Pop

Energetic and playful, but also melancholic and mystical: Tempel Baron create sophisticated melodies that stick and create a sound cosmos between sixties beat and indie pop. Their music is an invitation to dance with sublime words and an invitation to be musically driven through time and space. Behind the name Tempel Baron is Patrick Weber, who plays all the instruments, writes the lyrics and has already worked with various bands. After Frankfurt, Hamburg and Berlin, the man with Austrian roots has found a home in Potsdam and is now starting his own project. "Tempel Baron" combines all his musical experiences and the heart and soul of an eventful artistic life. According to the motto "live the music and create your dreams and visions", Patrick Weber considers Tempel Baron as a complete work of music, text and partly also film and art. His musical roots lie in the sixties, with the Beatles, Byrds, or the Kinks, but also with newer bands like Tame Impala or the Oh Sees. The songs contain surreal lyrics, no clear messages, but words that often only reveal their meaning after repeated listening. Patrick Weber is supported by Mrs. Bee, who is not only an influential muse but also contributes backing vocals and singing. After Tempel Baron had already attracted some attention with an EP in 2016, they now present their self-titled CD with fifteen songs including the popular "Spring of Spring", which made it from the EP to the current long player. The result is an album that impresses with its musical variety and high songwriting qualities. The pieces "Fermi Paradoxon" or "Narcissus" begin playfully, but end in an atmospherically dense and profound way. "Undiscovered Land" shows singer/songwriter qualities and can be played live with the acoustic guitar, just like "Frühlingshauch". The potential hit "Lagoon Nebula" conveys the feeling of witnessing the score of an old science fiction film from the sixties, only to end in a veritable dancefloor cracker. Tempel Baron make music that invites you to dance and rock out.

01 Undiscovered Country
02 Fermi's paradox
03 Ash Phoenix
04 Hell Ride
05 Narcissus
06 Lagoon Nebula
07 Aleister Crowley
08 Lee Miller

Eleven songs like nails in the plank or shots from a veritable handgun. Sure, power pop is a tradition. The Kinks, the Yardbirds and the Beach Boys are peeking around the corner and punk is lurking at the bus stop across the street. But especially the nerdy, nodding organ and the stoic, grainy guitar work give the whole thing an unmistakable touch. Add to that the straightforward "No bullshit" production by the young New Yorker Nick Wolz.

SIDE A
01 Welcome To The Night
02 Beautiful Day
03 Ain't No Friend Of Mine
04 The Hammer
05 Walk Away
06 points

SIDE B
01 Soul Alligator
02 All I Know
03 containers 905
04 Crossing The Line
05 Yeah, yeah, yeah

backing. The rock and pop band from Rheine, Westphalia, brings a multifaceted live program to every stage - whether big or small. Back cover's playful repertoire ranges from ZZ-Top-like hard rock interludes to radio-ready pop and 90s crossovers. All this is refined with German rap in the style of the beginners and five stars deluxe. There are plenty of texts that encourage people to sing along and celebrate.
backing. Not only for the ear, but also for the eye.
True to this motto, the stage show was also designed by Rücken coverage. The program couldn't be more varied, from outfits you put together yourself to confetti cannons and various other stage accessories. backing. That's 2 MC's paired with guitar, bass and drums. The two front men at the microphones give a bundle of surprises and ensure doubly charged energy.

1. Rockets
2. Move
3. Campari, Korn & Chardonnay
4. Here the bear tap-dances
5. Love song
6. Ho' ma beer, yo!
7. Heads or tails
8. Are you crying?

