Pop

Daniel Green's third folk album is by no means about revival. "Vanish Like A Cloud In Sunlight" is the name of the album that will be released this fall. In his new polyphonic folk songs, the songwriter combines notes of hope and experiences of grief and thus offers an opportunity to empathize, find oneself again and recharge your batteries. Grief can be very lonely. Can't we talk about this? are we allowed to do that And with whom?
Daniel Green gives food for thought about the culture of mourning and shows that death does not have to be the end. Feelings, gratitude and connection remain, even after the loss of friends or relatives. In eleven soulful songs, the songwriter philosophizes about the confusion of our thoughts that arises in moments of mourning.
He wonders what the way to the afterlife is, if fear is even necessary. What remains for him personally are these eleven anchor songs. They connect Daniel Green himself with the people who shaped him. "Vanish Like A Cloud In Sunlight" - an album that combines farewell, hope and solidarity.

1 Vanish Like A Cloud In Sunlight
2 tambourines
3 Talk To God On The Phone
4 Bubble Of Time
5 No Devil In Disguise
6 Bitch To Blame
7 Magic Dreamers
8 True Safe Haven
9 Payback
10 Your World Shall Be Forever Young (live)
11 Wave Goodbye Friends

Alex Panter is the musical alter ego of the Oberberg Highland breeder Axel Potthoff. In his music, the singer-songwriter uses influences from Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones, Lou Reed and Joe Strummer to create a completely unique sound that is rooted in a wide variety of music genres. His new album “Some Time Now” sounds correspondingly diverse. Recorded in part with wind instruments and strings in the living room at home, rhythm & blues, rock, soul, jazz and folk numbers come together here to form a striking, powerful whole, which gets its stamp from the complex English-language lyrics and the expressive vocals . Themes of the album include the populist zeitgeist of these days in the swinging "Something's Really Wrong With My Baby", a historical taxi night shift in the moody scuttle "Independence, Low Budget And Me" and the experience of loss in the solemn "Let It Rain”.
Alex is supported by a band with experienced multi-instrumentalists: the Westerwald-based Salossi (Zydeco Annie And The Swampcats, Matt Robb), - meanwhile replaced by the Düsseldorf guitarist and keyboarder Fabio Nettekoven (Judy Spellmann And The Phavior Adelic, Richard Bargel) - , has recorded lead guitar, blues harp, fiddle, viola and bass on "Some Time Now". The two Scots, who live in Remagen and Bonn, Pete Coutts (Northern Sky, Ballad Of Crows) and Steve Crawford (Le Clou, Ballad Of Crows, Northern Sky) took over bass, keyboards, lead and rhythm guitar, mandolin and banjo as well as drums, percussions and acoustic guitar. There is also the Cologne singer Astrid Foerst, who complements the polyphonic singing and can be heard in a duet with Alex in the Latin ballad "All Over Again". As guest musicians, the two Oberbergers Pascal Reinhardt and Sebastian Zink contribute trumpet and trombone in the title track of the album and in the hypnotic "A Brighter Day". In addition to the pieces from "Some Time Now", the current live set offers one or two previously unreleased numbers as well as some tracks from the debut album "Sunday Sessions Club" released in 2013, including "Private Radio", which was played on WDR 2 became.

01 Poor Man' Copyright
02 Much Water, No Time
03 Chuck Smiles
04 Independence, Low Budget And Me
05 Something's Really Wrong With My Baby
06 A Brighter Day
07 Personal backup
08 Let It Rain
09 Broken Dreams
10 Sometime Now
11 All Over Again

What do the woods of the Giftwood Forest tell us? The songs by the two singer-songwriters Jörg Szameitat and Mike Kolb primarily arouse the listener's associations and memories. The strong branches of their harmonies, the dense canopy of their guitars say more than the lyrics alone. Wolfgang Völkl's sparkling piano runs and accordion carpets run through the folky-rocking songs like silvery brooks, the precise rhythm section around Wolfgang März and Wutschgo grooves in the undergrowth.
The icing on the cake is Kolb and Szameitat's finely woven Simon & Garfunkel vocals, which have washed themselves clean. To say that Giftwood's music is "only" folk rock is not enough: sometimes funk creeps into the arrangements, sometimes a jazzy piano line or a reggae guitar; the accordion then alternately reminds of alpine forests, the wide sea or the swamps of Louisiana.
Giftwood take this music – Forest Rock as it is called by Giftwood – which sometimes seduces you to indulge, sometimes even to dance; themselves not so much, which is why there is room for nonsense between the songs at concerts. In autumn 2018 her new album "Gravity of Time" will be released, which is more serious and, if you will, a little grimmer than her earlier works.
In terms of sound, there are many new discoveries to be made in the Giftwood cosmos; After all, it is the first work with Wolfgang Völkl on various keyboard instruments. Of course, the typical Giftwood elements are still there: catchy melodies, two-partharmony vocals and sheer joy of playing. A clear further development, in which Giftwood still remain true to itself.

