«It was so beautiful …» sings a deep female voice accompanied by hypnotic sounds, mystic blues and cinematic soundscapes. It’s a sound that makes your blood run cold while simultaneously sending comforting shivers down your spine. Just as if Nick Cave became one with his female duet partners from «Murder Ballads» – a kind of symbioses of man and woman reciting songs about the dark sides of the human soul and the lightness of being. A melancholic soundtrack, in the manner of Enrico Morricone, a soundtrack to an inner movie about raptures, scars and blank spaces, about fading,remembrance and longing unfolds before our ears: Welcome to the universe of «SCRATCHES» SCRATCHES is a four piece band out of Basel, that was founded in 2010 following the collaboration of theater director and singer Sarah-Maria B?rgin and guitarist and theater composer Sandro Corbat. The two started off as a duo playing obstinate cover versions of known songs, quickly developed their own signature and distinctive style and earned widespread recognition with their debut album «Fade» in 2014. 2017 marks the release of their second album «Before Beyond» on Czar of Revelations, and the band, which turned into a quartet with bassist Marco Nenniger and drummer Jonas Prina joining in, is more than ready to conquer the musical world with their timeless sound. The ten new songs capture their well-known austere beauty but bring the sound aesthetic to yet another level, and even though Scratches are still operating pretty far off the beaten tracks of pop- and rockmusic, «Before Beyond» seems to be drawn to the light and the big stage much more than its predecessor.