Music loosely based on the motto "While my piano gently weeps" This music is gentle and seduces its audience into a decelerated world. The charismatic voice of Ralph Maten meets the melancholy warmth of a very young Cat Stevens. In combination with the piano played by him tenderly, it is a feast for the senses.
With the worldwide release of his fifth solo album "Yours & Mine (Live 2014)" via Amp-Media, the German press gave him the very appropriate nickname "Samtmann". Ralph Maten is a Music Producer, Singer (Rock/Blues & Jazz) & Pianist (Torch Music).
Maten not only appreciates the advantages of popular stage pianos as an endorser for traditional Japanese brands. In his stage shows, Maten convinces with the live use of his most important instrument: his strong voice. References: In the remix area, he has already been able to lend a hand for great productions by Udo Lindenberg, Wir sind Helden, Glashaus, Yello, Funker Vogt. He has released over twenty English-language albums on his own record label AMP-Media. Maten has already rocked live at major festivals. He played among others in the support act for strange artists like Marilyn Manson, Wolfsheim, HIM, De/Vision and his childhood idol Marc Almond (Soft Cell).

1. Sad Song
2. Shout
3. Friday I'm In Love
4. She smiles
5. Grandma's Hands
6. Gave You (All My Love)
7. Child On My Mind
8. Listening (To The Whispering Fields)
9. Intro waves
10. Waves
11. Oh My Heart (I Want More Summer Vers.)
12. Just The Two Of Us
13. Believe
14. Friday I'm In Love (String Edition)

"Sounds like: David Lee Roth meets Marie Fredriksson under the disco ball" Westfälische Nachrichten

Everything traditional is withdrawn from the blues in a charming way, all the nasty sounds of the 80s are unpacked and the funky disco scene of the 70s is also properly turned through the mangle with a constant wink. The snotty, Hendrix-tinged guitar playing and one or two jazz licks definitely make the glam rock disco blues of the Yvi Wylde Trio an experience. The intention of Yvi Wylde and her Brothers From Other Mothers? - bring the guitar back into pop music!
After various performances for and with artists such as Culcha Candela, Paul Gilbert, Richie Kotzen and Jennifer Batten, Yvi grabbed her two comrades-in-arms Rolf and Hendrik in 2013 and since then has been trying to conjure up a few chic guitar riffs in the old Prince manner. The hippie blues band already proved with their debut album that the music of the three cannot be pigeonholed. The second album by the crazy trio is not for the faint of heart and die-hard genre fans. However, those who are open-minded cannot avoid "provincial rockers" and experience a wonderful journey through electro, pop of the 80s, rock, country, blues and funk. Binding link: Of course the guitar! The trio was able to win keyboarder Tim Möller, singer Tobias Eisenworth and Udo Lindenberg bassist Stef Stephan as guest musicians alongside long-time companions Björn Diewald and Lars Havelberg.

01 Home Is Where The Heart Is
02. slave
03 Fake It Until You Make It
04 Couldn't Stand Losing You
05 Higher Than The Sun
06 Shake What Your Mama Gave Ya
07 birthday song
08 David
09 Home Is Where The Heart Is (Acoustic)
10 Home Is There The Heart Is (Live)

The Berlin singer and lyricist Boris Steinberg, a chanson singer in the best sense of the word, takes stock. On his "Best Of" album, Boris collects the core pieces of his creative work to date: In the wild chanson Berlin after the fall of the Wall, the starting shot was fired and within a few years he won his permanent place in the so-called "New Berlin chanson scene" and counted alongside Tim Fischer, Cora Frost, Tanja Ries and Georgette Dee on the new chanson interpreters.
This is how chansons and songs from 25 years now come together on this “Best Of”! Poetically clear mood pictures and sensitive interior views, as well as charismatic pop ballads, partly in new arrangements or with gentle guitar tones, accompanied by his longtime musical companion Tobias Schmidt.
Songs such as "Unter meine Haut" and Parachutists, which also made their way onto the radio and placed in the SWR best song list, can be heard, as well as the setting of a poem, Spiegelleben, by the poet and writer Mario Wirz, who died in 2013.

