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After the release of their debut "Welcome to my club" in 2016, a lot has happened for the Osnabrück-based blues rock band. From a rather loose collective of the early days, a core line-up has emerged, which still offers enough leeway for alternative casts. In addition, the debut record received good reviews in various trade journals (eg the scene bible "BluesNews") and the live front also featured support gigs from the Texans "Tito & Tarantula". The club around initiator, songwriter, singer and guitarist Tim Funke was able to inspire the audience in the absolute scene blues clubs such as the "Meisenfrei" in Bremen, the "Kaiserkeller" in Detmold or the "Lagerhalle" in Osnabrück. In the tradition of the first album, the acoustic old-school blues "Jacky's Song" then closes an album that will captivate both traditionalists and fans of the more modern blues.

01 I Was Good
02 My Personal Blues
03 Blinded By Fear
04 Thu Me
05 Death Comes On Black Wings
06 Dishrag 7. Runaway Blues
08 My Little School Girl
09 I Feel Alright
10 Wounds And Scars
11 Jacky's Song

The creation of Timo Brandt's album "Grounded" was a risk and an adventure from the start. And it sounds just as exciting. You can hear many acoustic, sometimes unusual sounds - guitars, grand piano, cello, clarinet, synthesizer and interesting percussions such as calabash, jujus and hand-woven shakers. You can hear Timo's expressive voice and wonderfully delicate backing vocals. He sings catchy, heart-touching tunes, but never sounds like he's trying to write a hit song. One senses that someone is on a journey, in search of life.
The English lyrics sound authentic and poetic. It's not your typical love song - Timo Brandt sings about more than just heartbreak and relationships. He is radical in his honesty and his quest for more.
After three years alone with his western guitar on numerous stages, Timo Brandt is no longer the person he was before. What began as a hobby increasingly defined his life and identity. He wanted to reflect that - immortalize the songs that had matured on stage.
In the "Van Heys Studios" in Kleve he found the perfect environment to realize his sound ideas. With no budget, he threw himself into recording. He sang numerous voices and initially played many instruments himself. With the cellist Ardie van der Knijff (NL), the singer "Rina" (D) and the duo "Archer & Tripp" (GB/D) on clarinet and percussion, he was able to inspire top-class guest musicians from three nations for his songs. He let them hear the music and gave them the freedom to play whatever came to mind. The emotions increased in a wonderful way. The plan, which wasn't one, worked.
Between the recordings there were always spontaneous concerts. These always brought in just enough money for the next studio day. In addition, pre-orders for the new album came before it was even finished. It took months for the work to be completed.
For mixing and mastering, he was able to win over Sebastian Rottstegge, who has already demonstrated a keen sense and a good ear through his work with AnnenMeiKantereit on their debut work "AMK".
The artwork for "Grounded" comes from the artist Dootje Maillard. After a few conversations about the album and the songs, she spontaneously drew the motif by hand and then worked it out further.

01 intro
02 In The Darkness
03 Clocks
04 Thanks I'm Fine
05 Long Lost Friend
06 mountaintop
07 Honestly
08 Solid Ground
09 Grounded
10 Mr. Wait
11 Close To Life

The many years of loose cooperation between the four jazz musicians in changing line-ups has led to the desire to summarize the work on a CD through numerous joint concerts and projects since 2014. Like four different sources that unite to form a river, Stream combines individual musical experiences, ideas and compositions into a common whole. your electricity.
The Stream compositions range from sensitive ballads to almost groovy rhythms with intricate themes and sound structures, always linked by improvisations that promise further development in the live concert. Although Stream is a classic jazz quartet, the usual focal points and tasks between the instruments are resolved and shifted. Stream dedicates the debut album "Speechless" to the singer Susanne Drerup-Christenhuß, who died in 2017 and with whom they performed several times as a quintet in 2014.

1 Bossassa
2 Expecting January
3 Notice The Moment
4 Valse Satinée
5 Treillis
6 November Day
7 Speechless
8 January Feel
9 Brouillard Dense

Vienna - New York - Berlin: The Austrian singer Maria Christina has had an exciting journey and you can hear that. Her voice is the expression of a highly sensitive, open-hearted soul, her songs have a lot to tell.
Her debut album has been compared to Joni Mitchell's early works and hailed as an "experience of rediscovery" (About Jazz). Her songs are "poetically told by an attentive, sensitive chronicler" (Concerto) and this poetry also runs through her new album "Morning Swim": It is a collection of unique, profound artsongs accompanied by the virtuoso Italian guitarist Federico Casagrande.
The duo's music hovers between singer-songwriter and jazz, between narrative and improvisation. Again and again Maria Christina's crystal clear voice and the precise guitar playing provide surprises, the couple keeps turning in unexpected directions - only to return home safely in the end. A musical journey of a very special kind.

