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Corin Curschellas is celebrating her stage anniversary with a special 4-CD box set.
Corin Curschellas performed live for the first time 50 years ago and already showed her versatile talents back then. This anniversary was an occasion for the Tourbo Music label to look back on the career of the Graubünden singer, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and actress and to publish the extraordinary retrospective "Collecziuns: Her Songs 1990-2010+2022".

In 2023, Corin Curschellas is best known for new versions of traditional Romanesque folk songs that are as subtle as they are fresh, which she has created in changing formations over the past twelve years. These are loved by the audience and praised by the media. Because of this, however, Corin Curschellas' earlier work was somewhat forgotten, especially since these recordings are outdated. Therefore, the focus of the retrospective was placed on her own compositions from the years 1990-2010, in which she showed herself to be linguistically and stylistically cosmopolitan. They are songs in dialect, German, English, French and Romansh, which were recorded in studios in Graubünden, Zurich, Berlin, Vienna, Paris, London and New York with countless musicians from Switzerland, Europe, Africa and the USA.

The selection of the pieces was made by Mathias Rüegg, the spiritus rector of the Vienna Art Orchestra, in which Corin Curschellas worked as a solo singer for many years. The renowned composer and arranger has created a very personal and not a chronological or thematic compilation. Despite all the musical and linguistic diversity, the unmistakably clear and multifaceted voice of Corin Curschellas is always the focus. The 60 pieces also include some unpublished solo pieces and poem settings from 2022, as well as four works composed for Corin Curschellas with the Vienna Art Orchestra. In addition to the four CDs, the box also contains two stylishly designed brochures illustrated with numerous photos with all the lyrics and tributes to 26 personalities.

01 go dancing
02 favorite port
03 In Flanders
04 Come, free spirit
05 Mathilde
06 Chirp
07 New Year
08 Mary
09 Incidence Isolation
10 inspiring

Edgy, melodic rock music paired with the brittle charm of northern German melancholy.
Hotel is more than just a place for people united in search of a safe haven for one night. Because this is not just any hotel - this is hotel.
Hotel is not a stylish designer shack, but full of corners and edges. With coin slot. The coffee is Magentod and the sandwiches are from Muddern. This hotel is rough. But with charm. Authentic and undisguised.
With room for your own stories behind every door. Each room with its own style, touch and colour. Far away from sterile five walls. Occasionally stories are intertwined, sometimes they remain undiscovered.
Hotel is a piece of home for a while. If you want, stay longer.

The band:
People meet in the lobby – sometimes by accident, sometimes on purpose. Over many years we have met again and again in different constellations. Each of us brought our own story with us. And now we're going to tell them together.
We stay in the hotel.

01 A world, good spirits without reasons
02 Never thought of it
03 On the drip of mock seriousness
04 It's all included in the price
05 When good and bad stand in each other's way

Keep your feet still? Stay cool? Only ice-cold stoics can do that with the songs of the Berlin band Kensington Road. Everyone else is immediately hooked on the authentic sound of the band, which gets by without any frills or artifacts. Because after thousands of kilometers in the tour bus across Europe and countless live shows, the “hard-working band” Kensington Road knows exactly what they are singing about.
"Lumidor" is the third album by Kensigton Road. With songs that are even rockier, more straightforward and more direct. The new single “White Noise” gives a little foretaste, which exemplifies the intense vibe of the new album: A song that plays with the bittersweet moments in life in terms of both content and music. The moments in which you literally lose yourself in the "white noise" or seize new opportunities. Kensington Road seizes the opportunity - and always remains positive, far from common rock clichés and lures the listener from the reserve with forward-pushing energy.

1. White noise
2. All you want
3. Taxi
4. Silent But Loud
5. Blacktop
6. Here We Go Now
7. Gold
8. The Hunter
9. World Will Know Your Name
10. Stay or Run Away
11. When you come around

The EP How Does Love Feel manifesting the work of Ampax since their debut album Love Pain & Works. With "How does love feel" Ampax have finally arrived lyrically and musically after a long journey and take up the theme of longing, love and transience. Musically, Ampax stand for an otherwise never seen expression of electronic music, paired with progressive metal. Lyrically they have also developed further and found their place. On their new EP they present three new songs and four remixes. These were contributed by the synthpop band Alphamay and the EBM Legende Trilogy, among others. Even the opener "How does love feel" gets under your skin. The almost three and a half minute track begins both melodically and lyrically in a slow and calm manner, develops powerfully and hard, and then grows to orchestral size. Convince yourself of the new EP "How does love feel" and the new video for the song.

