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Something's brewing. The soup is called BrutaliN and is served with a large ladle. A riff-heavy mixture of Thrash, Hardcore and Metal with German lyrics. Always right in the face, always honest and often with a wink and a dash of Äppler. Founded in Frankfurt am Main at the end of 2012, Mein Kopf ist ein brutaler Ort gave its first sign of life in March 2013 with the EP “Neue Deutsche Schelle”. Predicate of the press: "... wide-ranging blood slide and fine slap for the often pathetic but bloodless Deutschrockhärtner band" (the-pit.de). After a turbulent year 2014 with line-up changes on drums and guitar, work on the first LP started in March 2015. BrutaliN clearly shows the early musical education of the boys.
Do you wear welder shirts? Lamb of God and Pantera and in shabby jeans they hit you with their very own mix of them. Songs like "payday", "I don't regret anything" or "headload" give you a good one, as only Heinz Schenk in the blue goat used to do.

01 payday
02 Ready for anything
03 I have no regrets
04 Storm in a teacup
05 top load
06 breath
07 Feel-good zone
08 Burnt wings
09 Kingdom
10 Outro

Twin Flames play a midnight blue scene - somewhere between waking dream and vision - where the senses fail and the heart becomes the blind guide of the mind. The music finds its own way in Ethereal Rock. Hopeful, delicate and fragile scenarios blossom over rumbling, heavy arrangements. Vocals, guitar, bass and drums together paint a picture of this magnificent yet fragile night feeling.

01 Androgynoi
02 Surrender
03 Nameless Lover In The Wind
04 Accolade
05 Ekaterina
06 Jorinde & Joringel
07 Tara's Well
08 Resurrection

"Backbeat": The sixth album by the Tommy Schneller Band comes around the corner with full steam. Off into the slot with CD 1 of the two-part digipack: Jens Filser's dirty slide guitar starts cutting, after a few seconds the blues / soul locomotive rolls through the brain and does not stop for the next 49 minutes.
"Rhythm is truth", Tommy creaks into the microphone at the opener "Backbeat". A line that could be tattooed. Leaning far back, the seven-piece band grooves its way through ten great songs. This is timeless blues music with a rocky edge, which always has one foot in soul. The focus is on Tommy's distinctive voice - the cigarette on the cover is not a decoration - and his unmistakable saxophone.
The Tommy Schneller sound breathes the air of Beale Street, but on CD 2 Tommy dares an experiment and sings three songs in his mother tongue. Blues-rooted music with German lyrics - can that go well? It can. The translated versions are at least as authentic and casual as the English-language numbers. The big advantage: you can start singing along even faster.

CD 1
01 backbeat
02 Trust In Yourself
03 I Know What You're Thinking
04 Tipsy's
05 barefootin '
06 Let Your Soul Shine
07 Cold Attitude
08 The Sun Is Shining Again
09 Love Is The Key
10 tryin 'to let go

CD 2
01 Ass cold
02 Let the soul fly
03 I hear you thinking out loud
04 Ass Cold Art (Radio Edit)
05 Let the Soul Fly (Radio Edit)
06 I hear you thinking out loud (Radio Edit)

Franz Schubert may have been aware of this when he composed the art song of the same name. And not just him, because hasn't this knowledge been passed through many centuries? And also in art, especially in music, one devoted oneself to this topic: The unfulfilled, rejected, disappointed and deeply injured love of a woman for a man. So the suffering woman represents the leitmotif of this CD, in which Katja Stuber and Boris Kusnezow have recorded a daring, almost provocative program in its compilation, which presents this leitmotif in Schubert, established and then in two other readings in Paul Hindemith and Kurt Because it varies.
Stuber and Kuznetsov took this programmatic risk because they can! On this CD they prove their unbelievable stylistic versatility and their broad repertoire, which they interpret completely convincingly. In doing so, they literally burn down the sometimes almost dogmatic performance practice and prove that stylistic boundaries are and should be fluid.

1 The distinction Op. 95 No.1
2 laughing and crying
3 First loss
4 The Echo
5 The men are méchant
6 romance
7 The Drunken Dancer
8 Like Saint Franciscus I float in the air
9 dream
10 My little ears are sitting on the stairs
11 I seem to have woken up before you
12 You make me sad - listen

The Christmas CD from Osnabrück! Candlelight and the scent of fir trees, the sound of the crackling fireplace and ... Christmas stories told by children and young people! The CD "We need a Santa Claus" is an original Osnabrück product with which you can sweeten the celebration for you and your loved ones and at the same time do something good. The stories on this CD are the work of students from three secondary schools in Osnabrück, who gave free rein to their creativity and wrote and recorded these stories, some of which were happy and others thought-provoking. 2.00 euros of your donation goes to EXIL eV, the Osnabrück association that has been providing advice and care for refugees for a long time. We wish you a wonderful Christmas time!

01 The boy with the red cap (Paula Viehl)
02 Snow And Winter (Shalin Illmer)
03 Why I stole a Santa Claus (Melanie Achtert, Nathalie Albrecht)
04 A Magical Christmas Story (Emma-Marie Niederstebruch)
05 The Christmas Village (Jael Tsitrin)
06 Christmas in Love (Ena Kaschel)
07 The Magic Dust (Anka Holz)
(08 The secret Santa Claus test (Vinzenz Illmer))

The new Werner Nadolnys Jane album "Inbetween" contains a collection of rare recordings and is a wonderful addition to any Jane collection. The recordings were made in the context of the production "Proceed With Memories". Here we experience once more the singers Jutta Weinhold and Geff Harrison. The CD contains rare studio recordings as well as previously unreleased recordings. The current singer Torsten Ilg can also be heard on the album.