01 Morning Swim
02 Ocean Song
03 Blank canvas
04 Love And Rage
05 Eternally Collapsing
06 Closest To Home
07 Spreading Love
08 Back To White
09 Lullaby For Richey
10 One By One

Bad Temper Joe presents his new album Ain't Worth a Damn, a collection of original and traditional blues tunes recorded during an intimate concert at the songwriter's hangout Café de Loge in Ghent, as part of Joe's tour of Belgium in November 2017.
With nine songs, eight original compositions, as well as a homage to Willie Dixon's "Spoonful", it goes on a journey through a musical landscape that has its roots in remote swamps and dewy meadows of the southern states. Ballads of love and loss, strokes of fate, destruction, alchemy and black magic follow. Cheering storms and shouts of joy are rare, the bones are heavy from the journey and the mouth is full of dust from the Teutoburg wasteland, the clothes are still wet from the Westphalian rain. Bad Temper Joe tells us his story in the tradition of the old Mississippi Delta blues singers, with the power of one man and his guitar.
"Ain't Worth a Damn" marks Joe's seventh long player since the release of his debut album "Sometimes A Sinner" in 2014. Produced by Fernant Zeste and Jakob Eismann, Bad Temper presents Joe, following his excursion with electric band on the 2017 album "Bad Temper Joe And His Band", this time again as we know him: in his purest and most unadulterated form - acoustically, alone and "live in concert".

1. Farmer's Daugher
2. Most Things Haven't Worked Out Yet
3. If Tears Were Diamonds
4. Nighthawk Woman Blues #9
5. Delilah
6. Man For The Road
7. Honey On My Biscuit
8. Spoonful
9. I Bid You Goodnight, Sweet Marie

On his tenth studio album "Shampoo Or Gasoline" Reto Burrell sounds as snotty and cheeky as if it were his debut.
The new work was created in the spirit of the last concert tour in spring/summer 2017. The live presence and the energy of the band's interaction were an important driver and gave the necessary fire. Composing, performing live and recording went hand in hand. Burrell always likes to pack his own experiences into his songs. But on this album, for the first time, he consciously sings about things that make him think. It also addresses characteristics or conditions in our society that have unfortunately become so firmly established that we no longer question them.
Soft talk instead of questioning - looking the other way instead of recognizing - waiting instead of acting. Burrell also sings about the return of Robin Hood in his new songs, and wonders when the bottomless bucket will finally be full. If you want to be heard in this noisy world, you have to shout. Rock music shouldn't just be played, it should be lived much more.
Burrell has managed to make rock music his lifeblood. Even after more than 20 years of concert experience in Germany and abroad on several 100 stages, he is still full of energy. This is how you experience him at each of his concerts: straightforward, direct and always in a good mood!

SIDE A
01 Rising To The Beat
02 Shampoo Or Gasoline
03 On Top Of The Moon
04 Blind (Everything Is Fine)
05 Where is Robin Hood?
06 In A Bucket With A Hole

SIDE B
01 Shout It Out
02 Tell Me Why
03 She Says She's American
04 Carried Away
05Leaving Scars Behind
06 Like Zombies And Toys

Soul jazz is the red-haired stepchild of modern jazz. He is the music of the organ bands. It's funky, loud, sometimes sentimental, the forgotten pop music of black post-war America. "Soul Jazz Lab" is a groovy homage to the organ combos of the 1960s, when hard-swinging bands like Brother Jack McDuff and Jimmy Smith ruled the Chitlin' circuit with their gospel-soaked soul jazz.
"Soul Jazz Lab" are: Holger Weber (guitar), Max Blumentrath (Hammond) and Alex Lex (drums). Guests include Wim Wollner on saxophone and the great singer Angela Brown.
About the musicians:
Guitarist Holger Weber was born in Heidelberg. He studied jazz guitar at the Hilversum Conservatory with Wim Overgaauw and Jesse van Rull, among others. He has lived and worked in Dortmund since 1997 as a much sought-after musician and lecturer.
Max Blumentrath is a Hammond organist and pianist and lives in Cologne. He was most recently a student of Matthias Bätzel at the Carl Maria von Weber Music Academy in Dresden. In the summer of 2012 he successfully completed his master's degree in Hammond organ.
Drummer Alex Lex is one of the most sought-after drummers in the German blues scene. He has been attending many sessions regularly since he was thirteen and quickly made a name for himself in the local blues and jazz scene. He plays his grooves with great intensity, but at the same time unusually calm and tasteful.

01 These Are Soulful Days
02 Polka Dots And Moonbeams
03 Que baby
04 Speak Low
05 Nancy (With The Laughing Face)
06 Jucy Lucy
07 Don't Take Your Love From Me

"Changes", the title of the new album by Unplaces, could not have been chosen more appropriately. After all, the change in all its facets was not only the inspiration for the album concept, but also made itself felt in other ways for the formation from Bochum and Hanover. Recently separated from the previous band name NRT, the renaming itself should be the most obvious change - the most significant, however, is only with a few exceptions.
Rather, the completely new approach in terms of songwriting, which should lead the frontwoman and main composer Dorette Gonschorek on completely unfamiliar paths, is more important in this context. In the past, the songs were created piece by piece and completely independently of each other over a longer period of time, but this time the focus was on the big picture in advance. Ergo, "Changes" is a musical and textual unit, which is based on a sophisticated dramaturgy.
The trio playfully combines unobtrusive guitars with passionate vocals, rolls soft keyboard carpets over mechanical drum templates and weaves wave, rock and post-punk with careful pop elements into a varied spectacle of light-hearted melancholy. The lyrical component of the 14 pieces, on the other hand, approaches the chosen complex of topics critically with the question of meaning and self-determination in times of medialization, information overload, globalization and consumer pressure. How are you supposed to keep up with the constant change in society, or better yet, to put it in the words of the title track:
What are changes for? The answer to this can be (un)located between the lines of “Changes”.

