Vergangenen Freitag, am 22. Oktober ist das neue Album von Dave Hause erschienen. „Blood Harmony“ heißt es und ist unter dem eigenen, gleichnamigen Label veröffentlicht worden. Familie ist eines der Hauptthemen auf dem Album und das nicht nur, weil es in kompletter Zusammenarbeit mit seinem jüngeren Bruder Tim Hause erschienen ist, sondern auch, weil es das erste Album nach der Geburt seiner Zwillinge ist. Die übrigens auch auf dem Albumcover zu sehen sind. Inwiefern ihn seine Familie fürs Songwriting inspiriert, ob es mit dem eigenen Bruder während der Albumproduktion auch mal gekracht hat und worauf Dave Hause sich am meisten bei seiner kommenden Europatour freut, das hat er unserer Redakteurin Pia vor Albumrelease während einer Autofahrt erzählt.
Frontstage Magazine: Hey Dave, nice to meet you and thank you for your time!
Dave Hause: Hey, thanks for your invitation. We’re in the car right now heading to our next show this evening.
Frontstage Magazine: Yeah I saw that you’re playing a gig tonight. So let’s start with the questions. In exactly nine days you’re going to release your new and fifth album “Blood Harmony”. How excited are you about the release and how are you going to celebrate it?
Dave Hause: Very excited! Tim and I are very excited. We’re together right now and Tim is driving.
Frontstage Magazine: Hi Tim, nice to meet you as well!
Dave Hause: It’s like a secret that we’ve both been keeping and now we can let people in, that’s great! And how are we going to celebrate. We’re playing the record at a gig in Long Beach and probabaly have a nice dinner. I think that’s how we celebrate. That’ll be that, yeah. I’m looking forward to getting the album out to the world. Hopefully people enjoy it as much as we did making it.
Frontstage Magazine: I really did enjoy the album while listening to it. A lot of touching and kind of warming songs, it’s wonderful!
Dave Hause: That’s great, thank you so much! I’m glad you enjoyed it.
Frontstage Magazine: Of course I did! And right now please explain the album title „Blood Harmony“. What is the deeper meaning behind it?
Dave Hause: Well, it’s a term that we use to describe when people really belong together. Like father and son, mother and son, mother an daughter, brothers ans sisters. It’s easier to harmonize with each other when you have some of the same physical twins. This is what Tim and I are able to do, we’re singing together in Blood Harmony. We’re kind of related. So we felt like it’s somethin very specific to us. I mean I have twin sons and they both have their own way as well to sing together, some kind of sound. The more I thought about that title or that term, I came to the conclusion that the sound of us singing together is so much better than the sound of when we argue or fight or something like that. It was kind of focuse on the ties that bind us instead of the things that put us apart.
Frontstage Magazine: That’s absolutely true. I have a younger brother as well and I know that working with a sibling isn’t always that easy. What’s your experience with that?
Dave Hause: Well I think you’re right. But Tim and I, there are 15 years between our ages. So there was never a situation where we are competing for the same thing, the way children who were born closer together do. We were never looking for the same attention to get from our parents, or for same friends. We never had that. When he was a baby I already was 15 and so I was interested in the things a 15-year-old is interested in. Tim is so much younger, he’s almost 30 years old. (asks Tim) What are you? 28? (Tim nodds and both are laughing). When you’re 28 you want and need different things than when you’re 43. So I think we don’t have to quarrel for the same things.
Frontstage Magazine: Another special thing is that „Blood Harmony“ is not only the album title it’s also the name of your own lable. How came this idea up and who came up with this idea?
Dave Hause: It’s the second time we release something under this lable. We already made a try before „Blood Harmony“. We put together two EP’s last year with a few coversongs and put them on each side on a vinyl. One EP on the A-Side one EP on the B-Side. We decided to release it because we worked on that during the quarantine out of contract with the lable we usually work with. And we wanted to try if we could do it on our own . So we tried it on that and it went successfully. So we decided to try it as well on a full length album.
Frontstage Magazine: And it worked out very well! What I want to know as well is: do you had kind of a special concept for „Blood Harmony“ or was it more kind of a proccess while working on?