1. Between Here and Somewhere
2. Wall children
3. Drama Queen
4. Under my skin
5. One more time
6. Thunderstorm (when love dies)
7. Leaps of thought
8. Wandering heart

How much happiness can an album take anyway? – Singer/songwriter Christian Falk asked himself this question while he was working on his debut album “Color & Darkness”. The answer: Probably not too much, if it's not trivial or the next album by Max Giesinger. As an enthusiastic theatergoer, the native of Bremen loves dualism, the game between good and evil, happiness and misfortune, light and shadow. It is precisely these opposites that play a key role in “Color & Darkness”. “My music takes time. It's not for quick fun," says the 29-year-old. For more than a year, Christian Falk worked on his songs, on the perfect mixture of contrasts. On “Farbe & Dunkel” between ten pieces, colourful, life-affirming pop rock meets deep, painful melancholy and political commentary without compromise. Sometimes packed in concrete, sometimes in abstract songwriter pieces, which owe their perfect fine tuning on a musical level to Falk's cellist Friedemann Eich and the producer Tobi Schneider. As a true workhorse, Christian Falk plays up to 100 concerts of all sizes every year. But his secret favorite are appearances in private living rooms. These are now an integral part of his tour life and can be booked directly on his homepage. As in “Color & Darkness”, Christian Falk's life is also marked by dualisms. As a graduate industrial engineer, he could have lived the safe, middle-class life that looked sunny from the outside with a career in a large corporation. But in order not to slip into a hamster wheel, after a short excursion into the automotive industry, Christian Falk consciously decided against the corporate world and followed his heart: “Music is what makes me happy. I don't want to do anything else in my life.”

1. Saltwater
2. Europe
3. Color
4. Switch with me
5. Your smell stays
6. Hello stranger
7. When the world goes to sleep
8. Orange tree
9. One of mine
10. Fantasy

The roots of the two singers are unmistakable - today they dream of Brazil and tomorrow they will take you to Africa. The duo combines the warm sounds of these countries with their pop compositions. The power of their music is the uniqueness of their two voices, which nevertheless know how to intertwine. This was also the reason why Nadja Lea Letzgus and Hanna Sikasa founded Club Flor de Maio. In their first album they devote themselves entirely to the interplay of their two voices. Accompanying themselves on Rhodes and double bass, they create their clear, acoustic sound.

1. Fall Into My...
2. Winds And Ways
3. Laya
4. Dreams
5.Never Look Back
6. Vim de Longe
7. Best currency
8. Bitter Moon
9. Of Kings And Queens
10. Outro
11. Vim De Longe Bogjee (Remix)

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

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

Benno Schön, the singing tiler, is finally publishing his first self-composed song.

01 Friesensong (radio version)

Ben Schadow has been a music enthusiast since the early 90s: producing, composing, arranging, writing lyrics and touring wherever and however he can. It's no secret that the shy and quiet musician likes to act from the background. However, if you look around the German music scene, you will find his name almost everywhere: Whether on bass with Bernd Begemann, Dirk Darmstädter and Rhonda or in the studio with Sophie Rois and Paul Kuhn.
As varied as Ben works passionately for foreign musicians, he writes his own varied songs with passion.

01 dr Escapism (Theme)
02 Soliloquy in front of the mirror
03 All these people
04 My life bores me when…
05 Jennie
06 Everything becomes easy
07 Miss M
08 I give up!
09 I don't want to want anything anymore
10 Greetings from your enemy, the world
11 dr Escapism (reprise)

Songs that life writes. A new voice and one worth discovering. Andy Houscheid is a trained pianist. He was influenced by jazz pianists and vocalists such as Grönemeyer, Wecker and Reiser. One unites several souls in his breast.
The debut album "Further From Here" was recorded with a well-rehearsed band. Mentally, Andy is incredibly alert and agile. His music lies between styles. It's not pop, too demanding. Jazz, that's where the purists have their doubts. Whatever the expectations, Andy Houscheid is a strong, artistic personality who knows exactly what he wants. He studied with the outstanding jazz pianists Diederik Wissels in Brussels, Richie Beirach in Leipzig and Klaus Ignatzek in Oldenburg. The titles of the new CD exude a touch of melancholy, but are neither gloomy nor sad.
A great album for ears and heart.

