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Clean bandit are a British electro band formed in 2009. In 2010, this group released the track " Mozart "s House", which was ranked 17th in the UK Singles Chart. And in 2014 they released a new single " Rather Be", which reached 1st place in the same chart. In 2015, the composition was awarded Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording.

musical style

Clean Bandit's music combines electronica and classical music to create deep house tracks.

Musical career

Formation and early career

Band members Jack Patterson, Grace Chatto and Milan Neil Amin-Smith met while studying at Jesus College, Cambridge University. By that time, Chatto was already forming a quartet with Amin-Smith. Chatto was dating Patterson at the time and he decided to record her performances. Patterson began mixing her songs with electronic music, and presenting her the fruit of his labor, Chatto stated that she liked this idea. One of their friends, Ssegawa-Ssekintu Kiwanuka, wrote lyrics for songs at that time, and together they created the track Mozart's House. And thus the idea came to them about creating a musical group. Name, Clean bandit, they took from the translation of the Russian phrase, which in English means "a complete jerk." It is also worth noting that Chatto and Patterson lived in Russia for some time.

year 2012

First debut album New Eyes was released on May 12, 2014 by Warner Music UK and contains 13 tracks on the regular edition and 16 on the special edition.

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An excerpt characterizing Clean Bandit

- You're still afraid! Eh, you learned people,” said a third courageous voice, interrupting both of them. - Then you, artillerymen, are very learned because you can bring everything with you, both vodka and snacks.
And the owner of the manly voice, apparently an infantry officer, laughed.
“But you’re still afraid,” continued the first familiar voice. You're afraid of the unknown, that's what. No matter how you say that the soul will go to heaven... after all, we know that there is no sky, but there is only one sphere.
Again the courageous voice interrupted the gunner.
“Well, treat yourself to your herbalist, Tushin,” he said.
“Ah, this is the same captain who stood at the sutler without boots,” thought Prince Andrei, recognizing with pleasure the pleasant philosophizing voice.
“You can get a herbalist,” said Tushin, “but still comprehend the future life ...
He did not agree. At this time, a whistle was heard in the air; closer, closer, faster and more audible, more audible and faster, and the core, as if not having finished everything that was needed, exploding spray with inhuman force, plopped into the ground not far from the booth. The earth seemed to gasp from a terrible blow.
At the same instant, little Tushin jumped out of the booth, first of all, with his pipe bitten on his side; his kind, intelligent face was somewhat pale. Behind him came the owner of a courageous voice, a dashing infantry officer, and ran to his company, buttoning up as he ran.

Prince Andrei stopped on horseback on the battery, looking at the smoke of the gun from which the cannonball flew out. His eyes darted across the vast expanse. He only saw that the hitherto motionless masses of the French were swaying, and that there really was a battery to the left. It hasn't blown smoke yet. Two French cavalry, probably adjutants, galloped up the mountain. Downhill, probably to strengthen the chain, a clearly visible small column of the enemy was moving. The smoke of the first shot had not yet dissipated, when another smoke and a shot appeared. The battle has begun. Prince Andrei turned his horse around and galloped back to Grunt to look for Prince Bagration. Behind him he heard the cannonade becoming more frequent and louder. Apparently, ours began to respond. Below, in the place where the parliamentarians were passing, rifle shots were heard.
Lemarrois (Le Marierois) with a formidable letter from Bonaparte had just galloped to Murat, and the ashamed Murat, wanting to make amends for his mistake, immediately moved his troops to the center and bypassing both flanks, hoping even before evening and before the arrival of the emperor to crush the insignificant one who stood in front of him, squad.
"Began! Here it is!" thought Prince Andrei, feeling how the blood began to rush to his heart more often. “But where? How will my Toulon be expressed? he thought.
Passing between the same companies that ate porridge and drank vodka a quarter of an hour ago, he everywhere saw the same quick movements of soldiers lining up and dismantling their guns, and on all faces he recognized the feeling of animation that was in his heart. "Began! Here it is! Scary and fun! the face of every soldier and officer spoke.
Before he even reached the fortification under construction, he saw in the evening light of a cloudy autumn day horsemen advancing towards him. The front man, in a cloak and cap with fur coats, rode a white horse. It was Prince Bagration. Prince Andrei stopped, waiting for him. Prince Bagration stopped his horse and, recognizing Prince Andrei, nodded his head to him. He continued to look ahead while Prince Andrei told him what he had seen.
Expression: "It has begun! here it is!" it was even on the strong brown face of Prince Bagration with half-closed, cloudy, as if sleepy eyes. Prince Andrei peered into this motionless face with restless curiosity, and he wanted to know whether he was thinking and feeling, and what he thought, what this man felt at that moment? "Is there anything at all behind that motionless face?" Prince Andrei asked himself, looking at him. Prince Bagration bowed his head, in agreement with the words of Prince Andrei, and said: “Good,” with such an expression as if everything that happened and that he was told was exactly what he had already foreseen. Prince Andrei, shoved from the speed of the ride, spoke quickly. Prince Bagration uttered the words with his oriental accent especially slowly, as if suggesting that there was nowhere to hurry. However, he trotted his horse in the direction of Tushin's battery. Prince Andrei, together with his retinue, went after him. Prince Bagration was followed by: an officer of the retinue, the prince's personal adjutant, Zherkov, an orderly, an officer on duty on a beautiful english horse, and a state official, an auditor, who, out of curiosity, asked to go to battle. The auditor, a stout man with a full face, looked around with a naive smile of joy, shaking on his horse, imagining a strange sight in his camlot overcoat on a furshtat saddle among hussars, Cossacks and adjutants.