1. Every Summer Ends Too Soon
2. Poison Ivy (feat. Bobmila)
3. Crash pilots
4. The Sparrow And The Crow
5.Hammerman
6. The Season Of The Changing Light
7. That Worst October (For Tom Petty)
8. Runnin' Round (Helicopterus Bacterius)
9. My Heart
10. The Waiting
11. Captain Of The Guard
12. Done Fighting
13. Every Only One

After a moving concept album about love and the associated singer/songwriter excursion ("Unspoken", 2016), vocal prodigy Andy Jones is a genuine rock lead singer on his second solo album. And this despite the fact that the new songs radiate the same warmth and intimacy as their predecessors. Or even more. "Shield" is poetic, personal and powerful.
There are great rock anthems again ("The Man I Was Before") and catchy riffs ("Your Wish"), but also songs that nestle against strings ("Don't Come To Me", "Love Of My Youth") and warm trips to the folk campfire ("Parting Promise"). There's no better rock vocals than Andy Jones. With a strong voice he creates visions of life and love ("Love Of My Youth", "Automatic") and sings about fatherhood ("Anticipation", "Shield") and false friends ("Camouflage", "Don't Come To Me").
He also sings political songs - songs about animal and human rights ("Better than This", "I See You"), about the refugee crisis and its causes ("Karim", "Will We Ever Learn?"), and about political indifference of the people ("The Man I Was Before"). And amazingly, the forays into world affairs are just as personal and human as all the other songs on "Shield".
Andy Jones delivers what has become very rare in today's music business: a flawlessly produced record that you don't just hear with your ears. What is unique about "Shield" is the emotional depth beneath the musically perfect surface, the inaudible but palpable doubts in the strong and firm voice. Fragility in an indestructible guise.

01 anticipation
02 Camouflage
03 Don't Come To Me
04Automatic
05 Karim
06 I See You
07 Better Than This
08 Your Wish
09 Love Of My Youth
10 shields
11 The Man I Was Before
12 Will We Ever Learn? (Bonus)
13 Parting Promise (Bonus)

"Rucksack, bricks, Spree or life?" The "Elbsegler" asked himself this question and it was also the starting signal for the work on his debut album "Flussstatt Land", in which he tries to answer this question.
In his songs, the Hanoverian singer-songwriter describes authentic episodes from his life from his youth to the present day. The central figure Elbsegler moves in the cosmos Hanover. If you take your time and get involved with the album, you will be taken on an exciting journey with an emotional sea.
In the end, the album makes you want to go to sea, because the story of the Elbe sailor is far from over. Inspired by the beginnings of Britpop, the Elbe sailor taught himself to play the guitar. In the course of time drumming lessons followed with the Hanoverian jazz drummer Albi Husen, who now, many years later, supported him as a producer, arranger and good friend during the recording of the debut album "Flussstatt Land".
The Elbe sailor left nothing to chance for his album. For some songs he brought illustrious guest musicians on board, including Christoph van Hal on trumpet in "Leinen los" and Andreas Jäger on jazz guitar in "Minou". For the Elbe sailor, there's more to a successful album than just the music heard the work for him was not finished with the recordings in the studio.
In a homage to art, photography and design, the singer-songwriter created the Elbsegler with loving attention to detail.
"Sail up and discover the world because it's just waiting for you!"

01 It's about time
02 Lino Ventura
03 Cast off
04 thoughts
05 Cowboys
06 Big cinema
07 flower children
08 80s
09 Minou
10 Where I come from

Vincent is originally from Nottingham, England. But he has already lived and performed in numerous other places in Europe. He recorded his debut album “The Dark Side Pulling At Us” in Berlin, where he lived at the time. He then moved on to North Rhine-Westphalia, where he now lives and continues to fine-tune his musical work.
"The Dar Side Pulling At Us" combines a number of radio-ready pop-rock songs with a few more unusual, offbeat songs that draw on various elements of folk, jazz, blues and classical music.
Vincent has chosen his ten favorites from his large repertoire, from which he can draw as a productive songwriter, and recorded them with some brilliant studio musicians in the Legato Studio in Berlin. Now he is happy that his debut will soon see the light of day and hopes that listeners can identify with his concept - darkness and light fight for us humans, an inner and outer battle.
The album's artwork was done with the help of Hungarian maestro Laszlo Lakner, and a guest appearance by Ukrainian pianist Lubomyr Melnyk can be heard on the track "I Collect Female Hearts". The new single "Coma (Aurora)" will be released soon.

1. Coma (Aurora)
2. The Loud City Song
3. Birdcage
4. Foxes And Wolves
5. In The Forest (Unraveling)
6. Bodies
7. Somewhere Out There Is You
8. To the end of the earth
9. I Collect Female Hearts (feat. Lubomyr Melnyk)
10. The Pollen Of War

Each of their songs is understood as a good glass of mature wine that comes from different regions. Their concerts are always a journey through the sweet, the sour, the happy and the sad, but sometimes something that goes too far and yet is always carefully chosen. They don't feel committed to any particular musical style. With them everything is allowed, possible, welcome and always wanted.
Soft and contemplative elements alternate with loud and bold, without pushing the sung or spoken texts out of the foreground. Texts from direct experiences that seem to come from the scent and dust of flowers and streets, from the green of the meadows as well as from the blue of the sky. They still have messages that do not instruct or instruct, but want to stimulate the listener to think.
As a musical quartet they finally feel complete, but in terms of content they still deal with far more than just four different opinions. Colorful dogs are not black, not red, not green, not yellow and certainly not brown, and yet they show color in their songs, as colorful as life.
With acoustic & electric guitar, all kinds of percussion, bass, tuba, saxonet and a washboard fished out of the Göltzsch, they provide musical colour. And with their lyrics, they don't just bark. NO - if need be, they can also bite.