1. Utopian Dream
2.Escape
3.Changes
4. The Left Behind
5. Lost in Space
6. Find A Shame
7. Reset
8. Downshifting
9.Insight
10. Mister Bot
11.Freedom
12. Pseudo reality
13. Against Ourselves
14. Open end

The blues guitarist and composer Roland Schal, born in 1956 in Gütersloh, Westphalia, presents an extremely multifaceted album with "Finally". Consisting exclusively of his own compositions, it is the essence of the musical work of this versatile musician, which has already spanned 50 years.
In memory of BB King and Jimi Hendrix and inspired by Kenny Burrell, the album's repertoire ranges from shuffle to funky grooves and Latin American sounds to jazz ballads. The composition "Love" could have come from Carlos Santana's pen and the song "It's Over" shines with the warm, soulful voice of rock lady Mennana Ennaoui.
Roland Schal elicits its typical sound from every instrument, which is also famous in professional circles. He plays authentically and with soul - "just the way it has to!". On this album, he is supported by Henner Malecha on bass and Wolfgang Roggenkamp on a Hammond B-3 with "Mojo", because Jimmy Smith and Ray Charles have played on exactly the same organ.
So it's no wonder that the spirit of these legends can actually be heard and felt here!

1. Love
2. Funky thang
3rd JGW
4. Roland's Shuffle
5. It's Over
6. Kenny
7. Love (smooth version)

A part or apart? Both! The songs on the new Tidemore album "a-part" are as ambiguous as the title. The brothers Matthias and Andreas Pietsch reflect on the major issues of our time. From the perspective of two grown men, they examine the state of the world and seek balance within it. A border hike between the own and the foreign. Building on the idiosyncratic acoustic sound that regularly captivates their listeners, the brothers are going through a new musical door with the album "a-part". Clearly it's Tidemore what you're hearing, and yet there's a new tone. The instrumentation, basically reduced to guitars and piano, is placed in a larger context. For the first time, the majority of the eleven new songs are based on a powerful foundation of drums and bass, and in some places they add an electric guitar. In between, reservedly instrumented, purely acoustic pieces shimmer again and again as special pearls. This variety creates an exciting dynamic from the first to the last note.
They were able to win over the outstanding musicians Florian Holoubek, Thomsen Slowey Merkel and Karsten Lipp as wonderfully empathetic guest musicians. But the brothers played their strongest card again on their new album: They simply know how to write catchy songs. It is these grandiose melodies whose beauty catches you immediately. Sometimes it's the voice, sometimes a guitar line. There is hardly a song where you have to wait long for this radiant highlight. And they have by no means renounced their typical choral singing. Tidemore has not reinvented itself, but has consistently developed it further. In this way, the most diverse Tidemore album to date was created. "a-part" includes everything from a small song to a great anthem. It serves the great feelings and is never trivial.

01 As Long As We Move
02 The Same As You
03 Real People
04 Big & Small
05 The Brunt Of The World
06 Beautiful things
07 On The Bottom Of The Lake
08 The House of the Devil
09 Catacombs
10 I Lake
11 Until The End

Engel Mayr (guitarist, producer and songwriter with Russkaja, Dorretta Carter, Hallucination Company, Percival Duke, among others) has recorded a snotty blues rock power trio album. Drums, bass, guitar and his voice - the classic formation of Hendrix, ZZ Top, Kings-X and Stevie Ray Vaughan.
10 refreshing new blues rock songs with an emphasis on “rock”. The well-known German specialist magazine “Guitar & Bass” described Engel Mayr's music as “Hendrix-inspired heavy funk” and is spot on! Songs like "Yeah" and "Praise The Sacred Cow" sound like Heavy Hendrix from the swamp while "Head Up" clearly hits the Texas blues rock notch a la ZZ Top.
The album was recorded in just one day and you can hear the spontaneity and joy of playing in the songs. Together with Werner Laher (Stella Jones, Semino Rossi, Rounder Girls,...) on bass and Mario Stübler (Russkaja, Vereinigte Bühnen Wien,...) on drums, the studio must have exploded with fun making music that day!

1.Yeah
2. Praise The Sacred Cow
3. Heads up
4.Choice
5. Here We Are
6. Turn it up
7. Supernatural
8. Another way
9. Run From You
10.Pain

The Danish and German artists started working together in 2016. The repertoire should not only reflect the different musical styles and preferences of the individual players, but also bring their countries of origin closer together musically. On this CD there are also compositions from the romantic heyday of the guitar, including first recordings of Rung's works.

