Folk

Hilke Billerbeck's love for traditional Irish music began with the discovery of the Irish frame drum bodhrán. The Hamburg musician has been traveling to the island, which has meanwhile become her second home, with her guitar, bodhrán and dancing shoes for ten years. Encounters and unforgettable experiences with lovely people in special places inspired her to create her very own arrangements of traditional slow airs and tunes for solo guitar or for her duo celtic classical music with the flutist Julia Wetzel-Kagelmann.
Hilke Billerbeck's Where is the Light? Cá Bhfuil an Solas?” is a very personal kaleidoscope of impressions, a musical declaration of love to Irish culture. The recordings were made by musicians and producers Garry O'Briain in County Clare, Ireland and by Mehmet Ergin in Hamburg.

1. Ca Bhfuil to Solas? Monday Jig
2. The Clare Reel / P.Joe's Reel
3. O'Carolan's Farewell to Music / Hunting the Squirrel
4. Crock of Gold / Old Station House
5. Máiri Bhan Óg
6. The Road to Galway
7. The Ring of Kerry
8. The Lord of Blarney's Jig

The four-piece band from Hamburg tills unused ground: when an Irish tin whistle meets a slapped guitar, they call it folk funk. When a piano and a bassoon provide the carpet for three-part singing, it becomes strangely atmospheric pop. Picking guitar, tambourine and female vocals? OK, that was already there, so retro.
Yak captions her compositions with political, neo-Dadaist and (usually unhappy) love songs. The first album "The best for us" contains 14 songs that couldn't be more different - evil and lovely, angry but controlled.

01 The best for us
02 Cannot see you
03 Sight on
04 Scarecrows
05 I felt sorry
06 Thank you Bob
07 cry for you
08 The beautiful south
09 Drown by law

If something works "out of the box", then you unpack it and can get started right away. This experience inspired the acoustic quartet from the Black Forest and can be heard in the music. With the goal of an authentic recording alone in mind, ten songs were recorded, which tell of losing and finding again and, above all, dynamic joy of playing can be heard again and again. You can hear the closeness to modern bluegrass, not only through the typical instrumentation (guitar, violin, double bass, alternating with banjo, mandolin and dobro), but also through catchy melodies and four-part refrains.

01 Better Days
02 Rain And Snow
03 Forgotten Dreams
04 Callings Of The Soul
05 Lucky To Be With You
06 Water Under The Bridge
07 Precious Memories
08 November's Fog
09 good night
10 Wash You Out
11 Outro

Almost eight years have passed since the debut “Readings Of Lethargy”. Francis Aeol looked at things within his reach and examined them piece by piece. The result is a warm, fringing maturity that is accompanied by the feeling of a mudflat hike. “Assisting Fortune” is the name of the almost four-month phase in the life of the singer/songwriter. In a few steps and concrete, clear arrangements, the listener is led through the rigging of an uneven deck to the bow, and in the process increasingly perceives the feeling of his own freedom of action.
From rainy car rides on the highway of lost owners, in which the protagonist deals with the left behind parts of his life circumstances ("Lost Property Highway"), to the fictional idea of ​​what can grow from a well-intentioned gesture ("Random Act Of Kindness") , this work is very close to the title.
In the home studio (Local Leftovers), the versatile artist has once again dealt with the promises and slips of the tongue of the possible interpretations of being. In "Finders Keepers" a place that is inaccessible to strangers is created, which promises the safety and security that a wandering biography worth protecting has earned. Then, when it is safe outside again, the return can be considered. Together with a judgmental, negative self-image, "Beautiful Boy" sings about an intrapsychic discussion about the fact that one should have had doubts about others.
Between light-footed piano runs, supporting strings, double bass, mandolin, banjo and percussion in the style of a safe companion, the daydreaming of 'would be - could have - could' is hidden. "Maybe I" as a piano ballad stands next to the duet "Random Act Of Kindness" and flows into "A Maze In Greys" as a spray-dividing element of the regrettable melodramatics of the wayward son. Between affirmation, transformation and the caressing of the comforter, the imprint of a kiss of hope remains faded on the hold of the caravel of conscience.

