recorded w/ I Phone 3Gs
written & performed by BROKOF

Fabian Brokof
Arne Bergner
Rocco Weise
Puya Shoary




Hustler

Last night on my bike 
A summer breeze so soft
I felt one with things 
Never spoken of
In this city 
That’s breathing 
White headlights flashing through her veins
I know I can’t forget you
Still the seasons change

I’m here 
I’m living the life of a hustler
Running around like a freak
Trying to make ends meet
I’ll be 
Running from disaster
Just to fall all over my feet
Brought down to my knees

I remember 
You once had a belief
And morals so high 
It made me feel like a thief
To come close to such a beautiful mind
Now we make money 
And that’s no fun
Cause we’re always on the run
When your heart turns to stone
You’ll be anywhere alone 

And I’m here 
Living the life of a hustler
I’m running around like a freak
Trying to make ends meet
I’ll be 
Running from disaster
Just to fall all over my feet
Brought down to my knees

My knees,
My knees









Hustler_IPhone_Demo_280713

recorded w/ Iphone 3Gs
written & performed by BROKOF

Arne Bergner, Fabian Brokof, Puya Shoary, Rocco Weise


Keep Coming

I keep coming, 
I keep coming around
Just to see what you are up to now
It’s such a long, long time ago
That I used to know

I think that maybe you have changed your mind
I think that maybe you think it’s all right
We’d give it one more try
Give it just one more try

I can’t get you out of my mind
No matter how hard I try
No matter where I’m going 
It’s always you I find

I keep coming 
I keep coming back
Thinking ‘bout all the things that we once had

Everything is changing every day
But I have never changed
I’m still the same
I’m still the same

I can’t get you out of my mind
No matter how hard I try
No matter where I’m going 
It’s always you I find

I keep coming 
I keep coming around

Oh I know that I should not
I know, I know, I know
If I ever thought about leaving this town
The time is now
Each house, each stone and every tree
They are all talking to me
Make-believe
A world that is no longer real
I know that I should leave
I should let it be

But I keep coming, 
I keep coming around…

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Very early BROKOF fans might have heard this song some 20 years ago, played at Berlin venues like Zentrale Randlage, Schokoladen or Big Eden, most of them long gone. We have tried to capture it a couple of times but somehow it never worked or at least we were not satisfied and soon forgot about the song over others. About 3 months ago we were just fooling around, playing random riffs and licks and quite suddenly, out of pretty much nowhere ~not at all~ unexpectedly re-emerged and we cut the whole song within half a day. That’s how it goes and here it is, finally recorded and somehow dear to us, like an old friend that after years of traveling comes to settle down in the neighborhood. We hope you enjoy!

Not At All

A Ride

BROKOF is an alternative folk rock band based in Berlin, Germany. The 4-piece band released debut Softly, Solftly, Catchee Monkey, including hit Smile, in 2010. „Indie-pop with a side order of folk & noise redolent of artists from Wilco to the Velvet Underground” (BYTE FM).
Sophomore album Side By Side (2012) opened BROKOF’s work to a wider audience as it was highly praised by critics and even got them nick-named as Spree-Beatles. „Put simply: in Brokof, one of Germany’s most interesting folk-rock bands awaits discovery.“ wrote german STERN and Joe Whirlypop of GLITTERHOUSE reviewed it as: „at once classic, international, indebted to the right role models (from the Beatles to No Depression) and above all rich in wonderful choral singing and multi-voice harmonies". WESTZEIT wrote: “BROKOF manage to put their own stamp on indie-folk-pop with a pleasant temperament and gorgeous melodies which never fail to surprise in their contours and never quite end up where the clichés would have them go." and SLEAZE MAG said: „The four Berliners have managed to wrap songs of uncertainty and fragility in an album free from cliche. The band is likeable just for coming from Berlin, the heart of electronic music, and not bothering with a single synth break. Thumbs up for Berlin. It’s about time.“
With Eviction Notice (2015) BROKOF offered a first glimpse of third album Cool Fame (2016) and toured Europe with the EP as a giveaway to their fans. The Genesis of Cool Fame is told by the band like this: „In the summer of 2013 we started playing new songs, sitting at the table in the kitchen of our studio, with just a couple of guitars and recorded demos with our phones. These sessions soon developed their very own magic and we knew that we were looking for something we could’nt name. In fact we did not even think of making a new record. With Puya (Puya Shoary, drummer since 2012) a new element had entered our band and we had to take our time to figure that one out. So we played and played and slowly found an almost mystical feeling of freedom and impartiality that we never ever wanted to loose again. Whatever the outside world would make of that, became absolutely irrelevant to us, we simply enjoyed being on our way.“
Cool Fame hit Top 5 of german campus charts and the ROLLING STONE saw it related to the work of CSNY and The Who and called it „plain and beautiful“. Andreas Körner mused at DNN: „you might guess that the work on the records was stopped whenever the ease got lost on the way, cause that’s what they by all means are: ten absolutely relaxed songs“.
The band recently released Brother Equal (2017), a collaboration with american singer/songwriter Random Willson.

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