01 How does love feel
02 When nothing is left
03 heart out
04 How Does Love Feel (Alphamay Remix)
05 Heart Out (Alphamay Remix)
06 Storm (Trilogy Single Remix)
07 Storm (Trilogy Whiper Whale Remix)

My second solo album after the album "tomorrow we'll see" released in 2022 is difficult to narrow down stylistically this time. I would describe it as a very personal album somewhere between singer/songwriter, folk and stories experienced and told by others. It's live in the studio again recorded. This time I still play the harmonica on some songs for which I really don't have a driver's license.

01 Top Of The World
02 Don't laugh at me
03 All I Wanna Do
04 Destiny
05 Sad Song In Your Mind
06 Remember
07 Black Cat On My Shoulder
08 A Thousand Miles
09 Go, Go, Go
10 One Last Letter For You
11 Moon Stories

SASCHA BENDIKS doesn't care about stylistic boundaries and talks about life - about life as it is and about life as it should be. The ten songs are bursting with stories worth telling. In a language that is easy but by no means careless, BENDIKS churns out images and sentences that immediately stick.
He lived, you can see it and hear it. "The pain and the sheer euphoria are trend-setting, and the two are not always clearly distinguishable - always keep moving" from the song BEWEGUNG culminates in the statement "Everything that doesn't quite fit together, with which you have come to terms - think again "
His Lamentations are odes to joy - and vice versa.
After twenty years in Berlin, he returns to the HEIMATMIEF of the small town of his youth in order to realize: "What you absolutely do not want to remember is more present than ever and, like a bubbling lake, fills your memory gaps with moments you thought were long lost, you were so naive and you're knee-deep in the home smell".
TANDEMROLLATOR is simply one of the most beautiful declarations of love ever "We'll put our teeth in the same glass at some point (...) if we don't think we know who we are".
Musically, he deliberately didn't set any limits, combining Tomwaitian rumba rumble (he has the voice for it), with a fantastically beautiful clarinet-smallest orchestra (yes, clarinets!) and Texan-dusty electric guitars (AMSTERDAM), to thank the moon immediately afterwards with lap steel and a bowed double bass: "The whole universe is only two by two meters - small, but flawless". (MY OLD BUD MOON)
On the album, which stylistically changes between pop, Americana and chanson, loyal companions sometimes provide unmistakable sounds. Axel Müller (BAP, Gregor Meyle) and JennyThiele (Fortuna Ehrenfeld, Rainald Grebe) have the honor of further enriching Bendiks' distinct sound.
BEWEGUNG was produced by Tobias Schwab in peace and quiet in the countryside in the Höllental laboratory. The album sounds hung, relaxed, poetic and complex. This is how BENDIKS itself could be well described.
Live and solo, he continues to break the songs down to their skeletal form, because “A good song always works with just a guitar or a piano. Complete. Has to be enough". In the album context, however, there are no limits!
"Light Luggage" by Sascha Bendiks, these are songs by someone who seeks happiness exactly where we last left it.

01 home smell
02 movement
03 shadow people
04 The moon is enthroned above everything
05 Amsterdam
06 Light luggage
07 Tandem rollator
08 The big sensation
09 It is night
10 My old buddy moon

Matthias Nagel is a songwriter, singer and guitarist. He describes his music as cross-genre folk pop with English and German lyrics.
Sometimes biographical, sometimes fictitious stories about the daily madness in the world.

01 Anyway
02 Jacqueline
03 Tomorrow We'll See
04 War And Pain
05 Under A Stone
06 We are the real heroes
07 Snowflakes
08 Price To Pay
09 The Last Road
10 The next summer

SAFARI STATION is the name of the record Andrea Van Cleef and Diego “Deadman” Potron have recorded under the direction of Don Antonio Gramentieri (previously working as guitar player/producer for Green on Red's Dan Stuart, Alejandro Escovedo, Hugo Race and Giant Sand) .
Paolo Pagetti, CEO of Rivertale Productions, came up with the original idea: “You two guys should make an album together, and record it just the way records used to be done in the 70s: you go away for a week with a producer and a bunch of musicians, you get into the studio, you eat and sleep there, and you come out at the end of the week with a new album. Then we'll take care of the mixing and mastering."
And this is what happened: Diego and Andrea went up a hill between Toscana and Romagna (two of Italy's most beautiful regions) to join Antonio Gramentieri and his crew: drummer extraordinaire Piero Perelli (Dana Fuchs, Emma Morton, Robin Hannibal, Pet Levin) and keyboard wizard Nicola Peruch (a well-known Italian session player, most famous for his work with international blues-pop star Zucchero Sugar Fornaciari). The whole bunch of musicians went to work and recorded 10 songs, 9 originals plus an unrecognizable cover of 70s infamous disco-pop-rock song “In Zaire”, that in the hands of the whole band of musicians becomes a dark trip into Africa's real heart of darkness.
The sounds of the album are constantly shifting between a more traditional approach to songwriting (mostly represented by Potron's songs) and a different, free-form approach reminiscent of the psychedelic folk of the late 60s/early 70s merged with afrobeat rhythms (mostly represented by Van Cleef's songs).
The closing song, the title track is the only song written by both musicians: Potron wrote the music and played the guitar, while Van Cleef sang and wrote the lyrics, dedicated to his late mother, who passed away at the end of March.
This is a collaboration between different musicians and an independent record company with a real producer, just like in the days of old, when music wasn't just digital ephemera, but something meant to last.

