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It's someone who has fallen out of time and maybe that's why it's so original and up-to-date: After a 15-year break, the singer and songwriter Michael Riehm from Lebach presents his CD "Mein blauer Mond". The ten Riehm songs seem to completely ignore the pop music hustle and bustle of numerous past decades, they rather reflect influences from the late 60s and early 70s, when good songs were also signposts in terms of music and content - the Beatles in particular send their greetings unmistakably. In this exquisite tradition, Riehm sings lines in German and occasionally Mosel-Franconian tongue strokes that are not only pleasingly poetic, but also serve as a critical compass. On top of that, the outdated bard with the lyrical timbre came up with beautiful melodies and played all the instruments himself - from acoustic and electric guitars to keyboard instruments and violins. But that's not all: Riehm recorded the arrangements on his own in the always young vintage sound - all this together makes this self-produced album all the more endearing.
Stefan Uhrmacher-Saarbrücker Zeitung was initially Neil Young's inner world counterpart of Michael Riehm, meanwhile it's Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. Examples of this are the exemplary euphony “Komm gudd hääm” or the smart album finale “So kennd ed blaeiwen”. Vocally plus melodically, not least in terms of the lyrics, the ten current Riehm songs are like modern pop art still lifes. And their soft German-language folk rock flavor is clearly in line with the CSN&Y classics, or is rooted in them. The musical images interpreted in this way are unobtrusively introspective and self-sufficient. The listener encounters the album's title composition "Mein blauer Mond" or lyrical elements such as "Kind of the Ocean" in an almost healing way. Jochen Arlt, juror for the German Record Critics' Award For over 40 years, Michael Riehm has been writing songs that are characterized by unusual compositions and strong textual images. The songs are often designed "bilingually", that is, High German is combined with Saarland text elements - sometimes the refrain is Saarland and the main text is High German or vice versa. Stylistically, the musically diverse songs move through bossa nova, pop, jazz, classic, folk and blues. The quite "unusual" songs create poetic, freely associable images that are not immediately transparent, but leave room to always discover something new in them.

01 Come on gudd hem
02 longing
03 pity
04 On the window
05 Planet of the Apes
06 Everything will be fine
07 child of the ocean
08 My blue moon
09 Wings grow over time
10 That's how we know Blaeiwen

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

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

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

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

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

From melancholy to confidence, Strandheizung try to capture emotions where they are strongest. It's often only brief moments that can change a lot. We have to look around because most of the inspiration is right in front of us. People or situations that touch us. Small gestures, words, sometimes hardly worth mentioning. But for the musicians it is worth grabbing the moment and telling about it. everyday stories. Sometimes thoughtful, sometimes full of joy, but always personal, authentic and often with a wink. The band accompanies their German lyrics with well thought-out music in the style of singer-songwriter/pop-rock.
On the current album, Strandheizung convinces with clarity in the musical design, but at the same time, if you listen closely, also with a love of detail that makes each of the twelve tracks appear unique. "Einfach Tanzen" is a short journey through ten years of band history and an invitation to let yourself be carried along.

1. My vision
2. I'll take you with me
3. Euphoria
4. Fear of flying
5. Do you know one
6. You follow me
7. The moment
8. Just dance
9. Silent film
10. September 31
11. What I wanted to tell you
12. Boredom

"Dylan in German doesn't work at all!" - "Go then!" Translating Bob Dylan's poetry, which was awarded the Nobel Prize, is considered to be extremely difficult - quite a few even consider an adequate translation into German to be impossible. Nevertheless, Piet van Dyke tried it and not only translated it, but also recorded it. The CD "Kassandra" mixes his own pieces with Dylan's well-known masterpieces in a charming way.
More precisely, nine "real" Dylan pieces and two songs by Piet van Dyke - including the title track "Kassandra" - can be found on the CD. The Dylan songs are not simple transfers or slavish imitations, but very individual interpretations, adaptations and rewritings have emerged. The long-familiar songs thus gain a new meaning: it is not only a homage to Dylan, which brings together pieces from all creative periods, it is above all an invitation to deal with Dylan's work.
With his mature and striking voice full of character, Piet van Dyke presents a broad musical spectrum at a high linguistic level, for which the singer/songwriter category is too narrow. Different musical styles are represented, from folk to jazz to rock. In short: Here is a new voice that is more than worth hearing. Kasandra was recorded in 2017 at Blackbird Studio Berlin.