1. Say Something
2. Lost Property Highway
3. Maybe I
4. Finders Keepers
5. Next Of Kin
6. Assisting Fortune
7. Beautiful boy
8. Random Act Of Kindness
9. Foreign State (Of Altered Consciousness)
10. A Maze In Grays

"Then the world is in order" impresses with its complexity, depth and absolute authenticity. Woven into balladesque robes, the sensitive, partly bluesy songs are driven by progressive rhythms.
In the sometimes unusual framing, some pieces surprise with the use of groovy organs, Rhodes, the crystal-clear sounds of a glockenspiel or the artist's incisive piano and guitar playing.

01 NEW!
02 I'm waiting here
03 Too much wind under your wings
04 You look tired
05 Then all is right with the world
06 When the light comes on
07 Better
08 Balance
09 I was always just asking
10 The humidity isn't enough tonight

"Naked Hazelbeard" play acoustic rock with a smoky, whiskey-soaked voice. Singer and guitarist Jan Weitzenbürger, otherwise active in the metal band "Killing Age" and the stoner rockers "Conquered Mind", shows his calm, soulful side with this project. He is supported by Martin Blanchard (bass), Jan Keller (guitar) and Katharina Grohmann (cajon, percussions), who provide the perfect contrast to Jan's voice with her wonderfully soft backing vocals. Together the quartet creates a unique blend of rock, blues and grunge inspired by the likes of Zakk Wylde, Johnny Cash and Everlast. A sound that not only makes the hearts of acoustic lovers beat faster.
At the end of 2013 the band from Esslingen released their first self-produced EP. After playing their way through German pubs and clubs for two years, their debut album "Between The Lines" followed in early 2016 and now their second album within a year with "No Borders".

01 Change My Ways
02 Tall I've Stood
03 Trust Yourself
04 Salty
05 Satisfied
06 Fix My Mind
07 Strand Love
08 Alone
09 Every moment
10 positives
11 The Blues
12 Fears

In March 2016 Anthony's Garden's second album will be released by Nasswetter Music Group. The work was recorded and produced by sound magician Martin Kälberer. The pre-release concert takes place on March 4th in the Kranhalle/Feierwerk in Munich. For this special event, the three musicians bring reinforcements onto the stage: Marion Dimbath on trombone, Reinhard Greiner on trumpet and Robin Kern on bass. The duo of light metal announced themselves as support. Marion Dimbath and Nicola Schüpferling will make irony detectors run hot with tuba, glockenspiel and their sweet songs.
On their new album "Lost Descendants", the trio of singer/songwriters Prince York and Maurice Brox and drummer Slim Pearl once again fully embrace the wisdom of folk songs, which remain reduced to their most essential components. Nonetheless, the three "Lost Descendants" go beyond their original cast here. Both wind sections can be heard there, but also sounds of Irish-like bagpipes and tin whistle as well as Eastern-meditative sitar melodies, which the multi-instrumentalist Tom Hake contributed. Texts that deal equally unvarnished with love, hate, drugs and death. It is noticeable that the story is not an accessory to the song, but a driving force that wants to be heard.

01 Heart Of Stone
02 Do Better This Time
03 The Trouble I'm In
04 How Can There Be Love
05 Pale Moon Rising
06 Lost Descendants
07 Hooked On You
08 The Better Man
09 Avalon
10 Does Anyone Know
11 One Two Three

Minimalist sound structures with a classical background meet a dark, velvety chanson voice with old folkloric echoes. Different cultures resonate with exotic instruments. It is sung in German, Catalan, Hebrew, French and in a kind of original language that merges into vowel-rich overtone singing.
Akampita Steiner's compositions and arrangements touch and hypnotize the listener and lead him to himself. Poetry settings by Else Lasker-Schüler and an excerpt from Chief Seattle's famous speech make the most important part of this CD lyrically and musically audible: love.

“This CD cannot be put into words. You have to hear her and experience the musician.” (Thomas B. Schumann, Edition Memoria)

01 Chant du Canigou
02 Shalom
03 Rossignol
04 reconciliation
05 Simi jadech
06 En Mer
07 When the wind wished to become a sound
08 port du vent
09 Omnia
10 My dance song
11 Overture
12 From far

Akampita Steiner, trained actress - studied theatre, film and television in Bochum -, musician and biodynamic body psychotherapist lives in the Weserbergland and Ostwestfalen-Lippe and works as a freelance musician, poet and performance artist. Through diversity, charm and a lot of musical feeling, the exceptional artist succeeds in putting a smile on the audience's lips and taking them into exotic, mystical worlds of sound.