01 In Between
02 Change My Life
03 Hangman
04 I Found Love
05 Beautiful lady
06 Time Goes By
07 The One Outside
08 tributes
09 Roses On The Floor
10 So long

Joga Club makes pop, which slowly but surely paves its way towards indie with the third album "Kolibri". Piano, synthesizer, accordion and polyphonic singing provide the right pinch of romance. The quintet put their heart and soul into their ideas for the successor to "Mosaik Musik" for two years. The result is a colorful album that lives up to its namesake.
The lyrics immerse the listener in little stories, situations and ideas: the first moment after waking up, the second look at life so far, the last night with friends, the before-before-before-last evening in paradise...

01. Catapult
02. Megaphone
03. Sunglasses
04. Nowhere I'd rather be
05. Warhead kiss me
06. Hostel
07. I commit myself
08. Seven
09. Good boy
10. Possibility one
11. Night Walk

Writer and journalist Joan Didion, born in Sacramento and prominent author of nonfiction, argues that “California is a place in which a boom mentality and a sense of Chekhovian loss meet in uneasy suspension”.
This definition perfectly fits what happens in this first work by Oh Lazarus. Good Times is a nameless sound spreading through the dark curves of these 10 songs, crossing the Death valley, the Sonora desert, the stages of Max's Kansas City and Green Mills, and the long, foggy plains that surround the Po river.

01 Darlin' Corey
02 Good Times
03 Ball And Chains
04 Crow Jane
05 Fangs
06 Single Girl Again
07 Come On Up To The House
08 Down
09 Sister Kate
10 St James Infirmary Blues

Syrinx Call is the new project of the flutist Volker Kuinke. Together with the musician and producer Jens Lueck and numerous guest musicians, a multi-faceted album of 13 titles has been created, which covers a wide range from art rock and world music to pieces with a classic feel. In particular, the album presents the recorder as an instrument from a very unusual and surprising side.
Sometimes the ways are a little longer: 1979: What does a young recorder player who loves demanding rock music do? He writes a letter to Eloy boss Frank Bornemann and visits him shortly afterwards. Over the next few years, a friendship developed between the two of them and it happened as it had to: in 1998, Volker Kuinke appeared for the first time as a guest flutist on an Eloy album. He then played foothills on the Eloy albums "Ocean 2 - The Answer", "Timeless Passages" and "Visionary".
A leap in time to 2011: What does a cross-style music-loving flautist who is fascinated by the soundtrack on an Iceland multimedia show? He writes a message to Isgaard (the voice of the soundtrack) and Jens Lueck, who composed the film music. The decision was made quickly to involve Volker as a guest flutist in the production of the next Isgaard album (Playing God, 2012). During the recording there is a lot of talk about music, personal preferences, ideas and visions. Volker's long-cherished dream also comes up: an album in which the recorder is the "red thread"; this shows that the recorder is capable of more than just playing an important role in baroque or folk music.
Jens Lueck, who has been “moving between worlds” for a long time in his musical life, is immediately taken with it and sees a range from art rock to medieval sounds and classical sounds. Isgaard also spontaneously offers to contribute some vocal parts.
In search of a melodic name for the project, Volker came across the following text on Wikipedia: “In Greek mythology, the nymph Syrinx disdains the love of the shepherd god Pan. As she flees from him, she is turned into reeds at her request. When the frustrated Pan's breath brushes through the reeds, a moving sound emerges. Pan then cut himself reeds and made the syrinx (shepherd's flute) with the help of wax and played his songs on it ”.

01 When Worlds Unite
02 The Minstrel's Song
03 Belle Ame
04 Magic Market
05 The emperor's legacy
06 The Castle
07 La Vie Oubliée
08 Libertine's Dance
09 Requiem For A Dream
10 Syrinx Call
11 Both Sides Of The Mirror
12 The Place Where We Will Meet

Anyone who experiences "Jail Job Eve" live sees and hears a force of nature, stormy and passionate, with a sound that powerfully steps in front of the cardboard. The five Osnabrück musicians play rocking power numbers and picturesque blues pieces full of exciting sounds and stories. In their two-hour show, Victoria Semel (vocals), Benedikt Schlereth (guitar), Jens Niemann (keyboards), Laurenz Gust (bass) and Josef Röhner (drums) set off real fireworks.
"Bird Of Passage" is the name of the energetic debut work by the Osnabrück blues rock band. The seven self-confident songs convince with a rich, organic sound, inspired by the dynamics and complexity of the 70s.