SIDE A
01 Rise Above All Gods
02 You Can't Hide Your Love Away
03 Gang Of Boyz
04 Mozuela
05 In Zaire

SIDE B
01 Spider Web Blues
02 Kay Zanset
03 You And I Were Born For Better Things
04 500 Miles Away
05 Safari Station (A Nice Place To Be)

"My sky has a colorful blue" is a line in a song by BJÖRNEMANN. Unshakeable optimism and melancholy go hand in hand in his songs.
After he used to like to cover Springsteen and Johnny Cash, the singer/songwriter from Northern Hesse only plays his own program with his own German-language songs during his often two-hour performances and would like to present his first album "Niemandsland" to the public in spring 2022.
When BJÖRNEMANN starts a concert with "James Dean", a wistful harp and driving drums immediately give an idea that an emotionally intense evening has begun. While tears may flow during "Somewhere in the Sky Tent", the audience can dance happily and exuberantly in the best carnival mood during "Ohne Sterne, ohne Mond". The sound also varies, because BJÖRNEMANN doesn't like to be pigeonholed. "For me, it's crucial that my music touches people's hearts, regardless of whether they're listening to the CD by the fireplace or in the car, or singing and dancing along at the concert," says the artist.
Together with his drummer Thomas Schneider, he embarked on a crazy adventure and wouldn't mind making music for as many people as possible soon. With the blessings of both wives, by the way...

01James Dean
02 My Marilyn
03 Somewhere in the sky
04 Here in no man's land
05 Superstar
06 shadow games
07 No stars, no moon
08 linden leaf
09 What is written in the stars
10 Daylight Saving Time

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

1. That's the Day
2. I Know Your Name
3. My Last Ride
4. You'll Lose a Good Thing
5. World Self Pity Day Blues
6. My Rough & Rowdy Ways
7. Down the Mississippi
8. I'm getting on the train
9. Wicked Path of Sin
10. I am a Stranger Here Below

The Ian Tray Band releases their long-awaited debut album, Electricity. Eight songs invite the listener on a journey: exhilaration followed by falling, the deep blue of the ocean to the crackling in the air just before a thunderstorm.

The songs, which are mostly written by frontman and namesake Ian Tray, work well for solo performances by the frontman as well as with a full band line-up. And this is exactly where the Ian Tray Band comes into its own. They take the listener on the many journeys and experiences that Tray uses in his songs.
The album was created in the venerable Universum in Bünde. Recorded live with the entire band, without a net or false bottom. Four friends, an old cinema and a lot of passion for music. There was a lot of experimentation and tinkering in advance of how best to capture the band's unique sound, but the result was time and time again that only live can create the dynamics that characterize the Ian Tray Band.
The band was founded in 2017 and has been a four-piece band with a classic line-up ever since. Above all, the already accumulated experience of all members on various stages of the world comes into its own when it comes to songwriting. In the end, every song by the Ian Tray Band becomes something special.

01 Saturn
02 Sober
03 Love you
04 Ocean
05 Miracle
06 Black Stains
07 Mars
08 Electricity

When The Magic Hits is the debut album by Canadian roots rock musician Adrian Sutherland.
Adrian Sutherland hails from the Attawapiskat First Nation of James Bay, Northern Canada. He is a singer, songwriter, musician, recording artist, speaker, advocate and the intriguing frontman and founder of the band Midnight Shine. He is also a father of four, grandfather of four, a traditional knowledge keeper and respected cultural leader who is fluent in Mushkegowuk Cree (his indigenous language).
Adrian is writing his first book for Penguin Random House Canada about growing up in Attawapiskat, a very remote and sometimes harsh place that he still calls home. After being forced to build his own recording studio in a shipping container during the pandemic, Adrian completed his first television series and recorded tracks for his debut solo album.
After Adrian transitioned to solo projects after three albums with Midnight Shine in 2019, Adrian's debut single 'Politician Man', a protest song for Canada, reached #1 on the Indigenous Music Countdown and won the Golden Sheaf Award for Best Performing Arts & Entertainment at Canada's oldest film festival . His next single 'Respect the Gift' debuted on The Strombo Show in Canada and American Songwriter Magazine in the US in early 2021 and reached #1 on the radio charts in May.
Adrian is deeply concerned about many causes and uses his music and voice to share first-hand perspectives on First Nations issues such as contaminated water, housing shortages, food insecurity, addiction and mental health. At a time when awareness of reconciliation is growing, he hopes Canadians will understand each other better and take further steps together.

