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Hartholz are four guys from Brandenburg. Guys from next door, but somehow the four are quite different. More is tried here. Influences from punk and metal, yes, they have them! But doesn't everyone do that? If you only think of dull 4/4 licks and flat lyrics when you think of German-speaking rock, you're wrong with the boys! Well-arranged riffs and honest lyrics that don't hit the crap precociously make it clear at the latest when singer Jogi picks up the trumpet: the guys may not have reinvented the wheel here, but with a lot of heart and soul, over three years, alongside work and private life, put all their energy into an album that will give many a new feeling for German rock! Fresh wind in old sails, sometimes stormy, sometimes shallow.

01 gasoline
02 Master's hand
03 Cold wall
04 Hello
05 fists of iron
06 do you love
07 Mom's darling
08 Welcome
09 Let's fly
10 This is how we celebrate

Anyone who knows Flautando Cologne already knows that every concert and every CD is a little adventure that surprises and amazes. With their impressive collection of recorders, the four musicians don't stop at the pure recorder repertoire, but always take on other works, which show completely new facets in a new sound and sometimes literally blow you away.
With "Kaleidoskop" Flautando Köln now shows the whole range of their skills and repertoire. Starting with ale-soaked Anglo-Saxon tunes that seem to come straight from the pub to the intricate, virtuoso music of Ligeti, the four savor what's possible. So the kaleidoscope on this CD keeps turning and surprises again and again with new (sound) colors and genres. Great fun to keep turning this kaleidoscope...

01 Red House
02 Never Love Three More
03 An Italian Rant (Diminution Baltimore Consort)
04 Sicut cervus desiderant, Psalm 42
05 Hayriye'nin boyu uzun
06 Yarim gitti cesmeye
07 Aman avci vurma beni
08 Daglar gibi dalgalari
09 Allegro con Spirito
10 Allegro Grazioso
11 Presto Ruvido
12 Adagio Mesto
13 Molto Vivace. capriccioso
14 A knight in Reuental

Mediokrist means average person, which is also the main theme of the album "Traumwelt". The fight for self-realization in modern society under the influence of the media and the environment is dealt with thematically. Without making political statements, problems are addressed both directly and ironically.
The musical accompaniment to the lyrics can be classified for the most part in the metalcore genre, with elements from hardcore, punk, pop and other areas also being used. The targeted use of synthesizers condenses the sound with its 80s vibe to create an exciting and dense atmosphere. Although the album is not a concept album in the classic sense, the structure of the album and the songs have been deliberately chosen to clarify the thematic processing of the lyrics.

01 Eleos
02 monochrome
03 median
04 dream world
05 Thank you humanity
06 Phobos
07 Catharsis
08 Hypocrisia
09 Neo Homo Superior
10 mirrors
11 omens
12 Exitus

The great music mogul David Geffen, who spotted so many now-famous figures in the music world, said upon hearing Michael Flexig's voice that it was the best singer he had heard since Queen's Freddy Mercury. He has never heard a singer who is as good, as talented and as unique as Michael Flexig. Michael Flexig is the vocal figurehead of the band ZENO, which shook up international rock music in the mid-eighties. With high-class songs, their own unique music mix and a then new, unmistakable sound, ZENO achieved one of the best-paying record deals in the last 30 years globally - after an extraordinary bidding war between the world's most well-known premium brands such as EMI, Warner Bros., CBS and others David Geffen's Geffen Records (e.g. "Foreigner" or "Guns & Roses"). ZENO's Nucleus consisted of three young musicians from Hanover: guitarist Zeno Roth (younger brother of legendary guitarist Uli Jon Roth), bassist Ule W. Ritgen and vocalist Michael Flexig. After the release of their debut album "ZENO/Zeno" in 1986, which spent 3 months in the US Bilboard charts, tours in Europe and the US followed, including with bands such as Black Sabbath and Queen. Roth and Flexig have been working together again as a duo since the 1990s, after Ritgen had set up his own hard rock formation "Fair Warning".
The result was 3 more albums under the joint project name ZENO until 2005, as well as one more solo album each by Zeno Roth (2007) and Michael Flexig (2011). Zeno Roth died on February 5, 2018 as a result of a long, serious illness. On the occasion of the funeral service, which was organized by Zeno Roth's brother Uli Jon, the idea arose to perform some of Zeno Roth's songs live as part of Uli Jon Roth's 2019 world tour. Michael Flexig took part in it in Japan as a guest singer with overwhelming success.
In honor of his long-time friend and companion Zeno Roth, Michael Flexig - as the "voice of ZENO" - produced the present album "Keeper of the Flame". This album is packed with 19 songs and a playing time of almost 80 minutes and also contains some previously unreleased tracks. In Japan, the disc was released in a special edition on December 27, 2019 and immediately reached number 1 in Japanese hard rock / heavy metal CD sales for more than 2 weeks. The European edition of "Michael Flexig - The Voice of ZENO: Keeper of the Flame" differs from the Japanese in the selection of three songs, and the sequence also differs interestingly. Michael Flexig: “In ZENO we all pulled together and on an equal footing. I am grateful and proud to have contributed my part. The uniqueness of our music was and still is the fundamental focus of the entire adventure. It went all over the world and even after 35 years it still hasn't lost any of its radiance. With this album I would like to show the classic ZENO songs - for the first time in their original version: authentic, original, elementary... and yet with the sound of today! It's also a thank you to our friends who did the recordings with us and I credit everyone in the line-up by name. Let's all be brave torchbearers in a world of darkness!"
Uli Jon Roth: "Michael, thank you for keeping the mystical flame of my brother Zeno's great music alive - with your strong vocal charisma! These are some of the best rock songs ever written and they deserve to live on!" Ule W. Ritgen: "Keep it up, dear Michael! Don't let these songs fall into oblivion. Love, Ule".