01 Showtime02 Cut You Loose
03 Lonely Death
04 Bird of Passage
05 House of Cards
06 My Baby
07 Diabolus in Musica

Inspired by life in the "land between the seas" (Schleswig-Holstein) and by his everyday life as a father and artist, the composer, guitarist and tin whistle player Olaf Sickmann has recorded timelessly beautiful guitar music on his new CD "Slow", whose magic it's hard to get away from. Wonderfully flowing melodies that radiate calm and serenity, over which a touch of Celtic, classical and soundtrack-like music hovers, give this album a meditative character. It becomes effective after just a few notes and immediately captivates the listener.
So it's no wonder that the music of this extremely independent artist is regularly played on radio and television and is described as "amazingly beautiful" by the largest German newspaper for folk and world music (Folker). The renowned guitar magazine "Akustik instrumente" says about his last guitar album: "As a result, the guitar poet presents three quarters of an hour of masterfully fluently played melodies." And the "Folkmagazin" is also enthusiastic about the "hypnotic flow of Sickmann's fantastic six-string odyssey".
In order to give the audience interested in guitars the opportunity to delve deeper into "Slow", Olaf Sickmann has included an e-book with all the compositions (sheet music/tablature) on the CD. Ultimately, "Slow" offers one thing above all: to find peace in everyday life!
English Version For his new CD “Slow“, composer, guitarist and tin whistle player Olaf Sickmann has recorded a fascinating selection of timelessly beautiful guitar music with an irresistable magic all of its own, inspired by his home in the north German state of Schleswig- Holstein and his day to day life as a father and artist. Wonderfully flowing melodies which exude tranquility and calmness, combining Celtic and classical elements with a soundtrack-like quality, give this album a meditative character which is immediately apparent and casts its spell upon the listener after only a few bars.
It's no wonder that the music of this remarkably independent artist is receiving regular airplay on radio and television and has been described by Germany's leading publication for folk and world music (Folker) as "absolutely beautiful". The highly regarded acoustic guitar magazine said of his last album, "Here the guitar poet has conjured three quarters of an hour of masterfully flowing melodies", while Folkmagazin enthusiastically praised the "hypnotic stream of Sickmann's fantastic six string odyssey".
In order to enable listeners with a serious interest in guitar to delve deeper into the music on "Slow", Olaf Sickmann has included an ebook on the CD, with transcriptions of all compositions in notation and tablature. But above all, "Slow" offers a wonderful opportunity to find peace and tranquility in the here and now!

01 May Waltz No. 1
02 November Monday
03 Lisa Loves Pancakes
04 Cafe Rialto
05 Evening Song
06 The End Of Summer 12
07 slow
08 The Walking Lights
09 Pictures From New England
10 Welcome to Sailing City
11 The New Bike
12 May Waltz No. 2
13 Harry's Head

The Swiss singer-songwriter Pascal Gamboni presents his latest solo album with "La Ventira" (Das Glück) - songs that sing about beauty and sound joyfully sad, and when he starts his last song "Oh my love I'm Trying". , he sings to us from the heart. His Rhaeto-Romanic songs are also animated, and always carry an unmistakable breadth within them.
From the autumn, Gamboni, who has already toured the UK with The Stranglers, played at the Montreux Jazz Festival and was invited to the renowned CMJ Festival in New York, will be on stage with La Ventira has experienced live, knows about the depth of his songs, this sound is real and lingers on for a long time.

01 Paul
02 Anselma
03 Quei vala ben biè
04 Don't forget the sea
05 Celentano
06 Sleep is my hairdresser
07 3P
08 La sutgera da cungiere
09 Mussa me
10 Hey te
11 Oh my love

The Kilkenny Band is an Irish folk band from Bohmte and the surrounding area. With typical Irish instruments such as banjo, mandolin, guitar and tin whistle, the young musicians offer a program of mood songs about alcohol, expressive ballads and virtuoso instrumental pieces. The music was strongly influenced by The Blarney, Rapalje and of course the world-famous Dubliners. On this basis, a unique style has emerged that conveys the cheerfulness of Irish sounds in the best possible way. In the line-up that has existed since 2011, the band has now recorded 2 CDs ("No maid I've seen" (2013) and "We'll Find It Someday" (2015)).
Jascha Kemper (guitar, mandolin, banjo, vocals) founded the Kilkenny Band in 2007. He has been a fan of the group The Blarney since he was two years old, with which he has also played since 2008. He started taking guitar lessons when he was six. So Jascha has been at home in this scene from an early age. Shawn Hellmann (banjo, mandolin, guitar, background rumble) is relatively new to the scene. He spent his youth playing heavy metal on the electric guitar. Motivated by the improvisational skills of musicians at the Venner Folk Festival, he finally bought a banjo. Since then, Shawn has regularly taught himself new instruments. Bianca Freitag (bodhran, tin whistle, accordion, vocals) and music student Christian Ventker (e-bass, vocals) complete the band and enrich it with their polyphonic vocal arrangements.

01 Karla With AK
02 Sally Maclennane
03 Big Strong Man
04 Holy Ground
05 I'll Tell Me Ma
06 Kid On The Mountain
07 Siuil A Ruin
08 Shipping Up To Boston
09 Leave Her, Johnny
10 Ride On
11 Musical Priest
12 The Rare Old Mountain Dew
13 Rondo Alla Turca
14 Fields Of Athenry
15 The Night That Paddy Murphy Died

With their second album "We Need Monsters", the band's fourth release, Ewian continue to develop their sound. Typical elements such as distorted e-piano sounds, fragile-bittersweet vocals and the guitar playing that emphasizes the "wall of sound" are used again here. While Ewian worked together with artists outside Germany on their debut, such as Fifi Rong (London) or James Hrabak (USA), the duo now concentrates 100% on their own sound on the follow-up album.
"We Need Monsters" is not a concept album, but thematically it deals with the projection of a psychological defense mechanism - the album title was chosen based on this. In order to adequately transform indie into a structure of music and text, Ewian deliberately do not limit their stylistic scope, but rather accept the risk of losing the "homogeneity" that many propagate - spherical shoegaze, indie hooks or noise rock - elements are celebrated just as much as post-rock.
After "We Need Monsters" Ewian will first take an artistic break and focus on live performances in 2016 to present their new work to the listener.