01 Dans la montagne
02 Los bilbilicos
03 Shalom
04 Koldodi
05 The insight
06 I am a pilgrim
07 When the wind wished to become a sound
08 May quote
09 Two Flute Song
10 Como pods
11 The Flight of the Falcon
12 peace
13 Adyton
14 song for the earth

In the clear, powerful and melancholic compositions, 1960s folk, alternative country and old time music, filtered through more than 25 years of experience in the musical underground, unite to create an outdated, atmospheric song cosmos that is characterized by the unusual instrumentation ( autoharp, mandolin, violin, sub-bass, guitar) developed a very unique, warm and dense sound.

01 Driftwood
02 This Ain't The Way
03 Losing Ground
04 Oblivion
05 Garden Of Evil (feat. Cookie Tuesday)
06 Down To The Green
07 Ride Lonesome
08 If Joy Sits At Your Table ...
09 In His Father's Name
10 Who Gave You That Shiner?
11 Truth Is Marching Home
12 On My Back
13 Demon Days
14 Peasant's Burden

"Osnabrück, you horny pig!" - Finally someone says it like it is! The Osnabrück musician and postmodern troubadour Fabian von Wegen is a fan of the city. And the time is ripe for a new song that has the potential for a real, proper city anthem that sings far more than the much-cited Osnabrück happiness!
Charming and in a good mood, Fabian von Wegen sings about his adopted country: “Yes, we are the city of peace and yes, love happens here. Yes, the sun shines here, even if it only rains here.” Local patriotic self-adulation? Yes, of course, but: With heart and a casual matter-of-factness with a sense of humor at the same time! "There, where love falls, there is never Bielefeld"... of course not. The song is bursting with positive energy.
Musically, it spans an arc between pop, hits and songwriting, framed by a peaceful swaying manner. The chorus? - You have to sing along. You can't help it. Attention, danger of earworms! It doesn't hurt, it's good. Oh yes, and, “...who was Berlin again? - You, I don't care. Osnabrooklyn, I'm in love. And you are the first choice. We are all Osnabrück". We say: A must for all Osnabrück residents.

01 Osnabrueck (Radio Edit)
02 Osnabrück (Brass Band Version)
03 Osnabrueck (Songwriter Version)
04 Osnabrueck (Karaoke Version)
05 Osnabrück (poem version)

What can happen when a professional guitarist wants to record his favorite CD? A soothing and touching musical journey through the night between songwriter folk and cinematic chamber music - this is how the Lippstadt guitarist and producer Eddie Nünning describes his new CD "Songs for quiet Nights".

01 By The Time It Gets Dark
02 River Run
03 The Hudson
04 If You Wait
05 Madison
06 Lullaby For Hamza
07 side walks
08 Eternal Beauty
09 Evening Dance
10 night song
11 After The Gold Rush
12 When The Morning Comes
13 Where I'm Going

The debut album is a long time ago and in a way belongs to another generation. At that time things went in a completely different direction with their own singer/songwriter material. Since then some releases on samplers have followed. Producing new CDs on a regular basis was not a priority for a long time, because for Jens Hausmann, music thrives on fleeting moments that are difficult to capture in their spontaneity. This guitar music should arise from the moment as far as the "feeling" is concerned, as well as the high proportion of variation and improvisation.
The impetus for the current production came from a schoolgirl who said: "With all the many CDs that are here and have brought happy moments, it's about time to give a few back, right?" Good point! So get to work, because of course a consistent snapshot has its value, be it as a documentary or to reach more listeners in a very practical way. The sixteen instrumental guitar compositions are captured very puristically with two microphones in the vaulted cellar of the parish hall of the Martin Luther Church in Detmold, without overdubs. In the end, the most precious moments can be picked out from a distance and the result remains representative of a good concert.
Stylistically, the crossover guitar description fits the bill: "the hands of a classical or flamenco guitarist with the heart of a jazz musician," says the liner notes on the cover. The term fingerstyle means that elements such as melodies, chords, bass lines and even percussion are performed simultaneously on a guitar. That also fits, although the usual heroes of this genre are not necessarily imitated here. You can feel the positive energy and complex spontaneity in the atmospheric snapshots that were captured in the same room with the same technique in a short period of time.