01 Don't Count On Me
02 Good Game Bad Game
03 Far Away
04 Signs On The Sky
05 Don't Tell The Wind
06 Eastern Sun
07 A Little More Love
08 Love Will Live
09 Heat Of Emotion
10 Is It Love

After about 120 concerts on the "Sli Na Slainte" tour from Kap Arkona to Fichtelberg and from Görlitz to Reihn, it was finally time for a new album.
"We've decided: Folk!"
And so the four guys managed to create a really party-worthy Irish Folk Rock album. The independent style suits the songs well and so the 13 songs form a healthy mix of original compositions and traditionals that shouldn't be missing from any well-assorted CD shelf.

1 Hills Of Connemara
2 Melody Of The Doomed Row
3 3 gypsies
4 Tell Me Ma
5 Forgotten pints
6John Maynard
7 Sweet heart
8 Leprachaun
9 This Life
10 Plague Ship
11 hip flask
12 Rising Of The Moon
13John Robbins

Finn Ritter, Hamburg singer/songwriter from Berlin, but not a songwriter. Pop but not popular. Secret hit: "Barbara Schöneberger" from his first album "Everything at the beginning". There was a festival prize for the best song for that, even if he wouldn't write it like that anymore today. But sometimes they sing.
Instead: new, different songs on his new album "Orter". Beatles and Bowie, Reiser and Regener, "A Hazy Shade Of Winter" and "A Color Of Spring". Everything in German, but no German pop and certainly no singer-songwriter...

01 Looking at seven years
02 locators
03 Man of small steps
04 flow
05 Goodbye Rolling Stone
06 Because you are
07 to Bullerbü
08 About/I
09 mountains
10 Be there
11 letter to me
12 New day

Not everyone loves weed. It finds its place, it blooms where it wants. And it doesn't go away: Yerba mala nunca muere - that applies in German as well as in Spanish, in Hamburg as well as in Puerto Rico.
"I've always tried to live up to the expectations of others and still be myself," says Judith Tellado. "But that is impossible. At some point I understood that. And I understood that I have a responsibility, to myself and to art: I don't have to be nice - I have to be honest. Even if not everyone likes it: I'm just the growth that I am."
Judith Tellado was one of the discoveries of 2014. Even before that, she had enriched the music scene in St. Pauli with more than just a few splashes of color with her unique and idiosyncratic mélange of jazz, bolero and singer-songwriter touches. And their album "Under Neon Stars" finally generated an echo that could be heard all over Germany. Looking at the album cover from back then, Judith Tellado almost sounds a little incredulous. "I'm not the woman that I see there anymore," she says, as if there were more than years between Under Neon Stars and their new work, Yerba Mala. And indeed: Judith Tellado has remained true to her stylistic diversity. But her voice now tells other stories.

1. Yerba mala
2. For The Good Times
3. Valija Lista
4. Replay
5. Travelers' Song
6. Tuya
7. Guayaba
8.Johnny Tramp
9. Letters From Paradise
10. Nice, nice
11. This Will Be
12. Gold mine
13. Fifteen Seconds Of Noise

The Inner Worlds project has its origins in the idea of ​​“condensing” lyrical texts instrumentally and dramaturgically. This concentration may make the listener want to first selectively explore the text and music. For people whose listening focus is primarily on capturing text content, the dramaturgy of the music can deepen the effect of the words.
Conversely, people with listening habits that are primarily geared towards sound quality can experience the right word as an enrichment. The listener is invited to participate in an exemplary process of self-discovery and maturation.
Dealing with the "drama" touches on profound life issues that people encounter in sensitive phases of life - and can motivate them to come to terms with them internally. The sequence of the songs leads the listener through a process that thrives on concentration to the solution, to finally find the calming pole in the fine sound accents of the ballad "Stille". The musical design intends to expressively emphasize this process with the help of carefully selected instrumental accents, with the aim of making the text content comprehensible on a further level of perception. To be noted! The combination of poetry and music can usually only be grasped over a wide area and have an effect after repeated listening.

01 opening
02 Our love
03 impermanence
04 inner worlds
05 Ode to opposites
06 light and shadow
07 countercurrent
08 silence

What's more boring than another bearded guy with an acoustic guitar writing his own songs? Anyone who rolls their eyes at the thought of this musical stereotype badly needs a helping of Richard Limbert. His music leads far away from lulling, cryptic love ballads and above all knows one thing: to tell stories.
The musical DNA of the Leipziger quickly points to the culture of the good ol' United States, without falling into dull nostalgia. Honest blues, folk and Americana are practically indispensable in this music. Anyone who prefers Randy Newman to Bruce Springsteen, who would rather dance to Rainald Grebe and Bertolt Brecht than to the Backstreet Boys when drunk, could actually recommend the music of Richard Limbert.

