The Hathors were the apprentices in the temple of the goddess Hathor in ancient Egypt. Apart from the arts, she was also looking after love, death and the pleasures of intoxication. Is there a more perfect name for a rock band? “Grief, Roses and Gasoline” was recorded in four months in the band’s studio in Winterthur, a small but musical town near Zurich. “With this album we have almost arrived back where we started”, says Bouff?: “Except now we have complete control over our recordings and the type of aesthetic we want to go for. And we had a massive craving for memorable and carefully produced songs that were also spikey and hard-hitting…” After the band had done their work, John Goodmanson (Bikini Kill, Pavement, Wu-Tang Clan) rounded it off with a brilliant mix in his studio in Seattle. Hathors are Marc Bou (guitar, vocals, sax), Dominique Destraz (drums) und Marco Naef (bass). Marco (Ex-Navel, The Night is Still Young) recently replaced Simeon Thompson who played on the recordings.