01 Big City Dreams
02 Paranoia
03 magic hits
04 Once That Was You
05 Nowhere To Run
06 Scared
07 Right Here
08 Walk With Me
09 Make Me Better
10 Respect the Gift
11 Politician Man

Singer-songwriter Joe Bennick presents new CD on the independent record label TIMEZONE records, which stands for innovation and variety of styles. "blossom and gloom" explores great emotional worlds in an exciting musical interplay.
It is the contrasts that give Joe Bennick's art its special appeal. On his second CD "blossom and gloom" he combines bright, radiant sounds with energetic lyrics and gentle poetry with powerful sound. Once again he shows himself to be a stylistically diverse artist, whose music is not only an expression of his poetry, but always an allusion to the contradictory nature of emotions. Already on the debut CD, Bennick had alluded to the supposed incompatibility of things with the title "In close distance". With "blossom and gloom" he once again creates listening experiences that invite you to immerse yourself.
In the musical implementation, the CD relies on the effect of the live experience without neglecting the technical possibilities of studio production. Electronic elements create sound effects, extra soundtracks create density and ensure strong musical expression. Joe Bennick brings the sound of the stage into the living room and creates an intimate listening experience with his songs, in which guitar and voice merge in the finest way.
Joe Bennick writes the music and lyrics for his songs himself. "blossom and gloom" is based on poems that range in content between standstill and change. What appears to be opposites lives in constant coexistence, the rational leaves room for emotion, the metaphorical and the literal coexist without creating breaks. In his songs, Joe Bennick reflects on familiar moments and phenomena, but also lets us catch a glimpse of his very personal emotional world.
Singer-songwriter Joe Bennick is also an author. His first novel was published in 2016, followed by his first volume of poetry in 2021. He is a regular guest on Germany's concert stages and has found his place in the singer-songwriter spectrum between folk-pop and acoustic-indie.
He combines his works with music in reading concerts and since 2020 he has been touring with "Bulli concerts" on the mobile stage of his VW bus.

01 Last Dance
02 When Charlotte Talks
03 Continental Drift
04 Caroline
05 torn
06 Facade For The Blind
07 Drowning Man
08 Northern Lights

Everything that defines Finn Ritter is included on this album: Clever and thoughtful lyrics, strong and engaging melodies, Beatles and Bowie, Cohen and Cat Stevens and, and, and...

01 On the other side
02 Long gone
03 step and step
04 phenotype
05 sea for you
06 Freeze frame
07 My father's silence
08 When did that start?
09 Save yourself who can
10 Finally no more roleplaying
11 in pairs
12 father, mother, child
13 Who wouldn't want to stay in life
14 beauty of this world
15 Trying so hard
16 circles

File under : Indie. Eighteen years after they released their last studio album, the return of The Apartments with No Song, No Spell No Madrigal means more than just a new record to add to their perfect mythical discography. What we fnally have is an album that could have never existed, fled with every single doubt of the tortured and brilliant Peter Milton Walsh. This album carries these numerous years of absence, a deep artistic and personal history. It is a striking comeback into the world of music, eminently intimate, dreadfully universal. // If you care about quality songwriting, from one of the most singular talents to emerge from Brisbane in Peter Milton Walsh, you really should explore those albums. The Daily Telegraph // Played with quiet grace, the eight chamber-pop songs here are alternately harrowing and redemptive, anchored by loss.

01 No Song No Spell No Madrigal
02 Looking For Another Town
03 Black Ribbons
04 Twenty One
05 The House That We Once Lived In
06 September Skies
07 Please, don't say remember
08 swap places