01 Paranoia Boogie
02 If You Never Fell Down
03 The Spark Is Setting Fire
04 The Way To The West
05 The Disease (Hide & Seek)
06 The Village
07 Julius Caesar The Frightened Dictator
08 dr watson
09 From Heaven To Hell
10 Not Your Charles Bukowski
11 Decisive Moments In History

Martin Kampfer about his first album: “'Mut' is quite simply the perfect name for my first album. Despite all the emotions, strength and setbacks, one thing was always clear: I have something to tell. I have the courage to lay my feelings open and wrap them in music. I have the courage to do this. Honestly, with all the mistakes that make life worth living. It all started with the decision to take piano lessons and to give a face to my inner passion. Lukas Schick (calm_pilot) piano teacher and later producer: 'I quickly got wind of the extraordinary voice, the exciting stories and Martin's eventful life. There sat a finished artist who just needed to be given the perfect platform.' With every hour in the recording studio, things became clearer: an album is the perfect medium. In three years we had gotten to know each other so well that the lyrics and music could have been tailored perfectly to me. That was the beginning of a friendship in a musical style that inspires reflection with expressive German pop. As a passionate cook, I see my very own parallels: I mix components and in the end something wonderful comes out of it. Harmonious, playful and dreamy. I may not always hit the right note, but I always open my heart to that. It's been a long road to the release of this album and I can't wait for you to hear it. I am immensely proud that we had the courage to do it.”

01 belly and heart
02 No mask
03 My heart
04 Brave and strong
05 stop
06 You and me
07 White Swans

Daniel Green's third folk album is by no means about revival. "Vanish Like A Cloud In Sunlight" is the name of the album that will be released this fall. In his new polyphonic folk songs, the songwriter combines notes of hope and experiences of grief and thus offers an opportunity to empathize, find oneself again and recharge your batteries. Grief can be very lonely. Can't we talk about this? are we allowed to do that And with whom?
Daniel Green gives food for thought about the culture of mourning and shows that death does not have to be the end. Feelings, gratitude and connection remain, even after the loss of friends or relatives. In eleven soulful songs, the songwriter philosophizes about the confusion of our thoughts that arises in moments of mourning.
He wonders what the way to the afterlife is, if fear is even necessary. What remains for him personally are these eleven anchor songs. They connect Daniel Green himself with the people who shaped him. "Vanish Like A Cloud In Sunlight" - an album that combines farewell, hope and solidarity.

1 Vanish Like A Cloud In Sunlight
2 tambourines
3 Talk To God On The Phone
4 Bubble Of Time
5 No Devil In Disguise
6 Bitch To Blame
7 Magic Dreamers
8 True Safe Haven
9 Payback
10 Your World Shall Be Forever Young (live)
11 Wave Goodbye Friends

On their debut album of the same name, the Münster trio Order 69 delivers ten songs that are like the inherited warm coat in which one feels comfortable and at home, not despite, but precisely because it scratches: with the sounds from the particularly large and experimental ones In the days of British Rock'n'Roll, you get caught up in this music and don't want to leave.
The sometimes demanding distorted bass and the virtuoso drums pump confidently and powerfully through the songs. Together with guitar riffs, bubbling, rousing like lava that you just have to get too close to because it's so nice and hot, they form the fertile foundation for the singing.
The band's voices transport the clever lyrics with easy-going anger, the sonic megalomania, but also again and again the youthful tenderness that turns personal experiences into profound insights, questions into answers, helplessness into knowledge. And also exactly vice versa. That is what distinguishes real music from calculated tralalala.
The sound and the space of the songs suit this: Everything was recorded analogously on tape, real sounds instead of digital cheating, but never antiquated. music for tomorrow. To make it short: Even if this music sounds different - Hendrix would have liked it for sure.

01 drives
02 cryin'
03 Fire And Fuel
04 Without Intermission
05 The Relief
06 Rod Me
07 Lady J
08 Gun
09 Squirters
10 Filling The Pots

The first purely German-language album "I love the blues" is a cry for love! Hörbie Schmidt - singer, guitarist, lyricist and composer literally "lets his pants down". The North German cult figure with the curly lion's mane gives a deep insight, outlook and review of his emotional world and his love life. His warm, energetic, humorous and profound voice tells of lust and passion, of longing and dreams, of eroticism and desire between aspiration and reality, heaven and hell and hope and vision. Hörbie comments and reflects on his eventful Rock'n'Roll life in his lyrics - sometimes cheerful to ironic, sometimes dreamy to soulful, sometimes clear and direct. Singer Lili Czuya sings two expressive titles with devotion, in which she describes the death of her beloved father and processes it with a lot of blues and soul. The band musicians belong to the crème de la crème of the live music scene in Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein.
The Hörbie Schmidt Band is characterized by its very own style, characterized by the harmonious and virtuoso interplay of Sven Selle (piano, organ) and the band leader Hörbie Schmidt on the guitar. This special timbre gives the band its own special touch. This band is also a pleasure live. The audience hangs on the every word of the narrator Hörbie Schmidt. His moderation is entertaining and educational infotainment about blues and love - full of charm, cheeky and lively - and always with a fresh (North German) breeze. The musical roots of the album lie in the legendary blues, which flirts violently with its kids rock, pop, funk, jazz and swing and unites - in the spirit of musical love. Hörbie Schmidt sings in the title song: "I love the blues, the blues is in and with me" In this sense!