1. Lightness
2. Magic moment
3. Colorful fog
4. Be free
5. Ambivalent
6. Touch
7. Autumn
8. I am me

Since Gordie Tentrees and Jaxon Haldane first came together to make music together in 2014, they have played 548 concerts in eleven countries, including well-known festivals such as Celtic Connections in Glasgow and the National Folk Festival in Canberra. Now they are releasing a special selection of songs as their debut album "Grit". A live album, how could it be otherwise, 'Grit' was recorded during five special shows in western Canada by renowned engineer and producer Scott Franchuk (Corb Lund/CKUA). Numerous concert-goers gave the impetus to make their debut together with a live album of all things. People have repeatedly expressed the wish to take the incredible atmosphere of the Gordie Tentrees & Jaxon Haldane shows home with them. This is no coincidence: a live show combines ten instruments - banjo, dobro, cigar box guitars, musical saw, acoustic guitar, stomp box, harmonica, snare and mandolin together with great vocal harmonies and masterful storytelling. The accumulated experience of years of touring and the 15 albums together with other band projects also do the rest to captivate the visitor. Jaxon Haldane and Gordie Tentrees both grew up in the Canadian roots scene, in which legendary songwriters like the aforementioned Fred Eaglesmith and Willie P. Bennett had a great influence on the artists' work and sometimes even took on the role of mentor. This led to Haldane's excellent interpretation of "Willie's Diamond Joe", Haldane even produced the last Willie P. Bennett record before he passed away in 2008.
The characters that define the songs of this positive album cope with the difficulties of their lives. All songs contain and make grit (= courage), the best ingredient to overcome obstacles!

1. Armand
2. 29 Loads of Freight
3.Craft Beards & Man Buns
4th Junior
5. Bottleneck to Wire
6. I Don't Have a Gun
7. No Integrity Man
8. Willie's Diamond Joe
9. Lost
10. Sideman blues
11.Holy Moly
12. Wasted Moments

A part or apart? Both! The songs on the new Tidemore album "a-part" are as ambiguous as the title. The brothers Matthias and Andreas Pietsch reflect on the major issues of our time. From the perspective of two grown men, they examine the state of the world and seek balance within it. A border hike between the own and the foreign. Building on the idiosyncratic acoustic sound that regularly captivates their listeners, the brothers are going through a new musical door with the album "a-part". Clearly it's Tidemore what you're hearing, and yet there's a new tone. The instrumentation, basically reduced to guitars and piano, is placed in a larger context. For the first time, the majority of the eleven new songs are based on a powerful foundation of drums and bass, and in some places they add an electric guitar. In between, reservedly instrumented, purely acoustic pieces shimmer again and again as special pearls. This variety creates an exciting dynamic from the first to the last note.
They were able to win over the outstanding musicians Florian Holoubek, Thomsen Slowey Merkel and Karsten Lipp as wonderfully empathetic guest musicians. But the brothers played their strongest card again on their new album: They simply know how to write catchy songs. It is these grandiose melodies whose beauty catches you immediately. Sometimes it's the voice, sometimes a guitar line. There is hardly a song where you have to wait long for this radiant highlight. And they have by no means renounced their typical choral singing. Tidemore has not reinvented itself, but has consistently developed it further. In this way, the most diverse Tidemore album to date was created. "a-part" includes everything from a small song to a great anthem. It serves the great feelings and is never trivial.

01 As Long As We Move
02 The Same As You
03 Real People
04 Big & Small
05 The Brunt Of The World
06 Beautiful things
07 On The Bottom Of The Lake
08 The House of the Devil
09 Catacombs
10 I Lake
11 Until The End

I feel part of the sea that washes up the songs that I like to listen to myself. On the wall above my stove, Dylan, Cohen and Co look spellbound on cardboard at my kitchen table, where I write songs like these twelve. And sometimes they look like this and sometimes they look like this. Like me. This is my niche and this is my protocol.
Bastian Wadenpohl, born in Cologne in 1985, lives in Wuppertal, is a singer-songwriter. The present album was created between March and September 2017 in the Eric Harings recording studio and was published by Retap Verlag. It is Wadenpohl's second studio album after the debut "Griesgramgrüße aus dem Gartencafé".

1. Two thousand and something
2. The shark off Hawaii
3. Swing carousel
4. Peter's salvation
5. Just not you
6. Nutshell Captain
7. Because the heart
8. Surreptitious Advertising
9. Boot kicks
10. Ants and Strawberry Ice Cream
11. Chain dog barking
12. Cosmonaut