01 Cassandra
02 Isn't your love true?
03 My backs
04 Beyond the Horizons
05 So that you can feel my love
06 desire on shady days
07 The dance of fate
08 It's not the end
09 tambourine man
10 love less nothing/no limits
11 It's over and done
12 The bright old sun

Exactly one year after her debut album, Katharina Westerhorstmann is presenting her second album, "You've seen me". Her unmistakable voice authentically sings about the presence of God in the world and in life. This time they surprise with a full band line-up. The songs are still reservedly arranged in a singer-songwriter style. The album offers everything a worship heart desires, from rousing, catchy worship songs to quiet, touching ballads.

01 You saw me
02 Freed from all fears
03 I would like to be
04 come and rest
05 A poor man
06 Let me be a guardian
07 My soul, praise the Lord
08 I remember exactly
09 How beautiful it is
10 all for you
11 More than 1000 words
12 nigun
13 Bonus Track: All For You (Lounge Version)

There aren't many singer/songwriters who, sometimes melancholy and thoughtfully, sometimes exhilaratingly and sometimes with a wink, give dreams, infatuation and indispensable insights in life such a pointed and powerful expression as Phil Solo.
His album "ScheintSo" is a personal concept album about love and freedom. These themes run through the entire work and the song titles are also reflected in the cover. A special cover because it's the picture on the beach in Oahu Hawaii on the morning of a best friend's wedding. The song titles are about love and freedom and can also be found on the picture (the sea, light, clouds and the topics driving, love). "ScheintSo" is the art term that takes up the shining of the sun on the cover and the firm decision that everything, no matter how gray it may look at times, will turn for the better. So every song has a thematically and musically positive ending.
Phil, who composed all the songs himself and wrote all the lyrics himself, even plays all the instruments himself on his personal album, which he recorded one after the other in the studio. This shows the musical range of the multi-instrumentalist PHIL.

1st light
2. More
3.Berlin
4. Together
5. Clouds
6. Driving
7. Seems so
8. loved ones
9. Compulsion
10. Joy

Berit Emma Ott walks the streets of loneliness. With great pleasure, because at the end of every street a new one begins. After releasing two albums on Silverspoon Records with her former band Sender Frei Rakete, she is now releasing her first solo album with her new band Acht Strasse - Feier Deine Einlonez. This album is a small, poetic piece of magic. The ironic, ambiguous lyrics by Berit Emma Ott make every song exciting and narratively valuable. "Your ambiguities cannot be surpassed in terms of clarity." (Die Zeit)
Eight streets deliver a fine, hung independent sound that can easily fit into the sound worlds of Element of Crime and Tom Waits. Both acoustic and steel guitar combine text and music excellently and create a longing singer-songwriter feeling. Live, a cello opens heart and soul. The piano and a warm Fender Rhodes underscore the colors of the ballads. Drums create a velvety, smoky, sandy sound.
It's the moments of small failures that she interprets with clever comedy. The drama of everyday life and the small casual tragedies inspire the singer. She finds them on the streets of Berlin, in the lives of her friends, at the crossroads of our lives. Berit Emma Ott learned to celebrate her loneliness. She prefers to write her lyrics in the dark of the evening, alone at the piano. "While the others went to the clubs, my son slept in the room next door and I quietly wrote my songs." Her insight: ultra-happiness exists, but only five hours in 75 human years ("I pretend").

01 I pretend
02 things you do
03 day
04 Disguised as a human
05 Our strength
06 Cowgirls
07 Gunslinger
08 I don't belong to anyone
09 Song about social envy
10 stars

Philip Bradatsch, folk singer.
Songs that you are never quite sure whether you should understand them one way or another: Philip Bradatsch sings and plays about life with an unwavering sense of the contrasting tension that emerges from rough, simple songs and a symbolically dense language as it is: Terrible, Beautiful, Sad, Adorable.
You can understand that even quiet moments inside can become loud and small thoughts can become big monsters, without paying meticulous attention to the text. Because the voice of the singer of the Dinosaur Truckers takes the listener along - unpretentiously she dives into the deep melancholy of folk music, emphatically she returns to the here and now - dark, vulnerable, angry - and loving.
Philip Bradatsch, folk singer.
With an undeviating sense of the suspense which comes out of raw, plain songs with symbolic language Philip Bradatsch sings about life how it is: Dreadful, pretty, sad, enchanting.
Quiet moments can become loud at times just as minor thoughts can become monsters. The voice of the singer of The Dinosaur Truckers takes the listener away, diving deep into the melancholy of Folk Music and back into the here and now. Dark, vulnerable, angry - and tender.

