Cloudride is a Swiss

Switzerland

Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....

 rock

Rock music

Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...

 band from Basel

Basel

Basel or Basle In the national languages of Switzerland the city is also known as Bâle , Basilea and Basilea is Switzerland's third most populous city with about 166,000 inhabitants. Located where the Swiss, French and German borders meet, Basel also has suburbs in France and Germany...

. Cloudride's style is similar to British and American independent

Indie rock

Indie rock is a genre of alternative rock that originated in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1980s. Indie rock is extremely diverse, with sub-genres that include lo-fi, post-rock, math rock, indie pop, dream pop, noise rock, space rock, sadcore, riot grrrl and emo, among others...

 bands. First appearances took place in small clubs in the Basel region, nowadays Cloudride are performing at clubs and festivals all across Europe

Europe

Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...

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Band history

Cloudride was founded in early 2001 and after some member changes the band began to record demos in spring 2002 and participated at regional talent contests. In 2003, the first commercial release, the EP

Extended play

An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...

 Behind My Glasses hit the stores.

By the end of 2003 Cloudride established its own band room studio to rehearse continually. In May Cloudride released 2004 the second EP White Door, produced with support of the friendshipped band Generic. Cloudride's performance became more frequent in the region; in June 2004 they played at the main stage of the annual Imagine festival.

Cloudride's first longplayer Overlooked was released in Switzerland on September 15, 2006 on Helium Records (RecRec). The release was followed by a tour through Switzerland and got the band to open for the Manchester-based band Amplifier

Amplifier (band)

Amplifier are a progressive rock band from Manchester, England. The main trio forming the band are singer and guitarist Sel Balamir, bassist Neil Mahony and drummer Matt Brobin. The band has released three albums and two EPs since its inception in 1999. Their self-titled debut album was released in...

 during their European tour in early 2007.

On September 19 2008, Cloudride are going to release a new EP named Vincent. The band will distribute 10´000 units of the record for free on their shows.

Band members

The band's current members (since 2002) are Axel Rüst (vocals, acoustic guitar, bass), Christian Kofler (electric guitar), Philipp Koch (electric guitar, backing vocals, melodica), Stefan Schneider (drums, percussion, programming) and Lorenz Bader (bass guitar, backing vocals).

EPs

• Behind My Glasses (2003)
• White Door (2004)
• Vincent (2008)