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The soundtrack to the Bavarian comedy is unadorned Unadorned (in cinemas from November 21, 2019) and debut album by the band Monaco Fränzy. Unadorned is a buddy comedy in which two friends open an inn with only one drink, one meal and one CD that plays on a continuous loop. And that is exactly the album by the band Monaco Fränzy. And now you can also listen to the songs from the inn at home. Almost the entire Schmucklos team acted as songwriters, primarily Franziska Zawila, Stefan Fent, Kathi Kubsch, Thomas Schwendemann, Yuzo Konishi, Simon Zawila and Chris Limburg. The album was produced by Chris Limburg (Lictoc-music).

01 Unadorned Theme (Soundtrack)
02 superstar
03 mix tape
04 From below
05 Now
06 We raise our glasses
07 Augustine
08 Happy single
09 Love sucks
10 Munich
11 Zack Boom (Soundtrack)
12 One More Punch (Soundtrack)

Carole Martiné was born in Paris in 1983 and grew up in a German-French family. At the age of 5 she starts to learn the violin and will play it for 20 years both in the classical orchestra and for street music. At the age of 16, her true musical dream came true: singing! She joins a vocal ensemble and discovers jazz! It's decided, DAS will be her instrument and her music. After graduating from high school, she studied musicology, took singing lessons at the Paris Conservatoire and attended the jazz institute “Jazz à Tours” in France. Many collaborations have emerged from that time, which have influenced their music today. In 2010, she is invited to Berlin to play for the festival “Music in the Houses of the City”. She discovers the capital and decides to move there. So she opens a new chapter in her story and starts writing her own songs. Many collaborations follow, she sings for theater productions, for film music...
In 2015 she was offered a mezenate for the recording of her first album and so in January 2016 “Confidences” was released on the Osnabrück label Timezone. Concerts, festivals and radio broadcasts follow. The album received good reviews, Carole.M was even described as a local hero in January 2016 by Funkhaus Europa. Carole has been a mother for two years, she took an artistic break at one point, but is now back with new ideas, new songs and new sounds, which she would like to present on an EP soon.

01 Therapy
02 Our Souls
03 Pirates
04 Ocean
05 Ma declaration
06 Let Me Go

A summer in Riga. We stand in front of the “Elefant” hotel and talk about our music. We've lost people since the last release. And gained new ones. Life has changed. It raises question and exclamation marks. The Camera 2 album "Gaistas" tells about this, tells about the ghosts of the past and those who ambush us today. It's about demolitions and departures, wandering and quarreling and getting up again. In life and in music.

01 Disconnected
02 library
03 What I know about you
04 Everything
05 Old walls
06 did you
07 tower room
08 Behind the castle
09 Allika
10 dungeons
11 Big Again

If Snowfall in June were a hairdressing utensil with twelve letters, they would be a hair dryer: Lots of power, momentum and optimal hold. Danceable pop rock that brings joy and movement to the bar with depth and lightness.
The band takes audiences on a journey from anthemic stadium rock to Old West saloon, from smooth beachside idyll to bustling New York. The melodies are catchy, the polyphonic songs under the skin.
Snowfall in June has already played on numerous stages, for example at the Film-Food-Festival in Münster, at Kemnade in Flammen and at the Pfingst-Open Air in Heiligenhafen. Most recently, the five friends guaranteed themselves a performance on the main stage for Essen Original 2019 with the Newcomer Prize 2018 and they won the support of the Bochum music office.

01 Black Sheep
02 Train Of Life
03 All The Time
04 Assumed
05 Unicorns
06 The Girl
07 1.40
08 New York
09 You Got It
10 In My Mind
11 Streets

On March 9, 2019, Christian Falk and his band were guests at the Kulturspeicher in the East Frisian town of Leer. Timezone Records were also there and recorded the wonderful concert and put it on CD. The 15 live tracks now want to come to you at home.