1. Den Danske sang
2. Jeg bærer med smile min byrde
3. With hjerte altid vanker
4. Minuet 1 + 2
5. Sarabande
6. Belle
7. Burlesco
8. Georg og een af ​​reluctantly
9. Rosita
10. Gymnopedie no. 1
11. Berceuse
12. Gymnopedie no. 2
13. Hanah
14. Gymnopedie no. 3
15. Una sera nel mese d'Ottobre a Roma
16. Solen he sårø

After descending into an abyss of madness and despair with his 2015/16 album Eating Meatballs on a Blood-Stained Mattress in a Huggy Bear Motel, Bremen basement gospel musician Dad Horse Otten returns with his lighter-footed and upbeat follow-up album I am a Stranger Here Below” back into the sunlight. Nevertheless, life and his view of it is not a light-footed dance for Dad Horse, who always recognizes the dark in every brightness. The light that shines here is refracted and twisted, black as the walls of a group therapy room in hell. Work on this album began concurrently with the recording of Huggy Bear Motel and continued through the summer of 2016 with Gregg Weiss (Tildon Krautz) and other kindred spirits.

01 That's the Day
02 I Know Your Name
03 My Last Ride
04 You'll Lose a Good Thing
05 World Self Pity Day blues
06 My Rough & Rowdy Ways
07 Down the Mississippi
08 I'm getting on the train
09 Wicked Path of Sin
10 I am a Stranger Here Below

They actually write and paint children's books - Fanz and Firle. As the “kings of the cardboard picture book”, they have already published more than 70 of them and there is no end in sight. But every once in a while, they treat themselves to a book break. Then music is made. Then songs are written and performed together with Grete, Prof. Dr. Bumm and Herr Und performed.
On their first CD, Firlefanz and Grete play songs for little big ones and big little ones (from 3 to 333). There are well-known children's songs in a new guise with "Green, green, green" and "In a small apple", but above all there are wonderful, melodic-groovy new songs to be heard: about strange aunts, disgusting vegetables, cuddly toys falling asleep, ready for vacation dogs and a small but very important word that all children should know (and without giving it away completely: please and thank you are not).

1. Mama chicken is looking for an egg
2. Vegetables
3. No!
4 seasons
5. Etepetete-Aunt Ann
6. Tatutata
7. In a small apple
8. Green, green, green
9. Sick
10. Four on a grand voyage
11. When stuffed animals go to sleep (+ My stuffed bear fell asleep)

A good friend of the band talks about the end of the pop music winter, sucking on his herb wick with a big smile on his face and a grin on his face. He feels kidnapped in a moment of fine, sympathetic intelligence, floats through the room, but is suddenly torn out of his lethargy by a sound explosion of a special kind and finds himself dancing under the disco ball.
He feels inspired, liberated, thinks of a colorful trip in the VW hippie bus. The sun rises and he moves with his pretty girl, arm in arm, through unlimited expanses. But even at night, this sound is able to convey a certain warmth, so that the light definitely returns and the recurring fun can be seen in every face...
That's what Don Kurdelius And The Mindless Orchestra aim for: They transport emotions, uncover human madness, cross borders, don't allow themselves to be pigeonholed - sensitive music collages, dancing rhythms, fantastic grooves, glowing harmonies and above all a lot Fun.
From a musical point of view, the band can perhaps be described as follows: They move in a jazzy-funky soul world that is enriched with pop and modern soundscapes. The character of the band from Osnabrück reflects the irrepressible curiosity in experimenting, the limitless expanse of the musical cosmos and the inexhaustible joy of discovering and rewriting our own and foreign universes. They themselves also describe what they do as a cosmopolitan mess, spurred on by their thoughtful playing full of harmony.

1. Again Again
2.Thru The Middle
3. Smile
4. Where The Money
5. Lucky In Love
6. All My Sources
7. Let Me Sway
8. My Game
9. Keep going
10. Let Me Sway (Live)
11. Thru The Middle (Live)

Romy Conzen is a Belgian singer-songwriter with her own personality and strong charisma. Having grown up in East Belgium as the daughter of a Dutch mother and a Belgian father, she speaks four languages ​​fluently: French and Dutch as well as German and English. The performer studied classical guitar at the Liège Conservatory and composes her own songs.
Romy's first album "Black As Night" was released in October 2012 and immediately received a lot of applause from the critics. Discovered as a new energetic rock singer, her songs are played on every radio station in the Benelux. Romy is also making waves internationally, receiving airtime in England and on US TV.
In 2015 and 2016, numerous further appearances in Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany followed, including as the headliner of Belgium's largest festival "Les Francofolies de Spa", accompanied by enthusiastic media coverage.
Their current studio album "V for Victory" storms the favorite playlists of radio DJs in the Benelux again. With their varied combination of funk and pop rock, the singles "Aiaio" and "V for Victory" are still an integral part of the daily radio charts of regional stations.
With her versatile voice, warm and rough in the acoustic ballad "Bitter Now" or rocking and powerful in "Going Down", Romy is currently regarded as Belgium's hottest act for a long time. Whether up close and personal with just an acoustic guitar and microphone or accompanied by her excellent band - Romy breathes new life into the live music experience.

