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Long Distance Calling

Long Distance Calling 27.04.24 Salzhaus Winterthur

Saturday, 27 April 2024

CH-Winterthur, Salzhaus

(15 YEARS "AVOID THE LIGHT" ANNIVERSARY SHOWS)

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€38.52*

Long Distance Calling 29.04.24 Rosenhof Osnabrück

Saturday, 4 May 2024

Osnabrück, Rosenhof

(15 YEARS "AVOID THE LIGHT" ANNIVERSARY SHOWS)

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€43.90*

Long Distance Calling 10.05.24 The Garage London

Friday, 10 May 2024

UK-London, The Garage

(15 YEARS "AVOID THE LIGHT" ANNIVERSARY SHOWS)

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€33.00*

Long Distance Calling 11.05.24 De Helling Utrecht

Saturday, 11 May 2024

NL-Utrecht, De Helling

(15 YEARS "AVOID THE LIGHT" ANNIVERSARY SHOWS)

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€25.00*

Long Distance Calling 12.05.24 Effenaar Kleine Zaal Eindhoven

Sunday, 12 May 2024

NL-Eindhoven, Effenaar Kleine Zaal

(15 YEARS "AVOID THE LIGHT" ANNIVERSARY SHOWS)

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€25.00*

Long Distance Calling 13.06.24 Nova Rock AT-Nickelsdorf

13.-16.06.24

AT-Nickelsdorf, Nova Rock

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€94.99*

Long Distance Calling 15.06.24 Comendatio Festival PT-Tomar

Saturday, 15 June 2024

PT-Tomar, Comendatio Festival

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€70.00*

Nothing can turn back the tides of time or stop their inexorable forward grind, but music can always be relied upon to make the journey more enjoyable. LONG DISTANCE CALLING have been expressing the inexpressible for the last 16 years, ploughing their primarily instrumental furrow with the skill and dexterity of true sonic artisans. From the crisp and stirring post-rock of early albums like seminal debut Satellite Bay (2007) and its classic, multi-faceted follow-up, Avoid The Light (2009), through to the increasingly sophisticated, adventurous and genre-blurring likes of Trips (2016) and Boundless (2018), the Münster quartet – guitarists David Jordan and Florian Füntmann, bassist Jan Hoffman and drummer Janosch Rathmer - have become a modern benchmark for imaginative, progressive and proudly eccentric heavy (and not so heavy) music.

With a reputation as a formidable and dynamic live band, not least due to multiple European tours and high profile festival appearances, LONG DISTANCE CALLING have been building towards some kind of crescendo of artistry and opportunity for some time now. In 2020, despite being unable to hit the road, the band released their seventh and most absorbing full-length to date, How Do We Want To Live? An intricate but deeply satisfying concept piece, it showcased the ongoing expansion of the LONG DISTANCE CALLING sound, and received widespread plaudits as a result. Unable to take their new music directly to the people this time around, they instead decided to throw themselves enthusiastically into the creative process all over again.

The end result of all that creativity is surely destined to be one of the great progressive records of the year. LONG DISTANCE CALLING’s eighth album is titled Eraser: a direct and heartfelt tribute to the gradual erosion of nature at the hands of mankind. Eraser will be released August 26th and is dedicated to the world’s endangered species, with each song representing one particular creature facing extinction.

First single Kamilah on April 22nd honours the gorilla with a wildly dynamic journey through blissful, shimmering post-rock vistas, urgent and muscular metallic crescendos, and a profoundly melodic and melancholy denouement.

Immersive, progressive and endlessly inventive, Eraser is another self-evident career peak from these dedicated musical mavericks. When a global pandemic threatened to knock LONG DISTANCE CALLING off course, they simply devoted their energies to making more new music, and wound up writing their finest ever record in the process.