01 Hello stranger
02 orange tree
03 concrete
04 Enough time to lose
05 balcony
06 Amelie
07 Change with me
08 Your smell stays

Miss Rockester is the solo project in which the singer, composer and lyricist Silvana Mehnert (known from the a cappella band "medlz") has been giving a musical insight into her soul since 2012. For her third album "Dieser Moment" she ventures into new territory in three ways: For the first time Miss Rockester has recorded an album with an orchestra, for the first time she sings songs exclusively in German and for the first time you can hear a purely instrumental piece from her. With the Elbland Philharmonie Sachsen under the direction of Tobias Engeli, she has brought a strong musical partner to her side for the special project, who inspires a large audience throughout Saxony with programs from classical to pop.
The 40 orchestra musicians reinforce the Miss Rockester quartet consisting of guitar (Thomas Hübel), cello (Benni Cellini), percussion (Stephan Salewski) and bass (Adrian Kehlbacher) with orchestral arrangements by Tim Jäckel and Andreas Goldmann. The album includes nine brand new songs by Miss Rockester as well as three tracks that appeared on her previous albums and are now heard for the first time in rich orchestral sound: "My River", "I Belong Here" and "Up to the End". For Silvana Mehnert, a childhood dream comes true with this special project: “I already thought at my first concert with the Dresden Philharmonic Children’s Choir that at some point I would like to sing alone with the orchestra. At that time I was standing directly behind the drums in Beethoven's 9th symphony. I remember it was very loud, but I was still totally impressed," says the singer. At that time she was eight years old, today this dream has come true. The overarching theme of the new CD is homeland, as Miss Rockester's songs describe inner and outer landscapes, which she passionately turns into sound. Her lyrics are interwoven with a quiet poetry, they deal with places of well-being, special moments and people, with the feelings that some encounters often unexpectedly wash into our lives. Nature and the conscious handling of our world are topics that move Silvana Mehnert and appear in her music. In addition, literature is a great source of inspiration for the singer. After she translated poems by Annette Droste-Hülshoff, John Keats and William Shakespeare into her musical language on her album "Songs, Poems & Stars", she has now dedicated her own ode to her hometown of Radebeul by setting the nature poem "Adé" by Karl May to music .
Working with the Elbland Philharmonie Sachsen opened up new horizons and new opportunities for Miss Rockester. The sound of their songs has conquered a new dimension. What has remained are the personal stories that are taken from real life and flow deep from the heart. It's the same with their first instrumental piece: “It's called 'Aotearoa', like the name of New Zealand in Maori, and describes a landscape that fascinated me incredibly. Every word would have been superfluous for this composition, so it has now become a small orchestral piece in four parts and seven minutes long," she says - and thus arouses anticipation for all twelve world premieres associated with the album release.

01 This moment
02 My river
03 I want
04 To the end
05 You will follow me
06 Everything has its time
07 Oh man
08 Aotearoa
09 anchor
10 goodbye
11 I belong here
12 farewell
13 Everything has its time (piano version)

A singing rock cellist? Guitar solos on the saxophone? Hating set patterns, Raphy & Adry are turning their "classic" instruments into deadly rock weapons. This is what awaits you on their debut album Somethin' Fancy - are you ready? Seven own songs. a cover No compromise. Their classical studies only made them both rock harder, the pressure only made them gamble faster and the adversity only made them want more. They play intensive rock with funk and country influences and skilfully alternate between lead and rhythm guitar....ahem cello & saxophone.
To top it all, classical music anti-conformist Mr. Gilles Apap burst into the studio and rocked his fiddle to the bone, making the title track the heaviest country-rock track in world history. Too many inhibiting voices, the constant naysayers were too loud.
Raphy & Adry are here to show you that you can rock your cello and sing at the same time, that you can rock out a fast-paced solo with distortion on the sax, and that all rock 'n' roll haters can shut up for once. You will not believe this? Then listen to Somethin' Fancy! But don't worry about the instruments that abuse them in between...Is that "fancy" enough for you?

01 intro
02 Somethin' Fancy
03 Burn It Down
04 Life Is Calling
05 Dance Off
06 Wind Of Change
07 Samantha
08 Outro

The ten David Guettas of jazz, Beethovens of punk rock and No Angels of boy bands play their way into the hearts and especially into the feet of the listeners with a mixture of groovy funk, rocking guitar riffs, jazzy horn sections and the soulful voice of singer Larry. Music to dance to and have fun with! Good mood and dopamine excesses, on and in front of the stage! That is the message that these 9 lords of creation and the "rooster in the basket" embody in their music.
With SoundLaden, crisp brass interjections meet fast bass fumbling, smooth ballads meet wild percussion and an angelic background choir roar meets the unmistakable soft rocking voice of the singer. It is precisely this mix that makes the store what it is: music that you must have heard, felt, experienced and above all danced to yourself!