Officially a British group Clean bandit appeared in 2009, although its future members had known each other several years before the idea of forming their group, being students of the University of Cambridge. The team consists of four: Jack And Luke Patterson, Grace Chatto And Milan Neil Amin-Smith. The latter two were already playing in their own string quartet, and at the time Chatto was meeting with Jack Patterson, who offered to record their performance. Later, the recording was processed, and everyone liked the result. This is how the band's own style emerged, mixing classical pieces (such as Shostakovich and Mozart) with electronica and house music.

The name of the group was not chosen by chance, albeit with humor. Patterson and Chatto lived in Russia for some time, where they met the phrase " complete jerk". Translating the phrase into English, they got " clean bandit”, which was chosen for the name. In 2010, the newly formed band released a single Mozart's House, which got into rotation on British radio and attracted attention to the musicians. The guys started releasing new singles, performing live a lot, collaborating with promising and already established vocalists.

After several mini-albums, the band released a full-fledged studio album New Eyes in 2014. The album cannot be called a super hit, but it took quite high places in the international charts and has already received gold certification in the UK. So the debut can be considered successful. At the moment, the song can be considered the most successful single of the group. Rather Be, which topped many European charts and brought the group Grammy for the best dance recording in 2015.

The most sensational group of 2014 transforms both dance and classical music...

Classical symphonic and dance music don't mix well at first glance. The refined restraint of the concert hall and the noisy atmosphere of an ordinary, average nightclub, this is heaven and earth. But this difference cannot be considered insurmountable. Mozart and Beethoven were very famous during their lifetime, just like David Guetta and Tiesto in 2014. Therefore, perhaps such different music, if performed correctly, can also coexist. In the end, how else to explain the rapid path to the glory of the group Clean Bandit!

Clean bandit are a British electro band formed in 2009. In 2013, this band released the track "Mozart's House", which was ranked 17th in the UK Singles Chart. And in 2014 they released a new single, "Rather Be", which reached #1 in the same chart.

Breakthrough

Clean Bandit did not achieve success immediately. At the very beginning of their career, one record label asked if they were not a cheap pop group. But he who laughs last laughs, and in this case it was the Cambridge quartet, when their fourth single Rather Be - an elegant and cheerful combination of violin melodies, dance rhythms and Jess Glynn's dizzying soul vocals - soared to the first positions of several European charts at the beginning 2014. He also has an incredible number of views on YouTube - 184 million, and this number is growing.

Carier start

The three members of the band - Jack Patterson, Grace Chatto and Milan Neil Eimin-Smith met while studying at Jesus College, Cambridge University. They studied, among other subjects, the Russian language, architecture and economics. Grace and Milan played in a string quartet together, but Clean Bandit essentially began to take shape when Grace and Jack started dating, and Jack, an aspiring producer and club impresario, began remixing his girlfriend's classics, pairing them with energetic house beats. . When his brother, Luke, joined him and started playing drums, Clean Bandit was formed.

