Tube will forget me
Writing a tube is not given to everyone. So imagine the frustration of those who, in their little corner of Switzerland, achieved this feat but of which everyone has forgotten the name. During summer, we restore these injustices in chronicle, and in music.
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A sea of synths for a wave to the soul. That of a woman desperately waiting for her lover that she does not see coming back – the “captain of her heart”. Come on, we allow ourselves to smile. Listen The Captain of Her Heart, It is to dive into what the 1980s were more sweet, with piano lace and complaint in the sax. A tsunami: when it was released in 1985, the single sold more than a million and a half of copies and infiltrates the charts in the United States-a first. However, it is on the other side of the Atlantic, in Switzerland, that he was born.
It is owed to two Zurichois, Kurt Maloo and Felix Haug. The first is a painter and guitarist, the second a percussionist who tried the wand with Yello. After a first project named Ping Pong, the group becomes a duo and continues to bet on simple names: double.