The new album by the Italo-German-Spanish collective, recorded with over 20 musicians from all over Europe, is as colorful and different as the line-up of the band. The genre spectrum ranges from chanson to tango to alpine songwriters, without losing a certain folk core. Lorca is the title of the sixth album by songwriter Daniel del Valle & Co. and includes 14 songs in five languages ​​and four dialects that tell of journeys through the Andes, of people, cities and roads, of migration and Lake Garda.
The album is not only linguistically but also musically an adventure full of coloring from different cultures and styles. In the indie folk of the European collective on Lorca we find nuances of Argentine tango, Andalusian flamenco, Franco-Belgian chansons, Viennese waltzes mixed with reggae rhythms, Italian hip hop and Austro-Bavarian songwriter tradition. And yet all these colourful, so diverse-looking mosaics fit together harmoniously like the leaves of a tree in autumn when they cover the ground with their colorful dress. For example, a song starts like the score for Amélie, with an accordion and harmonium, followed by a violin, then a cello; More and more instruments are pouring in until all of a sudden and unexpectedly the waves calm down and the storm dies down and everything falls silent before the strings of a Spanish guitar strike up “Hacia Marte” energetically with Iberian temperament! Ole!
But the first real surprise comes when trombone, saxophone and trumpet enter in a reggae rhythm in "Rue du Bourg", to which cello, violin, bowed double bass and clarinet respond in waltz time. Here at the latest you get the feeling of hearing and experiencing something unique. For three years the band worked together with a total of 20 musicians from all over Europe. There was also an Icelandic singer, a flamenco gypsy from Jerez de la Frontera and a rapper from Milan. The choice of language and dialect reflects the roots and identity of the individual band members: in addition to Spanish, Italian, German, French and English, Catalan, Bavarian, Venetian and Andalusian also appear. The album was mixed by Calexico sound engineer Craig Schumacher in Arizona and then at the renowned JJ. Mastered by Golden Studios in California.

SIDE A
01 Wandering People
02 Hacia Marte
03 Rue du Bourg
04 Uno Di Noi
05 Winter In Berlin

SIDE B
06 La Valse
07 Si J'Etais
08 De Molinos Y Gigantes
09 Tucuman
10 on the way

The 29-year-old singer/songwriter from Osnabrück released his debut album "The Dragonfly". The music can best be described as acoustic rock accompanied by an authentic voice. Marius Freese grew up in the country and grew up with his father's record collection from the important decades of rock music.
The music is correspondingly straightforward, sometimes catchy and sometimes intentionally different. The songs on the album tell stories from life, from the past and the future, from getting lost in everyday life to being rooted in home and nature. With the 13 titles contained on the debut album, it should be reminded in an experimental way that life always has a turn in store for you. A fresh and raw sound that can sound surprisingly different and also fits a bit into today's social life.
With a lot of love for music from different genres and the associated feeling of freedom, this album wants to remind you that life is a journey that we are on together, despite social origins and social backgrounds.

01 Inside&Out
02 Mysteries
03 The Need To Pray
04 Young And Free
05 Don't Wait Too Long
06 Our Destiny
07 When You Got To Find The Answers
08 As Long As I Stay Here
08 Where The Mountains Pray
10 Drovers
11 Twenty One
12 Let's Drift Away
13 On Your Way

Peter Simon has brought in a new harvest. The singer-songwriter, singer and founder of the band Glenfiddle and multi-instrumentalist has recorded the CD "Harvest" with his new band Peter Simon Company. In addition to his own songs with a current political background such as "Trump It - The Mariachi Song" (obviously who this is about!) or "September 22nd - The Angie Song" (which was created the night before the 2013 federal election and deals with the topic of the financial crisis ), there are also very personal love songs like "Doubts" or "Tell It To Her Now" as well as a club mix of his older title "Stonez".
The CD also contains some very individual cover versions of songs that influenced Peter in his youth and which he already enjoyed playing back then, as well as a Scottish traditional "John Anderson", which has accompanied him since his student days in Stirling. The company includes his old friend and musical companion Xu Schmitz on the keyboards (he wrote the title "It's Over") and the saxophonist Martin Schmitt-Hahn, who is well known in Hamburg's blues and boogie scene.

1. Trump It - The Mariachi Song
2. Doubts
3. Honky Tonk Women
4. The Letter
5. Tell It To Her Now
6.John Anderson
7 September 22nd - The Angie Song
8. The Calm After The Storm
9. Have You Ever Seen The Rain
10. It's Over
11. Stonez - Club Mix
12. Black Magic Woman

Friend of Anton is the return or rebirth of the realistic song poet, the pianist who loves his instrument while smashing it, the singer who sings like it's always his last song. And when the harmonica sounds, you feel like you're in a different time.
Friend of Anton sits between many chairs (he's been compared to young Leonard Cohen, Randy Newman and Ben Folds) and yet on his own. Rooted in traditional songwriting, everything keeps breaking up, escalating, becoming different, brand new and present. Rock'n'Roll in the spirit of the avant-garde. Big city poetry that doesn't look away. A voice without vanity, committed only to what is. Freund von Anton is 20 years old and has already won many prizes (including the national competition at the Berlin Festival) and has composed for film and theater (including the Deutsches Schauspielhaus and the Ernst Deutsch Theater). But what are prices? Every evening, every song is crucial. And nothing else.
The album called Flut. A name that stands as a picture over the whole album. Flood as something unpredictable, uncompromising, uncontrollable, direct. It's an album that's less a mere string of songs and more like a painting, in which you can appreciate individual aspects but only appreciate the whole in the end. Or a book in which you may particularly like individual chapters, but which ultimately only unfolds its effect when you have read it from beginning to end. Flut is an album full of stories, put together into one big story. The story of Anton's friend. "Take the spirit that betrays me, I just need a voice to carry me" (Wolves)
The album is personal, intimate, direct, minimalist, reduced, undisguised. A voice and a piano, once also a harmonica. What Anton's friend is, what he wants to say, that's what the album is too. Recorded in a week in spring 2016 in a small studio in Hamburg-Altona by Dinesh Ketelsen, who has already worked with artists such as Niels Frevert and Wolfgang Müller. It is an album that has perhaps never existed before in its uncompromising nature. An album apart from all the current major pop productions, an album for the music alone.