First hit

“When we started, we just wanted to make music that you could dance to and stand out from the crowd,” Grace tells Cambridge University's Varsity magazine. It's hard to imagine a better description of their first single, Mozart's House, which combines pieces from Wolfgang Amadeus' No. 21 String Quartet with house rhythms and infectious vocals from their friend Ssegawa-Ssekintu Kiwanuki. It was released by the British dance music studio Black Butter, which launched such bands as Rudimental and Gorgon City. The single became a minor sensation, thus proving that the idea of electronic chamber music is not so ridiculous.

Worldwide recognition

Clean Bandit was not satisfied with the success of his single released at the beginning of the year and worked hard throughout 2014. The long-awaited debut album New Eyes was released in May, and in August they released the single Come Over, which features reggae vocalist Stylo G on vocals. Real Love (a new composition later added to the special edition of the album) was released in November and took second place. on the UK charts.

versatility

The tireless creative work of the Clean Bandit is a search in different directions. They take filming just as seriously as they take music. Jack studied at the All-Russian State University of Cinematography, and currently the band has its own production company, Clean Film, which created all the band's videos, as well as fulfilling other orders. Clean Bandit proved their worth in the classical genre as well, appearing with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra on a special 45-minute Symphony in Three Movements on Zane Lowe's Radio 1 show.

Looking to the future

It is not easy to create the music of the future, because not everyone is able to understand such music. “At one party I met a guy who was very angry with us for using fragments from Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 8,” Jack tells the Guardian. - He convinced me that it was impossible. I think he thought it was humiliating for a work of art, but he really didn't know what he was talking about. He couldn’t even sing a simple melody!”

These guys have skill and head on their shoulders

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basic information
Clean bandit
Clean Bandit in 2013
Genres	Deep house , Baroque pop , Classical electronic music
years	2008 - present
A country	Great Britain Great Britain
Song language	English
label	Warner Music Group
Compound	Jack Patterson Luke Patterson Grace Chatto
Former participants	Milan Neil Amin-Smith Ssegawa-Ssekintu Kiwanuka
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Clean bandit is a British electro group formed in 2008. In 2010, this group released the track " Mozart "s House", which was ranked 17th in the UK Singles Chart. And in 2014 they released a new single " Rather Be", which reached 1st place in the same chart. In 2015, the composition was awarded Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording.

musical style

Clean Bandit's music combines electronica and classical music to create deep house tracks.

Story

Formation and early career

Band members Jack Patterson, Luke Patterson, Grace Chatto and Milan Neil Amin-Smith met while studying at Jesus College, Cambridge University. By that time, Chatto was already creating a quartet with Amin-Smith. Chatto was dating Jack Patterson at the time and he decided to record her performances. Patterson began mixing her songs with electronic music, and presenting her the fruit of his labor, Chatto stated that she liked this idea. One of their friends, Ssegawa-Ssekintu Kiwanuka, wrote lyrics for songs at that time, and together they created the track Mozart's House. And thus the idea came to them about creating a musical group. Name, Clean bandit, they took from the translation of the Russian phrase, which in English means “pure (in the sense of natural, real) bandit”, as her neighbor’s grandmother called her (from an interview on Megapolis FM). It is also worth noting that Chatto and Patterson lived in Russia for some time.

2012-14: debut album "New Eyes"

As of June 19, 2017, Voice UK 2012 finalist Kirsten Joy travels with Clean Bandit as the band's lead singer.

At the 2015 Coachella Festival, Clean Bandit performed "Disconnect" with Marina and The Diamonds. The track was released on June 23, 2017.

On October 16, 2017, Clean Bandit announced their new song "I Miss You" featuring American singer Julia Michaels. On the same day, the band announced their US tour, which will take place in March-April next year. The track "I Miss You" was released on October 27, 2017.

In early December 2017, the band announced that they were going to release a second album in the first months of 2018. They also revealed that all the songs they have released so far since their debut album will be on the new album.

From 2018 to the present: the release of the second album Clean Bandit

In early 2018, Clean Bandit performed at the 2018 Brit Awards Announcement Ceremony with their two latest hits, Symphony and I Miss You, performed by Kirsten Joy. In addition, the group was awarded two nominations for the same award: British Single of the Year And " British Video of the Year", both times nominated "Symphony".

Composition of the group

Grace Chatto (2008 - present) - cello, percussion, vocals
Jack Patterson (2008 - present) - bass guitar, keyboards, vocals, piano, sound effects, some brass instruments
Luke Patterson (2008 - present) - drums, percussion, some wind instruments