Pre-order - delivery in time for the release on July 9th, 2021

The guitarist, singer and songwriter Oliver Scheidies presents his debut album "ICH BIN". In his texts, Ernstbold Scheidies reflects our modern society with so much witty wordplay and philosophical profundity that you want to laugh and cry at the same time.
With an overflowing joie de vivre, he sings and dissolves the surface crust of hypocrisy and exposes the open wounds of the human soul. He does so bluntly and relentlessly, but always with a lovingly tender look at our human stumbling blocks. Because in this "Show your wound" already lies the miracle of forgiveness, which I AM.
The fact that this "abysmally funny poetry" by Scheidies comes along with rolling beats, exciting arrangements and sometimes also rocky, bluesy compositions is outrageously attractive. Because his grooving band the "Chapel for All Cases" inevitably ensures a good mood.
The band sound of Oliver Scheidies is genre-spanning, sometimes it sounds rocky bluesy à la Americana, sometimes it goes more in the direction of indie, folk and singer/songwriter. The ICH BIN album was produced by Oliver Scheidies and Benjamin Riesterer, who also plays the accordion, Wurlitzer and Hammond organ.
The latter is also responsible for the high-quality and fresh sound of the recordings, which took place in the TONPONY Studios near Freiburg. A remarkable debut album by a serious songwriter from whom one can still expect a lot.

01 Masked Ball in the Dance Palace
02 Star Queen
03 The icy sea
04 Aren't we all a little disturbed?
05 Devil's monologue
06 ostrich neuroses
07 The wave
08 Only the moon
09 Germany, Germany
10 Commissioner (I AM)

A song about the hypocrisy of finally ex-President Trump.

The song can be downloaded at the end of the order.

With his new live double album, Ulf Hartmann remains true to himself. Damn casually played 26 tracks in a good 2 hours can be found on the two discs in a tastefully designed digisleeve. Hartmann enchants the audience with his voice and guitar. Pleasant and touching, alternating German and English songs mixed with new things from his own pen come out of the loudspeakers.

disk 1
01 Don't Look Back In Anger
02 When it started
03 Empty chairs
04 Over the sea
05 Hope That I Don't Fall In Love With You
06 In The Ghetto
07 If I Were A Carpenter
08 For No One
09 Hallelujah
10 Little Victories
11 happy birthday
12 Friday

disk 2
01 ocean
02 My choice
03 The Longer The Waiting
04 Wild Mountain Thyme
05 The seven gifts
06 Wounded Bird
07 Wonder wall
08 My child
09 (They Long To Be) Close To You
10 Thunder Road
11 Feels Like Home
12 The risk
13 chocolate
14 Olsen Gang

While Reis Against The Dishwasher already advocated healthy eating in their first program "Vitamins for the Bad Game", "The Fittest Band in the World" now also invites you to get physically active. Namely on the day after each concert: "Every evening the show is rocked - and then jogging off the next morning!" The two are happy about followers (especially if someone turns out to be a tour guide with local knowledge). Time and meeting point will be announced at the concerts.

The song can be downloaded at the end of the order.

We must first make our way into the wilderness through the deep, dense Scandinavian forest before we encounter A Choir of Ghosts. There you can find him singing his energetic, modern and wistful folk songs. A Choir of Ghosts' musical foundation is this: A solid foundation of Kurt Cobain throwbacks layered with the water, sun and air of bands like The Tallest Man On Earth and the Hollow Coves, giving you a sense of varying shades of give nostalgia.

SIDE A
01 intro
02 Sinner In Rapture
03 Outside The Window
04 The Days Fade Quicker
05 An Ounce Of Gold

SIDE B
01 Southwest Of The Moon
02 Driving Home
03 The Water
04 Better Off Alone
05 Human
06 The Taste Of Smoke

On his tenth studio album 'Shampoo Or Gasoline', Reto Burrell sounds as snotty and cheeky as if it were his debut.
The new work was created in the spirit of the last concert tour in spring/summer 2017. The live presence and the energy of the band's interaction were an important driver and gave the necessary fire. Composing, performing live and recording went hand in hand. Burrell always likes to pack his own experiences into his songs. But on this album, for the first time, he consciously sings about things that make him think. It also addresses characteristics or conditions in our society that have unfortunately become so firmly established that we no longer question them.
Whitewashing instead of questioning - looking the other way instead of recognizing - waiting instead of acting. Burrell also sings about the return of Robin Hood in his new songs, and wonders when the bottomless bucket will finally be full. If you want to be heard in this noisy world, you have to shout.