01 Ticket From Kingdom Come
02 Beautiful Lie
03 Star
04 Song For The Psychonauts
05 Sweet Swan
06 monsters
07 Quiet Like In Heaven
08 Someday
09 Fagile Ghost
10 Love

"Finally something different", "unexpected", "refreshing" are feedbacks that NRT often counters. Listeners who are “fed up” with their usual listening experiences, be it dark wave, synth pop, alternative or indie, are positively surprised by the combination of style elements.
In addition, the band turns away from the widespread, typical verse-chorus structure in most of the songs and thus provokes an interest and the "compulsion" to listen, which often falls by the wayside because you "know" what expected one.
NRT on the other hand: Quiet parts to "endure", build up tension through long intros, unexpected bursts of energy and suddenly dance rhythms.

Side A
01 ambition
02 friendship
03 quest
04 self deception

Side B
01 memories (Blue Space Mix by No More)
02 marching (repeat mix by wave cocktail)
03 marching (Man-Machine Remix by Vadot)

Johnboy stands for modern heavy rock in a power trio format. Powerful and catchy riffs, carried by a fat guitar sound and driving rhythms, peppered with melodic refrains that go straight to the ear, but unobtrusively.
On their new album "State Of The Art" the band presents eleven expressive songs, multi-layeredly inspired by all influences that have shaped the spirit of rock music, without using common clichés or treading well-trodden paths. This is a logical further development of their self-distributed predecessor "Custom", which the makers of ROCK HARD magazine took as an opportunity to ennoble the power rock triumvirate in April 2013 with the title "Demo Tape of the Month".
With their minimalist line-up, the band has made it their task to fill every stage with a maximum of musical and visual presence. Whether on a club or festival stage, whether as the main band or supporting New Model Army, Zodiac or Nitrogods, the trio turns every show into an authentic live experience for the audience with passion and enthusiasm. If you are interested in contemporary and handmade Heavy Rock, you should definitely not miss Johnboy.

01 Black Horizon
02 My Last Concept
03 Defy Disgrace
04 Forsaken
05 Only The Sun Remains
06 My Pain
07 Sway
08 breakdown
09 Close To The Edge
10 Beyond The Sky
11 The Hammer

Berit Emma Ott walks the streets of loneliness. With great pleasure, because at the end of every street a new one begins. After releasing two albums on Silverspoon Records with her former band Sender Frei Rakete, she is now releasing her first solo album with her new band Acht Strasse - Feier Deine Einlonez. This album is a small, poetic piece of magic. The ironic, ambiguous lyrics by Berit Emma Ott make every song exciting and narratively valuable. "Your ambiguities cannot be surpassed in terms of clarity." (Die Zeit)
Eight streets deliver a fine, hung independent sound that can easily fit into the sound worlds of Element of Crime and Tom Waits. Both acoustic and steel guitar combine text and music excellently and create a longing singer-songwriter feeling. Live, a cello opens heart and soul. The piano and a warm Fender Rhodes underscore the colors of the ballads. Drums create a velvety, smoky, sandy sound.
It's the moments of small failures that she interprets with clever comedy. The drama of everyday life and the small casual tragedies inspire the singer. She finds them on the streets of Berlin, in the lives of her friends, at the crossroads of our lives. Berit Emma Ott learned to celebrate her loneliness. She prefers to write her lyrics in the dark of the evening, alone at the piano. "While the others went to the clubs, my son slept in the room next door and I quietly wrote my songs." Her insight: ultra-happiness exists, but only five hours in 75 human years ("I pretend").

01 I pretend
02 things you do
03 day
04 Disguised as a human
05 Our strength
06 Cowgirls
07 Gunslinger
08 I don't belong to anyone
09 Song about social envy
10 stars

They count bands like Tito & Tarantula or Willy Deville among their favourites, have absorbed the soundtracks of films like "From Dusk Till Dawn" or "Desperado" and internalized their style in order to continuously make their own thing out of it - the unmistakable sound of the BUCKET BOYS.
Their mixture of rock, blues and country, with borrowings from surf, roots, Americana and now and then a pinch of TexMex spice has been the soundtrack for the drive in the '59 Cadillac convertible through the desert for years. With a pumpgun in the back seat and a body in the trunk, a nagging thirst down your throat and the state police breathing down your neck.
The Bucket Boys have been living the dream of endless freeway kilometers, hundreds of gigs and tequila-fueled fantasies - in October they have been for twenty years. And now the next fantasy sees the light of day: On September 18, 2015, the Bucket Boys' ninth CD "Thoughts On An Electric Chair" will be released. The essence of night-long, never-ending studio sessions in their desert room on the outskirts of the city is a concept album that has it all.
The songs reflect the thoughts of the delinquent immediately before the execution – his life flashes past his mind's eye like a film and each title is an episode from it. In the end, the bottom line is that you don't want to do so much differently if there were a new opportunity.
The music of the Bucket Boys produces images in the mind of the listener, it is "cinema for the ears". She always has been. But perhaps never as hauntingly as now on "Thoughts On An Electric Chair".