1st flood
2. Stay
3. Wolves
4. Noise
5. You believe
6. Dwell
7. The one you're looking for
8. The vastness
9. Morning in the country
10. One of those
11. Last song

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

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

A new beginning always means a farewell. Be it about your own way of life, your homeland or the people who love you. One usually leaves a place with mixed feelings because it has become a part of us. When such a phase of life comes to an end, you also leave a piece of yourself behind and follow the call for change towards a future that, like so many other things, is uncertain.
The Australian singer-songwriter Lucas Laufen set off for Berlin in early 2016 to achieve what he lives for: making music. Growing up on the outskirts of Port Lincoln, it pulled Enter the world of music at an early age. His first piano lessons began at the age of eight, he learned to play the trumpet at the age of ten, until he discovered the acoustic guitar at the age of 17 and began to write his own songs. After school started Laufen studied medicine, which, however, was replaced by an apprenticeship as an audio engineer shortly after it began. What followed was a good, but also very tiring time. The 55-hour weeks almost never allowed me to work on my own music. And so the thought of self-actualization began to grow.
The EP "Goodbye" deals with the feelings and thoughts of that time of upheaval. Laufen recorded the entire record on his own in Port Lincoln, just before acting on his wanderlust. Even if the EP is coherent and works as a whole, each song has its own character and its own theme. "Halogen" is based on the desire not to spend one's life sitting in an office while cold halogen lamps illuminate the room. Instead chooses Run the adventure and the risk. In its essence, “Boulders” can be described as a thank you to all the people who Support running in the time of upheaval. The humility inherent in the song is the result of a broken partnership before starting over. While the oldest song on the EP "Dead Days" deals with the doubts and fears of the future, "Goodbye" finally puts in the last piece of the puzzle, the Laufen confirmed his decision. An important chapter ends and a new one takes its place.
Laufen 's EP is personally deeply rooted and still offers room for your own interpretation. We live in fast-moving times and the power of change is strong. Anyone who surrenders to it and dares to venture into the unknown can achieve great things. Lucas Laufen , who has played almost 40 concerts since arriving in Germany and built up a strong fan base, makes a great first impression on European soil with "Goodbye". At the same time, the EP lays the foundation for the dream, for the gave up his old life. The recordings for Lucas Laufen's first full-length album is already in full swing.

01 Halogen
02 Boulders
03 Dead Days
04 Goodbye

At almost two meters tall, David Hope is an imposing figure and the prime example of a folk bard – an itinerant singer and wandering storyteller. A lonely traveler, Hope has traveled the high and low roads of his homeland and continental Europe, armed with his trusty acoustic guitar, charming Irish wit, seductive stories and thought-provoking heartfelt songs.
Paraphrasing his style proves to be a challenge, because he uses elements of Americana, his native Irish folk and the blues, but remains true to the tradition of classic singer/songwriting and knows how to bring it into pop/rock with modern arrangements move corner. This makes the songs catchier, but they don't lose any of their originality and fascination - even if you listen to the album for the umpteenth time, you always discover something new!
Numerous live shows show the growing popularity of the bard with the incomparable voice. Graham Candy has also invited David as an opening act for his tour in the Czech Republic; other big names in the industry soon to follow in Germany.

01 Open Door
02 The Best Thing
03 Turning Page
04 Tough Love
05 Christmas Day
06 flares
07 What's To Become
08 Steal Away
09 The Blackness
10 Watch Over You

"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.” There is probably nothing he experienced that Reto Burrell did not let flow into his songs. If you ask him about the highlight of his career, he says modestly: “The greatest thing is the joy and honor of being able to live music to the fullest alongside creating music. Where else, if not in real life, are songs and their stories created?
On this album, Reto Burrell does not shy away from being critical of himself in the songs as well as with the songs. Hear it in WHEN IT COMES TO TOWN TONIGHT and A REASON TO STAY HERE. But at the end of the day he too is looking forward to the light of the next morning: SEIZE THE MORNING LIGHT.

Side A

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

Side B

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

In post-truth times, only something true and genuine helps. Reason enough for Saufziege & Fürst B. to return with their most personal record. Recorded live in four hours on January 22, 2017 in the Frida Park recording studio, the two piglet poppers present "Saufziege & Fürst B" - well, we wouldn't buy it, it's just old stuff anyway! An extraordinary CD and since their first three albums are almost completely sold out in stores, they have simply packed all the songs they have produced so far as MP3s on the Rom level.
More drinking goat & prince B. is not possible. In other words, if you don't buy it, you can't hear it! A warning to the world! The rescue comes from Hanover. They may not be good looking and they can't play guitar or sing well, but hey, someone's gotta do the job! The CD will be available everywhere from March!

