5 Fold by Belleruche

Vocalist Kathrin deBoer, guitarist Ricky Fabulous, and producer DJ Modest form the lo-fi trio Belleruche, who release 5 Fold, a raw live cut from their spring recording session in Scotland.

A decade older, possibly wiser, and certainly more thoughtful, Kathrin deBoer, Ricky Fabulous, and DJ Modest have recorded new music that pulls at the thread that was left by Belleruche and which interprets our varied experiences through a curious window of distorted glass. And we’re unsure which side we are looking through.

Living in Western society over the last four decades brings about complexity; the privilege combined with any semblance of self-awareness, empathy, and curiosity results in questions. Questioning the future isn’t a business with much of a return on the emotional investment currently.

This song comes to you with a late-night feel from a live jam session in our room in Scotland. Raw and unfiltered, with the room hiss of old wires and dusty lights, the sample pads, stuttering drums, humming guitar and the bass warmth seem to follow Kathrin’s untreated vocals in a path through the mist of a morning of a new day that we’re not sure is welcome. Mining for silver linings, looking for the other side, wondering what could, or should, be. '5 Fold' is a reflective piece of music that strips back what the 3 band members do and lets the idea of the song flow through.
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Writing and producing music, therefore, can seem like a luxury. It is a luxury. Over the period of not recording together, the trio has worked hard, teaching, caring, building, in different parts of the world, in different ways with different people and results. It seemed strange then, when the opportunity to write and record music together again arrived, how the pieces seemed to fit together in much the same way as they did before.

The band is sincerely happy with the result; the tracks finished so far seem to have an emotional resonance that carries on from the previous records we made, but have an additional attitude and tone that reflects the complicated modern world we live in. Thanks for listening. Released on the band’s own Hippoflex Recording Industries imprint, the new music will be released over the second half of 2025.

Belleruche - 5 Fold
Release Date August 2025
Label Hippoflex Recording Industries

Tracklist
1. Belleruche - 5 Fold