Biography
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Members
- Christine Oele
- Rene Ahoud
“Think spheres, think dreams, think movies. Imagine a dark club where the band is playing in the background of a scene. And then suddenly draws your attention, like Nick Cave does in “Der Himmel über Berlin”. A movie that could also suit the music of Nevada Drive”
“A mesmerizing soundcollage featuring dark folk, latenight jazz, intense rock, a little bit of shoegaze and everything in between.
Listening to Nevada Drive is like watching a David Lynch movie. Intriguing, dark and hauntingly beautiful.
Nevada Drive is a Dutch band founded by guitarist/producer Rene Ahoud & singer-songwriter Christine Oele. They met each other searching for ancient audio equipment and discovered a mutual passion for haunting melodies, electronic experimentation and cinematic soundscapes. They released their first album Fernweh in 2004. It brought them radio and television shows, a Canadian indie release and a performance on the famous Dutch Lowlands festival.
Their second, High Resolution Blues, was released in April 2012. This time they started with acoustic instruments and experimented within the boundaries of conventional song structures. They let songs waver from small and intimate to big and orchestral, from traditional to modern and from folk to ambient. It’s a striking combination of cinematic soundscapes and heart-wrenching melodies: dark, dreamlike and hauntingly beautiful.
“Fernweh was about finding new ground, it was fuelled by our desire to escape our direct surroundings, to create something otherworldly. High Resolution Blues is in some ways the opposite; it’s about us trying to come closer to ourselves. We set out to make something of timeless beauty and though we were destined to fail, we kept trying. High Resolution Blues is a modern tale of struggle, failure, sorrow and redemption.”
In the last year Nevada Drive has grown into an international six-piece band, with Croat drummer Sin Banoviç, the Swedish Henrik Holm on bass and the Dutchmen Rutger Reinders and Sander Donkers on keys and guitar. Together they create intense and intimate live shows, preferably in out of the ordinary places like former churches, movie theatres, rooftops and living rooms. This fall they will tour cinema houses in the Netherlands with their High Resolution Tour, in which they will be integrating some of the movies and images that have inspired the album into their enigmatic live show. Check out the shows-page for up to date info.
Press:
“Think spheres, think dreams, think movies. Imagine a dark club where the band is playing in the background of a scene. And then suddenly draws your attention, like Nick Cave does in “Der Himmel über Berlin”. A movie that could also suit the music of Nevada Drive”
“One of my favourite Dutch releases of the last couple of years.”
“A mesmerizing soundcollage featuring dark folk, latenight jazz, intense rock, a little bit of shoegaze and everything in between.”
“Nevada was an unusual part of the world, it was full of people who had come to get divorces or to escape something somewhere. In a way they were free people, but they were unfree in the sense that there was an unrequited longing, for something that they couldn’t name.”
(Arthur Miller in ‘Making the Misfits’)
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