01 Pin In The Rope
02 This Time Around
03 Feels Like Rain
04 Down By The Gallows
05 Land Of Disease
06 When I'm Cruel
07 Shippensburg
08 Mudhole
09 Powder & Smoke

Movies are at least 90 minutes long. TV series tell in many seasons. Andre Schmidt's sung stories are over after just three minutes. But then you want to hear them again. And again.
The opportunity to do so is provided by "Exceptional Doubt Free", an album brimming with charm, poetry and depth. The great musical variety of the songs comes along almost casually. Because Andre Schmidt's personal tone of voice full of wit and melancholy combines light with dark, songwriter pop with chanson, as well as joy of playing with sensitivity - and all this happens with great ease.
Andre Schmidt recorded his songs in the legendary Maarweg Studio in Cologne. Even after listening to it several times, " Exceptionally doubtless" still amazes with lots of loving details: retro synths, choirs, Hammond organ, trombone, vibraphone or delicacies from Sting percussionist Rhani Krija. And for the final mix, producer Wolfgang Stach (BAP, Jupiter Jones) even turned on his old tape machine.
Trends come and go. What remains are timeless songs and an attitude towards the world. Then an unmistakably unique style emerges of its own accord, as in the enchanting hymns by Andre Schmidt. If you like subtle German lyrics and acoustic guitars, you can buy this album blindly - " Exceptionally doubtless" .

01 taxi
02 indie pop girls
03 Exceptionally without a doubt
04 Master of tomato sauce
05 Brazilian
06 My wonderful corduroy jacket
07 Oh Boris, do you remember?
08 Sept
09 I have to change your life
10 To my old self

It's a journey that begins every time you listen to Tidemore's music. And you don't know exactly where it will lead you. Alone with two guitars and their voices, the Berlin-based brothers Andreas and Matthias Pietsch celebrate a grandiose acoustic pop that is extraordinary, deeply touching and at the same time familiar and sonorous.
As simple as the line-up is, as amazing is their multi-layered sound. With manageable means, the two create sophisticated arrangements that testify to their special musical flair and show an enormous range. The Tidemore brothers play their acoustic guitars like a rock band. On top of that, they often add polyphonic singing with harmonic sensitivity, ranging from warm tones to falsetto. In 2011, the first album “Not My World” was released by Timezone Records and gave a first taste of the talent and ability that both of them have.
The new album "By The Sea" goes a big step further in terms of production and impresses with a better sound. For the first time, there are also German-language songs and piano sounds to be heard. Lyrically, they remain true to themselves and, in a special kind of - partly abstract, analytical - poetry, give an insight into their experience of our modern reality of life and a possible outlook on how to deal with the diverse tensions. The perfectly coordinated brothers have to be seen live with their enchanting songs, for which they don't need a band, great effects or gestures. Modest in appearance, they convince with their ability to create a poignant atmosphere and touch their audience deep inside. Melancholy resonates in everything that Tidemore have to offer between elegiac desire and powerful passion.

01 By the Sea
02 Keep it up
03 Dawn
04 disaster
05 Jealous Longing
06 Overkill
07 Dreaming
08 The moment your eyes cross the water surface
09 An attempt
10 The Pariah
11 By the Sea (Reprise)

In 2023, Erk's motto is: "All you need is love!" or "All you need is Erk", as Maik Brüggemeyer from Rolling Stone puts it. Just in time for the 60th anniversary of the US release of "Love Me Do" to the day, Erk is releasing a selection of his favorite Beatles songs with 13 cover versions on a 12" vinyl album to bring a little love, joy and optimism in these difficult times spread. When he was asked shortly before going to press in 2019 if he would like to contribute the medley "Golden Slumbers Carry That Weight The End" to the CD booklet "Rare Trax Vol.119 / Abbey Road Revisited" for the October issue of Rolling Stone, Erk co-produced energetic support of his drummer Martin Hoffmann the medley in just two days and was able to inspire with the result... without any guitars! Then came the pandemic and Erk thought: there is more to come...

01 The Word
02 It Won't Be Long
03 If I fell
04 Babies In Black
05 You Won't See Me
06 She Said She Said
07 Your Mother Should Know
08 Blackbird
09 Don't Let Me Down
10 Because
11 Golden Slumbers Medley

Pre-order - delivery for the release on October 28th.

