'Promise' by Voyager is APRA 2024 shortlisted
Congratulations to the band Voyager, of our Australian partner Perfect Pitch, who have been shortlisted for APRA Song of the Year 2024 with their song 'Promise'.
OUT: album 'Interior' by Rosa Anschütz
'Interior' is Rosa Anschütz’s most introspective and vulnerable album to date; an insightful and powerfully crafted album which dives within but also urges to turn to the outside. The record operates as a meditative sonic and lyrical journey across genres, with an analog dark-romanticism rooted in the melancholia of neo-folk, the elegance and solemnness of modern classic and the grace and baroque of sacred music. It is both an introspection, an “enhancement of one’s thoughts” as she phrases it, and a quest for harmonious living. The artist’s observations of interiors - the ones lying within herself, the ones resulting from her invention and imagination, the ones imposed onto her and inherited - lead her to touch on the broader possibility of cohesion with natural and spiritual elements, and of reconciliation with the self and what is lodged and hidden within it. What paths can one take to express what lies inside of them?
Pole position for Giant Rooks in Germany
Congratulations to Giant Rooks. Their new album 'Where have you been?' has gone straight to number 1 in the charts. At the moment they are on a big world tour that you better not miss.
New signing: Vincenzo
We welcome back long-time collaborator Vincenzo to Freibank. He is undoubtedly an exceptional talent in the ever-inflationary world of electronic dance music where his very wide-ranging repertoire is note-worthy. This can be seen in his production aswell as in the various DJ-sets, which span from the eclectic balearic vibes to the big house and techno-house floors worldwide. The common denominator being an always fascinating mix of deep, flowing and soulful moods coupled with a pulsating electronic vibe. Welcome Vincenzo to the Freibank family!
USHER will headline Super Bowl LVIII Halftime Show
Multi-Platinum Grammy Award winning global superstar USHER’s Afrobeats & Amapiano-infused R&B track 'Ruin' produced by and featuring Pheelz is his latest release leading up to his highly anticipated ninth studio album 'Coming Home' out on February 9th. 'Ruin' is co-written by ACP's very own Manana. USHER will headline the Apple Music Super Bowl LVIII Halftime Show in Las Vegas on Sunday, February 11th.
OUT: album 'How Have You Been?' by Giant Rooks
Giant Rooks' long awaited second album 'How Have You Been?' is out now. After the indie band celebrated international success with their debut album “Rookery”, they are now releasing their second album “How Have You Been?” with 14 new songs.
OUT: album 'Air II • Travelling Without Moving' by Air
Air re-issued the album 'Air II • Travelling Without Moving' from 1994 on vinyl!
The second volume of the Air series is even more abstract, stringing together eleven untitled chapters in a zero gravity journey aptly dubbed “Traveling Without Moving: The Trip.” The album lives up to that loose aforementioned tagline, imagining an ever-elusive search for meaning in the interzone Namlook never really abandoned. A lot of live recorded percussion in conjunction with environmental sounds is giving this album a more human touch. Over 60 minutes in one go, eleven "trips" on this worthy successor. Ambient with and without beats between 0 and 130 BPM.
OUT: album 'Book of Fulfilled Wishes Vol.1' by Ensemble Du Verre
Despite consistently positive critical acclaim, the Ensemble du Verre, founded in 2003, was long denied a major success. However, this success came all the more clearly in 2008 in the form of the German Record Critics' Award for the album 'Sanctuary For Animals'. Since then, the project led by Hamburg-based keyboardist and drummer Sönke Düwer has repeatedly produced musical gems - such as 2011's 'The Contemporary Cowboy', a masterful combination of jazz and electronic (dance) music, which was praised by French techno and house producer Laurent Garnier.
And although things became much quieter after that, Sönke Düwer and his extremely sound-conscious creative circle always managed to present albums that exude a fascinating aura of waking, dreamy clarity through their sophisticated use of structures, reduction and concentration. Be it in the form of 'Rooms', 'My Jet-Black Notebook' or 'Book Of Fulfilled Wishes, Volume 1' - the latest collection of audio films by the composer, producer and sound director.