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Picture Credit: Electric Mud Electric Mud - The Inner World Outside Release Date: February 01, 2022 Label: Timezone Records Format: CD / Digital Length: 48:40 Genre: Progressive Post Rock  / Cinematic Prog Art Origin: Hannover , Germany Less than two years ago, Electric Mud from Hannover, the capital of German federal state Lower Saxony, released their monumental album " Quiet Days on Earth ". Justifiably, the 70-minute release received tremendous echoes from the music press and from the Prog community. Driven by this success, the former duo consisting of Hagen  and Nico  has grown to become a sextet since then. The project has hence become band, or even an ensemble. With reference to the word ensemble, an introduction to the recent development of Electric Mud can be given. As a sextet, the band from Hannover is now able to create a way broader sonic image. While the pieces on "Quiet Days on Earth" have already conveyed a meditative and soothing Neo-Classic and Ambi...

Picture Credit: Hotel California   Hotel California - Orange Release Date: June 04, 2021 Label: Timezone Records Format: CD / Digital Length: 35:45 Genre: Americana / Folk Origin: Hamburg , Germany In the new millenium's first decade, Daniel Bewernick-Green  toured the United States and Europe together with Carl Albrecht . It took until 2009 until the first album by Hotel California "The New Sound of Folk" was released. And the approach by which Hotel California rethink Folk and Americana is indeed a fresh and uncommon one, as we can still hear a dozen years later on the latest release "Orange". The creatuve process in which the album was born can be located between lockdowns and constant uncertainty about the future - it was the beginning of the coronacene. Thus, Hotel California have put a COVID track on "Orange"; but it is not a song about life with the virus, or about the new reality that was brought to us by the virus. On the contrary, it is a so...

Picture Credit: Level π Artwork: Rendel Freude Level  π - Elektronische Philosophie Release Date: November 27, 2020 Label: Timezone Records Format: CD / Digital Length: 65:41 Genre: ( Neo- ) Krautrock / Berliner Schule Origin: Cologne , Germany If you follow the Discoveries of the Week section, the name  Level π might ring a bell since the opening track 'Nachtfahrt' of the album on hand has been featured i a post and playlist published on December 23, 2020 . Connaisseuses and connaisseurs of the Neo-Kraut and Berliner Schule universe might also already heard of the one-person band by Uwe Cremer . The artist is a musical story-teller whose fifth album "Elektronische Philosophie" we are taking a closer look upon. "Elektronische Philosophie" is German for "Electronic Philosophy" (pretty obvious, I guess). The album contains six isolated narratives of which we will concern a few later on. Also, a relaxin guitar intermezzo is adding to the laidback at...

Baby Kreuzberg - Oh Dear Release Date: January 08, 2021 Length: 02:40 Genre: Indie Rock / Blues Rock Origin: Berlin , Germany Baby Kreuzberg Online: Homepage Facebook Instagram Bandcamp YouTube Spotify Looking for affordable and high quality promotion for your music? Here's MusoSoup! Follow MangoWave on Telegram DONATE

Hier ist der Abschluss der Reader Suggestions . Und heute wollen wir den Teufel nicht an die Wand malen, aber zumindest von ihm sprechen. Das Objekt der Betrachtung ist das vor etwa einem halben Jahr über Timezone Records erschienene "Speak of the Devil" von Baby Kreuzberg. Wie der Name schon vermuten lässt, kommt der Singer Songwriter aus der Hauptstadt des deutschen Bundeslandes Berlin, Berlin. Seinen Stil würde ich als erquickende Mischung aus Acoustic Road Blues , Anti-Folk , Americana und 70s Rock beschreiben. Und das stellt der begabte Künstler auf seiner neuesten Veröffentlichung wieder mit Bravour unter Beweis. Auf zehn Songs, die knapp vierzig Minuten in Anspruch nehmen entführt uns Baby Kreuzberg in eine farbenfrohe Welt, in der stets ein sehnsüchtiger Blick in Richtung Horizont gerichtet. Melancholisch und optimistisch begleitet uns Reiseleiter Baby Kreuzberg auf unserem Trip, bei dem wir vom Teufel sprechen. Sein Liedermacher Blues ist der Antrieb für...