John Schlammes (bass) / Claudine Muno (guitars&vocals) / Paul Fox (drums&piano)

CRINAN WOOD in some ways started out during a bus ride from Washington to New York. There was lots of time to talk and to listen to music and while flipping through the songs on their MP3-players, Claudine Muno and John Schlammes discovered that they shared a common love for a certain kind of folk and alt-country-music. At the time, both Claudine and John were still members of the Luna Boots, but almost a year after the band ended, an accidental meeting let them to discuss the possibility of setting up a new musical project, the starting point of which would be their shared love for acoustic music. From that get-together there came that idea that such new band should be a trio and place emphasis on song-writing, as well as on the possibilities offered by acoustic instruments. The challenge was to work within those rather narrow confines.  However, setting boundaries can be helpful, because one does not lose itself into experimentations that quite offten distract the matter at hand.

Claudine and John spent a few months writing and rehearsing on their own before Paul Fox (Paul Fox Collective, Marly Marques Quintet) joined them as a drummer. He was in many ways the perfect choice, because he had been looking for a band that would play this kind of music and was also eager to find an outlet for his own songs. After having put together a first set made up mainly of their own songs and having rehearsed them for over half a year, the band now feels ready to present them to you and to see if they can hold their own before taking on the recording of their first album in 2015.
 

L'aventure CRINAN WOOD commence pendant un voyage en bus, de Washington à New York. Claudine Muno et John Schlammes, à l'époque encore membre de Claudine Muno & The Luna Boots, écoutent de la musique s'échangeant des découvertes. C'est là qu'ils découvrent un amour commun pour une musique folk, sobre et sans fioriture. De retour à Luxembourg, ils évoquent l'idée de former un groupe, un trio plus précisément où l'accent serait mis sur l'écriture et l'acoustique.

Après plusieurs mois de répétitions à deux, le batteur Paul Fox (Paul Fox Collective, Marly Marques Quintet) les rejoint. En lui, Claudine et John ont non seulement trouvé un magnifique batteur, mais également, un grand auteur ayant toujours voulu évoluer dans la direction musicale proposée. Voici CRINAN WOOD prêt à vous faire partager un travail en gestation pendant plus d'une demie année.