01 I should practice that
02 Monitored in Germany
03 It hurts
04 There are times
05 When I wake up in the morning
06 I love the blues
07 Lisa, I love you
08 Traveling soul
09 Lisa, come on, let's go
10 I fell in love
11 Trek mi tu

Blitzkrieg Bop, I Wanna Be Sedated, Sheena Is A Punkrocker and co. - who doesn't know these songs? But the legendary Ramones also had a lot of songs that didn't get much attention even from some fans and some of which were never played live by the New York punk pioneers. Wrongly so, think the runarounds, which have dedicated themselves exclusively to lesser-known Ramones material from the 1980s.
True to this motto, "Ramonitis" offers eight rocking songs that have not yet been included on any official Ramones tribute album. From "All The Way" to "Come Back, Baby" to "Highest Trails Above", "Ramonitis" puts neglected classics back in the spotlight. With great attention to detail, Alex Lex created a production that – in addition to the choice of titles – also revives the Ramones' eighties flair.
The songs are presented in a mixture of Phil Spector's jukebox pop appeal and Richie Cordell's somber new wave sound and thus also offer an interesting change from the more reduced, typical punk productions. Wonderful pop background vocals, handclaps and Farfisa organ meet the typical sawing guitars and driving drums.
There's an additional bonus for genre fans: the cover was drawn by none other than Fuzztones icon Rudi Protrudi. The runarounds on "Ramonitis" impress with their authentic proximity to the original, but without lovingly copying them. An album by fans for fans that blow-dry your hair back in a raid and leave you grinning after too short a time! Just like the Ramones once did.

1. All The Way
2. Hair Of The Dog
3. Time Bomb
4. Come Back Baby
5. Too Tough To Die
6. A real cool time
7. Worm Man
8. Highest Trails Above

A few words are not enough to describe the songs from Falk's debut EP "Nie wieder Alone". It's a handful of mainstream with a healthy dose of pop and a pinch of rock, all resulting in an earthy mature sound.
Falk's lyrics are direct - sometimes edgy and sometimes straight and full of heart and soul in every single line.
And yet, or perhaps because of this, his songs manage without the song poet phrases so often used today. This is joined by magnificent melodies that form a harmonious duo with the lyrics and merge into real song pearls. In short: Falk not only tells stories from - from his - life, but has "bared himself musically". Pure self-processing by turning the inside out.

01 Never alone again
02 silence
03 We're celebrating the old days
04 Come on
05 Everything is wonderful
06 Never Alone Again (Remix)

"All the beautiful shards - come on, let's build a mosaic!"
This line of text from the title song of Ostückenberg's debut album Mosaic aptly describes the lyrical and musical concept of the young musician and his band.
In Ostückenberg's arrangements, you can discover a lively alternation of elements from jazz, pop and hip-hop as well as from soul, blues, funk and occasionally even classical music. However, all these influences do not result in a haphazard genre potpourri, but are skilfully put together by the musicians to form a coherent picture. This is not only done with great musical adeptness, but also always with audible humor and fun, which characterize the original sound of "Mosaik". The regular use of different horns to reinforce the band further increases their diversity.
However, Ostückenberg's characteristic lyrical and vocal style remains the most important unifying element of the album. His lyrics are characterized by subtlety and complexity; even half sentences and single words give his stories a variety of levels of interpretation and an amazing depth. In this way, Ostückenberg manages to take away the trivial from the stories and to show even well-known themes in a new light. He demonstrates the courage to reveal the limits of his own knowledge and prefers to leave questions unanswered than to confront them with platitudes and truisms.
Vocally, Ostückenberg presents himself in an extremely unpretentious and authentic way on Mosaic. Despite their intellectual demands, his songs always remain accessible, so that listeners are not forced to choose between empathizing and thinking through.

01 Come in
02 What else is there to say?
03 As long as
04 heaven on earth
05 Mosaic
06 Superhero
07 Through puddles
08 Golden Autumn
09 let's
10 Without a clear goal
11 polar day
12 fanfares
13 do-gooder

"The genre? I call it MUSIC! Not in the mood for the target group!” After many years of making music in theaters and in other contexts, the Hamburg composer and lyricist Eva Engelbach (aka “Die Hofkomponistin”) founded the band Evantgarde in 2017 and thus returned to her roots: making music around the music sake.
Nevertheless, the influences of theater and art are clearly noticeable and have added new expressive possibilities to the way of their songwriting. Somewhere between psychedelic fairground music and crooked pop song - with English and German lyrics with depth and ironic wit and free-flowing melodies, Evantgarde is what Deutschlandfunk once called "wild growth in pop music uniformity". The penchant for happy, carefree genre, meter and harmony changes is characteristic of Evantgarde, which doesn't mean that Evantgarde pursues "l'art pour l'art": Many songs are real catchy tunes, which also distinguishes them. And: It's not just the lyrics that have depth!
In Evantgarde, in addition to the contrabass, electric bass and cello, the very rare contrabass flute is also made to vibrate! Eva: "Evant-garde is completely unhip and that's why it's sexy: Anyone who knows me knows that I'm a fan of weird tones and rhythms, but that I'm further away from free jazz or so-called new music than anything else. No, I like it melodic , but stand up for five eighths. I love surprises, but I still like to sway extensively in the waltz step. And in all of this, the focus is always on the text, whether in English or German. And of course what is it about? Oh wonder, it's about love! And actually always! Surprised myself when I have such a nasty tongue at times!”

01 The moment floods me
02 Bling Blang
03 It means nothing to you
04 Green rest
05 If We Were Lovers
06 Abracadabra
07 You're just scared
08 That must be love
09 Autumn Flowers
10 Lily's Song
11 Rough is the Sea (Live)
12 All days

I don't sing about the old cottonfields I've never seen. For example, I sing about how bigotry and hypocrisy are on the rise these days. Also about very personal things that come along like a photo album of life", says the Munich singer/songwriter Robert Richter about his new CD "I On You". It consists exclusively of his own compositions and is at home in blues and folk. Here a minstrel of the 21st century his stories It's not about the "high art of campfire music" in which hyped virtuosity and studio tricks dominate, but about real storytelling!
About the blues, of course, which is not interpreted in a puristic way here, but mixed with other styles such as folk and country - and above all makes reference to the themes of the time. Robert Richter was the lead guitarist and singer in numerous bands. He has explored every shade of blues from country blues to blues rock, including neighboring styles from folk to funk.
He has now arrived where he always wanted to be, without realizing it until now: writing songs and telling stories. Partly political, partly autobiographical and always very personal. Lots of questions, no hasty answers. But clever statements from the point of view of the observer. The beloved guitar is not used for self-expression, rather it carries the singer through his songs - together with the harmonica.
Some of the songs are like short stories, some are like snapshots, some capture a mood of the moment. Robert Richter is a songster. Songster - this is a term for American singer-songwriters, which arose long before songwriter was a fixed musical term.

