VIDEO: The Dark Opens the Way (Markus Guentner Remix) by GALÁN / VOGT 

It was the fall of 2021 when Spanish composer Pepo Galán and Australian dream pop vocalist/musician Karen Vogt (now based in Paris) unveiled their first album as GALÁN / VOGT. The Sweet Wait is a mesmeric weave of dark ambient, dream pop, shoegaze, slowcore, experimental, drone and neo-classical music equally indebted to the potency of…

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Duologue: Foam and Sand

Already well established with over a prolific decade of composing, producing, and performing music behind him, Robot Koch recently introduced yet another dimension to his creative sphere in the form of Foam and Sand, an ambient project which grew out of his experimentations with tape loops in his Los Angeles studio during the early days…

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PREMIERE: Hiding (Jakob Lindhagen and Vargkvint Rework) by Garreth Broke

Garreth Brooke is a British/German musician based in Frankfurt with a multi-faceted CV. Releasing his own music under the name Garreth Broke, his songs have garnered millions of streams and been performed in venues all around Europe. Garreth is also very active in the arena of sheet music from writing & publishing to curating a…

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Sound Impression: Friede by Linda Rum

Berlin-based musician & songwriter Linda Rum has had a multi-faceted career spanning folk, pop, and post rock often taking center stage with her powerful vocal presence, but on her new album Friede, the only voice we hear is that of her piano. This, where are told, is where it all began for Rum with her…

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Travelogue: A Modern Classical Sunday with Bigo & Twigetti

It is a cool, rainy Sunday in the mid-Atlantic, a grey day just tinged by the last embers of fading fall colors – a perfect setting to turn inwards and cozy up to some contemplative modern and post-classical sounds. London-based boutique label Bigo & Twigetti has us generously covered in that regard. If that sounds…

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A Sense of Place: Bluets by Ah! Kosmos & Büşra Kayıkçı

Absence makes the heart grow fonder may have become a hackneyed phrase over the years, but it acknowledges a poignant truth that is at the heart of a remote collaboration between sound artist & composer Başak Günak, aka Ah! Kosmos, and pianist/composer Büşra Kayıkçı. Distance magnifies the people and things you miss most is the…

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Duologue: A conversation with Brueder Selke

Currently based in Potsdam, Germany, Sebastian and Daniel Selke began releasing music together under the moniker of CEEYS, a portmanteau that references their primary instruments (Sebastian on cello and Daniel on keyboards). Born in East Berlin before the wall fell dividing it from the West, much of the music these two very talented brothers created has…

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VIDEO PREMIERE: Beside You by Hoshiko Yamane

Hoshiko Yamane is a Japanese composer who has been based in Berlin since 2006, a city she was attracted to through her love of Bach and Brahms. Perhaps most famously, she has toured regularly as a violinist with Tangerine Dream and worked with singer/actress Jane Birkin, but she has been involved in many other contemporary…

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PREMIERE: Marienborn by Brueder Selke

Born in East Berlin before the wall fell dividing it from the West, and now based in Potsdam, brothers Sebastian & Daniel Selke began releasing music together under the moniker of CEEYS, a clever portmanteau that references their primary instruments (Sebastian on cello and Daniel on keyboards). Their last album, 2020’s Hausmusik (Neue Mesiter), marked…

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