Farewell Mood (by Lukas Frei)
Live at Moods Labor, Zürich – May 2017

DART Lukas Frei (flh), Simon Spiess (ts), Jeremias Keller (eb), Fred Bürki (dr)

Farewell Mood (live) - Lukas Frei DART

Commissioned by the Festival Of New Trumpet Music 2021, New York https://www.fontmusic.org
Lukas Frei – Flügelhorn, Simon Spiess – Saxophone, Jeremias Keller – Bass, Fred Bürki – Drums

Composed by Lukas Frei
Recorded on September 8, 2021 at Sonarraum U64, PROGR, Bern, Switzerland
Made possible by a working grant from the city of Zürich, Switzerland

THANKS TO
Inderbinen Blasinstrumente for the wonderful instruments https://www.inderbinen.com
Barkley Microphones for the amazing microphone https://www.barkleymic.com/
Tyler McDiarmid for final touches on the sound

Spark Of Hope (live) – Lukas Frei DART

Push The Button (live) – Lukas Frei DART

Commissioned by the Festival Of New Trumpet Music 2021, New York https://www.fontmusic.org
Lukas Frei – Flügelhorn, Simon Spiess – Saxophone, Jeremias Keller – Bass, Fred Bürki – Drums

Composed by Lukas Frei
Recorded on September 8, 2021 at Sonarraum U64, PROGR, Bern, Switzerland
Made possible by a working grant from the city of Zürich, Switzerland

THANKS TO
Inderbinen Blasinstrumente for the wonderful instruments https://www.inderbinen.com
Barkley Microphones for the amazing microphone https://www.barkleymic.com/
Tyler McDiarmid for final touches on the sound Commissioned by the Festival Of New Trumpet Music 2021, New York https://www.fontmusic.org
Lukas Frei – Flügelhorn, Simon Spiess – Saxophone, Jeremias Keller – Bass, Fred Bürki – Drums

Composed by Lukas Frei
Recorded on September 8, 2021 at Sonarraum U64, PROGR, Bern, Switzerland
Made possible by a working grant from the city of Zürich, Switzerland

THANKS TO
Inderbinen Blasinstrumente for the wonderful instruments https://www.inderbinen.com
Barkley Microphones for the amazing microphone https://www.barkleymic.com/
Tyler McDiarmid for final touches on the sound

Kreislauf (live) – Lukas Frei DART

Balsam (live) – Lukas Frei DART

Swiss electro-pop outfit Namaka releases a new EP ‘Water On The Sun’. Open-minded and honest, the songs celebrate feminine strength and empowered vulnerability. More empathy, less pride. After talking about unreal appearances in single ‘Butterflies’ and an everyone’s land in ‘Rainbow In Berlin’, ‘Water on The Sun’ honors emotionality as a strong tenderness rising in our bodies and drowning our fears. 

Namaka recorded the EP during a session in singer Sophie Adam’s family house in northern Italy. Analogical and digital, organic and mechanical; the band finds its balance in between driving electronic beats and fluid pop melodies. It feels like this one moment after going out on a rave. Still slightly euphoric, you just sit there and rest with the first light of the day.

Water On The Sun

No Man's Land

Namaka is the electronic alt-pop duo formed by Sophie Adam and Philipp Schlotter. Constantly seeking for change and evolution, they are not afraid of reinventing themself on each record. Their music is like a body, always in motion, thorn in between analogical and digital, the organic and the mechanical. While their first EP « Apron Ties » celebrated wide fluid spaces and reminded here and there of the Icelandic Singer Björk, their second EP « Water On The Sun », released on Mouthwatering Records in May 2020, shined with a brighter energy and playfulness. Open-minded and lightly euphoric, the EP could take place in between records of Little Dragon or Vök.
 
Turning inwards, their first album « Restore », released on November 26th, 2021 is a personal introspection in the mechanisms of a break up. Human and honest, it reflects the inner struggle of every feeling that comes with it, like a photograph of the universe inside.  For this record, the band worked with the Irish producer David Odlum, who helped with the production and mixed the album. Thoughtfully layered, it flows with this uncontrolled electricity, shaking and soothing at once. For the first time on a record, Namaka featured an electric bass - giving it the role of a second narrative alongside the voice, telling simultaneously the same story, both from  their own point of view.

Booking & Press: sophie@namakamusic.com

No Man's Land

Namaka

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