01 hovering
02 Still the dreams
03 On their travels
04 Small world
05 Not for everyone
06 The best
07 child
08 Spring Dreams
09 Between lines
10 Free fall
11 Nothing to lose
12 It stays
13 wind
14 Not a bad person

Ben Schadow has been a music enthusiast since the early 90s: producing, composing, arranging, writing lyrics and touring wherever and however he can. It's no secret that the shy and quiet musician likes to act from the background. However, if you look around the German music scene, you will find his name almost everywhere: Whether on bass with Bernd Begemann and Dirk Darmstädter or in the studio with Sophie Rois and Paul Kuhn.
As varied as Ben works passionately for other musicians, he writes his own varied songs with passion.
Musically, his debut album builds a bridge between the pop of the 1960s, the underground of the 1990s and the present day. Most of his lyrics are about the thrill of social clashes, not only in the real world but also in the imaginary. Hence the title of the album "Love at the time of the machines" ... a reference to a novel by his favorite author ETA Hoffmann.

01 intro
02 I always fall for the same things
03 Wooden heart
04 Mercy is carried in coffins
05 How easy it would be to just stay
06 One out of pride, one out of shame
07 Together last
08 Actually, it can't get any better
09 Bright spot in the Black Sea
10 What if it finds me awake?
11 I dreamed I was dead
12 Outro

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

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)

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

After the romantic fairy tale hour "Fairytale" it's time for the Dry Dudes to reflect on the small, not necessarily less romantic moments of everyday life. With their debut follow-up, "Memories", the Dry Dudes from Emsland open a photo album full of memories.
Some are already a bit faded, the colors blurry. Others are still very present. You can almost feel them again, the kisses on your cheeks, touching fingertips, taste the chewing gum that you had in your mouth at the time. Or you feel the pang in your heart, the disappointment and longing, as if it were just yesterday. Or was it all just a dream after all?
On "Memories" the dry dudes Erwin Holm and Patrick Schütte tell twelve new stories between love, longing, passion and nostalgia in twelve dreamy songs. Stories that life writes and that each of us has probably experienced at least once – just not as beautifully and multifacetedly packaged as on “Memories”.
On their second album, too, the Dry Dudes swear by their very own interpretation of pop rock with singer/songwriter appeal, which at the same time contains a lot of musical accents from a wide variety of genres between acoustic pop and R&B.
The Dry Dudes met at a music competition in the summer of 2015. After brief excursions into the cover world with songs by Michael Jackson and Ed Sheeran, the young people from Emsland were certain: we don't want to sound like everyone else. Since then they have been delighting their fans all over Germany with their soulful, handmade music.

Side A
01 Take Me Home
02 Break it down
03 Cupid's Arrow
04 Last Night
05 Different Ways
06 Traveling Around The World

Side B
01 changes
02 Orange House
03 95
04 Mary Me
05 Head over Heals
06 Pain

After their debut album "A ride on either side" comes the second coup. The protagonist and composer, Silvana Mehnert, seems to have arrived with her new CD "Songs, Poems & Stars" and found her very own musical signature and identity. An enchanting mixture of original compositions, poem settings and musical memories are woven into a coherent overall work, which does not require any great technical gimmicks and is bursting with handmade naturalness. Her multifaceted voice takes you on a journey into the past on "Every Fair" (Shakespeare Sonnet 18), dwells on the present on "Hold Me Tight" and offers hope for a brighter future on "Breathe In". But the second album does not close itself to serious and critical thoughts. Songs like "Ticket to the sky" and "Mein Fluss" also illuminate the darker sides of our time, but never without losing hope for the light at the end of the tunnel.