01 Thoughts on an electric guitar
02 April, May and June
03 Heart and soul
04 Smile
05 Black coffee
06 Let's go easy
07 Rosanna
08 Little Willie
09 He is killing me
10 Follow you
11 It feels like
12 Billy the butcher
13 Too soon

One could say that Robert Redweik is the James Dean of German music. Thoughtful, emotional, always in the now and never completely free - except on stage, in his music. Therefore, for him, being a musician is not only his dream, but also, in a way, his liberation. Just like acting for James Dean. Realistic enough to enjoy life, they are both. "Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today” James Dean once said. Here we come full circle.
When you ask Robert Redweik about James Dean, you get a surprising answer: “My godfather Franz Xaver was not only like a second father to me, he also introduced me to music. He was my James Dean, cool guy, bon vivant who I learned a lot from.”

01 Why not
02 time to live

Boris Steinberg, the original Berlin chanson singer, sang his own style tone for tone in the wild Berlin chanson of the 90s, shaping himself with self-written songs and texts, and a permanent place in the "New Berlin Chanson Scene".
For ten years he was the organizer of the Berlin Chanson Festival and he is currently the host of the monthly Salon-Chanson of the Berlin Volksbühne in the Grüner Salon there. He found his way onto the radio in the early 2000s with his secret radio hits "Parachutist" and "Unter meine Haut". Together with his congenial companion, guitarist Tobias Schmidt, a new CD has now been created - wild horses in my body.
On his ninth studio album, he takes the listener on a night trip through Berlin: from Wedding to Neukölln, from Kreuzberg to Prenzlauer Berg. With poetry, humor and heart he looks behind the window panes of his city ("Behind"), he hangs out in one of the last corner bars ("Don't worry, I'm fine!"), he searches for the old Berlin of the old days ("Berliner Nosebleeds") and meets a Jesus ("Tattooed Crosses"), who bathes all darkness in wonderful light.
All this and much more happens between sleeping traffic lights at dawn and the last cigarette on the old Berliner mattress until the wild seahorses go to sleep ("Wild Horses in My Body").

01 Don't worry (I'm fine)
02 crackers and crackers
03 I don't know how to make love
04 Nothing but miracles
05 Behind (houses, houses…)
06 Berlin nosebleeds
07 Enjoy the atmosphere on these days
08 Tattooed crosses
09 Many things begin unnoticed
10 wild horses... in my body

At first glance, it seems extremely strange, even a little strange, the project the young musician Christoph Enderlein has set up with his first album "My Friend". But at second glance, a large portion of lifeblood and a long history behind this project are revealed. The 24-year-old from Potsdam dedicates his record to the actor, dubbing and radio play speaker Edgar Ott, whose voice had a decisive influence not only on Enderlein's childhood but on the entire generation. Ott spoke countless cartoon and radio play characters that are still known and loved by children, adolescents and the young at heart. One of them served Christoph Enderlein as a catalyst for the core message of his album when creating "My Friend": Whatever is important to you, keep it alive and follow your passion.
With a total of nine songs, which he recorded in his parents' house and in his bedroom at home, Enderlein uses the example of Edgar Ott to draw attention to the underestimated role of the speaker's guild in Germany and the often forgotten emotional component of the human voice. Musically, he follows the solid path of the singer/songwriter - his pieces are supported by guitar, piano and vocals. But also classic elements of folk, such as the banjo, are used in his music. He himself calls the style of music he plays "Singing And Playing" and thus keeps himself open to new avenues for further projects. But one thing is certain - the path of passion and devotion that Christoph Enderlein undoubtedly embarked on with his debut album will not be abandoned on his future musical journeys.

01 Waited For You
02 Arouse Me
03 Devil's Oak
04 Fly With Me
05 Steady Like You
06 Deep Blue Water
07 Summer Swing
08 Leila
09 Guide Us Home

"Gloomy pop, which likes to provide artificial light, which makes the band's wealth of ideas look good in it." - Quote DeepGround.de

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Safran is a 5-piece band that moves on the border between experiment and pop, a mixture of Portishead and the Beatles, John Cage and Lady Gaga. The sound is deep and moving, melancholic and expressive.
Pathos and social criticism are reflected in an overall concept that is combined in media art and music. Interactive visuals, homepages, alter egos of the band logo, nothing happens here without meaning. Frederick | Toby | Klaus | Ben | With 9 instruments, Mats have been producing an impressive sound since 2011, which despite changing instrumentation always remains the saffron sound: live and out of the can something to listen to.

01 Toys
02Stanley
03 Olympia
04 Gretchen
05 soul machine
06 Addicted
07 Stanley, Pt. 2
08 home
09 Future Perfect
10 First Pop Song

