The musician uses her songs as a tool to reduce distances - between herself and her audience, but also between the listeners and their own emotions. With her new album "Welcome Back Home" she moves as usual in the genre of pop-rock, but this time with an affectionate penchant for synth sounds. Besides music, Kati von Schwerin is also a visual artist, writes books and hosts a podcast.
'Nerves' is the fourth album by Kastrierte Philosophen, a band founded in 1983 by Matthias Arfmann and Katrin Achinger. Matthias Arfmann's characteristic guitar and Katrin Achinger's wonderfully dark and melancholic vocals, often presented in a narrative style, often reminiscent of Nico or Marianne Faithfull, established their exceptional position, not only in the German musical landscape.
Music that has soul but is far removed from soul rock is how the Hamburg band Rhonda describes itself. The quartet from northern Germany and California now releases its fourth studio album, titled "Forever Yours", which was created during the pandemic between Hamburg and Los Angeles.
'Dreaming Hills' is a 10-track album heavily influenced by the sounds of California jazz, R&B, and of course hip-hop beats and the rap scene. Hip Hop meets jazz and 90s nostalgia with a modern twist. Many of these early demos and drafts were crafted while working heavily to send tracks over to Anderson Paak and others. Landing placements, Shuko decided to use some of the samples that didn’t get placed to start making his own tracks and embarked on a journey to produce a whole album.
As the impact of Goldener Strom, Rosa Anschütz’s debut LP for BPitch, continues to be felt far and wide, we bring you the second instalment from the remixes package. This two-track release contains compelling reinterpretations from Aasthma and Umfang. Both artists are renowned for their maverick take on electronic music, and their reworks pay homage to the original works in unique style.
“The song was written in realization of what’s actually important in life.” says Jacob. “Halfway through the process, I had an unintentional encounter with an idea for a hookline that felt familiar and the chorus was done shortly after. Sara Nanna, who did the video contacted me a couple of weeks after I had finished the demo, asking me about a video collaboration. I felt her idea for a stop motion film would fit nicely with my song. The package stings like a bee, rocks your body right and I love it. Hope you will love it too."
In the song 'Steht mir' Cro processes the end of a relationship. The single is supposedly a bit older and was created between 2014 and 2015. In the Instagram comments of the announcement post, people are already discussing whether the cover of the release might indicate some kind of 'Lost Tape'. It shows the three masks Cro has worn during his career. There is also a reference to the change in masks in the 'Her' video. Freibank's Shuko produced the track.
Achinger and Arfmann have sifted through their catalog, remastered the music and are now starting to make the stuff available again. As an introduction, there is a classic best-of album with JAHRE // 1981-2021 (+1).