01 The street musician
02 Great
03 summer
04 Doesn't matter
05 day to dance
06 I'm a fan of...
07 About life
08 Check it out
09 mask
10 master lamp

Arcturians are a science fiction civilization and are portrayed as an advanced life form with a positive outlook on life. Maurizio can identify with this attitude to life and this is also reflected in his music. His music stands for love, life, the good and the beautiful in our world, as well as for fairness and equality, peace and freedom! In 2006 he produced an EP with four different tracks of electronic music under the name "SphinxxMusic" together with a band member of a group from Essen. The lyrics to the songs were written and sung by Maurizio. In the years that followed, he continued to write lyrics and produce his own music in his home studio.
His listeners describe his voice as very warm, sensual, soothing and exceptionally unique!
The result is a small album with five great songs entitled "Lebe & Liebe, Live & Love". With the song "Searching for Great Luck" from the current EP, Maurizio was able to celebrate winning the Bernd Aktion on WDR 2 "Scene in the West".

01 In search of great happiness
02 In this world
03 Love Yourself
04 Only if we are all love
05 Sensitive Senses
06 In Search of Great Happiness (Instrumental)

Breathe in and out, take a deep breath, take a breath. Of second chances and rediscovered possibilities. From the first breaths of a young life to a world that is slowly but surely running out of breath. With her music, Michaela Kuti creates an atmosphere that bewitches and touches. Their songs are little odes in their own right, showing that there is someone who has something to say. The singer and songwriter's new album "Atmen" includes eight pop song pearls in German, arranged and produced by Conny Conrad with purely acoustic instruments. Catchy melodies, emotional themes and profound lyrics, paired with a modern and fresh pop sound are the recipe for the success of this album. Breathing is like music flowing through all veins. Far and deep, light and heavy, here and now at the same time.

01 Made of glass
02 dawn clouds
03 roots and wings
04 Breathe
05 let me go
06 Lifetime
07 From above
08 stop (stop the world)

The Dry Dudes know how to transform deep feelings into easy-going, smooth songs. On their third album "Grow", the duo from Emsland creates modern, independent pop with an R'n'B vibe: strong melodies on a stable groove foundation and not a single note too many.
Anyone who hasn't had the two dudes on their screens should do so now as a matter of urgency. Because these songwriters still have big plans, and they are definitely in a league in which few German artists play today. remaining doubts? Evidence abounds on Grow.
Singer Erwin Holm and guitarist Patrick Schütte reduce their sound to "Grow" and casually get to the point. With clear words, the songs tell stories in which we find ourselves, like in "Paradise" about the desire to leave everything behind and just get away.
And we all have those days when everything really goes wrong. But the Dry Dudes remind you that there is also an opportunity in failure: "Grow". You can feel what this is about without understanding the lyrics thanks to the strong atmosphere that remains consistent through all the tracks on the album.
Stylistically, "Grow" comes around the corner much more mature than the previous material. Holm and Schütte take a big leap forward in their development and land in the middle of the now. Subtle synthesizers give the sound depth, electronic beat elements provide the extra portion of groove. That's exactly what it sounds like today.

1. Grow
2. Loving For Two
3. (Your) River
4. As Good As New
5. Tonight
6. Undefined
7. Paradise
8. Fire In My Soul
9. Unknown Boy
10. Every Step
11. What Did I Do Wrong? (radio edit)