After the Viennese songwriter had already pulled out all the stops with her celebrated debut album Here Comes Everything (earcandy recordings 2015), she quickly changed the cosmos for her second studio album and with it the language, because all nine songs are in Spanish, her mother tongue. The busy cultural scientist filled the years between the first and second album with the publication of her dissertation on the Spanish Civil War and a move to San Francisco to conduct research at the interface between art and artificial intelligence.
The instrumental landscape of Soñemos, alma (Let us dream, soul) is wide-ranging, sensitively produced with a sure hand (Nefzger/Pristernik) and wonderfully restrained instrumentation. Of course, the most intense instrument of all is Clara Blume's voice. Concise, soulful, furiously demanding, powerfully grounded and sensitive, losing itself in delicate heights, she seductively ensnares us, sometimes with existential seriousness, sometimes with tongue-in-cheek irony. Hypnotically, she pulls us under her spell and thus into her world, although it doesn't matter at all whether you understand Spanish or not, because you feel that this is about nothing less than life, about our existence.
In each of the nine tracks one senses that this is an immensely well-read, intellectual, thoughtful and at the same time intuitive and soulful artist who covers all extremes and the shades of gray in between. And that's exactly what the opening song No quiero is about, but basically all the songs on the album: Clara Blume doesn't want to be defined, doesn't want to have to be one or the other.
Like life itself, Soñemos, alma is not always profound and thoughtful, but also contains happy love songs in an upbeat tempo, such as Sólo and Olerte, or moody, evil songs like Lista. The great art of the songwriter Clara Blume is most extraordinary in the unique song Disparate, in which she has an intimate conversation with Francisco de Goya, this great Spanish painter and enlightener, whom she soberly asks what he would say about the fact that the world has not changed despite his efforts and his important place in art history. Hypocrisy, brutality and hypocrisy still rule our society, nothing has improved in the last two hundred years. But fortunately it is not the task of art to change society, but to touch the individual in their innermost being. And Soñemos, alma is proof of that.

01 No quiero (prefacio)
02 No quiero
03 Solo
04 Lista
05 No te reconozco
06 Se que no sé
07 Olert
08 Disparate
09 Soñemos, alma
10 todo tu

Kinga Rose is a Hungarian born singer-songwriter, best known in Luxembourg for a series of live radio performances in 2020 and 2021, that attracted the interest of some of the top musical producers in the small Duchy and led to a record deal with Timezone Records , in Germany.
She is classically trained as a pianist and singer but also studied jazz singing at the Etud Conservatory in Hungary. She currently studies jazz piano at the Luxembourg City Conservatory. This mix of classical and jazz music, along with pop influences such as Tori Amos, Kate Bush and Norah Jones make Kinga Rose instantly recognizable as an artist that blends Eastern European and Western soundscapes.
Adding to these influences, Kinga's beautifully crafted lyrics that are mostly in English and, because she also lived in Latin America for a number of years, the blend of influences that give Kinga Rose her unmistakable musical identity is varied but surprisingly consistent too.
In 2020 Kinga was inducted into The Grund Club asbl, a collective of some of the top singer-songwriters in Luxembourg and began the pre-production of her debut album « Vision », featuring string and horn arrangements by the small nation's most renowned musicals arrangers and with the executive production of Lata Gouveia. The album is to be released in February 2022.
Kinga is set to become one of Luxembourg's revelation singer-songwriters for 2022. She was sponsored by the Luxembourgish Ministry of Culture and by the national royal foundation for the arts in Luxembourg and she worked with the top classical and jazz arrangers and musicians to record her first album, which will be released in late February under the German record label, Timezone Records.
The musicians she collaborated with on this project were Ivan Boumans and Pol Belardi for arrangements, Lata Gouveia and Charles Stoltz for the production, and guests like Ernie Hammes, Anik Schwall, Sarah Candle, and Marcelo Woloski from Argentina (Snarky Puppy), just to name a few.Her first two singles (If I can´t breathe and Weeping Willow) have already received playlist status on the main radio stations in Luxembourg and in January she releases her last single (How Else) before the release of the full album.

01 Weeping Willow
02 Run Away Child
03 How Else
04 come baby
05 Cosmic Love
06 Vision
07 If I Can't Breathe
08 Girl In A Long Skirt
09 Boat On The Sea
10 Fire In Your Eyes

One last album before the end of the world? Nesle's new album could be just that. After the organic and extravagant permafrost, Arsenic reveals with the festival another facet of its author, which includes a multitude of them - actor, hyperactive dandy-punk who feeds on both independent rock and literature, activist of a particular French-speaking scene , Evenings and Café Walden... By immersing ourselves in these multiple personalities, the album lifts the veil of an alien world that we consume while dancing. An experience that will captivate you. And from which no one comes out unscathed.

Under the influence of this unlikely potion, we lose our footing, we stumble. In a constantly fluctuating diversionary maneuver between shadow and twilight, arsenic then penetrates your veins with toxic sharpness. We greedily suck every drop of this luxury poison.

