Four years after his last release as Hauschka, composer Volker Bertelmann returns to City Slang for his new effort “PHILANTHROPY”. While touching on the work of musical innovators, such as Erik Satie and John Cage, Hauschka reimagines the potential of the prepared piano for the 21st century, a technique that involves inserting objects between the instrument’s strings or onto its hammers to expand its sonic and operative possibilities.

CARLOS CIPA is a composer and pianist residing in Munich and Berlin. New album Ourselves, as we are is out 24th of February.

Cataleya Fay, an Austrian singer-songwriter based in Germany, has developed her very own, unique style in expressing music and playing concerts. On piano, guitar, the exotic harmonium or the shrutibox she merges elements of Folk, Soul, Pop, Worldmusic, Chant and Mantras into songs and musical poems of high intensity and beauty. 

"We need more encouragement, the world has plenty of critics already." 

For more stories and infos visit her homepage!

Ólafur Arnalds is a BAFTA-winning multi-instrumentalist and producer from Mosfellsbær, Iceland. Ólafur Arnalds mixes strings and piano with loops and beats crossing over from ambient/electronic to pop.

Clockwork is a music collective consisting of the three musicians Lisa Schöttl, Robin Becker and Alexander Vaymer. As longtime colleagues they have already produced music together in various formations and then decided in 2017 to found the Trio Clockwork.
With the exotic cast of cello, dulcimer, piano and synthesizer, they combine acoustic instruments with electronic soundworlds to create atmospheric sound collages that are constantly evolving and changing.
The partially minimalistic music is subject to a constant metamorphosis.
A key feature of the trio is the improvisation and the spontaneous interaction, which has gradually mixed with composed songs and thus has become the program "Lost Places".
This unexpectedly creates new melodies, rhythms and soundscapes that only stand in the room for one evening, making the concert a unique experience.

Trio CLOCKWORK is following