1. Rising To The Beat
2. Shampoo Or Gasoline
3. On Top Of The Moon
4. Blind (Everything Is Fine)
5. Where Is Robin Hood?
6. In A Bucket With A Hole
7. Shout It Out
8. Tell Me Why
9. She Says She's American
10. Carried Away
11. Leaving Scars Behind
12. Like Zombies And Toys

"I'm a bit dusty, but I'm far from outdated and certainly not rusty," jokes Reto Burrell about himself and his craft. At the age of 44, he celebrates the 20th anniversary of his solo career as a singer/songwriter and recording artist this year. A lot has happened in these 20 years. Hundreds of concerts played, hundreds of songs written, thousands of hours of work in various recording studios around the world

01 Shake It
02 Chasing The Wild
03 How Many Doubts?
04 Swimming In Stars
05 Ticket To Fly
06 I hate goodbyes
07 Red Red Wine Pt.2
08 When It Comes To Town Tonight
09 You're Still Alive
10 Seize The Morning Light
11 Sweet Lovers
12 Three Monkeys
13 A Reason To Stay Here
14 Gladiators Of Society

When two songwriters harmonize like the Altdorfer Mike Kolb and Jörg Szameitat from Giftwood - vocally and instrumentally - then a comparison with Simon & Garfunkel is obvious. Of course, a comparison always falls short. Although Kolb and Szameitat are trained in the folk rock of the late 60s and early 70s, their songs have their own unmistakable signature.
They are complemented congenially by their virtuoso rhythm group consisting of bass, drums and percussion. This is how Giftwood conjure up melancholy, hopeful forest rock that goes straight to the heart and ears. The current album "Winter Letters" is praised by the Nürnberger Nachrichten as a "calm, catchy disc in the best Anglo-American folk tradition".

01 All these songs about you
02 Love song
03 Somewhere
04 Automatic doors
05 Buffalo river galaxy
06 Sept
07 Flea-bite
08 Empty your head
09 These winters without you

With relaxed lyrics and a loose tongue, the Münster native Johnny Ketzel makes American country music his own and opens up new horizons for it in colloquial German.
Johnny Ketzel sings his verses, somewhere between youthful brashness and the serene wisdom of old age, like someone who has been shaken by a lot but can no longer be shaken by anything. A homeopathic storyteller with fresh soul bandages and semantic plasters that are currently unique in the scene. We've all been through the same thing as him.
Johnny Ketzel offers consolation with a wink. Loser lyrics with an indomitable winner mentality. Carried by the virtuoso playing of his guitarist Siggi Mertens, who skilfully cushions all spontaneous interactive capers, Johnny Ketzel presents his unconventional stage program self-ironic and with a wink and transforms the stages of the region into a blazing ring of fire with wonderful regularity. This is country music from another planet.

01 Crashed
02 Nobody wants to hear that
03 The thickest piece
04 All or nothing
05 No more funny
06 Without you
07 Let them see me
08 Thank you
09drunkard
10 You can guess three times
11 At the last stop
12 This damn nest

With relaxed lyrics and a loose tongue, the Münster native Johnny Ketzel makes American country music his own and opens up new horizons for it in colloquial German. Johnny Ketzel sings his verses somewhere between youthful brashness and the mellow wisdom of old age, like someone who has been shaken by a lot but can't be shaken by anything anymore.
A homeopathic storyteller with fresh soul bandages and semantic patches currently unique on the scene. We've all been through the same thing as him. Johnny Ketzel offers consolation with a wink. Loser lyrics with an indomitable winner mentality.
Carried by the virtuoso playing of his guitarist Siggi Mertens, who skilfully cushions all spontaneous interactive capers, Johnny Ketzel presents his unconventional stage program self-ironic and with a wink and transforms the stages of the region into a blazing ring of fire with wonderful regularity. This is country music from another planet.

01 Big river
02 Sweet little death
03 In debt
04 Drink to Silvia
05 sending off
06 In the bedside table next to her bed
07 Lost
08 Everything falls into my lap
09 The big rush
10 Love has lost
11 Over Jordan
12 Until you fall over

There are many singer/songwriters. Berlin-based Julia A. Noack, however, is not just one of them. She has a very decisive advantage: her charismatic, unique singing voice, which makes any comparison with the usual colleagues pointless. Her songs, which can be categorized as IndieFolk or AcousticPop if you wish, are intense and authentic and grab you where it hurts a little.
Sometimes powerful and explosive, sometimes playful and melancholic, they all have one thing in common: they get right under your skin, bluntly and outrageously emotionally dig into the listener's flesh, and once they're in his bloodstream it's hard to get rid of them . Like only a few, Julia A. Noack manages to touch the listener, to change their mood, to create longing, to give hope and to conjure up a smile.
In 2007, Julia A. Noack's debut album "Piles & Pieces" was released, which aroused great interest and even greater enthusiasm among listeners and writers. On it are songs from a whole decade, collected, bundled, stacked.

01 Are You With Me Now
02 Leaving the Door Ajar
03 Underwater Death
04 House On the Hillside
05 My Love Isn't With Me Tonight
06 Love Song
07 Think's Break
08 I Feel the Winter
09 Do You Remember My Name
10 It Was All Beautiful
11 Into the Real
12 Watching Magnum On Tv
13 Dawning Consciousness, Delayed

With a handful of excellent Berlin musicians, some of them too
at her numerous live concerts, Julia A. Noack has recorded an album in the studio of her new label Timezone that transcends the classic singer-songwriter image.
69.9 is full of ideas, sparkling, progressive - and yet it hasn't lost any of the soul and warmth of the debut album.