Born in Bad Freienwalde, Marian Lux works as a film composer and pianist in Berlin. Stations in his life were a visit to the music school in Bad Freienwalde, Brandenburg, the Carl Phillip Emanuel Bach Music High School and studies at the Hanns Eisler Music Academy in Berlin. Among other things, he wrote the music for various TV series "The Fat One", "The Family Lawyer" (both together with Andreas Bick) as well as the fairy tale adaptations "Little Brother and Sister", "The Clever Farmer's Daughter" and "The Danced Shoes". Easter 2015 ran the 13-part mystery series "Arman's Secret" with Marian's film music on ARD. In 2005 his symphony piece "Dreamwalks" was premiered in the Konzerthaus Berlin under the baton of Sebastian Weigle. Further performances followed in the Graz Opera House, with the Wiesbaden State Orchestra and in Lithuania with the "Junge Philharmonie Brandenburg". In 2011, Marian received the prize donated by the weekly newspaper "DIE ZEIT" as the best répétiteur at the federal chanson/musical competition. In 2012, Marian debuted with his first film music for the mystery thriller "Du hast es promised" by Alex Schmidt and won the prize for the best film music at the Lünen Film Festival. In 2013 he was commissioned to compose the symphonic poem "Die Havel", which premiered in June 2015.
Numerous national and international guest performances have taken conductor Jörg Iwer to Berlin, Munich, Hamburg, Stuttgart, Paris, Graz, Zurich, Bern, Milan, the State Opera House in Lviv, the Lyric Opera Singapore, Guangzhou and Taipei, among others. Jörg Iwer alone conducted more than a hundred concerts with the Belarusian State Philharmonic Minsk, as well as the Taiwan State Symphony Orchestra, the Orchester de Chambre Ville d'Avray in Paris, the Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra and the Mesa Symphony Orchestra in Phoenix/Arizona. From 2005 to 2007 he was the musical director of the Wörthersee Festival in Klagenfurt. He is present as a conductor and composer on records, CDs, DVDs and videos and has participated in radio recordings by WDR and Bayerischer Rundfunk. Jörg Iwer is one of the few conductors who has also made a name for himself as a composer and arranger. His conducting repertoire includes more than 110 stage works and all important symphonic works of all genres and epochs, in addition to the classics such as Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Bruckner and Mahler also numerous 20th and 21st century works. He is guest conductor of the German Film Orchestra Babelsberg.
The basis of the high popularity of the German Film Orchestra Babelsberg results from its traditional film music orientation and its cross-genre versatility. In addition, with its numerous symphonic concerts, operetta & musical programmes, opera & ballet projects, jazz & crossover productions, tours and television appearances, the DFOB has earned a permanent place in the German cultural and media landscape and functions successfully as Germany's cultural ambassador abroad.

01 The Havel (symphonic poem)
02 Dream Walks (Suite)
03 Between mountains and sea (symphonic poem)
04 Seawards (Artist: Nina Omilian)

Stefan Saffer, singer/songwriter with an unmistakable raspy voice from Leipzig has been one of the most authentic German musicians for years when it comes to American roots rock, country, bluegrass and folk, but also punk rock'n'roll. Appreciated and praised by international musicians as well as local colleagues, on his 5 CD releases so far as well as more than 40 times a year "live on stage" he always offers emotional, musically exciting great cinema - every evening - with every damn song!
It doesn't matter at all whether Stefan Saffer presents his songs alone, emotionally, acoustically or rocking wildly with his congenial backing band, the Silvertones. The 49-year-old was "road tested" through years of touring throughout Germany/Europe, but also through appearances in Philadelphia, Minneapolis and in numerous clubs along the New Jersey coast. In his songs, Stefan Saffer writes about life on the street, about dark, endless nights, loneliness, sin and forgiveness, but of course also about the great mysteries of love.
Seeing himself in the tradition of singer/songwriters like Hank Williams, Woody Guthrie, Joe Strummer or Bruce Springsteen, Stefan Saffer doesn't shy away from "political songs" in which he repeatedly denounces the injustices of our society. These stories are conveyed in an exciting mixture of fiery Americana roots rock'n'roll, dark folk, and dusty country and blues.

01 Singers And Players
02 Scars
03 Better Than A Broken Heart
04 House Of Rain
05 Angel From The Jersey Shore
06 Cold Blue Rain
07 I'm Broke (But I'm Not Broken Yet)
08 Paper Moon
09 From Rebellion To Redemption... And Then Back
10 The Rhythm Of The River

Ganaim take you on a musical journey through time through the most diverse regions of Europe with traditional Celtic folk. With their passionate and dreamy, but also exhilaratingly happy music, they immerse themselves in the foggy forests of Ireland, watch Scottish generals defeat the English crown and dance exuberantly with radiant beauties on the beaches of Brittany on warm summer evenings.
Their songs are traditional pieces from former Celtic settlement areas, which have been handed down over the course of many centuries. With ever new and unique influences, these precious contemporary witnesses of our history were always passed on to the next generations and still bring the events of bygone times to life again today.
How many people could have danced, partied and dreamed to these songs before they were revisited by two artists with a love for authentic and natural music and a passion for traditional acoustic folklore? Pinto, known through the medieval folk group Versengold, is the singer, guitarist and drummer (bodhrán) of the duo.
Together with Saskia on violin, the two musicians release their debut album Ceol ón Mhuileann, which means The Sound of the Mill. Together with a handpicked selection of guest musicians, they dedicate themselves entirely to the tradition of Celtic lore and give the music new, sometimes unexpected and surprising accents with their own ideas. Traditional songs are rearranged in their individual and unique way. A well-known text merges with new melodies, lively songs are interpreted as ballads (or vice versa) and their own musical compositions are added.