01 Every Fair (Shakespeare Sonnet 18)
02 My river
03 Ticket To The Sky
04 Hold me tight
05 Breathe In
06 To the end
07 Human
08 The Old Castle (poem by Annette Droste-Hülshoff)
09 Fairy Song (Poem by John Keats)
10 Ode to the Stars
11 Northern Lights
12 I belong here

August 16, 2017 marks the 40th anniversary of Elvis Presley's death and Elvis and his music are still present. Singer / songwriter and Elvis fan Steven Morrys from Germany wants to touch people's innermost parts with "Elvis Come Back", a poignant ballad in homage to Elvis and for his fans. Morry's vision: "Elvis Come Back" should be understood as a musical memorial in honor of Elvis Aaron Presley and commemorate him worldwide at least every year on his birthday (January 8th) and on the anniversary of his death (August 16th).
However, "Elvis Come Back" is not an Elvis song and is therefore not aimed exclusively at Elvis fans. On the contrary, the spirit of Elvis should also reach the people and generations who were no longer able to experience Elvis. Maybe this song will arouse curiosity to find out who Elvis actually was? What was or still is so fascinating about him that 500,000 people make a pilgrimage to Graceland every year?

1. Elvis Come Back
2.Free
3. Close to me
4. Elvis Come Back Radio Edit
5. Elvis Come Back Acoustic
6. Elvis Come Back Karaoke with Background
7. Elvis Come Back Karaoke with no background

Michael Lane asks us to follow him. Into a world full of infinite possibilities. Completely free and without any restrictions we would live if we could only break through to this parallel side of ourselves. At least that's how he describes it on his opener "Break Through", the first track on his new album "Linger On". But what exactly awaits us there and how do we achieve this breakthrough? "Linger On" offers an insight into this topic and that through songs about dreaming, reflecting and changing.
The German-American knows many sides of life. While he was still fighting as a soldier in the US Army in Iraq and later in Afghanistan at the age of 20, he now makes a living from music. He has already been able to grasp both extremes of human life: separation and unity. “As a soldier, I witnessed the cruel absurdity of war. It is inconceivable to me what must happen in other people to make such conditions possible. After that it was clear to me that I had to find a way to do something about this madness in my own way. Music was my key. It connects people and I want to contribute to it.”
So Mike picks up where he started with his debut album "Sweet Notes", released in 2014. While the follow-up work "The Middle" (release: 2016) delved deeper into the matter, "Linger On" is the temporary peak of his artistic creativity. The album revolves around visions of a world in balance. The title track describes the wish that the beautiful and true in us should last. If you want to change the world, you have to change yourself. So we should stay and continue on our way. Don't look away, act. "There will be a voice inside your heart, still and clear. That tells you everything about us. We are near.” as heard in the title “The Night”. With this, the artist points out that one is not alone. In our hearts we already know that there are many allies out there walking the same path.
Mike produced "Linger On" almost entirely by himself. Immediately you feel the direct intimacy of the record, which immediately captivates us. Using simple means, Mike moves each element to where it belongs and also surprises with unexpected twists and sounds. While "The Middle" was kept puristic and clear, the artist developed his sound significantly further with "Linger On" and relies on flat arrangements and dreamy drum sounds. Along with the themes of content, the sound of the record fits seamlessly with Mike's visionary ideas.
Linger On builds the bridge between the wonderful utopia of people without fears and the harsh reality in which we live. With a large portion of devotion, the artist stimulates us to take a journey into our inner being. In the hope that we will find the key to our true self and our actual consciousness there. In this sense: Linger On.

