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Dark Was The Night Cold Was The Ground, by Cari Cari (ORF / Austria) | New European Songbook 2018

Cari Cari are drummer/singer Stephanie Widmer and guitarist/singer Alexander KΓΆck.

Cari Cari are an Austrian band formed by drummer/singer Stephanie Widmer and guitarist/singer Alexander KΓΆck. Rolling Stone Magazine described their performance at Primavera Sound Barcelona as β€œnothing but surreal” and called them the most important discovery of the festival.

The duo has been baptised "the lovechild of The Kills and The XX" (IndieShuffle, US) "with a pinch of Morricone" (FM4, AUT) and "the raw grit of Cat Power" (BestBefore, AUS). But Cari Cari don’t seem to care too much. The duo claim they only founded the band to be featured in a Quentin Tarantino movie. They have achieved a few milestones on that path having licensed their music for multiple Hollywood productions including the Emmy-winning TV hit Shameless.

In the last year the duo’s list of big name media clippings and major festival appearances has grown extensively. Festivals such as The Great Escape (UK), Eurosonic Noorderslag (NL) and Sziget Festival (HU) as well as headline tours in Australia and the UK now just make up a fracture of Cari Cari’s busy touring schedule.

Lyrics:

Bitter and sleepless nights no shelter in the rubble
So cold was the night
So cold was the ground
Fire, took my home minutes seem like hours
So cold was the night
So cold was the ground
I dream of you all night I dream of you all night
I dream of you
So cold was the night
So cold was the ground

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