1. We're back
2. Moni & Stephano
3. Was I angry?
4. Living room revolutionaries
5. RV Lady
6. Hanover iL
7. Who can the women...
8. Piglet pop forever
9. Problem Bear
10. Avon consultant
11. Containers
12. GaGaGa Garbsen
13. Women riding bicycles
14. Corned beef

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

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

Richie Necker can't help it. He has to make music. Around 200 times a year he is in the limelight. Ever since he got hit by the rock'n'roll virus as a teenager, his workshop has been his studio.
Richie Necker is a music man. A guitar man. A storyteller and a rocker. A sensitive entertainer. One who captures the spirit of the world language of music.

01 Odysseus
02 night in May
03 The River Flows (From The Fountain To The Sea)
04 dreamer
05 Goodnight sweetie
06 Likewise (Ogni Singolo Moment) Featuring Rocky
07 Kira
08 Hotel (At The End Of The World)
09 miracles
10 Puffer Fish And Mermaid
11 Seen like this
12 Usedom

The Rhaeto-Romanic have three things in their blood: music, the Grisons mountains and a quiet, enigmatic sense of the revolutionary - slow and powerful like their glaciers. All of this can be heard translated one-to-one into sound on the new CD by Pascal e Rees – Veta gloriusa.
The "glorious life" (the German translation of the title) comes unplugged, acoustically and uncouth. With depth, alpine heights, wit, a very unique view of life, but above all with Pascal's experimental singer-songwriter and guitarist qualities and with Rees' warm jazzy bass. The original, soft and very musical sound of the Rhaeto-Romanic language, which Pascal intersperses with English according to need and mood, is always surprising.

01 Spargnus amurus
02 I'm On The Roof
03 My soul
04 Jeda jeda
05 Punk traditional
06 Vusch's senz'umbriva
07 Fo in punct
08 Non mi amo piu
09 My Other Side
10 Out of Sight (Versiun 3)
11 Art
12 Il filosof
13 Going To Town
14 Anavos è nagliu

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

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

Probably the most melodic metal voice in Germany comes from Northern England: As Ferryman frontman Andy Jones inspires with an extraordinary singing voice somewhere between "Mountain King" Jon Oliva and James Hetfield. For his solo debut "Unspoken" he completes the transformation from rock lead singer to singer/songwriter. He now sings about “I” and “You”, looks into himself and brings the unspoken to light.

01 Unspoken
02 If You Dare
03 Give Me A Reason Not To Love You
04 Smile In My Sleep
05 Forgot To Forget You
06 Her Silent Request
07 His Silent Reply (Run Together)
08 Don't Look
09 Do We Have To Feel The Magic Every Time?
10 betrayal
11 My Heart, My Head

Nobody was waiting for Magnus Landsberg. For years in the scene as a guitarist in a wide variety of bands, he has actually found his place and, above all, seen enough to know: there really are enough German singer-songwriters. That's why he only writes his own songs for himself in the quiet at first. Only when the songs and lyrics are piling up does he show his compositions to a good friend, who immediately coaxes him into promising to play his songs live within a year. No sooner said than done, this little bet degenerates into a friendship project. Musician friends and long-time companions join Magnus euphorically and bring his songs to the stage for the first time in December 2014 as "Magnus Landsberg & ein very big Monster". Armed with an acoustic guitar and irony, he faces the elementary questions of the hashtag generation or loses himself in urban poetry and packs his stories into simple and tasteful arrangements. The first gig was just the starting signal and meanwhile Magnus is touring all over the country solo, in a trio or with his “very big monster”.
Incidentally, he and his band recorded an album that will be released on the renowned Osnabrück label Timezone and is therefore available on all platforms, from small shops to Spotify. The listener can expect an organic live production and a textually and musically varied journey through the city and out into the country. yesterday, today and tomorrow. The album is also available at Magnus Gigs at the merch stand. "Magnus Landsberg & a very big monster" is a real live experience that you shouldn't miss.

01 Happy
02 zombie helicopter action
03 Red song with horses
04 I'm not participating anymore
05 A nice sound
06 World Cuddle Day
07 Big cinema
08 Self-discovery
09 Heartless
10 Nothing
11 zodiac animal
12 A Nice Noise (live with Liza&Kay)

If you read the biographies of the two musicians, you might get the impression that Tony McLoughlin and Marlon Klein didn't necessarily have to have crossed paths. Singer and guitarist McLoughlin comes from Northern Ireland, he calls his background "Celtic", probably there are also Vikings in his family tree. His name can be translated as "Son of the deep water". The debut album "Cinerama" from 2000 was produced by US producer Thomm Jutz (who, however, comes from the Black Forest). He also worked with Nanci Griffith and Mary Gauthier, among others. McLoughlin's name is often associated with Nashville, and his songs are sorted under "Americana". “Today, Americana stands for music that incorporates elements from rock, country, blues, folk and other roots music. For me, the best example of Americana is “The Band,” McLoughlin refers to a legend from the sixties and seventies. So he sees it as praise that people see his CD releases as Americana. "Maybe it's my innate style," he comments with a wink.

01 Another Poor Rider
02 Eagle Eye
03 Where is Jack
04 I'm On My Way
05 Only You
06 Heart Of Darkness
07 bombmaker
08 People
09 Sacred Nights
10 Spanish boots
11 Red Light Love

Poetry is actually not really my thing, but unfortunately the times are such that it has to be. And since "Father Franz" left us, I can no longer say: "Let someone else do it". This is how these songs came about, which sing beautifully and pointedly about the unpleasantness of our time. The booklet gives extensive background information and the second voice sung by my daughter makes the songs even more haunting.