1. Going down
2. The Child I Love
3. Aiaio
4. L'Amour Triomphe
5. V For Victory
6. Farewell
7. Bubble Up
8. Tonight
9. C'est Le Coeur
10. Bitter Now
11. The Journey
12. Les Ailes De L'Amour

New Zealand bassist, composer and arranger Olivier Holland (who has so far contributed to 23 CD albums or produced them himself) has engaged the crème de la crème of German jazz musicians for “Big Ticket”.
Here four absolute virtuosos bring their unmistakable sound and musical skills together to draw a sound portrait that is unparalleled in terms of uniqueness. “Big Ticket” sounds warm, powerful, full; the compositions - all from Holland's pen - lyrical, powerful, emotional, expressive.
Everything comes together in one sound that, with a dynamic range from quiet to bombastic, must not just be heard, but experienced. A desirable CD album, certainly not only very interesting for jazz fans, but also for lovers of well-made and sounding music.

1. Mister Bombastic
2. TingTingTing
3. Bass drawer
4. A New Day For A New Diet
5. Road kill
6. Gez Aba An ouzo
7. Big ticket
8. Medley: Cliff Walk / Oli’s Blues

Hardly any other band outside of Italy develops the good, old Canzone tradition with rich lyrics and irresistible melodies as lightheartedly and skilfully as Ombre di Luci. And that despite the fact that they are not Italian at all. The quintet from Osnabrück – founded in a pizzeria in 1997 – still embodies everything that makes “bella Italia” what it is: passione, amore, gioia di vivere. With passion, love and joie de vivre, but also with professionalism, charm and authenticity, the band convinced their audience, including many Italians, right from the start
Ombre di Luci have now released their ninth album entitled "Cuore d'oro" (Heart of Gold) on Timezone Records - an original mix of styles between pop, bar jazz, folklore and chanson. Wonderfully ironic songs are sung about fleeing village thieves, delicious toadstool dishes and repentant Mafiosi. Quieter compositions are poetically about people who stand up for their ideals, welcome strangers with open arms or become wise in the autumn of their lives. The bride, who is waiting in vain for her loved one on the beach, comes to life just as much as the band's bizarre experiences on their trips to Poland and Russia or the love that grew out of friendship. Ten song pearls in Italian and modern arrangements that touch the soul.

1. L'unico lusso
2. Il pentito
3. Cuore d'oro
4. L'anima dell Est
5. Il vestito
6. Ladri sfigati in fuga
7. Autunno
8. Ideali
9. Fungi verde
10. Canzone per una amica

With their debut album, the Rare Tones follow on from the EP Kidogo, which they produced in 2016. "To A Friend" was also recorded at the Frida Park Studios in Hanover with producer Ossy Pfeiffer: Eleven other songs reflect the band's instrumental and musical diversity, with robust folk songs and soulful ballads complementing each other harmoniously. The polyphonic singing as a defining element of the Rare Tones sound stages the moving English texts and is particularly effective in this production.
The four see the experience of being able to make music in this way among best friends as an extraordinary gift. They want to share this gift with everyone - through To A Friend!

1. Long Gone
2. Home Is Where Your Heart Is
3. To A Friend
4. The Mask
5. 'Til The End
6. Hold Me
7. Moment Of Truth
8. Underneath The Sand
9. Trouble
10. Come With Me
11. Sailing

The jazz singer Stephanie K. presents her fourth solo album. With her ensemble, she uses emotionally complex songs to illuminate numerous facets of life: love, loss, nostalgia, humor.
Eight of these thirteen pieces are original compositions. In addition, Stephanie K. wrote lyrics for three tracks composed by well-known jazz musicians Joe Locke (A Word Before You Go), Geoffrey Keezer (Honu) and Emanuel Hauptmann (Breaking Ice). Additionally, the album includes interpretations of Joni Mitchel's "Big Yellow Taxi" and Lennon/McCartney's "She's Leaving Home".
We cordially invite you to lose yourself in the magic of this "jazz conversation". Feel how Sebastian Altekamp (piano) and Ingo Senst (bass) harmoniously intertwine the themes of the album. Let yourself be carried away by the wave formed by Christian Schoenefeldt (drums) and Markus Paßlick (percussion) and experience the colorful variety of sounds that Christian Kappe (trumpet/flugelhorn) creates with his instruments.

1. A Word Before You Go
2. Side dish
3. Ignorance Is Bliss
4. Honu
5. Don't Friend Me On Facebook
6. She's Leaving Home
7. Big Yellow Taxi
8. If I Had A Sister
9. Breaking Ice
10. The Bold
11. Watch Your Step
12. Adjusted To Silence
13. Take Me Back

"Vocally, the voice of frontman Roberto Morbioli sounds like he didn't come from Verona, but flew in straight across the pond from the southern states. His fast fingers on the guitar are fascinating, his playing technique is outstanding [...]. He lets the instrument howl distorted and rough, it can purr melodiously under his supervision, a bearish sound emerges from the clear chord sequences.” Heidrun Gehrke (Backnang)

Roberto Morbioli - exceptional guitarist, singer, songwriter, and for over 25 years frontman of the band Morblus, renowned throughout Europe - reinvents himself! With a new sound, a new (trio) formation and a new title, under which the Veronese has made a name for himself in the USA for years, a new chapter in the music virtuoso's career is opened. Consequently, the title of the album "From Scratch" ("From the ground up") appears there, the 12th in his discography.
After many years of "Blues, Funk, Soul" (electric & acoustic) and projects with renowned artists such as Guitar Shorty, Jesse Yawn, Lucky Peterson, Paul Orta, John Mayall, Roomful of Blues and Big Daddy Wilson, Roberto now proposes rougher, rockier ones Tones and reflects on a reduced, cleaner sound of his trio (bass/guitar), which is refined in some songs by Tommy Schneller's saxophone and Gary Winters' trumpet.
True to his motto "A good cook doesn't need a lot of ingredients for an extraordinary dish - only the right ones!" Everything different, everything new? Not quite, because what remains is the proven mixture of slow and up-tempo songs, loud and softer tones inspired by a wide variety of music styles. And live, of course, the obligatory walk through the audience, when Roberto carries the audience away with his flirty guitar and invites them on a trip through his world.

