Visit the Home of the Cow-Fi

Sister Chain & Brother John host, present and support the world's first cow-fi band:

The Lonesomes

Somewhere in the german countryside, inside a small underequipped studio, four cows are constantly exploring their weird version of lo-fi electronic country music. They are known as The Lonesomes. Well, either that or they are actually the solo recording entity of musician Adi Gelbart, who claims he is just the cows' manager. Though the Lonesomes' music originates from country, they manage to cover a great range of styles and influences from loungy easy-listening through lo-fi minimalism to extreme noise, resulting in a sound that is both plain trashy and emotionally deep at the same time.

The Lonesomes released their debut album "a tribute to the great outdoors" at the end of 2003 to rave reviews. It was played extensively on the famous New-Jersey based radio station WFMU, where the album was also selected as one of the top 10 albums of 2003. Adi Gelbart has won the ACUM Electronic Artist of the year award, for his work on this album and his solo works.

In 2005 Adi Gelbart moved from Israel to Berlin, where he now continues to work on The Lonesomes music, as well has on his solo projects. Besides his work as the Lonesomes he also has several solo releases behind him including splits with Frederik Schikowski and The Branflakes.

The Lonesomes live show features the band with Adi Gelbart on guitars, synths, homemade and rewired electronic toys . The Lonesomes' second album "This is Cow-Fi" was released on LoAF (Lo Recordings) in September 2007.