Kantona

About Kantona

instrumental postrock since 2001 from magdeburg/germany How to become a successful rock star? With a purely instrumental band, without a lead vocalist or at least a front guitarist, you will not! This is what the members of kantona thought when they started making music, but things turned out to be different…

In November 2000, Bruno and Illo, now two of the guitarists of KANTONA, decided to make their dream come true, playing guitar in a rock band. After work, they met and took a basic course in guitar playing at the adult education centre. They tried to practice their newly learned chords with the intonation of hippie music, and both got completely swamped. One day, when they left the course, frustrated and willing to give up guitar playing, they bumped into their old friend and nighthawk Lemmy coming down the stairway of the adult education centre. "Hey, what are you doing here ?" they asked. "Basic course in nude painting" Lemmy replied, and they all burst out laughing. This incident at the stairways of the adult education centre swept away Illo's and Bruno's doubts, and they started dreaming the dream of rock'n roll again. Illo and Bruno privily began practicing the chords of "Knocking on Heavens