01 The Singing Men
02 soldier boy
03 wanderlust
04 To And Fro
05 Like A Fugitive
06 If I Was Jesus
07 In My Mind
08 The Same Old Story
09 Out On The Battlefield
10 Lonesome By Your Side
11 Waves About Waves

Philip says: "Attention, attention! All puppet theaters have to close by the end of the month.” Will Director Müller and his puppet Masó be able to avert the threat?
A striking speaker takes you into a fast-paced story with loving characters. You will get to know the world of Müller & Masó in accurate songs from folk to hip-hop. You will meet Philip with the flat screen TV and his henchmen MC Sony and Grundigger. The three lure the director with a contract.
In a resourceful story, Müller & Masó track down the important things in life in the best Michael Ende manner.

01 Introduction
02 What did I do wrong?
03 mind games
04 The Little Theater
05 Yesterday and today
06 Excuses Song
07 The newcomer
08 news
09 Is he crazy?
10 Outright lied
11 electric shock
12 Electric Boogie
13 Spirit of optimism
14 Let's Go

Inspire, but don't paint. Often positive, but sometimes also mercilessly honest The guys from the Karlsruhe post-grunge band OX, founded in 2015, are concerned with finding a place in our complex world. Going new ways, having the courage to do something and working through setbacks is what they demand of themselves and of their listeners. After the debut album "Rewind to Overwrite" (2016), "Breaking Point" is the second album by the band around singer and songwriter Simon Ochs, who has audibly matured musically.
With hard riffs, melodic refrains and catchy songs, the band has now created its own identity between 90s grunge and modern rock sounds after their debut album, which has not yet been clearly defined stylistically. This ranges from harder songs, partly enriched with modern synth sounds like "Leftover", rhythmic-groovy rock sounds ("Never Wanted to Be Like You", "Going Down") to catchy mid-tempo rock songs ("Disappointed"). . There are also danceable numbers like "Breaking Point" and even a slowly building, orchestrally arranged ballad ("A New Start").
Lyrically, the band deals with socially critical issues and interpersonal problems. The song "Fade Away" deserves special mention. Introduced by acoustic guitars and a slide guitar, it then develops into a real rock anthem. The album, mastered by Grammy-nominated sound engineer Robin Schmidt, is rounded off by an absolutely contemporary, very full, oppressive sound that still comes out of the speakers very transparently. OX has found its own style on their second record and offers modern and musically appealing rock in almost 40 varied minutes, in which some songs will certainly not leave your ear canal so quickly.

01 Never Wanted To Be Like You
02 Disappointed
03 Going Down
04 Fight For You
05 Fade Away
06 Alive
07 A New Start
08 breaking point
09 leftover
10 broken

Where's the Grace? – If you ask yourself that, you should definitely visit a concert by the three German-French musicians who have made this question their name. Her trilingual music is indeed appealing. With passion and dedication to both the cover songs and their own compositions, Florence "Flöschen" Fournelle (lead vocals), Alexander "Alex" Knerr (guitar, vocals) and Christoph "the dark Teddybear" Müller (cajòn, vocals) escape everyday life. They take their audience straight to a place of charm, wit and glory. By the way, humming along gets you there even faster. In 2012, Alex founded Where's The Grace? and found an answer in 2014's Florence. A year later, Christoph finally joined the two and completed the trio. This year the band will release their first EP on Timezone Records.

01 Tell Me
02 promises
03 troubles
04 Leave Me Alone
05 Ode To The Music

Almost two years after their strong debut "nacked", Liebe Frau Gesangsverein are coming up with their second album. Without repeating themselves, they build on what was already successful the first time: Energetic guitar sound with quite lyrical, but unfussy German lyrics. But this time they show themselves to be even more willing to experiment: from spoken words on soft sounds to brute punk rock songs with the distinctive driving drums, they have a lot to offer. Here and there almost epic-sounding pieces that don't allow for easy listening, but require a real examination of the album produced by Kurt Ebelhäuser. And that fits the overall concept! Because the gold nugget with the embedded hair and nails on the cover of "Everything that glitters" is like a memento mori or a memorial to superficiality.

01 Venus (The Woman in Music)
02 marks (anyway)
03 Thom (robot love)
04 Lisa (My Only Hope)
05 Rosa (We are the audience)
06 Alex (made easy)
07 Chris (Be So Free)
08 Manni (This and the second room)
09 Hardy (factual entry in your poetry album)
10 Viola (Something that glitters)