01 Dizzy Rabbit
02 Dolce Far Niente
03 Light As A Feather
04 Angels' Share
05 Eureka
06 Blue Chestnut
07 Jerry's Blues
08 Sigue Tu Corazón
09 miles to go
10 Right Now
11 For You
12 rubber biscuits
13 Glazed Donut
14 Tango For Django
15 precious moments
16 Two Notes One Love

There where the conscious ends and the unconscious begins, that's where we want to talk about and that's where we'll lead you! Like the morning fog that slowly dissolves and finally allows a clear view. Like a gate that is opened for us eavesdroppers to reveal a view of a distant land of fantasy. That's how you feel about the music of Andyra, the medieval fantasy folk rock band around the singer Bettina Kiegler from Vienna/Austria.
The wonderful compositions by Bettina Kiegler and Zhang Jun Hao sound “dreamy and gentle, cheerful and lively”, harmoniously framed with folk instruments and classic rock instruments. The lyrics, which are all written in German, were written by the scriptor Helius, who, inspired by his experiences in the land of fantasy, put his stories on paper and poured the words into songs.
The soulful and extraordinary singer Bettina lent her voice to these words and brings the stories to life for us again. Each song has its own very special sound and yet all songs are unmistakably sprung from a fantastic world called Andyra and whose name the band took.
With her debut album "Magic of Fantasy", which will be released in March 2015, Andyra creates a work in which words and melodies combine to form images and feelings that take us on a journey and make us a part of this wondrous world permit. The title of the album reveals a lot. The songs have sprung from the imagination, and they seduce you into the fantastic. Whether listening to the gentle tunes of the faun or dancing to the serene beats of a tavern song, the band enchantingly entertain their diverse audience. "Joy and sorrow, love and lust, adventure and struggle" are endless the stories to listen to, which Andyra invites you to experience.

01 The Song of the Faun
02 Restless Spirit
03 Between the worlds
04 The offering
05 The Dragon Riders
06Avalon
07 Get the barrel

The eighth solo CD by composer, guitarist and tin whistle player Olaf Sickmann has it all. With a member and an ex-member of the internationally successful Irish music group Cara, he has gained top-class support that has made his new album Whistle Man a real gem. Rolf Wagels, one of the best European bodhrán players, and Claus Steinort, master of the Irish wooden flute, perfectly refine his wonderfully flowing compositions. Whistle Man has become an extremely lively, varied tin whistle CD, which is mainly inspired by traditional Irish music.
Crisp bodhrán playing meets virtuoso tin whistle melodies and the simple, energetic guitar accompaniments seem like a rolled-out carpet on which the music can unfold. Beautiful quiet pieces (e.g. Cave Music, To Be At Home), played by Claus Steinort and others with a timeless elegance and an unbelievable feeling for the respective composition, let the listener hear the famous pin drop and think of films like Braveheart and Lord of the Rings , before the action starts again (e.g. Whistle Reels) and you immediately find yourself in a traditional Irish music session. A rarely heard balance of technical perfection, feeling and wonderful, catchy compositions runs like a red thread through Whistle Man.
In pieces like A Morning Tune, the classical music education of his childhood shines through again and again. In the title track, Whistle Man, he sums up the wonderfully relaxed atmosphere of a stay in New Zealand in a film music style. Olaf Sickmann skilfully knows how to create an organic whole in which his passion for composition, tin whistle and traditional Irish music can be felt in every note. The booklet is full of little background stories about the pieces and thus brings the listener a little closer to Olaf Sickmann as a person. In recent years, his music has been heard more and more on radio and television, and one or the other piece by Whistle Man will certainly follow this path.

01 Nick & Leila / The wedding whistle
02 Go! / The autumn jig / The old water mill no. 2
03 Tune for Kevin
04 Bowed glass (flute version)
05 Dancing girls / The german hornpipe
06 My girls / Paul the cat / Yes or not
07 Olaf's No. 2 / Polka on a Thursday morning / Controverse / Coastfire
08 cave music
09 whistle waltz no. 3 / The barber / Joseph
10 Whistle Reel No. 1 / Whistle Reel No. 2
11 White house / Letter from Scotland
12 To be at home
13 Whistle man
14 Early / A morning tune
15 Bowed glass (whistle version)

Volkwin has been on stage for over 30 years. For him, it is time to take stock and look at what has been achieved so far. With the CD "The early years" he presents a colorful overview of his songs from his band years since the beginning of the 90s. For him, the pieces represent a musical diary from his earlier creative period - before his solo years - and have a very personal meaning for him. The songs are about the circus of emotions that normal life offers. Some of the songs are in English, some in German. Three pieces are purely instrumental titles. With this re-release, Volkwin wants to make the forgotten songs accessible to today's audience. The 19 titles - including the previously unreleased instrumental track "In vivo guitar" - have all been remastered and appear for the first time in this compilation on one CD. The portrait of Volkwin created especially for this CD was created by the painter Hardy C. Lugerth from Celle. The release is rounded off by a lovingly designed digipack gatefold cover with an extensive booklet and detailed explanations on the creation of the individual songs.