Produced again by Alain Cluzeau, Arsenic digs deeper into the furrow that permafrost has begun to carve. Exploring the nooks and crannies of rock or folk sounds that have washed up on electronic shores, Arsenic makes the choice not to choose. Between organic and digital. Between day and night. Between earth and sky. The contributions of Matt Swanson (Lambchop), Armelle Pioline (Superbravo) or a children's choir complete the subtle framework of a chiaroscuro sound structure.
In a final paradox, the album also reveals, beneath its dark atmospheres, an energy, a zest for life, a dynamism that springs from the heart of the ashes. Better than a poison. The ultimate antidote.

SIDE A
01 Pegase
02 Goudron
03 whimsy
04 Cassandre
05 Cyclamens

SIDE B
01 Fourure Apache
02 Incendie
03 Sonatina
04 Arsenic
05 Sulfur

With "The girl in me" the Hamburg-Ibbenbüren duo GOLDSTAUB presents their second CD. In their lyrics, the two songwriters Henriette Mudrack and Kai Dorenkamp reveal with gentle irony how we all always strive for something higher, only to then have to wade through the depths of life again. All this is dressed in a light and colorful musical robe of jazz and pop. Her latest work is brighter, louder and poppier than her debut - just like you could imagine the "girl in me".
"Gold dust is a wonderful companion on long car journeys ... there is automatically a feline comfort, a giggling harmony." (Bernd Begemann)

01 November in April
02 Fairy Godmother
03 The girl in me
04 Normal problems
05 Priceless
06 Still waters run deep
07 I'll get you through the night
08 Only you can do that
09 JW
10 Never again
11 A spirit's child
12 I want to stay here
13 golden times

Geier Sturzflug have now existed for over 35 years and to mark the occasion there is an unplugged album with all hits in new versions. The album also contains a lot of new songs, of course.
Together with some musician friends from the Ruhr area and the Münsterland, the vultures recorded loose, purely acoustic music. Catchy melodies and lyrics to listen to. Exactly the ingredients that have always distinguished Geier Sturzflug.

01 Kings Of The World
02 Are you going with me
03 Pure lust for life
04 Longing for longing
05 The little cork
06 Loneliness
07 Life is for living
08 coal
09 Gross National Product
10 Easy Life
11 August again
12 Caribbean Feelings
13 Visit Europe
14 Write Your Name On My Heart
15 I don't like to say goodbye

Susann Schönfeld is an experienced and passionate singer who, with her extraordinary and changeable voice, can be seen and heard in several music formations with a high recognition value. Sometimes emotionally tender, then beautifully soulful or sometimes really rocky, with her likeable manner she provides goosebumps as well as a mood for dancing and partying.
She works with various outstanding musicians and bands and performs with the formations appropriate to the occasion at various events in duos, trios, quartets, quintets and with dance and party bands. For example, you can book them for weddings, birthdays, company events, galas, proms, parties, church fairs and much more. The music programs of their live formations are each individual and flexible. Last but not least, her extensive repertoire allows her enormous flexibility in the various music projects and includes songs from jazz, swing, hits, oldies, evergreens to rock, pop and current hits.
In addition, she has also been involved in a number of different song productions, so she has also gained some experience as a studio singer.

01 Can you see it
02 When love falls
03 autumn day
04 You are beautiful
05 tell me
06 When you hold me
07 angels
08 The way is the goal
09 You and your loneliness
10 Sometimes
11 I fly to you

No wrinkles on your face yet, but refreshingly profound wisdom up your sleeve. The fact that two music students skillfully set their instruments vibrating in every plucked, percussive, knocked and bowed technique comes as no surprise. One might not have expected the two of them to expand their chansons with occasional country or reggae influences into unimagined widths and heights. With the first songs, many already have a familiar feeling in their legs and ears with the second chorus, without the desire to have to hear something new again.

01 Can wait
02 colors
03 Sunburn
04 I have no idea
05 ride a bike
06 A friend of mine
07 Marlborough Hair
08 The disoriented student in conflict with the meritocracy
09 Of ways
10 My Swampmate III
11 Pissed off
12 Unmotivated
13 elevator direction unknown
14 I used to be a cowboy
15 votes

One man, one spiritual experience. Dad Horse Ottn plays a unique mix of banjo, foot organ, kazoo and vocals, deeply rooted in country, gospel and punk rock.

