'It's just the music that I love': Marlais on coming to folk music as an 'outsider'
We spoke with Michael Culme-Seymour — aka Marlais — about his love of folk music and his life in Berlin. The 33-year-old musician often blends old folk songs with modern elements. "Meeting Is A Pleasu...
26 Sep 20205min
Juno Francis: Swedish Pop Made In Berlin
Angelica Ranåsen and Jacob Fagerstål are the Swedish pop duo Juno Francis. They teamed up in Berlin a couple of years ago to work on their vision of psychedelic 60s and 80s pop. We caught up with the ...
19 Sep 20204min
'Thinking is a musician's death': Tricky on his approach to music
Tricky just released his 14th studio album, “Fall To Pieces.”On most of the new tracks, the Berlin-based artist is joined by Marta Złakowska, a vocalist whom he discovered on a European tour. We caugh...
5 Sep 20205min
'A label for a lack of a label': hear now berlin's founder on playing genre-defying chamber music
hear now berlin is a chamber group that plays works by contemporary composers. Inspired by the music she loves playing and hearing, the sextet’s founder and flutist, Kelly Watson Woelffer, searched fo...
29 Aug 20205min
Musician Candice Gordon on starting a new chapter in her life
Candice Gordon is the new cultural officer at the Irish Embassy in Berlin. The musician is known well beyond Berlin’s music scene for her haunting voice and prolific lyrics.We caught up with Gordon ab...
22 Aug 20205min
Àbáse talks about his roots and sound
Szabolcs Bognar, better known as Àbáse, is a Berlin-based producer and multi-instrumentalist who is playing at this year’s XJAZZ open air festival.A classically trained jazz pianist, Àbáse combines ja...
15 Aug 20204min
Berlin-based musician Martha Rose on 'diving deeply and emotionally after something that you love'
Martha Rose, a U.K.-born, Berlin-based musician, just released her second full-length album titled “Undress & Dive After.” The 33-year-old multi-instrumentalist talks with us about her songwriting pro...
8 Aug 20205min
The German swing band that vows to keep you entertained through the pandemic
Back in March when all the music clubs closed in Berlin, big band leader Andrej Hermlin made a promise: to keep on performing as long as the coronavirus pandemic restricts our lives.His band, the Swin...
1 Aug 20205min