01 The Burning Of Auchindoun
02 Get An Dro
03 Johnnie Cope
04 Tre Svenska Valser
05 The Boys Of Bedlam
06 Monaghan's Jig
07 Johnny's Wedding / Tam Lin
08 Viva Galicia
09 Are You Sleeping, Maggie?
10 I'll Tell Me Ma

With relaxed lyrics and a loose tongue, the Münster native Johnny Ketzel makes American country music his own and opens up new horizons for it in colloquial German. Johnny Ketzel sings his verses somewhere between youthful brashness and the mellow wisdom of old age, like someone who has been shaken by a lot but can't be shaken by anything anymore. A homeopathic storyteller with fresh soul bandages and semantic patches currently unique on the scene. We've all been through the same thing as him.
Johnny Ketzel examines the really bad moments and those of little luck. His touchingly melancholic everyday visions, whose hidden comedy often only unfolds on second listen, convey this indescribable "yes-exactly" feeling. The rhymes fit like tailored suits. Loser lyrics with an indomitable winner mentality. Johnny Ketzel presents his unconventional stage program in a self-ironic and tongue-in-cheek way, transforming the region's stages into a blazing ring of fire with wonderful regularity. This is country music from another planet.

01 Anytime and always
02 Last will
03 On the station forecourt in Hamm
04 slow seller
05 Let's just stay friends
06 To the bitter end
07 The Hülsta wall unit (real walnut veneer)
08 For rehabilitation in Bad Hersfeld
09 The beast in me
10 My new dress
11 Your last letter
12 All good

The composer Ralph Symann grew up in a musically "multicultural" environment and became familiar with a wide range of different musical languages ​​at an early age. Classical and rock music made a lasting impression on him. Ultimately, however, it is classical music, more precisely the category of "popular classical music", that is decisive for his artistic path. The structures of this music, especially the major-minor tonality, are not just arbitrary definitions for Ralph Symann - he finds his musical-artistic home there. In intensive and systematic work, which he continued autodidactically after graduating from high school, he acquired knowledge of music theory. The analysis of his role models also takes up just as much space. And his own compositions?
Here it means first of all: Use of the variety of different styles, playing with form and architecture, variability in the compositional technique. And yet, in keeping with the profile described above, the principles of classic form theory and functional harmony are never broken. In this way, the music has a reliable basis and the joy of experimenting has its limits. At the end of each compositional work there should then be a self-contained, “self-evident” work of art that pleases both the public and the specialist. Ralph Symann has released two CDs so far. The latest album "Marksteine" is dedicated to instrumental music and offers a range of diverse orchestral works from concerts to symphonic works, some in chamber formations, some in larger formations with wind instruments. The music will be interpreted by the chamber orchestra "Camerata Würzburg" under the direction of Matthias Beckert, professor at the University of Music in Würzburg.

01 Divertimento in C major, op. 2 - I - Allegro
02 Divertimento in C major, op. 2 - II - Adagio
03 Divertimento in C major, op. 2 - III - Allegro vivace
04 Divertimento in C major, op. 2 - IV - Allegro
05 Fantasia in D minor for piano and orchestra, op. 1 - I - Tempo giusto
06 Fantasia in D minor for piano and orchestra, op. 1 - II - Adagio
07 Fantasia in D minor for piano and orchestra, op. 1 - III - Allegro agitato
08 December Suite in A minor, Op. 4 - Andante moderato - I - Allegro vivace
09 December Suite in A minor, op. 4 - II - Adagio
10 December Suite in A minor, op. 4 - III - Allegro
11 December Suite in A minor, op. 4 - IV - Allegro
12 December Suite in A minor, op. 4 - V - Pastorale - Tema con variazioni
13 Concerto with Harpsichord and Orchestra in D minor, Op. 3 – I – Allegro
14 Concerto with Harpsichord and Orchestra in D minor, Op. 3 – II – Intermezzo – Largo
15 Concerto with Harpsichord and Orchestra in D minor, Op. 3 – III - Allegro

On his second album "Sun Day Blues" Tim Pfau consistently follows his path to his special sound, which playfully combines blues, rock and jazz influences. With 17 new guitar instrumentals, he once again convincingly presented his broad musical spectrum. From the driving rock groove to acoustic sounds, to reggae and Latin tracks, the diverse stylistic elements blend into a unique mix.
Tim Pfau lets the strong influences and traces of the 60s and 70s appear in a new, contemporary and timeless light. His melodic and narrative guitar playing also impresses in this production and Tim Pfau manages to reach the ears and heart of the listener with his outstanding feeling and he creates a lot of images in his head. In cooperation with the keyboarder Günter Hornung, a new additional musical dimension and sound perspective opens up in five pieces.
Altogether an exciting and varied collection of soulful and down-to-earth guitar blues rock songs.

01 Morning
02 Latinos In LH
03 Rock It All Over
04 In The Right Moment
05 Roots On Tour
06 post it
07 Born On Friday
08 Come To My Fantasy
09 Last Call For The Future
10 Heavy duty
11 Daily Blues
12 Balls Of Fire

"You hate me, I kiss you" is the debut EP by the rock duo Any Dirty Party. It has been recorded on analog tape and mixed in two days at Outside Inside Studio by Matt Bordin and mastered by Carl Saff in Chicago. You hate me, I kiss you includes four original tracks and a rearranged cover of Fleetwood Mac song “Looking or somebody”. The EP comes in a photographic artwork conceived and realized by the band itself and it's available in both Vinyl and CD.