01 Kingdom It Will Come (Vinyl Remix)
02 The Party (Kitchen Remix)

The style of the debut album Pure Love by SVOZ & B de PronX is danceable electronic music, composed with sounds from unusual instruments, digital sound generators and loops, meticulously processed on the digital audio workstation. The individual songs are powerful and at the same time playful and sensitive. You follow the driving beats and the staggered arpeggios with the embedded vocals: The lyrics are spiritually intimate. The mood of the album is based on the natural mood of 432 Hertz.
B de PronX's vocals borrow from the pop genre, but the experimental approach keeps flashing through. Pure Love was born out of a love of creating, inventing and creating. Svoz & B de PronX complement each other as artists and create a music world that wants to be pop on the one hand, but also fits into a club danceable and yet wants to remain special and authentic. When listening, the diversity, depth and sophistication of the compositions are revealed. The music can not only be heard, but also experienced.
The audiophile claim comes from experiments with tape recordings, the comparison with sophisticated analog recordings and mixes from rock, pop and jazz. And yet it is and remains electronic music through and through, as organic and vibrant as the digital process allows and as powerful and detailed as electronic production allows.

1 Jack's Dance
2 resets
3 Wake Up
4 Listen To Your Inner Voice
5 We Are Free
6 turns around
7 Yes Its True
8 Just Your Love
9 runs
10 follow me

Anyone who hears his voice will never forget it: warm and rough, political and laconic. Karl Neukauf is a songwriter from Berlin, someone who used to drink in the basement bars he sings about. "Hinter Geranien und Gardinen" is the name of his fourth record, an album full of strange and touching stories, collected during the long nights of the capital and on the outskirts of the republic. It tells of loving and missing, of leaving and coming home, of old friends and old ladies, of guys who hang out at the bar somewhere between Bottrop and Hoyerswerda, between Hamburg and Idar-Oberstein.
"Behind Geraniums and Gardinen" is a journey through Germany in 2018, recorded in Berlin and Poland, in East Germany and the Ruhr area. Karl Neukauf's voice catches your ear, and he plays almost everything you hear on the record himself: bass and electric guitar, grand piano and Hammond organ, Fender Rhodes, harmonium and mellotron, there's even a shenai, an Indian oboe. And whenever you think it could be a bit too comfortable, a bit too chanson-like, he stocks up on the instruments, plays on glass bottles, grill grates and tin buckets - and throws lines at you that sound like this: Do it yourself and build yourself a coffin. Paint it, put something in it that you might be able to use later. Karl Neukauf comes from Berlin. Not from the Berlin of hipsters and vegans, but from the Berlin of smokers and poets.
He makes music for adults. Music that doesn't taste like milk froth, but like black coffee.

01 Let's go to the Elbe
02 Fake Enemy #2
03 Say where are you
04 Silence of the night
05 Far far away
06 In this city
07 coffin never never
08 Only pots outside
09 coup de grace option
10 hotel room 304
11 In Morpheus' arms

Folk songs in the best singer-songwriter tradition and 1930s swing in the Django spirit meet rough and punky beats. Together with his band, the Stuttgart musician Micha Schlueter presents a varied album with different facets on his new long player "Schimpanse & Kanone". He calls it "Indieswing" and "Jazzy Folkpunk".
He learned his craft at the music college and has released an EP in recent years and now his third album, "Schimpanse & Kanone".
In 2012 he founded the FeierabendKollektiv with musician friends, which caused a sensation with the annual Vive la Vie Festival in Stuttgart. Micha is on the road live with his band or in a duo with collective colleague Florijan van der Holz. In addition to songwriting, he is also the frontman of the band bellalebwohl.

1. Chimpanzee & Cannon
2. Stuttgart calling
3. Danger!
4. Rome
5. My dear diary
6. A new day
7. How are you
8. Berlin
9. Crazy
10. With glacier-splitting eyes
11. The bright colors
12. Eyes closed
13. boy
14. Sun

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 2.17pm
06 Nose
07 friends
08 1 am
09 Yours
10 11.30 p.m

Anyone who hears his voice will never forget it: warm and rough, political and laconic. Karl Neukauf is a songwriter from Berlin, someone who used to drink in the basement bars he sings about. "Hinter Geranien und Gardinen" is the name of his fourth record, an album full of strange and touching stories, collected during the long nights of the capital and on the outskirts of the republic. It tells of loving and missing, of leaving and coming home, of old friends and old ladies, of guys who hang out at the bar somewhere between Bottrop and Hoyerswerda, between Hamburg and Idar-Oberstein. "Behind Geraniums and Gardinen" is a journey through Germany in 2018, recorded in Berlin and Poland, in East Germany and the Ruhr area.
Karl Neukauf's voice catches your ear, and he plays almost everything you hear on the record himself: bass and electric guitar, grand piano and Hammond organ, Fender Rhodes, harmonium and mellotron, there's even a shenai, an Indian oboe. And whenever you think it could be a bit too comfortable, a bit too chanson-like, he stocks up on the instruments, plays on glass bottles, grill grates and tin buckets - and throws lines at you that sound like this: Do it yourself and build yourself a coffin. Paint it, put something in it that you might be able to use later.