"Bonanza deluxe" is the title of the new album by Krueger's fringe group from Osnabrück. However, the band doesn't sound fully 70's (when the bonanza bikes came to Europe!), 80's, 90's or 00's. Krueger's fringe group play 2019 pop music at its freshest. "Dancen" and "Sharp Shoes" open the varied work groovy and earthy. You immediately feel encouraged to rock along while listening. After that, “idleness” is described in all its facets in a relaxed and lightly swinging manner. The following songs serve the pop segment skilfully and with a high recognition value: "Die Internationale" (rockt!), "Schwankungen", "Mit ohne Plan" and "Manche Menschen" vary the tempo and convince with their catchy character. Humming, singing and swinging along are highly recommended!
With borrowings from the modern mixture of reggae and ska, the "Fahrradsong" then builds a bridge to the album title, before the melancholic popular register is pulled out again with "Baby Dein Haus". The uptempo feel-good song "Ab da Lack" heralds the finale of "Bonanza deluxe" and leaves us with the feeling after 10 songs: "Too bad, it's over already". Lyrically, Krueger's fringe group takes on the worries and hardships of everyday life, sings about relationships and wanderlust, dreams - and cycling in the city (Osnabrück). One notices Krueger's fringe group that the 5 guys are old hands in the business, who routinely set their songs to music with a lot of enthusiasm, passion and a wink. The sound, for which Matthias Lohmöller's DocMastudio in Osnabrück is responsible, is powerful and leaves nothing to be desired (audiophile). As the opening song says: to "dance" you need ground under your feet. And music. “Bonanza deluxe” provides us with the perfect soundtrack

1. Dancing
2. Sharp shoes
3. idleness
4. The International
5. Fluctuations
6. With no plan
7. Some people
8. Bike Song
9. Baby your house
10. From there paint

I wanted to jump into a clear, deep mountain lake and dive for rocks, Zack said. That was the origin of the band. They met in Hamburg Altona to make music. They played a song and everything changed, magic land. I'm enchanted by the magic of her skill, says Zack.
John Carlson, musical director at several theaters is the creative genius, drummer Hannes Richter on drums influences your heartbeat and Hans on guitar is a virtuoso, is a rock idol... and on board is the wonderful singer Berit Möller.
It's funky, it's classic, it's real, says Zack. Volker Zack, actor, entertainer, singer had his first band at 13, worked with Werner Herzog, Wes Anderson and Quentin Taratino. Music and singing is happiness, says Zack. His lyrics, his songs and the music of the boys is a wonderful combination, groovy, weird, daring, called God Zack. "Happiness alone" an exhilarating sound carrier. The first single. Zack says you can't sit in a smoke sauna in Lapland and swim in the ice hole at the same time. You have to make a decision.
Fear god Zack is an experience. go home happy

1.LA
2. Bag and pack

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Rock, bounce, dance, cry and smile with the Jan Felix Band's debut album. The Jan Felix Band (founded in 2018) combines bursting rock riffs, glittering glam funk and melancholically swinging tone wood on their debut. The seven boys and girls fire off a lot of energy and emotions and make amplifiers, vintage synthesizers and organs glow. The music refers to both retro rock and soul as well as modern pop trends. There is also a touch of RnB and rich hip-hop beats. JFB activate Brain and Booty and dare to do something stylistically. It's good, however, that you always find your way home and to yourself musically from excessive solos, colorful choirs and sparkling funk. Sound is more important than genre here.
With a massive and rousing heartbeat of this band, frontman Jan Felix leads us listeners warmly and safely through the biographical, emotional events of seven young musicians, who sing and play how they see, perceive and feel the world of 2019.

1. Don't wanna die now
2. Florence
3. Hotel room
4.Sunflower
5. Between the blankets and the sheets
6. Man of your dreams
7. Follow your heart
8. When I was 18
9. Little moments of peace
10. Emptiness
11. The true conception of rain
12. Wild winds

Without giving up the closeness to the listener, which was worked out at countless concerts, the album "Keine Message" recorded in the Hetzwerk Studio manages the balancing act between folk and pop. Driven and set on course by offbeat guitar, drums and bass, violin and trombone leave enough space for well-considered lyrics and – after all – message.
Pieces such as "Perfekte Welt", "Zeitreise" or the first single release "Paola" invite you to dance as well as sing, while "Benni und Claus" and "Fremde wasser" should not be without moments to pause and feel .