01 Undue merging
02 Sudden twist
03 69.9
04 Phantom dream
05 Redefine
06 Grizzly girl
07 Me & The AD
08 Dark Enough
09 bee buzzin'
10 Everything alright
11 square bracket open / close
12 Lay your head

An emotional pendulum between melancholy and optimism. A community of loss, grief, development and hope. A call to action. Fights Like Ours is Andy Jones' third and most personal album to date. The singer-songwriter deals with deeply emotional stories. His father's death (I Don't Have Your Voice) and his mother's battle with cancer (Still Be Here) are as much a subject of the songs as his own long-suppressed and hidden emotional scars.
But he hasn't run out of socially critical topics either: He addresses the stigmatization of mental illnesses (Fights Like Ours), right-wing extremism in Germany (You Don't Speak for Me) and the black sheep of the music scene (No Reciprocity). Jones also continues his tradition of telling the stories of others through music (Running from Yourself, Better Late Than Never). And if he doesn't know the stories, he paints them based on true observations and interactions (Happy Now). The British singer-songwriter co-releases as he explores other songs that are philosophical (Shadows on a Cave Wall), metaphorical (Leaves, Where No Ships Remain) and imaginative (Only One Arrives, The Life You Didn't Lead). "Inevitable" features a bonus track in the language of the country he has called home for the past 15 years.
Musically, Fights Like Ours has prompted Jones to think outside the box: his usual mix of rock, folk and piano pop is now complemented with elements of ambient, country and indie pop music. Lyrically, several songs bear the fruits of his collaboration with newcomer singer-songwriter Emily Larkin. Jones also continues to experiment instrumentally, offering new sounds through the incorporation of harmonium, lapsteel guitar, theremin, daf drum and electronic beats. And his own playing style also shows newer musical influences: the guitarist, otherwise known as a strummer, now also uses fingerpicking in some songs, as is also known from greats like Damien Rice, Glen Hansard, John Paul White and William Fitzsimmons. Nevertheless, Jones' "rock roots" cannot be overheard, when calmer opening passages turn into powerful crescendos again and again.
Unspoken (2016) is a concept album about a fictional failed relationship. Shield (2018) also deals with relationships, but also included a variety of messages on personal, ethical and political issues (parenting, animal welfare, refugees, war, political indifference). Fights Like Ours now reveals Andy Jones' seemingly limitless musical imagination, poetic skill and inescapable emotional depth. As before, Jones uses his artistic talents to encourage respect, courage, and self-care. Listeners are invited to join the invisible legion of survivors who have overcome present and past obstacles. Fights Like Ours is Jones' contribution to the soundtrack of this movement.

01 Fights Like Ours
02 Running From Yourself
03 Shadows On A Cave Wall
04 Still Be Here
05 Only One Arrives
06 Leaves
07 Where No Ships Remain
08 The Life You Didn't Lead
09 I Don't Have Your Voice
10 No Reciprocity
11 Happy Now
12 Better Late Than Never
13 You Don't Speak For Me
14 Inevitable

Finn Ritter, singer/songwriter and writer from Hamburg near Berlin. Anyone who hears his pieces also hears Cat Stevens, Wenzel and of course the Beatles. Anyone who reads his texts also reads Jurek Becker, Robert Seethaler and diaries - not least his own. After his last album "Orter" was about orientation and self-location, the new CD "Exit", which will be released on 23.10. appears at Timezone to the titular farewell and exit.
14 new songs between "Selfie", "City by the Sea" and "End of the Road". Bon Voyage!

01 On the road again
02 songs for the guitar
03 I can't tell you what's going on
04 Waiting for you
05 White clouds
06 song from last May
07 Manifesto

LIA's stage performance is unabashed and refreshingly direct. For the last four years she has proven her dynamic strength and a fine sense for words with every solo performance. With her debut album "Timelapse" she wants to capture her career so far and capture this mood. Completely unadulterated and without frills. Their music cannot simply be pigeonholed. Some of their tracks shine with a rhythmic rock attitude that makes you want to keep your feet still and others with a cautious melancholy that invites the audience to close their eyes. In any case, LIA has something to tell with her lyrics and is far-sighted, profound and extremely honest with every word.