Side A
1. Let's go to the Elbe
2. Fake Enemy #2
3. Say where are you?
4. Silence of the night

Side B
1. Far far away
2. In this city
3. coffin never never
4. Respectively
5. Hotel room 304
6. In Morpheus' arms

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

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

In his songs he describes everyday situations, interpersonal issues. He finds a clear language: "Being free" is the title of his latest album, with which Stefan Solo inspires his ever-growing fan base.
Stefan Solo is on the way. again. Almost restlessly he rushes from concert to concert. The singer-songwriter has already performed 200 times a year. Solo plays in concert halls, at city festivals, also in front of a small audience in a cabaret bar. The live performances are his life. "They give me a lot. It's important to me that I always get feedback from my listeners after the concerts," says the man who uses pointed lyrics in his songs. Songs that have what it takes to hold their own in front of a very large audience. Insiders already see a second Reinhard Mey in Stefan Solo.
In recent years, the number of performances has grown, mainly in northern Germany.
And with them grew the number of his fans, who can't get enough of the songwriter with the pointed tongue and his guitar. The secret of his success are the lyrics of his songs. He describes everyday situations in relationships and gives free rein to thoughts about them. Many a listener may recognize themselves in the audience.

01 I love you
02 Tell nothing
03 Rainbow
04 Let's get up
05 Be free
06 Not in the mood for you
07 I wanted
08 I'm actually fine
09 I'm looking for a boat
10 say thank you

Head off. leisure on. Joseph Myers is not a smooth, cuddly songwriter of the old ranks, but an artist who courageously embarks on the search for new paths. His second studio album "Puzzles And Places" is bursting with energy and moves somewhere between nostalgic post-tour memoirs, musical finesse and attention to detail.
The songs are the result of his long artistic journey, which was closely linked to the constant struggle between good and evil. Unlike the majority of the local singer/songwriter squad, he dispenses with musical fairy tales and devotes himself to his own fascinating poetry.

01 Puzzles And Places (single release 10.10.2014)
02 Waiting
03 Birds
04 Behind The Clouds
05 Denmark
06 Until Kingdom Come
07 Footsteps (feat. Marie Katzener)
08 To Give Up Hope
09 Leaving Home

After a long search for meaning and two aborted courses, it was the turbulent and eventful year 2017 that Linus Cuno finally asked the inevitable and yet long suppressed question: Where do you want to go in your life? It was time to face his fears. Time to give the music that has been bubbling within him for a long time a chance. And how this music bubbled: Inspired by the big questions of life on the one hand and musical greats like Stevie Wonder, Nina Simone, Queen or Elton John on the other hand, the artist wrote over 20 songs within a few months that had apparently been waiting for this moment for a long time.
After his R 'n B see you soon and trap-inspired single "What is it with Love" was released in March 2019, Linus Cuno is now releasing his debut album "The Art of Life". The album moves musically in the area of ​​soul/pop, but also shows influences from R'n'B, rock and gospel. There is no monotony with Linus Cuno: danceable upbeat numbers as well as melancholic ballads can be found on “The Art of Life”. "The Art of Life" is Linus Cuno's program: in addition to composing and writing the lyrics of his songs, the native of Upper Franconia devotes himself to painting. The artist creates both album artwork and music videos himself.

01 Water Under The Bridge
02 Shine Sister
03 Weir Do We Go From Here?
04 queens
05 Sing On
06 My Girl Is A Painter
07 Bad Days Good Life
08 Shades Of Blue
09 Why Do I Feel So Sad?
10 Pray (Me Where It Begins)
11 Masters Of Arts

Jacob Fortyhands come from Lohne, a small town between Bremen and Osnabrück. But actually one would assume the newcomers with their unmistakable vocal melodies and their danceable indie pop to be from the north of England.

The five-piece band delivers English-language songs that make you want to go on road trips and mild summer evenings - in short: their songs evoke a feeling of longing and familiarity. Initially intended as a project, Jacob Fortyhands was founded several years ago by Lukas (vocals & guitar), Carsten (drums) and Hendrik (guitar). When the bass player dropped out in 2017, Lukas' brother Jakob (bass) became a new member and "one project" became their band. Till (Synths & Keys) has been completing the quintet since 2019.

They create a mix of introverted lyrics that leave room for thought and catchy hooks that get stuck in your head. Just in their early 20s, Jacob Fortyhands have created a sound that is both modern and creatively reflecting their 80's folk and pop-rock influences, in the vein of The Police and Genesis.