01 Where else can the nightingale sing
02 Far country
03 No-Fly Zone
04 Dark clouds are moving in again
05O Sapientia
06 An industry representative promotes CETA and TTIP
07 De Avaritia
08 Circulus terroris
09 Beware of the peaceful
10 The Sleepwalkers 2014
11 "Quality Reporting" or "When the Russian Provokes"
12 Clouds Again Are Drawing Nearer

Christian Falk's third EP "Mauern" combines the melancholy of the German-language singer-songwriter genre with rock elements. Cello and drums come together in songs that tell of world pain, utopia, freedom and love. Christian Falk, 28, grew up in the Lower Saxony countryside. Chicken fattening, nuclear energy and conservative one-party politics lead to the escape to Bremen in 2008. In order to process what he has experienced, Christian makes music and studies industrial engineering at the same time, because the boy is supposed to become something. In addition to the lectures, there is time to work with various Bremen musicians. On the "Walls Tour 2016" he rocks with a band, sometimes with his cellist.

01 Nothing turns
02 walls
03 Amelie
04 Super Earth
05 favorite pizzeria
06 The mirror

A trio that, despite its small cast of piano, drums and three extraordinary voices, manages to create a powerful and authentic sound while always remaining versatile and natural.!
If you had to classify the band in one style, it would be best to divide it into acoustic pop, with "acoustic" standing above all for the handmade and the naturalness of the minimalist line-up and the umbrella term "pop" capitalizing on reaching a wide audience and variety of styles!

01 Tic Toc
02 Addict
03 Move On
04 makes me
05 Bound To You
06 All I Wanna Say

Hamburg has always been one of the most important music cities in Germany, which not only goes back to the early days of the Beatles, but is mainly due to Hamburg's current musical life with a diverse mix of classical, pop, musicals and important festivals. The songwriter Volkwin Müller, who lives in Detmold, also made his way to the Elbe to fulfill a dream: to record an album in his favorite city with first-class musicians.
Directed by the exceptional Hamburg guitarist and producer Uli Kringler (Sarah Connor, Roger Cicero, Pe Werner, Paul O'Brian, among others), who has already contributed to the album "Paints and Powders" by Julian Dawson or "Paul O'Brian - Live in Hamburg". has breathed its unmistakable breath. The team was supported by first-class musicians, such as what is probably Europe's busiest drummer, Heinz Lichius (including Bob Mintzer, Michel Petrucciani, Ulla Meinecke Band, NDR Bigband), bassist Lars Hansen (including Ute Lemper, Gordon Haskell, NDR Symphonie Orchester), the pianist and keyboarder Mathias "Matze" Kloppe (including Roachford, Stefan Gwildis), the songwriter and harp player Julian Dawson (including Richard Thompson, BAP, Little Feat), the choristers Fontaine Burnett (including Marla Glenn, Chaka Khan, The Temptations) and Amsterdam-based Hanna Prins, Hamburg cellist Susanne Schott and Moscow-born violinist Julia Orlova (including Tim Bendzko, musicals “Rocky” and “The Lion King”). Volkwin's new CD was mixed and mastered by Tobias Eichelberg (including Scorpions, Die Toten Hosen unplugged, Rainbirds).
The special cover artwork was created by graphic artist, bassist and two-time Grammy winner Klaus Voormann, who was there everywhere - with Manfred Mann as bassist, as graphic artist with the Beatles, later as bassist in John Lennon's solo years. Hardly any other place contains as much serenity and joy in music as Uli Kringler's studio in Finkenwerder on the Elbe. And that's exactly why Volkwin's new album was created on this spot. A perfect place to record your music during the day and to sit on a terrace or on the dyke in the evening far away from the stress and hustle and bustle in the sunset, to watch the ships over the Elbe, to enjoy a delicious glass of red wine and to gain strength and energy for the collect next day of admission. Then the next day, to record powerful loud and quiet songs that tell stories from life and speak straight from the heart. "With other eyes" shows a versatility and depth that only a few German songwriters create. 100% Volkwin inspired by soft influences like Jackson Browne, Justin Currie (Del Amitri) or David Crosby.
The result was twelve songs about moments that you never forget, about solidarity, about friendship, about love, loss and a change of perspective. Musical moments full of images and emotions that are seldom so beautifully dressed in words and melodies. Intense and upbeat, "With Different Eyes" offers impressive levels of musical and emotional intimacy. A mature work that encourages you to look at your own life with a little more distance, in order to perhaps see it with different eyes in the end.
Volkwin proves to be a talented songwriter in search of the perfect song, who, with the support of producer Uli Kringler, is looking for the right musical realization for his stories. With these twelve songs, he creates catchy tunes that wrap the listener warmly, as if to protect them from the approaching autumn with its rainy weather and stormy winds. And that works extremely well. The music takes you on a journey into the universe, from which you don't want to come back anytime soon.
With ballads like "It stays in your heart" or "You'll still be surprised" your heart immediately melts. The song "Solidarity" goes back to an encounter with the former Polish President Lech Walesa and is currently more relevant than ever. This song is accompanied by finely arranged strings. The songs "Jeder" or "Es ist über" get your feet pumping and are the finest pop with a small pinch of folk. "When You Catch Your Song" describes the magic of music and songwriting.
The Detmold songwriter with the special voice has impressively returned with this album after his debut "Signale" (2005) and the much acclaimed "Strawberry Songs" (2012) with completely new interpretations of "John Lennon" songs and has proven himself that he has evolved as a songwriter.