Dave Hause: It was more kind of a process while working on it. Tim and I met on Zoom, just like we do right now, except it wasn’t in a car. And so we discussed via Zoom which song is working and which not and then we ended up with about 26 songs. But only certain songs fit into that idea of „Blood Harmony“. An then, you know certain songs didn’t fit into the idea of the album so we pushed them into another badge.
Frontstage Magazine: Sounds like a difficult task to choose only a few songs to be on the album. But you’ve made a decision. One of the main topics on „Blood Harmony“ is family– in which ways you find inspiration in your family?
Dave Hause: Well my children right now they are the biggest inspiration. We have twins, we have two boys so and they can be so inspiring. I mean you learn so much about life, about yourself, about the world and loving in their way. So that would probably be the main inspiration. But my sisters and Tim are my best friends so that’s osrt of some inspiration that’s been there for a long, long time and that’s a nice relationship, we are all very close to each others children too. It’s a tight root!
Frontstage Magazine: Very beautiful! But now let’s jump over to take a closer look at the album’s setlist. The album starts with the song „North Star“. Why do you chose this one to be the first track on „Blood Harmony“?
Dave Hause: It’s about my twins actually. Right before we started leaving for a gig in Nashville we thought we had all the songs we needed and then I had this one idea bothering me. I wanted to get the songs done and I texted Tim and asked if we could get through one more session before we leave for Nashville. To try to work this song out and we did in a very brief session. Then I wanted to start and end the album with a song about my children and so we have „North Star“ at the beginning and „Little Wings“ as the last song.
Frontstage Magazine: You already mentioned your kids are a great inspiration for you and your music. Many of the songs on your new Album are very calming and for me they sound like kind of a lullaby – in a very positive way. So I wondered if you sing your children sometimes to sleep, or are you singing together and how do they react to your music?
Dave Hause: Yeah we do! We do sing together and sing them „North Star“ and they thought that was fun. We sing all the time in our house and our children love music and we have a couple of songs at home we sing every single day. For example „You are my sunshine“ from The Beatles. But one thing I’m careful about is to always just be their dad. They don’t need to kown that I professionally sing. They don’t need to look at me any different because I stand on a stage and sing. They think when I’m gone that I’m out with uncle Timmy. They know that singing is involved and playing the guitar but my main focus is just to be their dad!
Frontstage Magazine: Let’s talk about playing live.This summer you played a few gigs together with your brother Tim. Will he join you on your European Tour next year as well?
Dave Hause: Oh yeah, that’ll be a full band tour. So with Tim on the guitar and all the other band members. We are so excited to bring back all our old and new songs back on stage, back to Europe. In particular in Germany we had a lot of fun. Playing for german audience developed a pretty long and deep conversation. So it’s gonna be exciting to bring these songs back to Germany.
Frontstage Magazine: I’m very excited as well! So in which german city you’ve played the best concert so far?
Dave Hause: It’s hard to say! I mean Cologne is the biggest for us. Bavaria was always very fun for us because the people get very wild. But I don’t wanna leave Hamburg and Berlin out.
Frontstage Magazine: I admit it was a tricky question! And it was my last question for today so thank you so much for your time! Do you have anything to add?
Dave Hause: No, just thank you so much for writing about the record and understanding the record!
Tourdates:
28.01.2022 – Antwerp – Kavka
29.01.2022 – Hamburg – Knust
30.01.2022 – Frankfurt – Batchkapp
01.02.2022 – Munster – Skaters Palace
02.02.2022 – Berlin – SO36
03.02.2022 – Leipzig – Conne Island
04.02.2022 – Wien – Arena
05.02.2022 – München – Technikum
06.02.2022 – Milan – Legend Club
08.02.2022 – Zürich – Exil
09.02.2022 – Stuttgart – Im Wizemann
10.02.2022 – Köln – Die Kantine
11.02.2022 – Nijmegen – Doornroosje
12.02.2022 – Amsterdam – Melkweg
15.02.2022 – Nottingham – Rescue rooms
16.02.2022 – Glasgow – Òran Mór
17.02.2022 – Manchester – Gorilla
18.02.2022 – Birmingham – O2 Academy 2
19.02.2022 – London – Islington Assembly Hall
20.02.2022 – Bristol – Thekla
Fotocredit: Dave Hause
