Walter Benjamin - "Vocals", cheap acoustic guitar, sampler, percussion, synths and Hohner Clavinet.
Influences
Bob Dylan, The Doors, Goodbye Toulouse, Magnetic Fields, Lambchop, Leonard Cohen, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Simon & Garfunkel, Lou Reed, Lou Reed, Lou Reed, Lou Reed, Yo la tengo The Smiths, The Go-Betweens, Serge Gainsbourg, Mojave 3, Red House Painters, Belle & Sebastian... I love you Elliott Smith.
Walter Benjamin is a modern songwriter, just like
the Modern Rock Song by Belle & Sebastian. He uses samplers and synthesizers on his songs,
along with a cheap acoustic guitar and a cheap sounding voice. Walter Benjamin was born in the
spring, although he doesn't remember where. After releasing the EP The Dog follows the Bull
(Merzbau, 2007), he spent a whole year recording his first album, The National Crisis. The
record contains twelve new songs written on the way home after disco.
He is a member of the Lisbon based folk collective
Goodbye Toulouse and the "almost rock" band Jesus, the Misunderstood.
