Stephanie is a singer-songwriter from Boston who found her first song hidden in an acoustic guitar on her back porch. Horst is a sound designer from Germany who tickled his first tunes out of a Commodore 64 computer. Together we are rubyrough. Thanks for listening!
How we got started:
Stephanie found Horst through the Internet. It began when he remixed her folk-style songs, but soon a flood of e-mails, uploads and downloads led to a more intense collaboration. It wasn't long before we began composing together and rubyrough was born.
Sometimes it's tough to coordinate ourselves -- Stephanie is on the road a lot for her job as a singer and Horst is crazy busy with his design company. But thanks to computers, we can keep on working through the same medium that brought us together in the first place: the internet. Because the moments that we can share space and time are so seldom it became a theme for our music and the concept for our debut album: "realtime."
Our debut ep, "real" (release: Dec 3, 2010) is hand-made music, folk and electro-style: we wrote and recorded it in Stephanie's basement and Horst's attic and filled it with magically realistic songs about lust, secrets and broken elevators.
Our sophomore ep, "time" (release: Jan 3, 2011) is all about life's significant instants: when we meet and fall in love, when we lose ourselves and when we find ourselves again, when we need to pay the rent (that ever-present date that pumps fear into the hearts of musicians everywhere) and living in the moment.
Our debut album "realtime" (release: Feb 3, 2011) is a wild, lustful and whimsical collection of the moments we try to hold on to. This one has everything from dream lovers to the laws of physics.
Songs featured in:
- the American TV series "Lie to Me" (FOX Network)
- the Canadian film "Seven Deadly Sins"
- the German festival film "EQ"
- the British film "21 Days Later - Mentawais"
- commercial for Nam Yang Dairy "French Cafe" (asia)
- samplers with Duffy and Amy Winehouse (EU and Asia)
We love hearing from you so feel free to write to us at:
music@rubyrough.com
For more info, videos, pictures and news visit us at:
www.rubyrough.com
facebook.com/rubyroughmusic
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