1. Hey people
2. Obsessive Love
3. Watch Your Step
4. Rock Me Honey
5. Long Way From Home
6. crying shame
7. Me And My Old Car
8. Black Cat Bone
9. Rock'n'Roll Cruise
10. Joyful Joy
11. Out Of Mind

Radiant synth pads meet blurry guitar sounds. Playful vocal lines are reminiscent of Kate Bush's first demos. Maloun creates its own cosmos by playfully dealing with the chaos of life. Hanging between nostalgic fiction and reality, the compositions culminate in a pulsating enthusiasm of gloom and melancholy. With a mixture of pop and indie rock, Maloun invites you to dance between reality and dream worlds. Maloun are: BereNike Wuhrer (vocals, synthesizer), Philipp Winterstein (guitar, vocals), Lennie Fanslau (bass) and Marian Stirkat (drums). The four musicians met in Hamburg in 2016 and have been active in this constellation ever since. After various performances in northern Germany (Wutzrock Festival Hamburg, Kieler Bootshafensommer etc.) the first EP entitled "Faithful Friend" is now being released on the Osnabrück label Timezone Records. For the recordings, the musicians holed up for a few days in Hamburg's Clouds Hill Studio, where many greats in the music world have poured their ideas into solid sound.

01 Little Rabbit
02 Johnny
03 Falling
04 Faithful Friend
05 Close And Far
06 All My Life

The new single by Robert Redweik "Will be OK again" from his recently released album "Dein Vegas" is a concentrated load of confidence that is contagious. Because who doesn't know those days when nothing works at all or you experience something that you would have liked to do without. For these situations, "Will be okay again" is definitely the best medicine.
“This song gives me courage. Because it's so simple and clear - but sometimes you can't accept that even "the best days are born in the dark". Life isn't always nice. But we know from each of our pasts that light will come again, a new day and it will be okay again, even if it hurts at first.” Robert describes the song.
Robert's emotional, close voice in the verses is a great counterpoint to the anthemic hook. Especially the rock elements and the choral chorus intensify the lyrics, so that after the first listen one comes to the conclusion: Goodbye pessimism - because it "will be ok again".
Insider tip: the acoustic remix of "Will Again Ok" - a great and calm version in a wonderfully simple indie guise somewhere between Grand Avenue and Bon Iver.

01 Will Be Ok Again (Single Version)
02 Will Be Ok Again (Acoustic R Remix)

The quintet around the bassist Tim Steiner, Burkard Ruppaner (drums), Lars Breitinger (guitar), Jan Bostelmann (sax) and David K. Ehlers (keys) was able to win an expressive singer for the realization of the new album with Elin Bell.
The songs of the band steinerTIME feat. Elin Bell are reminiscent of fascinating stories and create an intoxicating atmosphere. The music, sometimes filigree, sometimes powerful, but always harmonious and unmistakable, is supported by lyrics penned by Elin Bell.

1. What It's All About
2. Hold Still, My Heart
3. We Go Astray
4. These Voices
5. Take Me To The Sea
6. Waltz
7. No Air
8. Anima

The teenage band Paralleluniversum manages to inspire kids, teens and adults alike with their catchy songs. The lyrics of the new album deal very impressively with the everyday emotional world of young adolescents, the many feelings, hopes, dreams, first worries, first love and firm friendship.
All songs are by Dennis Sander, are full of depth, fantasy and energy and invite you to dance, sing along, whistle along or even think. Many of the songs are dreamy ballads that immediately send the listener on a particularly beautiful musical journey that leaves a lasting impression. The album was produced and recorded by Christoph Aßmann.
Are these still songs for kids or is it already pop music? There is a bit of both, but in any case with a musical and lyrical claim that has become very rare. catchy tune guarantee! Be sure to listen!!

01. Star of Tomorrow
02. Little Comet
03. BFF - Never without you again
04. My heart
05th birthday
06. Sometimes
07. The good gets better
08. Window
09. Move on

Katelijne Philips-Lebon, singing actress, acting chanson singer from Belgium, with residence and roots in Berlin, takes the listener on her current CD "Les Spatz" into the French pop chanson.
Written especially for her with her own texts and compositions, she sings about her love for the city of Berlin and other metropolises (“Les villes”), the cheeky Berlin sparrows, these filous, who actually stand for Berlin much more than the original Berlin bear (“Les Spatz de Berlin") and about life with its ups and downs and its little games ("La vie est comme un jeu") Musically, this CD offers a wide range of compositions; From classic chanson (“Touche-moi”) to gentle bossa-nova rhythms (“Demande-moi”) to unconventional pop arrangements, written by Robin Fuchs, Francois Giroux, Matthias K. Herrmann, Gerd Heger, Hans Fahling, Brigitte Jäger and Katelijne Philips-Lebon. This CD was arranged and produced by bensonrecordings.
So make yourself comfortable, sip a glass of wine, lean back on the sofa or get behind the wheel of your car, put on this CD, drive off and let yourself be relaxed and enchanted by the musical stories of Katelijne Philips- take Lebon with you.