01. Together
02. Paola
03. Time travel
04. Fortress Europe
05. Benni & Claus
06. Perfect World
07. Cosmoculinarique
08. Bella Ciao
09. Foreign waters

Feel what is really important. Don't mourn missed opportunities. Live simply. Now. What pretty much every lifestyle magazine is proclaiming these days is easier said than done. Christian Falk had to realize that too, annoyed. With his concept album "Now" the singer-songwriter takes you along the fine line between future and past.
The result: ten elaborate, musical snapshots. Ten personal, contrastive snapshots. Each one freed from the agonizingly nostalgic vortex of thoughts that almost every thirty-year-old has to contend with sooner or later. Then there are politics and society: "Suddenly the news on television has a completely different meaning for me," says Christian Falk. They affect directly and are no longer just the abstract entertainment of others. It is logical that the current concerns about a society drifting apart are reflected in the songs. Together with producer Tobi Schneider, Christian Falk took a lot of time for the sound of his concept album and so it was finally time to say goodbye to rock. Instead, Falk, together with his cellist Friedemann Eich, devotes himself entirely to the singer-songwriter genre - sophisticated, well thought-out and relentlessly honest.
As the second part of the concept series, “now” is to be followed by “after” in the future. Until then, the album remains, in addition to Christian Falk's personal snapshot, a call to himself to enjoy the here and now. For him, that would mean, for example, soaking up the good feeling after his numerous concerts and worrying less about the future.

1. A little mass is enough
2. Concrete
3. Here
4. Enough time to lose
5. Balcony
6. The freedom of art
7. Now
8. Now and then I scream softly
9. Dreams
10. Short memory

"From the beginning, I wanted to make an album that could restore my faith in music and in the world. This, I had to do it alone and to do it right I chose a style of music that I like for a long time now, Rembetiko, which is a music of truth, and all the songs of the album are truth songs too.
I started by writing the music, mostly modal, without chords, then I developed a guitar style which brings rhythm and melody. I used former music modes and specific bars to create the sound before the verb. Then the lyrics come and it comes from the shadows, the hereafter: The Other Side. In this album, the singer is a character from the underworld feeling the need to talk to us.
This is the underlying cause of the album. I recorded it in my home studio: a guitar, a mic and a direct voice, without sound process. What you hear is this moment of raw truth. It's my contribution to Rembetiko. Without revival intention, without nostalgia. More a modern poem from ancestral dust. A new flesh covering old bones."

01 Mercy
02 My Love Goodbye
03 Some Weep
04 The Angel
05 The Golden Light
06 The Lake Laments
07 The Open Road
08 The Other Night
09 The River
10 You'll Go Alone

With his previous album, "A Drop About to Drown", we had the chance to hear how Manolo Redondo likes to wander around musical genre. On "Helmet On", his songs still bring us on unexplored territories between dream pop and folk, and are at ease with a psychedelic touch and a progressive temptation inherited from the sixties. To this sca olding of acoustic sophistication, Manolo adds a veil of soft oddness, notably underlined by French lyrics seeking oniric heights.
Without losing any of that spontaneity able to produce a lot with few, "Helmet On" draws new landscapes in a subtle and rich pop, echoing The National or Chris Garneau, with slight synth moments and unifying choir. In a constellation of creative and sensitive albums, "Helmet On" is a pop comet.

01 Stains Remain
02 Best Keep Secret
03 Mountaineering
04 Lo Is The New Hi
05 Bigger Blow
06 Lentement
07 Helmet On
08 The Inca & The Khmer
09 Ten Thousand Days
10 Waves Men Ocean
11 No One Cares
12 Wintergarden
13 Conquete Spaciale

Former radio show Label Pop on French radio station France Musique, hosted by Vincent Théval, recorded about 60 live sessions at the Maison de la Radio in Paris from 2012 to 2016. Microcultures Records has selected some of them and has already released several wonderful CD collections with Elvis Perkins, Powerdove, Tunng, Howe Gelb and now Françoiz Breut.
Vincent Théval is a French journalist who worked for music magazines, was a producer at France Musique and also contributed to the book Nouveau Dictionnaire du Rock.
Label Pop French radio show, host by Vincent Théval on France Musique between 2012 and 2016, offered about sixty live sessions, recorded in Paris in Maison de la Radio studios. Microcultures Records chose a few ones and release it in a gorgeous CD collection in which you can find Elvis Perkins, Powerdove, Tunng, Howe Gelb, and now Françoiz Breut.
Vincent Théval is a French journalist. He worked for Magic magazine, was a producer for France Musique and contributed to the book Nouveau Dictionnaire du Rock.

