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The exchanging of glances and the interchanging of instruments. That is part of what stays in one’s memory of Contriva. At least after having seen them on stage once. These four are friends from schooldays on. Back from the days when a guitar was meant to be a big promise. And when a guitar was meant to be the rails that guide four biographies. Masha Qrella, Max Punktezahl, Rike Schuberty and Hannes Lehmann followed these rails. They would not have reached the places where they are now without Contriva. Similarly, Contriva wouldn’t exist any longer, if it weren’t an affair of the heart of these four friends.

It all started in Berlin in 1997. One could watch Berlin fashions come and pass over again.
Sometimes Contriva was part of it, played concerts in private living rooms, when Quiet was becoming the new Loud. Most of the time, however, Contriva watched these colourful bubbles sceptically. In their deep mistrust of urban hypes Contriva remained true to themselves up to today. On three albums and four EPs. On various singles and contributions to samplers – a band’s oeuvre that plays around its small, big theme: the perfect indiepopsong, with or without singing.

They do it in such a timeless and precise way as known for instance from Yo la tengo on the other side of the big ocean. According to Max Punktezahl Contriva shares with the latter another demand. Their repertoire live on stage still includes a lot of tracks of the 10-year-old band history: “There are so many among these songs that are still important to us today.”
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  • paparika

    wunderschön! ich hoffe es gibt bald wieder neue events

    December 2010
  • schultz0r

    loved "(2003) If You Had Stayed" keep up the work

    October 2010
  • Phonophobe

    Biog: WTF

    March 2010
  • Stef__78

    Fantastic!

    March 2010
  • rodanside

    Couch should really be in similars.

    February 2010
  • fhmi

    easy listening

    January 2010
  • Stretchead

    They make great music

    November 2009
  • pinepeach

    yeah people should vote on a better photo. the current one probably scares people away.

    November 2009
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4th chessie-contriva session

7 Jun 2009 | from blog.myspace.com/contriva

hello everyone,just like to update you about our collab project. this march we had ben and stephen in berlin for the 4th and final session together. we did 2 weeks at villa qrella. it was …

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