Beatenberg has a lot to be proud of right now. As a local Cape-Town band consisting of singer and guitarist Matthew Field, bass player Ross Dorkin and drummer Robin Brink, their indie-pop music has been appearing more and more on our radio frequencies, with the melodic guitar twangs of their hit single ‘Chelsea Blakemore’ becoming part of our summer soundtracks this past December.
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Most recently, on 11th February to be exact, their song ‘Pluto (Remember You)’ ft. DJ Clock reached #1 in South Africa on the Entertainment Monitoring Africa airplay chart. The song now hits its second week as the biggest song on radio in the country (beating out Beyonce’s XO this week). The fun collaboration with SA house veteran DJ Clock results in a dreamy-day sound that is subtly local and immediately catchy. In fact, the song is so big right now that just this morning, local A cappella artists Alex Acappella released a beautiful cover of ‘Pluto (Remember You)’. Check it out below.
From their early days as a fledgling band performing at The Assembly, to playing shows with musicians like Desmond and the Tutus and The Brother Moves On, Beatenberg has performed consistently and extensively. After a deal with Universal Music in 2012, they have steadily risen to fame, and are currently finishing up work on their next album – titled The Hanging Gardens of Beatenberg – to be released in the first week of May 2014.
Keep a close eye on these guys. They started from the bottom, now they here.
Words Gosia Podgórska
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Image: beatenberg.net