01 Love Burns Down
02 Life Could Be So Easy
03 Another Way
04 Searching For Something
05 The worry
06 That you are not there
07 I miss you
08 Sara
09 A song for you
10 I'll give you the tip

Man-monkey is the last album from "o lendario chucrobillyman" a punk blues rock'n roll one man band from itararé / brasil. On his last album "chucrobillyman" continues exploring the sonority of the "viola" a typical brazilian country instrument played with his particular fingerpicking style that is himself called as "chicken style".
On man-monkey you can find a weird mix between raw punk blues, b-side rockabilly and country brazilian viola music all of this blended with low-cost percussion instruments as fry pans, beer bottles and whatever garbage stuffs chucrobilly found.

01 Macumba for you
02 Chicken style
03 Nothing to choose
04 She lives in the jungle
05 The trip of Kambo
06 Chicken groove
07 Midnight Jungle
08 Roller coaster love
09 Fried chicken blues
10 Sittin' on Penitenciary

Thee Verduns – A duo from Metz, France, who know how to create dense sound worlds with minimalist instrumentation. M. Verdun plays guitar and sings, Ms. Verdun plays drums and sings. On the new 7" vinyl single, "Les Mers Du Nord" features guests Gabriel Sullivan on side A and Fred A on side B. "Thee Verduns - More glamor than The White Stripes, more country than Boss Hog, livelier than June Carter and Johnny Cash...".

SIDE A
01 The North Seas (feat. Gabriel Sullivan)

SIDE B
01 Quitten la ville (feat. Fred A)

The Mokkers is an all-girl band from Berlin that will make you feel good. No matter how bitter is the crankiness digging its way through your chest. The Mokkers is the cure. Their teenage bedrooms resonating with a wide spectrum of music from Link Wray, The Kinks, The Stooges as well as Holly Golightly and The Whites Stripes, they brewed the whole thing to provide today a pop infused surf-rock sound dusted with a little garage dirt and spiced up with a rockabilly twist. With no other aim than to make you smile and dance.
And if you don't like genre labelling, well good for you, neither do they. So let's just say The Mokkers sound is like your favorite grandma's comfort food. Simple, humble, soulful, the kind that makes you feel like a kid again and as soon as you dig in, you know you want more. No poses here, no pretention, just straight to the point warm songs that will summerize your heart and make you go "yeah!".

SIDE A
01 Indians

SIDE B
02 Wish I Could

The double CD "Volkwin Müller & Co. - LIVE" contains a total of 24 titles. The first CD is entitled "Covers" and contains compositions by Lennon/McCartney, Sting, George Harrison, Mark Knopfler and Gallagher/Lyle. The second CD entitled “Own Songs” contains songs penned by Volkwin. With the trio "Volkwin & Co.", the band leader Volkwin Müller has found the formation with which he can implement his ideas of his own songs and various versions of his own rock and pop music milestones. "We played the cover songs in a special packaging that I would have always liked to hear," says Müller. And so "Volkwin & Co. - Live" can present the band leader Volkwin as a fantastic singer and good guitarist - masterfully staged by his long-time companion Mike Turnbull and his brother Wolfgang. The CD "Own Songs" contains titles from Volkwin's program "Signals" and also two new pieces, "It's over" and "Air to live". With these concert recordings from a total of four years, listeners and followers of Volkwin & Co. get everything they expect from a "Volkwin & Co." concert: the hammer version of Sting's "Tea in Sahara", performed by percussionist Mike Turnbull Beatles classic "Come together" and the original composition "Deutschland" with which Volkwin & Co. was seen several times on television, including on WDR (Klingendes NRW). But also the intimate moments that Volkwin celebrates with Sting's "Roxanne" and his own song "Invisible sun" make this live album a pearl in every folk music collection. When you hear this album again and again, you know that it's here Music is played with great emotionality and a lot of passion, which leads to a growing fan base in the long term.And you sit there and enjoy it - as if you were in the middle of the audience.