1. Les Spatz de Berlin
2. Les villes
3. Demande-moi
4. Loulou manager
5. Tres haut dans le ciel
6. Touche-moi
7. La vie est comme un jeu

I feel part of the sea that washes up the songs that I like to listen to myself. On the wall above my stove, Dylan, Cohen and Co look spellbound on cardboard at my kitchen table, where I write songs like these twelve. And sometimes they look like this and sometimes they look like this. Like me. This is my niche and this is my protocol.
Bastian Wadenpohl, born in Cologne in 1985, lives in Wuppertal, is a singer-songwriter. The present album was created between March and September 2017 in the Eric Harings recording studio and was published by Retap Verlag. It is Wadenpohl's second studio album after the debut "Griesgramgrüße aus dem Gartencafé".

1. Two thousand and something
2. The shark off Hawaii
3. Swing carousel
4. Peter's salvation
5. Just not you
6. Nutshell Captain
7. Because the heart
8. Surreptitious Advertising
9. Boot kicks
10. Ants and Strawberry Ice Cream
11. Chain dog barking
12. Cosmonaut

Outstanding, versatile pop arrangements, sung contemplatively and angelically. This is how the new Christmas CD "Christmas Lights" by the Dresden a cappella women's band medlz sounds. You can hear Christmas carols from Ireland to France like "Christmas in Killarney" and "Minuit, Chrétiens", from soul to pop like "Go tell it on the mountain" and "The Christmas Song" and from folk songs like "What should that mean?" to the band's own composition "Are we still grateful". 3 multi-faceted sopranos and a comfortably warm alto manage to bring us a little closer to Christmas with this new CD. Together they groove through the Christmas facets of our world. Together, that's how it is how Christmas should be. 1. Joy to the World 2. Minuit Chrétiens 3. Varpunen Jouluaamuna 4. The angel hears great joy 5. Christmas in Killarney 6. Three hazelnuts for Cinderella 7. Go tell it on the mountain 8. The First Noël 9. Are we still grateful 10.Carol of the Bells 11. Daughter Zion 12. The Christmas Song 13. What does that mean

With Peter Autschbach and Ralf Illenberger, two masters of their trade have found each other, who approach music intuitively, spontaneously and harmoniously. The listener has the impression of a single, large, multi-stringed guitar, where it seems irrelevant which of the two is playing what. After the successful albums "No Boundaries" (2012) and "One Mind" (2014), the two guitarists will present their new album "Zero Gravity" in autumn 2017. The two communicated the ideas for the new plant across the pond, as Autschbach lives in Germany and Illenberger in Arizona. The eight brand new pieces, recorded in Peter's living room studio in September 2017, show how intensive and fruitful the collaboration between the two guitarists involved is.
Both compositionally and tonally, the music on "Zero Gravity" shows even more clearly than on the previous albums the independent duo handwriting that distinguishes Peter Autschbach and Ralf Illenberger. Here the most diverse guitar types (12-string, octave guitar, baritone guitar and six-string western guitar) sound in perfect harmony with each other. Peter Autschbach and Ralf Illenberger impressively show how intense and exciting a musical dialogue between two equal partners can be.
"They don't play pop, even if their melodies are easy on the ears. They don't play jazz, although much of their music is improvised. They don't play the blues, although their music has depth and soul. And they don't play folk, even if the basis of what they do is firmly rooted in tradition. What the guitar duo Autschbach and Illenberger play sounds like completely original music, despite all the outside inspiration and experience they have gathered. As robust as it is sensitive; virtuoso without falling into the craze for speed; contemporary, but at the same time timeless. Your game has something of the breath of large and wide landscapes.

1. New Arrivals
2. Zero Gravity
3. Sellie
4. Heads up
5. The Truth
6. Solstice
7. Topaz
8. Twilight Dance

The Berlin singer-songwriter Sebastian Block has been uniting the inner turmoil of the capital in his small musical works of art for almost twelve years. In poetic verses, written to catchy melodies between danceable pop and cozy acoustic sets, he moves unerringly through the bars and streets of this diverse city. With a loving look at the details and little things, the unsaid and easily overheard like a loudspeaker for the outrageous - Berlin's secret establishment. Beyond cold calculation and capitalist competition, Block's music whispers directly and honestly to the soul.
The ten new tracks are not lacking in the usual playfulness and melody that makes up Sebastian Block's work. His third album reveals a new block with a fresh perspective and new textual and musical depth. The harmonic arrangements move between synthesizer pop and classic Wurlitzer sound, upbeat and ballad, floating lightness and melancholy. From the danceable "Why don't you call me?" to spacey-spherical sounds in "Mein Wille", a weightless flight through space, to "Evelyn" with probably the most likeable beatbox in the world. Sung, breathed, panted and hissed in a duet with tomcat Gomez. The joy of working with his producer Oded K.dar can be clearly heard in the pieces and inevitably carries you away.

