Terrestrial progressive rock from Berlin & Hamburg feat. members of Elder, Lawns & High Fighter

Weite is a Berlin-based group made up of Michael Risberg, Ingwer Boysen, Ben Lubin, Nick DiSalvo and Fabien de Menou, all of whom play in other bands, and often in each other’s bands. They might best be described as a collective of similar-minded international musicians who meet at the intersection of jam sessions, intense songwriting and neighborhood kiosk-crawls in their adopted homeland of the German capital city.

Boysen, DiSalvo, Risberg and Lubin originally got together in 2022 at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. The four had never played together before, but the German government was handing out subsidies for useless musicians like it was going out of style, and Boysen had got his hands on a few Euros for a recording. The four locked themselves in their rehearsal space in the basement of an old brewery for a few days and went straight to studio. Within a week their debut album Assemblage was written and recorded – live and highly improvised. The album’s four songs channeled a collective love for 60’s and 70’s psychedelic music, krautrock, jazz and listening to one motorik beat for 20 minutes straight.

While the four expected this to be a one-off project, the chemistry was undoubtedly there and more music to be made. Recruiting another multi-instrumentalist friend Fabien de Menou for fulltime keyboard duties, the now five-piece band set to work quickly on their second record. Oase (2024) takes listeners through expansive, atmospheric compositions inspired often by the past but with a clear sense of their own identity, this time digging in further to proper songwriting and leaning less on jamming than the debut.

Weite is working on more music expected to be recorded in 2026.

https://weiteband.bandcamp.com/music