disk 1
01 Tea in Sahara
02 Water of love
03 Here comes the sun
04 Every breath you take
05 Help!
06 In my life
07 Walking on the moon
08 A heart in New York
09 Roxanne
10 come together
11 Message in a bottle
12 Get back

disk 2
01 It's over
02 More together than apart
03 cab
04 You are good for me
05 My day
06 Lehmann
07 Air to live
08 Your signals
09 Swings and roundabouts
10 Invisible sun
11 Germany
12 Was that all?

The songs are excursions in serious singer/songwriter tradition with a touch of James Taylor and Sting. The music is always the landscape for the individual songs, which in turn represent individual, secret places. The music of Volkwin Müller & Co. is influenced by rock/pop, traditional folk music and jazz. In the lyrics, people and of course life itself are the sources of inspiration.
In addition to the 14 explosive, groovy and also sensual songs, the cover artwork deserves special mention. The graphic artist, musician and two-time Grammy winner Klaus Voormann, who is recognized worldwide in professional circles, created the front cover exclusively for Volkwin Müller. Parallel to the CD, the cover will be published as a limited edition art print, also by Mehr Musikverlag. The art print is signed and numbered by Klaus Voormann.

01 Yesterday's snow
02 I am a clown
03 Germany
04 Lehmann
05 My day
06 More together than apart
07 For you
08 The dream
09 cab
10 Like a star
11 A song for the sun
12 Believe in me
13 Was that all
14 Your signals

Anyone who has ever seen them live will automatically start sweating when they hear their name. The energy that the four guys spread on the banjo, mandolin, steel guitar and double bass is just too contagious. They make it clear that not everyone with a banjo plays country, and nobody needs more songs about western towns they've never been to and moonshine whiskey they've never tasted.
Just as every single show guarantees a steamy atmosphere, stacks of broken strings and dripping sweat, The Dinosaur Truckers convey the increasing certainty on their new album to the listener that large landscapes, endless expanses and the only true bluegrass punk heaven are waiting right outside the door. ..

01 Blackship
02 Let it roll
03 Wolves in the streets
04 Burn the place to the ground
05 Shadow fallin' down my face
06 Tiny studded red designer belt
07 Halfway through
08 box of memories
09 Mendigos Armados theme
10 The ends are just the same
11 Hey people
12 Leave everything behind
13 High, low and lonesome

Perhaps one of the most brilliant and bizarre one man bands you are likely to witness. He rubberneck fingerpicks on old children's guitar. He plays a beatup suitcase powered by some vintage headphones with his right foot. He bangs a mexican miniature snare drum with his left.
Hollers garbled ramblings of sexual inuendos and meat subject matter through a gold plated megaphone and there's a farmyard full of animals and lo-fi-sci-fi sonics belching out of somewhere there aswell. It's some kind of blues music, some kind of deranged old early blues and the ragtime tradition then retarded by technology and crippled tonality, earache noise and abusive slapstick sound effects.
Fast fingerpicking weird guitar interrupted by drunken tempo changes and warped backwards sounds.

01 Szonk's hair brained scheme
02 Huff D Bongo
03 Godzilla / Ireland
04 Huff D Der Der

The "Salty Pajamas" are a three-man band with banjo, blues harp, delay kazzo, drums and bass, influenced by old American folk music, raw and primitive garage rock, the Palatinate forest, the food, the people, plants and animals. They spend the best time of their lives in a ghost town. Their sound sounds like a country singer at speed while the instruments collapse.

01 Meat county
02 Spell
03 Leaving now
04 alligators
05 Monsters under your bed
06 Wooden friendship
07 Alone
08 Left and loose
09 Somebody else's bed
10 The taste of tea
11 dead pirate song
12 I am a family tree

The wrong Italians from Osnabrück release their eighth studio album with the mysterious title "Città dei sogni" (City of Dreams) in the 15th year of the band's existence.
Stylistically, Ombre di Luci have changed a bit: this time, folklore only plays a subordinate role. But the songs captivate with concise melodies and rousing rhythms. The band skillfully blurs the boundaries between Latin, bar jazz, pop, world music, gypsy, chanson and country.
Thematically, the album deals with searching and finding, leaving and arriving, dreams and illusions. Milan-born Giovanni Armanni was again commissioned to write the Italian texts.