1. Where it all began
2. Why don't you call
3. Spade
4. No doubts
5. Everything for me
6. The night knows no colors
7. Evelyn
8. You are the answer
9. My will
10. So close

Mai Horlemann's chansons tell of the great adventures of everyday life, of the most secret wishes, of longings, and of dreams that have long since been buried. Finally alone? Is this a nightmare or the big draw? Humorous and at the same time revealing, the songs tell of how we always want to reinvent ourselves, always on the search for our true selves, stainless happiness. The singer and her lyrical "I" report on failure and getting up, on going on and on weak hours. These chansons are unsentimental consolation for sore souls and highly effective medicine for tired everyday acrobats. Prescription-free and almost free.
The arrangements by the composer and pianist Frank Helfrich begin a lively dialogue with Mai Horlemann's multicolored voice and her poetic texts. Under his direction, a small orchestra, from the sousaphone to the bassoon, from the piano to the cello, conjures up a wide range of emotions and moods: melancholic, boyish, cheerful and saddened to death, cheeky and heavenly deep. Without crowdfunding this project would not have come about. What is the crowd? First of all, it was the guests of the program "Finally Alone", who enthusiastically called for encores. This CD is the encore that would not have been possible without the many supporters. What does that tell us? If you dare to dream, you will find people who reward this courage because they are dreaming themselves. You and me: This is the crowd. Our thanks go to you and a deep deep bow!

01 Tired
02 My child in comparison
03 Last rendezvous
04. Masterpiece
05 Time heals all wounds
06 We are no longer twenty
07 Last request
08 Beef in Schweinfurt

Time is relative. It can fly by. Or stand still. With his snapshots of happiness, but also time travel to his own roots, Stefan Waldow manages to create a very personal space-time vacuum with his debut album "Ewiger Moment". Timeless pop songs, lasting confessions and again and again the music as a slow motion of the present and a medium to capture situations and feelings, conglomerate into a work that has something to oppose the real principle of transience: the life and experience of music as an eternal moment.
The songwriter and his band manage to mix pop, jazz and chanson styles with subtlety and enthusiasm. In addition to Stefan's warm, honest voice, which lacks any vocal calculations, and his accurate lyrics, it is above all the songs themselves that act as storytellers with attention to detail, careful arrangements and strong melodies that give the listener a feeling of unusual familiarity and tonal sustainability.
The palette of songs was recorded entirely by the three-piece ensemble and ranges from yearning accordion sounds from the Hamburg Elbe beach (“Ebbe und Flut”), folky Dulcinet and tin whistle sounds with the declaration of love to the old hiking boots (“Unicornwall”) to vibraphone Swing with nostalgic easy-listening flair (“My invisible friend”) to intentionally pathetic Viking choirs (“The eighth Dane in me”) and percussive salsa rhythms (“The wind sends me your songs”), always carried by the contra and fretless bass playing of Stefan's bassist - and old school friend - Christian Glauß and the sensitive, multifaceted drums of Kai Ortmann, who was also at work here as a producer.
Stefan Waldow's songwriting combines lightness and depth, connecting catchy motifs with surprising rough edges. The result is an album worth listening to, pausing and at best, if only for a moment, staying in the eternal moment.

1. One man, one word
2. Unicorn wall
3. The eighth Dane in me
4. Ebb and flow
5. My invisible friend
6. Once is not zero
7. Where is the journey going?
8. Without music
9. The rest is silence
10. The wind sends me your songs
11. My weary cavalry
12. Eternal Moment

Marian Kleebaum, pianist, guitarist and singer, writes his songs and his sometimes unusual, lyrical, almost surreal texts himself. He mostly sings in German, but occasionally also in English or Hungarian. His rhythmic and jazzy, but also calm and melancholic songs appeal to almost every age. His music encourages you to dance, but also to dream and think.

01 The deer
02 First attempt to fly
03 foundation
04 winter day
05 Blue scale
06 letter
07 The same
08 melancholy
09 drawer baby

The 29-year-old singer/songwriter from Osnabrück released his debut album "The Dragonfly". The music can best be described as acoustic rock accompanied by an authentic voice. Marius Freese grew up in the country and grew up with his father's record collection from the important decades of rock music.
The music is correspondingly straightforward, sometimes catchy and sometimes intentionally different. The songs on the album tell stories from life, from the past and the future, from getting lost in everyday life to being rooted in home and nature. With the 13 titles contained on the debut album, it should be reminded in an experimental way that life always has a turn in store for you. A fresh and raw sound that can sound surprisingly different and also fits a bit into today's social life.
With a lot of love for music from different genres and the associated feeling of freedom, this album wants to remind you that life is a journey that we are on together, despite social origins and social backgrounds.

01 Inside&Out
02 Mysteries
03 The Need To Pray
04 Young And Free
05 Don't Wait Too Long
06 Our Destiny
07 When You Got To Find The Answers
08 As Long As I Stay Here
08 Where The Mountains Pray
10 Drovers
11 Twenty One
12 Let's Drift Away
13 On Your Way