Kalon | "Starting as a Tea-Boy and Working My Way Up Until I Got to the Point to Record Some Vo

It’s about 9 months since we started this ride and it is incredible how many things have happened so far. I remember exactly when Tobi and I first met at a jam night in Neukölln, a district in Berlin. When we first started to hang out together we were mostly drinking and having a good time so it took us quite a while to decide that we wanted to start a band and even from then on it took us even longer to actually start it.

At this time, we were both studying at the same university, we had a strong passion for the same clothing brand and so we probably spent more time on shopping trips rather than writing music together but that’s alright, that’s how we bonded. At some point last year, we got to a point where we wanted to take it seriously and start an actual band. It wasn´t very hard for us to write songs, cause by that time we already knew what kind of music we wanted to write, although we were searching for a name for quite a bit.

A month before I left Berlin to live in London for a little while, we recorded an acoustic version of one of our songs called Julia and released it in August 2017. And that´s when our ride as KALON started. Living in London has had its advantages and disadvantages at the same time.

I mean its not easy to work together on something when one half of it lives in another country. But we made it through and got a lot out of it.

Tobi came to visit at least once a month and so we were gigging around London as much as we could while we started recording some demos in Berlin. Thanks to my mate Nikko Weidemann, a songwriter from Berlin, I was lucky to have the chance working with producers Richard Flack & Guy Chambers in his studio in West London at the time. First starting as a tea-boy I made my way up until I got to the point to record some vocals for them and even got the chance to perform with Guy at a party, alongside other great musicians in Camden.

One day in the studio during lunch break I chose a quiet minute and asked Richard if he´d be up for mixing one of our songs so we could release it. He asked me to play it to him and was willing to do so. A little while after he admitted that he was surprised at how catchy the song was in his opinion, not in a bad way though, he said.

Working with a guy like Richard has been a big thing for us, probably one of the biggest things that has happened so far. I mean it´s an honor to work with someone so great and so experienced specially in that status of your career. After finishing the single we asked him if he would produce us in November and he agreed.

So now we're currently writing more material for an EP that we'll be recoding in November in the north of England.