01 Lupo assetato
02 Cumpari in carriera
03 Madre Sicily
04 Città dei sogni
05 Ali di cera
06 La grande bugia
07 Italian cinema
08 Fuga nella poesia
09 Ladri sfigati
10 Ombra smarrita
11 La soffita
12 Arrivederci

Fronted by Polish-born strongman and rough diamond of stage and screen, Jacek Koman, with a voice that resembles a jetplane scraping along the runway, VulgarGrad play music by, for, and about Russian thieves: raucous drunken songs, inebriated waltzes, manic stomps and hot swing from the Cold War. Be prepared for a night of gun-slinging, vodka-swilling, foul-mouthed disorder, and watch out for the biggest, most triangular instrument you will ever see, the contrabass balalaika. Wear a striped top and learn to swear in Russian, and you will dance or the trumpeter will shoot you.
Singer Jacek Koman is well-known in Australia and Poland for his many TV and film roles, but he is known all over the world for his parts in films such as Baz Luhrmann's Australia (as Ivan, the Russian barman) and Moulin Rouge – where he performed the unforgettable tango version of the Police song “Roxanne”.

01 Limonchiki
02 Oy oy oy

Six musicians skilfully pave their way through folk music. From emotionally interpreted German songs and ballads to French musette waltzes and Breton dances to virtuoso jigs and reels. It continues with jazzy tango interpretations and musical excursions to Israel or the Balkans. But Glin Amar don't stop at the combination of well-known film music with English songs and original compositions
And just as diverse as the repertoire are their instruments and their singing. With violin and flute, guitars, saxophone and diatonic accordion, but also zither, mandolin, percussion, bass and catchy solo or set vocals, Glin Amar show their full musicality and know how to give each piece their own style, the style of Glin Amar.

01 Morrison's jig
02 The green and the blue
03 Endro mod koh
04 Catherine Howard's fate
05 Athole highlanders
06 The lime tree blacksmith
07 It leads across the Main
08 Musette
09 Chocolat-Party preparations
10 Chocolat - Guillaume's confession
11 Chocolat - Minor swing
12 Story from the rain
13 Pirate Suite - Ludebik walz (Intro)
14 Pirate suite - The bonnie ship "The Diamond"
15 Pirate Suite - He's a pirate
16 Pirate Suite - Ludebik walz (Outro)
17 Ajde Jano
18 Simchat

Originally from the Brazilian provinces, “O Lendário Chucrobillyman” spent his childhood between the sounds of animals in the jungle and the hustle and bustle of the fields and plantations of his homeland. Growing up with traditional rock 'n' roll, garage sound and Brazilian country music, he plays a unique mixture of blues, punk rock and Brazilian folk music as a one-man band.
He uses the Brazilian viola guitar like a slide guitar and also uses garbage or everyday objects as drums. The singing comes over an old megaphone and a kazoo is occasionally used.
Raw, bluesy and dirty! Chucrobillyman has participated in numerous music festivals in Brazil and has toured the US and Europe. He lives in Curitiba, Brazil, works as a graphic artist, musician in various projects and is the founder of "Fon Fon Records".

01 Chicken flow
02 Loveminer
03 Chicken strange
04 Coconut Road
05 Where should I lay my head Lord?
06 Chicken rhythm
07 whiskey river
08 Estrada da vida

The singer Andra Barz has sung almost everything, especially jazz, she improvises with virtuosity, writes radio plays, composes for audio books and often works with vocally generated, layered sounds.
For her first album, which she wrote entirely herself, she turned to herself - and the result is a beautiful CD. The fifteen very melodic songs paint intimate mood pictures that are sometimes gently poetic or subtly question society and even reach into the mystical of nature. They are songs, somewhere between chanson, art song and pop, with rhyming lyrics that are very personal and would be worth the effort just to read them... Plant names usually provide the keywords for songs full of inner wealth and the soulful expression of a happy experience Childhood.

01 White Lilac
02 The pink flower
03 Redfire Earth
04 forest child
05 Five snowdrops
06 Forget-me-nots
07 The little gray hamster
08 Paradise Rooms
09 The Kro Kiss
10 soul size
11 The little flower
12 Blossoming Love
13 fire water earth air
14 The dandelion
15 Lily of the Valley Room & Moss Room