Svenson are back: On Lotterlurch, the band from Osnabrück celebrates their accordion-supported Rock'n'Roll like never before. This is party-ready sound with glamour, passion and humor. "The music you want to hear before you know it's there." (from the song "Sheila") Rough rock guitars and endless melodies.
The songs are lovingly worked out and arranged, and they tell stories from life in dissolute: about a happily drunken group that is broken up by the police ("Marijuana and Beer"), about the burden of exaggerated good looks ("You look good") ), or jazzy and laconic about the missteps of life ("Scheiße am Schuh"). Lotterlurch is party and speed. The sound is raw and direct, the music is driven by Lukas Schnadt's rolling drums. But Svenson can also be different. "White Noise" is sung by Julia Kruse and Herr Svenson in a duet: a song about longing that gets under your skin.
Anyone who has ever missed someone knows this feeling. That's the melancholy moment that rounds off a good rock album. "Sheila" comes with real Irish flair: Matthias Wilhelm's accordion works particularly well there. A song that makes glasses and dance floors fill up by themselves. In addition, Mr. Svenson shakes first-class banjo runs out of his sleeve: weekend intoxication like the Pogues.
The album is divided into two parts: Julia Kruse is the focus of the first half of the album. She gets everything out of her dark voice. Whether she lasciviously lets out her hot dog appetite ("Hot Dog"), greets the whole world in a good mood ("I greet everyone") or cheers on the "Punk Rock DJ Sex Machine": You want to listen to this voice all day long. The second half belongs to Mr. Svenson personally. Bandleader Kylie Minogue uses his dirty organ to do the honors ("Can't Get You Out of My Head") and hilariously explains to humanity what Tupper can do ("Tupper Party").
In a nutshell: "Lotterlurch" not only makes you happy from start to finish, but also makes you want to experience Svenson live, and that as soon as possible.

01 hot dogs
02 Marijuana and beer
03 I greet everyone
04 Sheila
05 White noise
06 You look good
07 Punk Rock DJ Sex Machine
08 Lotterlurch
09 Can't Get You Out Of My Head
10 Let's go have a drink
11 Tupper party
12 Shit On Your Shoe (Bonus Track "Mr. Svenson Sings Love Songs")

The Hamburg band Therakustika makes it clear in most of their songs where they are at home, namely in the north. Contrary to the general assumption that the North Germans are humorless, Therakustika prove the exact opposite with their lyrics. With a lot of wit and good humor, they spread their wisdom, which is not always meant to be taken seriously. Musically, they move mostly in the area of ​​folk with partly Eastern European, but also rock influences.
In addition to the use of classic standard instruments such as guitar and bass, cajon, button accordion, Irish bouzouki, flute and violin are also used, resulting in a varied overall sound. Due to the catchy melodies, partly reinforced by polyphonic singing, their songs inevitably stick in the ear and definitely encourage the attentive listener to sing along.

01 On the beaches of the Matterhorn
02 For two
03 AIDA figurehead
04 The song of the tables
05 Beer for the barber
06 winter in April
07 Labskaus
08 Kai on the box
09 Confirmation bubble
10 The Ship of the Free Spirits
11 Oh North Sea
Counting 12 sheep is not vegan

The music of Munich trumpeter Florian Brandl is intense, fresh and full of energy. Models from hard bop, mainstream and modern jazz flow into an individual band sound, which gives a lot of space to the interaction between the musicians who love to play. After the CD debut "Rejuvenation" (2015, label: Timezone), his second CD "Dresden" (also Timezone) will be released on Friday, June 7th, 2019: a homage to a two-year stay in the beautiful city on the Elbe.
As the culmination of their master's degree at the Carl-Maria-von-Weber University of Music, the Florian Brandl Quartet from Munich came to the Tonne jazz club in Dresden on May 17, 2018 for the final concert and the following day this CD was released in the Ballroom Studios in Dresden, including video recordings ( see homepage) was created.
Florian Brandl is a versatile wind player who feels at home in numerous styles with his cultivated sound. He shared the stage with Sam Rivers, Don Byron, Franco d'Andrea, Johannes Enders, Gàbor Bolla, Dusko Gojkovic and many others.

1. Bop position
2. Aeolian
3. Blues for Ellis
4.Andy Kaufman
5. A flower is a lovesome thing
6. Costa Sarazena
7. Hume it
8. Terrestrial

A concept that alternately shows different facets of the color black. The original compositions are characterized by their free spirit. The songwriting is more varied and mature, the lyrics have become more intense and profound. The band's greatest strength is their extremely elegant way of crossing genre boundaries as if they didn't even exist.
The authenticity is maintained at all times. "Dresscode: Black" will therefore find its followers among darkly romantic goths as well as metalheads, rockers and lovers of dark colored singer and songwriter sounds.
The convincing, self-confident songwriting is no coincidence: years of experience and hard work are behind it. Singer and band founder Giu Mastrogiacomo has been very active in the European goth rock and metal scene (then known as Aka Profound) since 1997 and has a great flair for dark and emotionally charged music and lyrics. The southern Italian skilfully uses his linguistic diversity. In addition to English, personal experiences are told in French and Italian. At the same time, Kissin' Black is a success story from the city of lights, which is based on many years of friendship. Guitarist and co-founder Andy Dormann is the extended musical arm of Mastrogiacomo and drummer Marcel Spiga has been with him for 20 years now.
Produced by G. Mastrogiacomo & Rob Viso in Lucerne (including Rival Kings and Philipp Fankhauser) and mastered by Chris Harms (Lord of the Lost) & Benjamin Lawrenz in Hamburg.

