www.suricate-hill.com

Surricate Hill is supposed to be a indie-alternative-progressive-rock project, living from many artists and bands Andreas listen to, giving him inspiration and ideas for his work. "I don't want to sound like any particular band but I just pick elements from bands I like and try to combine them following my ideas. My influences come from bands like The Polyphonic Spree, Arcade Fire, Porcupine Tree, The Pineapple Thief, Mew and Therion, maybe the one and other will add in time."


Creative mind of Suricate Hill is Andreas Zwinzscher, born 1984 in Germany.
He was in touch with music since he was eight years old. From then he visited music-school for about nine years. In that time Andreas started to write some small melodies, nothing to be really mentioned, but things evolved and in 2002 his first "real" music project, called SynthKraft, was started. In it's early times, SynthKraft was very influenced by artists like Jean Michel Jarre and Vangelis, so the music got a kind of Electronica / New Age character. SynthKraft also loved to include classical/symphonic elements, so he tried mixing electronic sounds with orchester instruments. Top of his work was the album "Centurion" which owns this symbiosis of classical and electronic music. Later on SynthKraft got more and more inspired by bands like Kraftwerk, Client and my favourites Ladytron and the style changed into a more rough one, showing less symphonic elements. "Electrobots" and "Point Zero" were the only two albums which was finished. SynthKraft's last upcoming album , named "Dying for Synthopia", never come to an end. A few tracks were done, but while working on the album, musically interests changed again. Andreas listened more and more to indie/alternative/progressive-rock bands, so he decided to bring the SynthKraft-Project to an end and start something new.

In early 2010 "Suricate Hill" was founded and will by my way for the next years.


Andreas Zwinzscher is at this time the only member of Suricate Hill - doing all the stuff (composing, recording, mixing, mastering, marketing). Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.