01 High tides
02 Daisy
03 Chase For Gold
04 Great Heights
05 straight up
06 Motion

In 2015, the Hamburg musician Catharina Boutari, who calls herself Puder on stage, was in a dilemma. She wanted to make a new record. That was actually good. But on the other hand neither. It announced the same process that leads to an album. After twenty years in bands and as a solo artist it was time to change everything. Stepping out of the comfort zone, headfirst into an experiment in which she would find herself in a studio with a musical guest, to create an album in ten days completely unprepared, from initial idea to final recording in front of a live studio audience.
Puder Session Tapes is the name of this experiment without a net and a double bottom, which has just entered its fourth and fifth round with the sparring artists Riad Abdel-Nabi in Amsterdam, as well as Ben Schadow, Ulita Knaus and Kathrin Ost in Hamburg and these days under the title "Tomorrowland with friends" is released as an album.

SIDE A
01 Streets
02 Interlude
03 Resisting Water
04 Fire Sparks

SIDE B Session Tapes 5 – Hamburg Puder meets Ben Schadow, Ulita Knaus and Kathrin Ost
01 Ban on flying
02 When You Were Eight
03 Ghosttown Love
04 Precious
05 seven
06 Sleepless
07 Greta

What is left when someone leaves? It doesn't matter whether it's only until tomorrow, for a long time in a completely different place or maybe forever: It's definitely the memories and the desire to overcome this distance. “Corby” transforms these feelings into catchy music with his sonorous voice. His songs not only move purposefully back and forth between traditional American folk and modern singer-songwriterism with rock influences. It also bridges the gap between nostalgia and euphoria.

01 Where
02 Coming home
03 Forever You
04 Give Yourself Away
05 The Other Life
06 Powerless
07 A Question Of Time
08 Last Stand
09 Inner December
10 I Will Never Write You Love Songs
11 Old Songs
12 when

Dreaming of love in a fantasy world - but can love be stronger in reality? In her title song of the album "Fantasy, Dreams and more..." she invites us with her clear and expressive voice to dream into her fantasy world. Simply pure feeling!
As a singer/songwriter, she touches us with romance and longing in very catchy pop melodies that we want to hear again and again. Her change to melancholy in the song "I thought I could be alone" is impressive, framed by an extraordinary music arrangement.
She grew up in the American Midwest. It was here that she learned to play the guitar and developed her passion for country songs. Back in Nuremberg, her musical journey also took her into the world of operettas, where she developed her unmistakable timbre.
But her love for the pop and country genres was stronger. In search of songs that she would like to sing, she began writing her own songs, first in English. Some of them have already been published. We will hear more about this as well.

01 fantasy
02 For you and me
03 Where do your dreams lead to
04 I thought I could be alone
05 For a Moment (Remix)

Human - human is the name of Isgaard's eighth album, which she recorded together with her life and music partner Jens Lueck, and thus indicates the comprehensive theme of a great conceptual album.
"We live in turbulent times that have had a major impact on the album, especially when you consider the fragility of humans and our planet," explains the artist. The focus of the ten songs is on dealing with people in all their ambivalence. "Black Swan" addresses the exclusion of differences, "Frozen Hearts" tells of a generation traumatized by the war in Syria or "Your World Is Broken" of the scars of a "broken" childhood.
“We always sit together and discuss what makes humanity special. All the creativity, humanity, empathy, helpfulness on the one hand, then again the will to destroy, selfishness, ignorance and small-mindedness on the other hand! That just needed to be said, just like the exploration of impermanence in the song "See The Leaves Falling" or in "I Couldn't Say Goodbye" dedicated to a friend who has passed away."
Musically, the album is multifaceted, exciting, always consistent and characterized by a wide range of vocal colors, which Isgaard expands from album to album. Electronics meet strings (a complete orchestra with real strings was overdubbed), unusual samples are juxtaposed with striking guitars and unique piano passages. And the dynamic song structures take the listener on an emotional journey.
A special place on the album is the three-part track "Borders" (almost 17 minutes long), which is influenced by art and progressive rock and probably deviates furthest from Isgaard's previous line.
The three-part series deals with the consequences of internal and external isolation. In a world that is so highly technical and where everything is interconnected, problem solving or development steps can only be achieved by overcoming borders.

01 See The Leaves Falling
02 I Countn't Say Goodbye
03 The Sun Comes Up Tomorrow
04 Black Swan
05 Your World Is Broken
06 A Billion Souls All Still Alone
07 Frozen Hearts
08 Borders Part 1 (Awakening)
09 Borders Part 2 (Fractioning)
10 Borders Part 3 (In The Cage)