SIDE A
01 Dress code: Black
02Address Unknown
03 Flirt with Hope
04 Giants

SIDE B
01 The Visit
02 CSF tears
03 gravemen
04 Dark Again

Mark Pusker about himself and the album "Circles in Time": "Through the creation of my debut album Circles In Time I developed - as a saxophonist and at the same time composer and bandleader - into a full-blooded jazz musician. My international musician friends have accompanied me on this path with great support, for which I am very grateful. My compositions were inspired by traditions of the jazz genre, the so-called mainstream jazz music. They present intuitiveness, but at the same time contain features of universal music. Own compositions, such as the ballad La Pequeña Oda, the song with changing tempi past and present, the ostinato pulsating in odd bars and - last but not least - the modern and striking song New Age, have enabled me to express my compositional skills. The songs Halloween and Seven to Four were designed from the well-known standards. Blues for Tuesday's theme is a classic minor blues tune in a standard 12-bar form. A special color on the palette of the song list is Berenice, where Diego Riedemann is not only in the foreground as an excellent guitarist, but also as a composer. I am particularly pleased that I was able to win the musicians for my quartet, who are also active and respected artists with their own formations and belong to the international jazz scene. Thank you very much for being a part of my project!”

01Halloween
02 Berenice
03 Blues For Tuesday
04 Ostinato
05 New Age
06 La Pequena
07 Seven To Four
08 Past & Present (Bonus Track)

There has hardly ever been a time when there was more judgment about good and evil than today. Everyone claims to be able to distinguish between the two – but they are anything but in agreement among themselves.
With their concept album 'Black', Scintilla Anima draw an artistic complete work about good and bad as well as their connections and contradictions in the minds of their listeners. With their 'Wall of Dark Sound', the band from Düsseldorf around muse Trinity produces pop, new wave, avant-garde - fitting the theme of the album 'Black', sometimes contradictory.
Even the single 'Awake' hit the German Alternative Charts (DAC) without the support of major labels or promotion agencies and even rushed into the top ten at number 7.
The follow-up, 'Emptiness of Black', follows on seamlessly from this wake-up call thanks in part to prominent support from Olaf Wollschläger (Unheilig, And One, Mesh). Various joint shows are performed live with big names in the scene, such as Ost+Front, Stoneman, Grausame Daughters or Clan Of Xymox.

1. The Day Ends
2. Emptiness Of Black
3. Awake
4. Undone
5. Back To Life
6. Confused
7. Big deal
8. Salvation
9. Veil Of Silence
10. Traps
11. Two Minds
12. The Fight Begins

On the occasion of his 72nd birthday Werner Nadolny releases the second CD in his Jane & Beyond series. The CD comprises a total of eleven titles and once again offers a cross-section of Nadolny's musical work. Geff Harrison has re-sung three old Jane songs exclusively for this CD. The album also features three Jane tracks reworked by Doctor Bogarth, as well as four live recordings with Downtown Blues Club's Jutta Weinhold not previously available on CD.

01 intro
02 I Need You
03 How To Do It Right
04 I'm So Down
05 daytime
06 Back Again
07 Hangman
08 Fairy Priest (live)
09 Point Of Return (live)
10 Wounded Pioneer (live)
11 Hangman (live)

"Gross national product", "Visit Europe (as long as it still exists)", "Pure lust for life"... who doesn't like to remember the big hits of Geier Sturzflug. Even today, more than thirty years after the great success, the songs still stand for an attitude towards life and for the Neue Deutsche Welle. The songs can be heard at every decent 80s party, inviting you to sing along and rock out.
But Geier Sturzflug has always had more to offer than simple party songs. Texts with depth, in which melancholy also came to light, were one of the important characteristics of their songs. The lyrics are subtle and sometimes sharp-tongued, mostly close to the pulse of the times and yet they all contain their own kind of humorous perspective, never becoming accusatory or even seeming arrogant.
What began in Bochum in 1979 is now finding a new home on the occasion of its 40th anniversary in "More Of It (The Anniversary Album)". The NDW icons have old songs paired with new material here, with a special focus on the hits, of course, which have now been given a new facet in fantastic unplugged versions. Only in these wonderful acoustic versions does it become apparent that the songs were allowed to mature with dignity and seem made for this format. There are also songs that you haven't heard for a long time or even lead to a completely new discovery by Geier Sturzflug, because completely new material has also made its way onto the 20-song cross-section.
They prove that they still create a good atmosphere for generations with their feel-good songs. In times of downloads and streaming, Obergeier Friedel Geratsch and the band consciously opt for a CD, the fan should get something they can touch and feel closer to the band and their music. After all, it's time to celebrate 40 years of Geier Sturzflug, and what could be more fitting than a Rundling that conveys an attitude to life and can thus be pulled off the shelf again and again? More of that? Please...

01 pictures from the sea
02 Those were the days
03 At the port
04 Visit Europe (unplugged)
05 More like this
06 Pure lust for life (unplugged)
07 Shalana
08 intelligence
09 The Queen
10 Solitude (unplugged)
11 The biggest, the best and the most beautiful

After becoming a father to a son in August 2013, I got involved with children's songs and was looking for songs that both children and adults would enjoy listening to. The search inspired me so much that I started composing children's songs myself. I deliberately avoided keyboards and synthesizers in the composition and production and used guitar, bouzouki, mandolin and double bass as well as percussion, drums and accordion. Through my son's kindergarten, I gradually found suitable singers with whom I first recorded the first three songs. For the recording of the other songs, two girls from Berlin and Hamburg traveled to Koblenz to join the older siblings of the kindergarten children. Working with the children was exciting, fun and sometimes exhausting.
The time in the recording studio was time-consuming and great fun for the young singers. The songs pick up on topics that concern the children. It is important for every child to find a “place” in the world. With “questions upon questions” they often present us parents with almost impossible tasks. “Nothing stays the same” is something children should learn early on in order to prepare early on for the only constant in their lives, change. And finally also that nightmares are not that bad and the next morning everything is fine again. The homage to the parents "Oh Mama" and all the other songs touch the heart and appeal to small and big children alike. Or is there a child who doesn't like chocolate?