01 Solidarity
02 It's over
03 You want it
04 It stays in your heart
05 Something happened here
06 When angels fly
07 everyone
08 You will still be surprised
09 father and son
10 When you catch your song
11 When one leaves
12 Nobody can take you anymore

With his debut Meintwegen im Regen, Stefan Noelle gets to the point poetically. Full of desire and love, the Munich chanson writer devotes himself to the German language, paints touching pictures in his songs and dresses them in captivating melodies.
There is someone who writes and sings who knows the changing tides of life and goes into it with an alert mind and an open heart. A collector of what has been experienced, seen, guessed at and felt – who, when the time is right, distills the essence from it all and further processes it into fine miniatures. It can sometimes take 26 (!) years for a song like this to feel mature enough for its creator and its audience. With Give it another juice, before you go, Stefan Noelle gives a humorous and honest account of what it's actually like to have this one dream at the age of 21 - then to sneak around it for decades, to live close to each other (even if the direction right) - to finally do it after all...
Fortunately!
Because otherwise no one would ever have found out what climate change is doing to German poetry (O Mai) and how frighteningly familiar weird relationship communication can sound (But that's the way it works).
Day or night, in the rain, in Paris or Prague - it would never have been negotiated (In the rain, I'm fine) and this wildly painted, ornate heart would not lie in a quiet, safe place - instead it would never have beaten ( My tattooed heart).
Stefan Noelle writes with love, with fire and sometimes with anger. His poetry is finely polished and to the point, his music is colorful and melodically rich. He orchestrates them with a fine blend of folk pop and hints of jazz. Arranged for a small cast, in which bass clarinet and alto flute in particular provide rarely heard colours, a surprisingly full, wide sound is created that fills rooms and still creates space for linguistic elegance and musical subtleties.
Stefan Noelle is a man who searches for the nuances in language and music - in the tradition of the great European singer-songwriters, chansonniers and cantaurori.

01 In the rain, if you like
02 But that's how it works
03 Strawberry punch
04 night frost
05 The smallest
06 My tattooed heart
07 It wasn't possible back then
08 flower key
09 O May
10. Where you go every day
11. We dwell in a subject
12. Chocolates and port wine
13. Do you want to fennel with me?
14. Dog owner
15. Give me another juice before you go
16. It's a tender moment

After their two studio works, Goodwill Intent are now putting out a live album. After all, concerts are the elementary thing - what drives the singer-songwriter-folk musicians. In the meantime, the band has been on stage well over 100 times. Whether it's a full pub or just four spectators at the bar, a small festival or a cozy private concert with friends: the live shows of the four guys from northern Germany thrive on their energy and genuine enthusiasm.
What they all have in common is that special feeling of togetherness - in the songs and between the band members - and the knowledge that you are doing something that might not be earth-shattering, but at least big. For yourself and everyone who wants to be there. The new live record preserves all of this in 21 songs. Sometimes carefree and driving, sometimes thoughtful and always presented with great enthusiasm.

01 Away From The Boredoms
02 This Is Who I Am
03 Anthem
04 Stuck In Between
05 Snapshot
06 A decade
07 Time To Rest
08 More Fights
09 To The Good Stories
10 Rock'N'Roll Inside
11 Glory Nights
12 carry-on
13 Suburban Youth
14 Ambitions To Create

With this debut album, Katharina Westerhorstmann presents her own songs for the first time, which all have one thing in common: they are challenging, personal and unmistakably authentic.
A 12-string guitar, a warm, clear voice that touches and a careful arrangement - that's all it takes. Soothing melodies and strong lyrics open the heart and look beyond the horizon of everyday life. Life itself became a source of inspiration and music a mirror of inner experience. The result is a musical message from heart to heart. Quiet, reserved sounds and profound ballads of hope can be found on the album as well as Christian songs for carefree moments when heaven seems so close.

In short: music for the soul.

01 You are my happiness
02 You are loved by God
03 I thought I couldn't love
04 Because you are precious to me
05 Merciful Jesus
06 Merciful like you (when your beauty touches my heart)
07 Come Holy Spirit, fill us
08 Merciful Father, my God
09 Show me your face
10 We call (when evening falls)
11 only you
12 Mother Mary, you are with us
13 A Wonderful Day
14 Merciful Jesus (bonus track)

The Swiss singer-songwriter Pascal Gamboni presents his latest solo album with "La Ventira" (Das Glück) - songs that sing about beauty and sound joyfully sad, and when he starts his last song "Oh my love I'm Trying". , he sings to us from the heart. His Rhaeto-Romanic songs are also animated, and always carry an unmistakable breadth within them.
From the autumn, Gamboni, who has already toured the UK with The Stranglers, played at the Montreux Jazz Festival and was invited to the renowned CMJ Festival in New York, will be on stage with La Ventira has experienced live, knows about the depth of his songs, this sound is real and lingers on for a long time.

01 Paul
02 Anselma
03 Quei vala ben biè
04 Don't forget the sea
05 Celentano
06 Sleep is my hairdresser
07 3P
08 La sutgera da cungiere
09 Mussa me
10 Hey te
11 Oh my love