01 Lion Den
02 Into The Sea
03 After Dark
04 Weeping Willow
05 Seeing It
06 Paper Tigers

Former radio show Label Pop on French radio station France Musique, hosted by Vincent Théval, recorded about 60 live sessions at the Maison de la Radio in Paris from 2012 to 2016. Microcultures Records has selected some of them and has already released several wonderful CD collections with Elvis Perkins, Powerdove, Tunng, Howe Gelb and now Françoiz Breut. Vincent Théval is a French journalist who worked for music magazines, was a producer at France Musique and also contributed to the book Nouveau Dictionnaire du Rock.

Label Pop French radio show, host by Vincent Théval on France Musique between 2012 and 2016, offered about sixty live sessions, recorded in Paris in Maison de la Radio studios.
Microcultures Records chose a few ones and release it in a gorgeous CD collection in which you can find Elvis Perkins, Powerdove, Tunng, Howe Gelb, and now Françoiz Breut.
Vincent Théval is a French journalist. He worked for Magic magazine, was a producer for France Musique and contributed to the book Nouveau Dictionnaire du Rock.

01 My Kind
02 Gasoline
03 It's Now Or Never Loves
04 On Rotation Moses
05 The Passage Of The Black Gene
06 Hogus Pogus
07 I'll Be Arriving

On April 5, 2019, Götz Rausch's fourth album will finally be released by Timezone. Already the opener "So long there is a plan" unfolds a wonderful pull and sets the direction that this musician has now taken with his band. It becomes much more powerful and the ironic distance in the lyrics seems to disappear. Both are extremely good for this production.
The musician, who was born in Hamburg, sings hauntingly about the impossibility of making progress without stopping, about the senselessness of always having to be unique and about how pleasant it can be to spend a day without yourself, just to discuss a few topics to name. As with previous releases, you can tell the music was recorded live in the studio, giving the overall sound a vibrancy that's often lacking these days. In addition to piano, drums and guitars, strings and pedal steel guitars are cleverly incorporated, giving the impression of moving through the far-off expanses of North America in some pieces.
In summary it can be said that we are dealing with a musician who is obviously coming into his own more and more and from whom a lot can still be expected. After listening to this album, it is hard to understand why Götz Rausch is still considered an absolute insider tip. Even if he may not have any particular interest in leaving a big mark, he would be treated to it and wished for it.

1. As long as there is a plan
2. How time falls apart
3. Unique
4. Great freedom
5. All the others
6. Not there
7. When all wheels stand still
8. Another day like that

Vastness - weightlessness - dissolution of boundaries - flow through the night and these self-written songs. Dreamily, almost a little wistfully, they bring everyone to rest and safely take them with them on the journey to their own ego in a dreamlike manner.
The texts, which he wrote himself, have autobiographical content and combine symbiotically with voice and piano. The instrument is played almost classically and is reminiscent of Elton John or Billy Joel. And on top of that, the voice sits softly and yet powerfully. That's the style of these lyrical pop ballads.

1. So Far Away
2. Stream Of The Night
3. Tokyo Blue Night
4.Autumn
5. Fly Into The Sky

The Wiesloch singer-songwriter Christoph Engelsberger has arrived “in the middle of life” with his new album. The 36-year-old tells musical stories that drive and concern people at very personal turning points. When you look back to childhood dreams like in "I always wanted to be an astronaut" and in the midst of everyday turbulence you ask yourself the quiet question whether that should really have been everything - in life and in love. Whether with ballads on the relationship status such as "Stop the hands again" or "People without a name", "My very personal contribution and my feeling for the refugee crisis", as Christoph Engelsberger describes it: It's about changes "in the middle of life" that sweep you away , electrify, accelerate and then sometimes pull the rug out from under your feet, as in “When Everyone Sleeps”.
In addition to open, sometimes almost relentlessly emotional German lyrics, Christoph Engelsberger's fourth album surprises with a fresh band line-up and a new sound. "The idea slowly crept into my head and into my songs, to break new ground musically in the middle of life and to dare a new beginning with the band," says Christoph Engelsberger. The guitar sounds of the Karlsruher Roman Hernitscheck are just as much a part of the current album as Andreas Kaufmann, who not only shaped the 13 songs "Mitten im Leben" with modern drum patterns as a drummer. As a producer (eg "Sing meine Song") he also gave them his very own sound polish in his studio in Mannheim.