01 Breakthrough
02 Wolf Lodge
03 Linger On
04 The Night
05 Dream Alice Dream
06 Alone In Denver
07 Fighting With You
08 Medicine Man
09 Good Morning Sat
10 The Sweetest Thing
11 full value

It's hard to describe music that's honest enough to give each song space to be exactly what it wants to be. The album "Oh What Pretty Thing" is hauntingly naked and rawly produced. As a listener you feel like you're sitting between the band, as if the sounds are close to your ear, almost in your head and then in your heart. It's an album that you want to listen to lying on the floor, that drives away the cold, shows the bird the bird and talks about being human. It's pop music with weird instruments. Acoustic sound of double bass, trombone and suitcase, plus electronic sounds. In between, the singing hovers, direct and pure. This album is not a journey, it is a deep dive into one's own intimacy

01 Faces
02 4.34pm
03 Filou
04 Mary
05 2.17 am
06 Nose
07 friends
08 1 am
09 Yours
10 11.30 p.m

The focus of "Two Hearts In Ten Bands" are two unique and strong voices that are particularly convincing in combination. The sisters Sina and Sarah were still on the road with the band until 2016 and released the album "Revoltionary Heart". In 2017, the two reflect on their origins and release a purely acoustic album in October 2017.
The talented duo lends their ten pieces a minimalist costume on guitar, bass, keyboard, percussion or harmonica that simply fits.
The sisters can look back on over 500 concerts all over Europe. With passion, charisma and warmth, they take the listener on a stormy emotional journey. Their sound is reminiscent of bands and artists like the Indigo Girls, Boy, SIA, Birdy or Damien Rice.

“Two sisters, two voices, lots of stories, lots of variety and a journey we can all take with us. (...) Sarah and Sina Steinbrecher convince with their powerful and powerful voices, which sometimes establish the wild directness of a Sinead O'Connor and sometimes the gentleness of a Kate Bush while remaining true to themselves." - Bluesprint fanzine 2016

01 Drive You Home
02 Believes
03 Lionheart
04 Symmetric Trees
05 Slow Decay
06 Heavy Stones
07 Gray Cats
08 Set You Alight
09 Strawberry Fields
10 singing birds

Immerse yourself in the bizarre world of Cliff Shark and his songwriter Günther Andratschke. Driving beats and romantic melodies merge into a symbiosis of danceable synth pop songs.
Cliff Shark makes a colorful mixture of pop, rock and electro, sometimes melancholic and dreamy, then again the shark grooves lasciviously under the disco ball. The songwriter wants to entertain the listener, also with sometimes unexpected twists in the songs. There is also a dash of irony in the lyrics, but always with a loving wink.
There are also 3 pretty wacky new videos...

01 Friends
02 Arabian Nights
03 17 seconds
04A Fighter
05 Doors Slam
06 Cliff Shark
07 Time Is A Healer
08 Arabian Days
09 Monday Morning

The sibling duo Fratelli Vaienti convinces with their honest and down-to-earth acoustic rock, which ranges from soulful ballads to snotty rock songs. The self-written songs written by the singer Emilie Vaienti, which are then refined with the guitar playing of her brother Dominik Vaienti, are about people, situations and experiences.
Some songs, such as the song "Tooth for a tooth" with its highly topical socio-critical topic, hit the nerve of the time and get under your skin. The two siblings understand each other without many words, pursue the same goals and ideas with their music and thus always pull together. The debut album "Figure It Out" tells in its 14 songs about life, fear of failure, lovesickness, jealousy, monotony, sadness, love and coming home.

01 banisters
02 Figure It Out
03 Under Her League
04 This World
05 If The Rain Stops
06 Innocent Child
07 Same Old Story