01 It keeps turning
02 Your place
03 chocolate
04 Small dinghy
05 questions
06 Oh Mom
07 Nothing stays the same
08 dreams at night
09 Sun, mountains, sand and sea
10 Every day
11 Hejo, put on your boots
12 Now it's off to bed

Color is the long-awaited follow-up album to the predecessor Belonging, which the East Westphalians released four years ago. Time that was used to work extensively on new sounds, time that was used to reflect.
We live in “modern times”, which seem to be the age of populism, marked by fears, social insecurity, hatred, discrimination and narcissism. We live in a world that seems to be increasingly divided into black and white, monotonous, colorless
A young generation finds itself between hope and doubt, between rebellion and fear; a generation striving for self-expression and self-fulfilment, watching this society slowly being driven to the brink of insanity.
Well, actually Summery Mind don't see themselves as a political band and they certainly don't want to point the finger at anyone and assign blame. That happens often enough already. The band is concerned with this album about identity and self-realization, about encouraging a young generation to form their own opinions and thoughts, to go through the world without prejudice, to take responsibility and to draw their view of the world in all its bright colors , instead of falling into black and white thinking.
“Love becomes our language and words our loaded gun!” (futuremakers)
Color will be released as a digipack and download as well as in an exclusive, limited box set, which contains the digipack, an extended booklet, a second CD with 5 instrumentals as well as demo recordings from the songwriting process and unreleased live acoustic recordings, a signed autograph card , a fine art print of a band picture, a foldable rhombohedron as well as stickers and picks.

01.Light
02.Blue
03. Futuremakers
04. Just Say No
05. Casual And Young
06. Shipwrecked
07.Rivers
08. Someone
09. Dead End Road
10. Isolated
11. Infected
12. A Scrap Of Love
13.Dark

"Come with us - and today we celebrate life" - this is how one of the anthems of the Düsseldorf punk rockers Ochmoneks will ring through the halls. After many successes with their debut album "In Dur", the four rockers now let their new long player "Da Capo" see the light of day in the punk rock world.
The unmistakable style of some of Düsseldorf's "city comrades" cannot be overheard - but laced up in its own guise. In this way, the O chmoneks remain themselves and celebrate stories from real life. With driving riffs and German lyrics that irresistibly encourage you to rock, sing along and celebrate.
In this way, the O chmoneks remain themselves and celebrate stories from real life. With driving riffs and German lyrics that irresistibly encourage you to rock, sing along and celebrate.
Filled with a lot of feeling and at the same time a lot of power, the twelve new songs take you to a huge party that just doesn't want to end.
In keeping with the release, the quartet toured the country with JBO and Turbobier and spread the scent of good old punk rock'n'roll in your ears!

01 foreplay
02 Nice word
03 High society
04 Bread & Salt
05 Let's go
06 Da capo
07 Self-pity for everyone
08 This reef
09 Nobody dies forever
10 Stay Dangerous
11 Until the Credits
12 Come with us

The picturesque Münsterland – endless expanses. And right in the middle three young guys, armed with their guitars and angelic voices, have set themselves one goal: to make this dreary and gray world a better one. The living room musicians, short Womuka, aka. Jan, Christoph and Julian take you on a hot-blooded journey. Her drive: women, beer and seated pogo. This incendiary mixture of songwriting, punk and pop encourages laughter, head shaking and unrhythmic clapping. The topics of the self-deprecating lovers of upholstery are as diverse as life itself.
From anorexic sumo wrestlers to manta records to hated ex-girlfriends, there's something for every liver situation. Between rough acoustic guitar riffs and the pulsating beats of the cajon, the fresh lyrics may not always seem ethically correct or rhymed flawlessly, but they are honest through and through. The audience can get ready for a bubble bath of emotions with brains, hearts and humour. Even your grandma's living room becomes a festival stage in no time and Womuka becomes your new favorite band. The trio will release their debut album in autumn 2018 and take it into the country's living rooms on the subsequent tour.

01. Manta Plate
02. Announcement Great love
03. Great love
04. Charts
05. Announcement lean wrestler
06. Lean wrestler
07. Punk rock couple
08. Announcement Christmas market
09. Christmas market
10. Campfire guitarism

The Franconian lutenist Adam Falckenhagen (1697 to 1754) was never to publish new pieces again after his “First Dozen Uplifting Spiritual Songs” had been printed. Years before his death he left his service as court lutenist to Margravine Wilhelmine von Bayreuth.
His last work is stylistically unique - not only within his own body of work, but also in all of lute music. On her new album "Cathedral Music" Gabriele Janneck presents a complete recording of this volume - one of the few, if not the only one so far. Gabriele has been fascinated by these chorale arrangements and the irresistible variations for years.
But she also chose wonderful music for the rest of the album: After she had already recorded a sonata by Esaias Reusner the Younger for her previous album "Stiring with the Silver Tones...", she has now recorded seven of his chorale arrangements. There are also six chorales for Renaissance lutes by Reusner's father. The album title "Cathedral Music" comes from the book "Musick's Monument" (1676) by Thomas Mace.

01 From the bottom of my heart
02 Christ our Lord came to the Jordan
03 I cry out to you out of deep distress
04 Our God is a strong castle
05 O world, I must leave you
06 Keep us, Lord, by your word
07 Glory to God alone in the highest
08 I cry out to you out of deep distress
09 Christ our Lord came to the Jordan
10 Our God is a mighty fortress
11 God wanted to be kind to us
12 It is certainly time
13 Heartily does me desire