Wednesday 03. September 2008 Ralph leaves saphena
After 8 years, Ralph decided to leave saphena. Without him, this band, many lyrics and music would not exist. We thank him for an awesome time with countless hours of creativity, discussion, noise, weird humor, unforgettable trips and much more. What remains is good friendship and the confidence, that it’s right the way it is. It has always been more than just music. Read Ralph’s statement about his reasons below. saphena will continue to work on a new album being four of us.
Thank you Ralph for everything. Silvia, Andi, Rob, Axel
Ralph’s statement:
Now it’s been about a year since I have been standing on the boards of a metal stage. In September 2007 the noises in my acoustic organs demanded a pause from the band’s everyday life. For me that meant a considerable minus concerning the variety of my recreational activities but I could use these months to invest in my education, to spend an exorbitant number of weekends at home, to come to rest and gradually to expose myself to the noise that young people like to produce during sporadic concerts.
Life went on of course, and in the Saphena rehearsal room they worked continuously and with undamped energy on great musical deeds. As time passed the question arose, how and in what formation Saphena would face the challenges of spreading vociferous music in the near future. For me it was the case that, thinking of the band, my thoughts rather considered the seven great years we spent instead of being concerned with the time to come. Furthermore, my desire to turn to different musical forms of expression more and more surfaced, certainly due to my by now strongly alternated music listening habits. To put it short, the popular question “Where do you see yourself in x years time?” absolutely possesses value when searching for a decision and for me the honest answer was: “Not with Saphena.”
Thus ends for me, unspectacularly though, a major chapter of my life without actually changing much, because the most important aspects of our band family, namely being on the same wavelength, mutual understanding, aching risible muscles and a great gigantic pile of shared memories remain unchanged and immediately are back when we meet.
I would like to thank Silvi, Andi, Axel and Rob for really everything and wish them a good start into the further future and lots of fun with all rehearsals, gigs, recordings and with everything a musician’s life brings along.
Sunday 20. July 2008 Zukunft des Metal gesichert
Wir freuen uns den ersten Nachwuchs in unserer Bandgeschichte auf dieser lauten Erde begrüßen zu dürfen. Gestern hat sich Rob enorm ins Zeug gelegt um seiner Frau Jacqui nach bestem Gewissen die Hand gehalten. Niklas Kunz wurde mit der Gitarre im Blut geboren und freut sich bereits auf seinen ersten Proberaum. Inzwischen schreibt der Vati schon wieder an neuen Songs. Die Nachwelt will ja auch was hören.
Glückwunsch und hoch die Tassen.
Wednesday 02. January 2008 Reflection
After a 8 years band history, we reached a turning point. We thought and discussed a lot about the direction we want to go with saphena. After several CDs, unforgetable shows, and enriched with formative experiences, we need a new motivation. We don’t want to neither “just move on” nor quit. Our solution for the moment is: calm down and find new inspirations.
In the next months we will be in our rehersal room, write music and see what happens. We are motivated like never before although it does not appear like that from the outside view. You will get new information on this site, when the time is ripe.
Get an impression of our current being with pics from our rehersals.
-> Rehersal Pics
Thursday 20. September 2007 New Pics online
Thanks to Jens we got some nice new live pics. Go here (Südbahnhof 07)
