this time reflects musically and visually to the thousand colours of the Caribbean area featuring many international female talents.
You collaborated with various artists on this record, how did you pick these artists to work with?
We asked all the featured vocalists to take part in our journey, and we’re really glad that we have songs with these super talented artists. It’s also a concept that we always work with females. Writing songs with them was really different with all of them. We didn’t meet some of them, but we talked about belau, the concept, and our thoughts before the creative process.
As producers, what equipments and softwares do you usually use?
We usually work in Ableton use guitar, keys, drumpads, and softwers like kontakt, massive or serum.
What did you learn about yourself after finishing this record?
We learnt we can always make better music and visuals, also have ideas for the next concept album.
What made you want to call your record Colourwave?
It refers to the colourful caribbean area and one the main symbol of the band which the sea/wave.
How did people respond to this record so far?
Fortunately they like it a lot. :)
What can you tell us about the artwork?
It was made by Krisztián, part of the visual concept that each song has a colour and in the main cover of the album we can see all the 12 colours.
What is your goal as a band?
We would like to tour in many places as we can, would be great to reach more and more people and help them with our music.
In your opinion, what would make the world a better place?
There would be many things what we could say, but appreciate the nature is really important.
What message do you want to give to the world?
Our message is simple: you should extract yourself from the everyday hustle and bustle, and try to live in the moment.
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