Cruising in the car in the sunshine, with friends and good music on board, with or without a destination. To let your soul dangle, who doesn't like that? Pat Fritz invites us to come along on such a road trip with his new album "going for a CAR RIDE" - the perfect soundtrack for it. The Rastatt-born singer, guitarist, songwriter and band boss describes his seventh long-player as “pure joie de vivre”.
This time he's playing with big cutlery: "Less Acoustic - more Rock!" Instead of intimate, atmospheric acoustic songs, this time there are timelessly beautiful R&B and AOR tunes with an electric band sound. To do this, he invited his trusted trio to the studio, professional musician friends who have been accompanying him live for a long time: bassist Stefan "Eddy" Endrigkeit, guitarist Joachim "JoJo" Schlueter and drummer Lars Plogschties played the eleven songs for "going for a CAR RIDE", recorded and produced in the Hamburg studio on the mezzanine floor, where discs by Laith Al-Deen, Peter Maffay, Boy and Pohlmann have already been processed.
"I wanted the songs to come across as this band sounds live," Fritz explains his vision, "the way we arranged and recorded them, with each individual's own note." Of course, "going for a CAR RIDE" transports everyone what the fans love about the charismatic frontman: authenticity, dedication, passion - qualities that have brought Pat Fritz to the support act for BAP, Inner Circle, Roger Cicero and Marshall & Alexander. Above all, however, his soulful, sonorous voice, which is unparalleled in Germany, when the crooner effortlessly switches between powerful expression and a tenderly melting timbre and tells his stories, which he usually writes together with the Nashville-based musician and lyricist Thomm Jutz.
A real successful team. Together they created rousing rock tunes with hit potential like "Mojo", but also soulful mid-tempo tunes like "Green Magic Island", which show Fritz' penchant for laid-back atmospheres and relaxed grooves, as well as the thoughtful acoustic ballad "Strangers To Each Other “, which addresses the current refugee drama. As an encore, the host presents three bonus tracks: With "When I Slip Way", "Won't Go Back" and "Good Fellow", the boss subjected three of his classic songs to a rejuvenation and presents them to his fans as "Acoustelectric 2001". With "going for a CAR RIDE" Pat Fritz has succeeded in creating an album with timeless songs, with fascinating harmonic twists and big refrains that make your heart soar.
“I learned that from songs I used to sing,” he explains. "Because you can only take others with you if something really grabs you!" I rock and put pressure on,” says the mastermind happily. “These songs are made for big stages. And they invite you to have fun!” So ​​it’s time for a rousing musical road movie like the title track “Car Ride” conveys: “As if you’re driving with a good friend in the car, with good music on board that you sing along to”, as Pat Fritz says. "That's pure joie de vivre!"

01.Car Ride
02. Moving on somehow
03. If you stumble
04. Mojo
05. Hearts can mend
06. A fool for leaving trains
07. Green Magic Island
08. Strangers to each other
09. When I slip away
10. Won't go back
11. Good fellow

Christmas – festival of love, reflection, the joy of children.
With his new piano album "Christmas Melodies", the pianist and composer Leonhard Baumert wishes you a harmonious and peaceful Christmas season.

01 Snow No. 1 is falling softly
02 Three hazelnuts for Cinderella
03 O Christmas tree No. 1
04 Every year again
05 Children's joys
06 Winter Wonderland
07 Heidschi, Bumbeidschi
08 Lili Marleen
09 Snow No. 2 is falling softly
10 Festive Sounds
11 O Christmas Tree No. 2
12 Sweeter the bells never ring
13 Rudolf, The Red-Nosed Reindeer
14 Little Snow Maiden, Little White Skirt
15 homecoming
16 Silent Night, Holy Night (Echo)

The first single from the album "Dein Vegas" (to be released in August 2017) is called "Tempo Raus". The song is about defying the hustle and bustle of everyday life and getting back to what should connect us all. The time with yourself, the time for each other, the love for what surrounds us. Keeping yourself in focus, but not always taking yourself so seriously. Why constantly rebel for what in the end only unnecessarily consumes the energy of life?

01. Single version
02. Instrumental
Data track: Chapeau video clip

He's had his guitar with him all his life, and for just as long he's heard that his voice should be "discovered". That's what happened! But it was a long, often rocky road to get there. "Dawidowsky" is a fighter, an optimist who keeps going. Fate proves him right.
For decades, as a successful model, he was the “face” of many well-known fashion company catalogues. He still does that from time to time, especially since he looks even better than he used to for many fans today.