1. Be an astronaut
2. Who
3. Write to you
4. Nothing forever
5. When everyone is asleep
6. Stop the hands
7. Courage Stories
8. Fields of Verdun
9. Flotsam
10. People without names
11. In the middle of life
12. I let go
13. Good as it is

A sick world - but what is healthy? How many bad jokes can you take? What really helps us against the hangover the next morning? Questions upon questions at the Aunt Doctor have more than one answer. Tante Doktor, a band of musicians and doctors from Gießen, process their experiences and impressions from everyday hospital life and a little bit of life that remains on their current album "Bettnachbar". With gnarly pop and fluffy indie, the two voices help each other with Rhodes, bass and beats to bring their texts with a lot of content to the audience. A partly disturbing, consistently captivating and palpably real insight into the emotional world behind and under the smock. Tante Doktor promises an intensive evening without a waiting room and with a wide range of symptoms. From a lump in your throat to a sore laughing muscle to the delayed danger of reverberation.

"...Aunt Doctor wonderfully easily manages the balancing act between sadness and happiness. Conjures up a smile on everyone's faces or thoughtfulness, with soulful music, bizarre anecdotes and jokes. Aunt Doctor has nothing in common with naive do-gooders. Here, musical and textual creativity goes hand in hand with sensitive and yet X-ray accurate observations. From a different point of view, they completely 'unsterile' change our view of a still taboo area of ​​our society.” (Badisches Tagblatt)

“What at first appears to be a threat for a hypochondriac turns out to be first class during the first listening impression. Such strongly vocalized medical poetry is a punch in the pit of the stomach, but certainly bizarre enough to captivate the listener with a certain degree of fascination.” (www.lieinthesound.com)

01 grape sugar
02 John
03 swan pond
04 Fuck the dog
05 Bardolino
06 Luebeck
07 advertising

Long before his critically acclaimed debut album "Origins" (2009) and its equally highly acclaimed successor "Solaria" (2012), Kevin Werdelmann alias Slowtide had already made the two demo CDs "Time Escape" (2001) and "Things That Fade". (2002) attracted attention. These early works, long out of print, were still available in the best do-it-yourself guise as blank CDs with a cover you printed out yourself.
Nine songs that were created in a simply instrumented setting in a confined space and with only a few tracks in the bedroom, but which were already confirmed in the demo columns of relevant magazines as having great potential. More than 15 years later, Kevin breathes new life into these raw demo fragments with the album "A Gentle Reminder", sometimes dressing them elegiacly with strings and grand pianos, sometimes intoxicatingly with guitars and synthesizers, sometimes not at all.
A reinterpretation of youthful ideas from a mature point of view, which one can no doubt hear as being close to the heart of the artist.
The resulting album sees itself more as a compilation, as a tour through an exhibition of stylistically divergent pictures from bygone times, and thus unabashedly pays homage to the variety of possibilities. The album starts with the fear-infused, shimmering synth-rock opener "Today", shortly afterwards it loses itself in the intimate chamber pop of "Soothing Light" in grueling melancholy, admonishes the change of perspective over a pulsating lofi drum loop in "The Shape of Things" and then sweats through the snotty '70s rock of "Get Up You're Free".
In this sense, the ambivalence is the lyrical focus: the rebellion against one's own demons and the devastating capitulation, the last chances and the eternal omissions, burgeoning hope and hopeless despair.

1.Today
2. Soothing Light
3. The Shape Of Things
4. Get Up You're Free
5.Safe
6. Halcyon Days
7. Lights
8. The Story Of Your Life
9. Fall Down