01 Self Made Calamity
02 Down High St
03 Prayer
04 when you go
05 Tom's song
06 you
07 happy birthday song
08 Tigers Can't Lie
09 Lullaby
10 Robinson
11 Gotta Keep On Smiling

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At the age of 14, the musician Judith Beckedorf, who was born near Hamburg, discovered her passion for the guitar and worked largely self-taught until her studies. She was initially drawn to the fingerstyle scene early on, where she quickly drew attention to herself with successful YouTube videos. In order to learn from the renowned guitarists Thomas Fellow, Reentko Dirks and Stephan Bormann and to further develop her musical skills, she moved to Dresden in 2012 and studies there at the Carl Maria von Weber University of Music. Since then she has performed regularly both solo and with singer Victor Sepulveda.
In the search for her own musical language, the acoustic guitarist increasingly lets her voice flow in as well. The nylon strings of her guitar accompany her in her own songs with mostly English lyrics and make her own instrumental compositions and arrangements sound. To learn more about this, Judith spent a year in Nashville, TN (USA), also known as “Music City”, and dedicated herself to bluegrass music and songwriting there.
Her biggest musical influences include her guitar hero Tommy Emmanuel and traditional American folk songs. In her own compositions, the young musician combines lively guitar playing with tangible melodies, unfiltered personal experiences with fictional stories.

01 Don't Waste Your Time
02 Flowers On My Grave
03 Mother
04 Southern Rain
05 Into The Blue
06 Weak Or Strong
07 runs
08 When We Were Young
09 You hero
10 How Long
11 Both Sides Now

I don't sing about the old cottonfields I've never seen. For example, I sing about how bigotry and hypocrisy are on the rise these days. Also about very personal things that come along like a photo album of life", says the Munich singer/songwriter Robert Richter about his new CD "I On You". It consists exclusively of his own compositions and is at home in blues and folk. Here a minstrel of the 21st century his stories It's not about the "high art of campfire music" in which hyped virtuosity and studio tricks dominate, but about real storytelling!
About the blues, of course, which is not interpreted in a puristic way here, but mixed with other styles such as folk and country - and above all makes reference to the themes of the time. Robert Richter was the lead guitarist and singer in numerous bands. He has explored every shade of blues from country blues to blues rock, including neighboring styles from folk to funk.
He has now arrived where he always wanted to be, without realizing it until now: writing songs and telling stories. Partly political, partly autobiographical and always very personal. Lots of questions, no hasty answers. But clever statements from the point of view of the observer. The beloved guitar is not used for self-expression, rather it carries the singer through his songs - together with the harmonica.
Some of the songs are like short stories, some are like snapshots, some capture a mood of the moment. Robert Richter is a songster. Songster - this is a term for American singer-songwriters, which arose long before songwriter was a fixed musical term.

01 The Singing Men
02 soldier boy
03 wanderlust
04 To And Fro
05 Like A Fugitive
06 If I Was Jesus
07 In My Mind
08 The Same Old Story
09 Out On The Battlefield
10 Lonesome By Your Side
11 Waves About Waves

“The only constant in life is change. By consciously engaging with it, I can grow as a person.” “Constantly Changing” is the title of Suzy Va's forthcoming album. Her unique sound is difficult to pigeonhole. She combines the acoustic singer-songwriter style from her debut album "suzy bartelt" with a wide variety of tones and rhythms that she discovers and takes with her on her way. Compared to the first album, the second one has rockier sounds. Suzy Va's love for complex arrangements and vocal polyphony is clearly noticeable.
"First I sang and then I spoke." Suzy Va's musical roots go back to making music with her grandfather in the living room: they sang German folk songs together to the accordion. Today she interweaves this early musical influence with multicolored sounds from Arabic music, rock, pop and jazz. At the same time you can hear influences from musical role models and strong women like Tori Amos, Paula Cole and Ani DiFranco in their songs. She loves it when music challenges and surprises: the exciting, the unpredictable. “Contradictions are part of it. It's not just black or white.”
Powerful, multi-faceted songs are created that make you want to listen and immerse yourself. In 2018 she took first place in the “German Rock & Pop Award” in the “Jazz Rock Song” category with “The Day”. A song that deals with the escape from home and the arrival in a new life. She was inspired by impressive personal encounters with refugees and the story of her own grandparents' flight.
In the fall of 2018, a crowdfunding community was formed, which successfully supports the upcoming Suzy Va album financially, making the release in 2019 possible in the first place. "Constantly Changing" - stories of change and hope - the new name says it all: Suzy goes, Suzy grows... Suzy Va.

01 Colorful Identities
02 Constantly Changing
03 Gray Swan
04 A Tree for Inanna
05 Darkness cannot be seen
06 White Birds
07 Blue Winter Rose
08 The Day
09 happy heart