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Nov 28, 2023 | 
nbhap.com | Andreas Peters
I have been cycling all around town on this cloud-covered fall evening when I finally arrive at the premises of The Famous Gold Watch Studios, which is located in a large courtyard in one of industrial spaces of Berlin-Weißensee.
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Oct 18, 2023 | 
nbhap.com | Andreas Peters
There are a million stories from people moving to Berlin for the arts and while the motivation to succeed here is not necessarily unique, there are those that stick. And as Merle Sibbel, known as Mone, and me ease into the talk on an erratic summer evening at a bar in Neukölln, her story does. I mean, it would be hard not to, considering the sweet surprise that her recent record Darling, Thief manifests. “In art school I started writing. I always had this kind of dream since I’m young to make music.
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Sep 18, 2023 | 
nbhap.com | Andreas Peters
The night has always had the power to provide a powerful creative retreat – and for Montreal artist Laurence-Anne, the notion of nocturnal inspiration has prompted her to let her fascination for obscure visions and surreal complexities work its way on a record entirely devoted to the many facets of the night.
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Aug 30, 2023 | 
nbhap.com | Andreas Peters
When James Michael Rodgers arrives at the Space Meduza, located in the heart of Berlin-Kreuzberg, I can already sense the special connection that the artist, curator, booker, and PR agent one-man-show has with this place, where his Space Sessions take place every Saturday night – starting four years ago and still running.
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Jul 21, 2023 | 
nbhap.com | Andreas Peters
Any released debut these days is born from a time of great uncertainty, but if you have come to the surface in the height of the past pandemic years as an artist, channeling one’s creativity is a tough exercise to be sure. Toronto’s Mother Tongues have been in that very storm, although when I reach Lukas Cheung and Charise Aragoza over at the other end of the globe, they do spark the air that this is just the beginning of their journey.
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Jun 27, 2023 | 
nbhap.com | Andreas Peters
When I arrive at the premises of the Zenner beer garden to meet up with Malin Hofvander and Harald Ingvarsson from Malmö’s Mary Anne’s Polar Rig, the atmosphere around the lovely setting right next to the Spree river couldn’t be more bustled: As if the outbreak of summer isn’t a happening enough on this shimmering Sunday in early June, the label showcase on this day happens to coincide with the Berlin triathlon, which has led to serious traffic jams in the western part of the city, causing a...
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May 26, 2023 | 
nbhap.com | Andreas Peters
Ana Lua Caiano – ‘Se Dançar É Só Depois’Sounds like … seeking and longing. Portuguese artist Ana Lua Caiano evokes familiar memories through unfamiliar sounds. Striking percussive rhythms and impelling vocals carry us through her EP Se Dançar É Só Depois. The recurring synth sounds are at times dark and somber, at others bright and vibrant enhancing the depth of the composition.
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May 18, 2023 | 
nbhap.com | Andreas Peters
Growing older can be a strange experience, even more so when you are an artist and let your emotional self find way into the works of your creation. For L.A.-bred indie pop talent Chloe Gallardo, that process has taken its turns all along the process that led to and from the creation of her first full length Defamator. “You know”, she says at one point of our interview call, “I’m such a different person now, which is like funny because I wrote the songs a really long time ago”.
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May 16, 2023 | 
nbhap.com | Andreas Peters
As I await jazz saxophonist and composer Chelsea Carmichael in front of the Michelberger Hotel on this mild Saturday night, I am still buzzing from the show she and her bandmates have just delivered in the packed downstairs cellar in the Fluxbau, just some hundred metres away from where we meet.
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May 11, 2023 | 
nbhap.com | Andreas Peters
There are no ways left to disregard the existence of the climate catastrophe anymore. And while the current political situation rouses significant doubts in how to attain a common social understanding about its urgency, it is a blessing that there are artists like the Scottish composer Erland Cooper who give the complex of nature an artistic voice, using his creative force to redirect our eyes to the human relation to nature and how it is all tied together.
