Kliffs #2
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be art.
In every arte Hotel, we give creative, young or up-and-coming artists a stage: our artist’s place event series moves between all art forms, in a finely dosed irregularity and always relaxed atmosphere!
On 6 October 2022, we brought the artist duo Kliffs to our cosy rooftop bar at the arte Hotel Salzburg, after they had already played at our sister hotel arte Kufstein the day before!
about kliffs.
Kliffs is the Berlin-based duo of two Canadians: Mark Bérubé (guitar, keys, vocals) and Kristina Koropecki (cello, synthesiser, vocals). The two met twelve years ago in an improvised rehearsal room in Montréal when Kristina joined Mark’s solo project. The two toured Canada and Europe numerous times with Mark’s band and eventually moved to Berlin in 2014. They were invited to play at many prestigious festivals such as Paleo (Nyon, CH), Printemps de Bourges (Bourges, FR), Stuttgart Open (Stuttgart, DE) and many more. After a short break for other projects, the two reunited as a duo in 2018 under their new name Kliffs and released their first album Temporary Cures in November 2019. You may have seen them play in the bands of Agnes Obel (Kristina) or Sophie Hunger (Mark) in Europe in recent years.
Geographically speaking, they make Montreal music in Berlin. Musically, they compose songs that are better suited to night-time bike rides in the city centre and shy dancers. Lyrically, they write recycled tone poems that combine the thoughts of the eternally confused and the intensity of gentle earthquakes. From the Talking Heads-esque Bully to an orchestral minor key cover of Jackson Brown’s These Days (via Nico) to the synth-folk duets Blasphemy and Silent Side, their latest release Bully EP (2020) showcases the wide range of sonic textures, rhythms and melodies that form the core of the Kliffs sound.
Kliffs released their new album in late spring 2022.
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