Hailing from Zürich, Switzerland garage-blues guru Fai Baba recently released his new single Can’t Stop Loving You in August via A Tree In A Field Records.
A run of EU/UK headline tour dates in support of the new material started last month and hits the UK this October.
Accompanied live on this tour by Domi Chansorn on drums, Olivier Zurkirchen on keyboards and Rodrigo Aravena on bass, the tour comprises more than fifty dates across Iceland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Germany, UK, Belgium, Netherlands, Austria, France, Monaco, Portugal, and Switzerland.
Check out the new single below!
We managed to catch up with Fai Baba as he talked about the latest single and more!
How has the single ‘Can’t Stop Loving You’ been so far?
Fai Baba is pretty new to everybody outside of Switzerland. Everywhere we go most people only know the last album “Sad & Horny” which is absolutely fine for me. Anyway at our shows we play such a big variety on Fai Baba songs, even very old ones. For me it doesn’t really matter!
Tell us something about the track no one knows?
– It’s a love song. An ode to life. We started to play the riff in the beginning during soundchecks and over a longer amount of time the riff transformed into a song.
How pumped are you for those gigs in October and which one are you most looking forward to playing?
– Paris will be a big show and the next one in Monaco sounds pretty exciting. We play in this huge glass building right next to the sea. Pretty fancy venue! I’m also very excited to play in the UK again because the last time was really bad, but the highlight of the tour is definitely Airwaves Festival in Iceland!
Will there be an EP/Album released this year?
-Not for this year but the plan for 2018 is to go back to India and meditate in some ashram or in a cave till I‘ve finished my new album. Then I’ll go to some remote place with my band where there is no wifi whatsoever and we‘ll just work on the album as a band and record it in sort of a live setting.
If you could work with any band on a new song, who would it be and why?
-It would be AC/DC! It sounds like a real challenge and it sounds like a lot of fun. But I guess it would be a pain in the ass to work with those guys. But maybe that’s what would make the song really great in the end.
What’s the alternative music scene like in Zurich?
-It’s pretty chilled. There are lots of good musicians but not a lot of alternative places. Zurich has changed a lot in the last couple of years. Gentrification at its max! Money is not worth a lot in Zurich so it makes it really hard to make a living as a musician. After the tour I’m gonna move somewhere more quiet and less expensive.
What was your favourite moment while recording the video for the new track?
-I think the whole video was a real adventure. Working with Tatum Rush is always unpredictable. He always tells me: “Hey man listen I got this great idea you just have to come down here” and this is how it starts. Then he just plays with the camera and we have a lot of fun. Very DIY. The waterfall was spectacular!
What was the first ever gig you attended?
-That was at some band contest when I was 16 years old. We played two spaced out songs under the name: “Infection”. It makes me laugh when I think about it.