Born and raised in Rosenheim in Upper Bavaria, the singer Lena Mentschel (33) has lived in Graz, Austria, since 2006. She sings, plays the piano and scrubs the ukulele with great devotion. Leni, her stage name, studied jazz in Graz, but she has always loved soul even more than jazz music, especially that of the 70s.
On her new album, which bears the striking title "Bipolar", Leni describes the most diverse emotional worlds in twelve songs. An emotional roller coaster ride that reflects everything from euphoric party mood to deep melancholy. She sings with inimitable ease and a smile on her face from the depths of her soul and reveals with a good portion of "shame" which two fundamentally opposite souls are sleeping in her chest. Everything is honest and 100% Leni, nothing is artificial and contaminated by clichés. For this reason, she also decided to sing in her Bavarian dialect for the first time, which makes it easier for her to let her ideas and feelings out unfiltered.
With "Bipolar" the musician Leni dares the courageous step towards soulful danceability, towards melodic pop. The first single "Amsterdam" made the scene sit up and take notice. Soulful pop sounds from Leni, that was new. With the current single release "Gelato al Limon", Leni elegantly and with verve combines the genres of soul, pop and funk. The tingling love song humorously combines erotic affection for one (or several?) sexy guys with devotion to their favorite ice cream. Sure, soul, funk and sexy feelings, that fits and nobody knows how to bring these things together like the attractive Leni with her unique and soulful staccato singing, which sometimes reminds a bit of Prince.
The leitmotif of the album is naturally represented by the title song "Bipolar", which describes the two sides of life and personality with ideas ranging from amusing to grotesque. Leni describes her Waterloo in love with original and delicious comparisons in the rhythmically sophisticated song "Tennis". The song "Two pairs of different shoes" is bluesy and soulful. This is about a guy who never does what he promises or says. Everyone knows such a shady steam talker. It was definitely about time someone wrote a song about them. The populist zeitgeist will certainly allow for this.
Another highlight of the album is the last song on the album, the intense ballad "Someday". The title describes how one sums up one's life shortly before death and lets it play out in front of oneself. Laughter and tears go hand in hand here. As actually on the whole album, which strings together beautiful musical pearls. Leni has reinvented herself with her new work and also found herself musically.
Not least because of this, “bipolar” will make many people happy, that's for sure.

01 Gelato al Limon
02 Amsterdam
03 Tennis
04 Weird
05 Bipolar
06 The thing
07 2 pairs of different shoes
8. Nothing starts with me today
9. When you laugh
10. Princess
11. Ois & Nothing
12. Eventually

Fat sound, energy and humor from the Ruhr area. The result: top-class entertainment!
"Let's experience something!" is the motto. There is probably no better time to indulge your natural needs and go steep. Advanced steep! That's the name of the current album by the Gelsenkirchen punk rockers.

1. And off!
2. Goodbye brings joy
3. Come with me
4. Steep
5th line on the map
6. The main thing is not alone
7. Kazoo!

Drawer open, music in, drawer closed. nope It's not that easy with Gemkow. Because no matter how profound, melancholically dreamy his lyrics are, no matter how multifaceted his music may sound - in the end it's always pop. Sometimes very gently, sometimes the "wall of sound".
Whether it's small anecdotes from his life, the longing for his northern German homeland, the touching ballad about fears and hopes or the denunciation of grievances in our society - Gemkow's textual diversity alone is remarkable. And then there is this one red thread - this extraordinary, melancholic voice, in which you can hear the down-to-earthness of its owner in every syllable. A voice to listen to. Pop to listen to is that! bam! So he just built his drawer himself...

1. Lights
2. Strange species
3. Here
4. Beyond Being
5. In depth
6. Way too tired
7. Never in my life
8. Rock festival
November 9 wind
10. Promised Land

"Kölsche Tön" or One shouldn't expect carnival/service provider music when listening to Beach Voice's songs, even if the signal word "Cologne" appears in the title. Beach Voice are a (the?) German Beach Boys tribute band, based in Cologne/Bonn, who release three live recordings and one song plus its chillout remix with this EP.
The disc primarily serves as a "take-away" for cheerful concert-goers, and also as a convincing business card for organizers of future gigs. In addition, the song "Surfin' Cologne, Sufin' Bonn" is a refreshingly quirky little 60s retro piece with strong lyrics, which now serves as the band's signature song. Cheerful, without overlooking how thin the ice has become: "...enjoy the sun, and a bit of fun, even on the edge of an atomic war...". Behind the production is the Cologne musician Peter Lingemann, who has access to a network of top-class supporters.
The wind sections, for example, were arranged by Heiner Schmitz (NDR Big Band, Jazzkantine, Joe Cocker, etc.), the vocal sections bear the signature of the wonderful Renate Otta (BAP, Wolf Maahn & die Deserteure, "The Voice of Germany", etc.). The remixed version was created in collaboration with David Rynkowski (Norah Jones, Luciel, etc.).

01 Surfin' Cologne, Surfin' Bonn
02 California Girls (live)
03 I Get Around (live)
04 Good Vibrations (live)
05 Surfin' Cologne, Surfin' Bonn (Chillout Remix)