01 Come Into My Life
02 Easy going
03 Urban love
04 Fly Like A Dolphin
05 My Love Song
06 Sometimes Superstars
07 Super One
08 to 99

Dirty guitar riffs or goose bumps anthems: on his third CD "Red Alert" the musician from Cologne not only sounds the alarm with his catchy lyrics, but also musically, and easily combines rousing indie rock with vulnerable ballads.
Together with his band or sometimes just with an acoustic guitar in his luggage, Steve is touring all over Germany in 2017 and is guaranteed to play "next door" right next door.

01 Red Alert
02 mobile phones
03 Always Miss You
04 Burning Bridges
05 Step On The Edge

That moment when you feel like you could uproot trees and that everything starts anew, or the conversation with the guy in front of the bar who would do everything differently if he had the chance again. That's the life you immerse yourself in through the songs of the Hamburg band Mehrzweckheld. Since their first album, the band around songwriter Jens Bohn has re-formed and grown significantly. Markus Fiebig on drums and Lutz Krone on bass have laid the foundation for a musical reorientation towards German pop/rock on stage and in the studio since 2015. Since 2016, Frank Stange has shaped the music of multipurpose hero with the sound of his electric guitar. Jan Wölke again took over the production of the album and made sure that the singer/songwriter elements are combined with rocking guitars. Everything fits together. So "Because I feel like that" is the next step for the multipurpose heroes. Just music full of life.

01 Everything
02 Because I Feel Like It (Hero Version)
03 island
04 On fire
05 I know
06 Eventually
07 Because I feel like this

What do you do when the hero of your youth dies? You remember, maybe a bit wistfully, but you can also get creative. At least that's how the Paderborn musician Manfred Jäger did it. The result of this creative mourning work will be released on CD in December and because he was not alone in this, the project is running under the label "jaeger und sammler. grassroots songs.”

01 Why – because of that?!
02 Land in sight
03 No sooner said than done!
04 Madness
05 Not with me
06 Do you think so?
07 The moon
08 That counts!
09 Was that all?
10 Come and see
11 Lullaby

After "Dreamworld", Joker's Paradise is now presenting its second album with this project line-up. The 49-minute work "Farewells" is dedicated to the subject of "farewell" in the most diverse musical and textual facets, divided into eleven self-contained music titles. As with the predecessor "Dreamworld", the listener immediately feels cinema in his head.
The exciting melodies of the electric violin invite you to dream, Katrin Mayer's powerful voice, shaped by the musical stage, envelops the listener with a noble coat of soulful, but at the same time powerful sounds. The serious-looking compositions by Georg Pfundtner and Thomas Sternfeld are sometimes hard, sometimes tender, sometimes childish, sometimes bombastic, staged by the protagonists.

01 Opening
02 Don't Touch Me
03 Slaved
04 Let Me Go
O5 Farewell
06 Fly Away With Me
07 When You Lose Your Best Friend
08 Billy's Serenade
09 No Return
10 Lost in Darkness
11 Billy

"Souldancing", the debut album by the Dortmund band "Nice Days Ahead", is an exploratory journey into a sensual world full of warmth and wildness. The handmade music breathes authenticity and passion.
Acoustic instruments such as grand pianos and acoustic guitars naturally combine with snotty electric guitars, fat bass grooves and accentuated drumming in the dance of the souls.

01 The One
02Red Rose
03 flows
04 Light Within The Dark
05 Love In Vain
06 Aviva
07 Forever
08 Fear Of Love
09 Ashes
10 Bet
11 Soul dancing
12Autumn

The blue of the September sky flows through 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 way.
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.

01 Secret Gardens
02 blinding lights
03 Winter Is Coming
04 Back In Time
05 White Light