punk rocker, author, radio and tv journalist & antiracist activist Noah Sow

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Noiseaux Rocks Worldwide

High energy, in your face rock and roll from Hamburg, Germany, is making its way through the United States as the band, Noiseaux, cranks it up. A girl fronted four piece with an aggressive style, Noiseaux rips it up with songs in both English and German to satisfy hungry ears all over the world.

Sonic Eclectic: How did you arrive at the current lineup?


Noah (Vocals): We’re a four piece now but we used to be five. After our guitarist Peng had left the band some months ago, we tried out ersatz guitarists, but then found that we can write and sound pretty differently compared to our initial phase: by staying a four-piece. We have a new sound altogether. More intimate, a bit more sophisticated maybe. We’re in a pretty exciting phase right now.

SE: How do German audiences respond to Noiseaux?

Noah: We’re not really a German music scene. We make our own, creating a frame of reference for ourselves and bands like us. Audiences who dig us are usually different themselves. Quirky, not mainstream, don’t care about genre and music pigeonholes. And fun to talk to.

Gomez (Guitar): Also, most of them don’t shave.


SE: What’s it like writing songs in both English and German?

Noah: When I write in English, it’s more direct, authentic, associative. My lyrics in German have a more technical and theoretical approach. Also, in English, I’m much more about phonetics, whereas in German my focus is a bit more on the metrics. Weird. How a language can change what you’re saying and how you’re saying it. Maybe that’s why so many translations suck.

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the legendary frontwoman of skunk anansie: SKIN

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Skin is the vocalist of the popular English rock band Skunk Anansie

Deborah Anne Dyer, aka Pea Narni or known by the stage name Skin, (born 3 August 1967, Brixton, London) is a singer and occasional model. As Deborah Dyer, Skin studied Interior Design at Teesside University in Middlesbrough and they later honoured her with an honourary degree. She is currently the lead vocalist of English band Skunk Anansie. Mavis Bayton, author of Frock Rock, an academic book about women musicians in Britain says that "women like Skin, Natacha Atlas, Yolande Charles, Mary Genis, and Debbie Smith are now acting as crucial role models for future generations of black women."^[1]
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