Giana Factory

Often, the best bands make their own luck. That’s certainly the case for Danish trio, Giana Factory. Loui Foo (vocals and drum pads), Sofie Johanne (bass and synths) and Lisbet Fritze (guitar) came together after an offhand encounter in 2008 and haven’t looked back since. “We met each other through the Copenhagen music and art scene. We found out that we shared a vision of creating our own sound and a mission of getting our music out there”. Giana Factory’s vision morphs into rich, sonic narratives that use tight vocal harmonies and dance-friendly percussive elements to create their experimental and dreamy music. Most bands may start off playing to a half-empty room in a pub but when the girls were working on their first songs back in 2009, Lisbet and Loui were asked to stand in for Loui’s sister Sharin Foo in The Raveonettes, because Sharin was pregnant. While touring around Europe James Allen of Glasvegas saw the girls perform, and asked them if they had their own band and if they wanted to support Glasvegas on their show in Copenhagen. Two weeks after meeting Allan, Giana Factory debuted live for Glasvegas in front of a sold-out crowd. They hadn’t even officially released any material of their own. That would come in 2009, with their Bloody Game EP, followed by album Save the Youth in 2011 (in Denmark, then internationally in 2012). The full-length record flowed from moody and atmospheric guitars to melancholy synth lines running over staccato drum pad rhythms, garnering the trio international praise from the likes of Nylon Magazine, Pitchfork, Clash Magazine and This Is Fake DIY. In Denmark, their single Rainbow Girl rocketed to A-playlist rotation status and both music magazine Soundvenue and newspaper Politiken made Giana Factory cover stars. In 2011, the trio started a “vinyl series”. Every month they released a 7-inch record single of one track from Save the Youth, each bundled with a rework submitted by some of their friends: Glasvegas, American experimental rock band Autolux, fellow Danes VETO and electronic music producer Anders Trentemoller all pitched in. Trentemoller went on to establish a creative working relationship with Giana Factory that turned into collaboration on their next release. They spent about a year writing and recording the pared-down, contemplative tracks that have turned into 2014’s Lemon Moon. The record incorporates personal stories and musings on the interconnectivity of relationships between people and their relationship with the world “Our intention with the new songs was to cut them to their bones by trusting the melodies, lyrics and sounds enough to let the songs stand naked and uncontrolled”. They likened Lemon Moon’s creative process with building a screenplay, as new characters and storylines entered the picture until the final product materialized, exploring and playing with the concept of time and place, dream and reality. Giana Factory continues to shape their creative journey, and unveil Lemon Moon in spring 2014. Danish trio. 2nd album May 30. LEMON MOON http://gianafactory.dk