01 Just Let Me Know
02 Please Don't Explain
03 Little Blonde Girl
04 Looking For Someone
05 Two Sided Traingle

"Life is...." That's the name of the new CD by the Bremen singer/songwriter Matthias Monka - and the songs on the third long-player by the musician are just as complex as life itself, and he likes to go off the beaten track in his very own tracks follows. Whether great love, the tragic death of his mother, or the connection to his hometown Bremen - everything that has moved Matthias lately has been processed by him in eleven authentic, very personal songs.
Fans got a little foretaste when his Bremen anthem "Bremen, dein Lied" was released in advance. Now the whole album is finished. Unlike his previous productions, which he mostly recorded alone, Matthias got musical support for "Leben ist". For example, his creative companion Olli Kronhardt plays the guitar in the generation anthem “Helden sind Wir” and in the anti-war rocker “Jungle Law”, colleague Annie Heger provides female, soulful choirs... Martin Huch, who has already worked with Heinz Rudolf Kunze , Stoppok and Peter Maffay made guest appearances, played pedal steel in the country ballad "Zuhaus"... and finally all-time friend and triple-pack colleague Ralf Marckardt plucked the bass a little here and there.
It was recorded in Uli Löh's Intrada Music Studio, just as Matthias wished for this album: With real drums, a real grand piano, vintage sounds and real strings (Birgit Denogg and Konrad Seeliger) - as befits a singer/songwriter album heard.

01 Everything in life
02 Your love
03 people
04 Heroes are us
05 Jungle Law
06 home
07 The day when everything is different
08 In the eye of the storm
09 Valley of Tears
10 Last Hour
11 Bremen your song (bonus track)

The elegance of Latin jazz, smooth and energetic at the same time, played by virtuous musicians and interpreted with the beautiful and expressive voice of Felicia Touré ? that is MANTECA. Renowned outstanding artists from the Cologne (Germany) Jazz scene express themselves through their music entertaining with style and class. The charming voice of the singer is breathtaking. She presents the highlights of Brazilian Jazz, Samba and Bossa Nova seducing the audience with great emotions and a touch of Latin joyfulness.
The band was founded in 2004 featuring saxophone player Gabriel Perez. In 2007 Juergen Peiffer reorganized the band together with singer Felicia Touré with whom he has been working as a drummer and musical director ever since.

01 Outro Lugar
02 On My Mind
03 Feliz E Triste
04 Águas De Março
05 Se Depender De Mim
06 Fly Me To The Moon
07 Lobo Bobo
08 First Cut
09 Eu EO Meu Amor
10 sad
11 Forca Da Imaginação
12 Ode To Samba
13 Take Me To Aruanda
14 Session Tune
15 Garota De Ipanema
16 Aquarela Do Brasil

New Horizon is loud, immersive and energetic. The four guys from Mosbach skilfully combine rock, pop and funk and set new horizons with their music. Through their different influences, they create fresh and varied sounds that have never been heard before.
With the new album Wake-Up Call they now want to present their catchy melodies to a wide audience. With honest, soulful and also imaginative lyrics, they hit the nerve of the times.

01 Wake Up Call
02 Leave Me Alone
03 Lost & Found
04 Advantageous
05 World Keeps Turning On
06 best times
07 Alive
08 The For Love
09 Handsome Riot
10 Nature Violence

If you want to know where the Psychedelic Advantage comes from then put your nose to the wind, breathe the rainbow, sleep with your older brother's hippie bride and avoid psychoactive substances. Take the New Year's rockets, howl with the moon and listen to the ice cream when it licks its story: "We are in the year hell knows after Helmut Kohl. All of Duckburg is occupied by smallpox... all of Offenbach? Yes! And we already recorded the first record in 2001, so you are welcome to listen when Thees Uhlmann says: “Soundtrack zu Indiepubcrawls in Berlin. Because here nothing was as it used to be and everything will be as it seems because this is the completion of the swan song of the West, the terror of the daughters-in-law, the amoebic dysentery of the dinosaurs: Welcome to the world of the Psychedelic Advantage!

"This is music that people in Berlin go crazy over because they think it's so modern" (Thees Uhlmann)

"I need this CD for the next time I'm drunk." (Sandra Kinzelmann, Sony Music)

"It's a lot about drugs and substances." (Josef Winkler, Musik Express)

"A mixture of Deichkind and Blauer Bock." (Achim 60 Bogdahn, Bayern2)

01 Tequila For My Lady
02 Suicidal Redneck Mom
03 FFM
04 My Sun (Jumpezizzer)
05 The Sun (Opens Your Heart)
06 Rich Like Me
07 You are like a cloud
08 Shoreline Blues
09 Burnt black
10 I Found My Love On Marijuana
11 International Violence (RagaDubDanceRastaMovement)

The new CD "Pass auf" by Werner Vogt brings together two previously unreleased songs and the song Pass auf, der, which was on the CD "Rock `n` Roll Denkmal" nominated for the German Record Critics' Award, but has so far sold undervalued thematically deserves to be brought out separately as a single among the people. All in all, the CD contains a good 15 minutes of German pop music of the highest quality.

01 watch out
02 I Love You Baby
03 It's too late

It's about love, it's about space, it's about lab rats, it's about Vikings, it's about telling the bartender your life story at the counter, it's about making people do big and start small, it's about being lost and still going on, it's about Music, always about music. And above all, singer Annika Jonsson likes to tell stories. Those she has experienced or would have liked to have experienced. Like the ones where a space traveler flies as far as he can and then looks back at Earth and is amazed by its beauty.

01 Strangers At Night
02 The Last Days of Jazz
03 Kanske
04 Space
05 My Romance
06 Since you've been gone
07 Until you came into my life
08 Waste
09 Raindrops
10 rennet rat