FUNDED PROJECTS

The universality of pop music can mean different things to different people. For Albertine Sarges – Berlin-born musician and producer – it’s a vessel ...

Nichtseattle stands for a bunch of sore songs about self-care in a precarious world. Nichtseattle comes along solo or with a band, melancholic but ...

Both old and new, organic and lively, harmonic and rhythmic, simple and complex – that’s the sound of the debut album by the three-piece ...

One minute the world was moving closer together, the next it was pulling up national borders again. Well, that’s the bad news. The good ...

Before launching a solo career, Jonathan Jarzyna roamed the pop cosmos as co-founder of experimental band Fenster. Four collaborative albums and a feature film ...

Reaching the limits of language despite her multilingualism, anaïs found a way to express her thoughts and feelings in music. anaïs’ warm voice combines ...

Deliluh is an experimental rock band consisting of Julius Pedersen and Kyle Knapp. Their sound fuses elements of punk, drone, and contemporary rock music ...

Bad Hammer are a shadow pop band who live and work in Berlin. Close-ups of nostalgia and sensation inspire Bad Hammer‘s timeless and cinematic ...

Discovery Zone is the moniker of musician and multi-media artist JJ Weihl who is also a founding member of the experimental pop project Fenster. ...

Dali Muru & The Polyphonic Swarm perch at the center of a so-called Venn diagram and in between medieval-inspired troubadour poetry, a movie soundtrack ...

Desintegración Violenta has been founded during the pandemic winter of 2020/21 with the intention of creating an explosive mixture of hardcore punk and metal. ...

Jasmina de Boer and Lukas Streich are We Will Kaleid. In their experimental, electronic art-pop, the duo focuses on dysfunctional aspects of interpersonal communication, ...

After sharing a bunk in one of Berlin’s numerous hostels for several weeks, Joakim Jägerhult and Liam Blomqvist from Sweden began to share ideas ...

Inspired by the desire to experiment and collaborate with jazz and classical music, the singer Donata, educated at the Amsterdam University of the Arts, ...

While guitarist Manuel and drummer Johannes were already working on a joint project, singer Maria initially joined the band as a feature guest. That ...

Pink Lint lives in the space between two colliding images. A city like Berlin provides its residents rather with too many impressions than too ...

VALENTIN heralds a new era in the music industry. She paves the way for upcoming artists who, just like she did, grew up hand-in-hand ...

Friedberg are the brainchild of Austrian-born Anna Wappel. The four-piece, all-female band are a tour de force of gritty rock energy combined with intuitive ...

Ultraflex is an interdisciplinary collaboration between Farao and Special-K. Inspired by disco, italo and funk of the 80’s, the Norwegian-Icelandic duco is blending new-age ...

Paz Bonfil and Adi Kum met almost a decade ago in Tel Aviv’s underground circuit. Having moved to Berlin, they founded the powerhouse art-punk ...

If you’ve ever spent a night roaming Berlin bars and tumbled into a blue-foggy morning, with a grin still on your lips, you should ...

The Norwegian-Irish singer and songwriter Tara Nome Doyle grew up between city life and untouched nature. Her music embodies these inner conflicts, varying between ...

A’th has been interested in the relationship between migration, belonging, resilience and music not only since her art school degree in interactive performance and ...

Silla Thorarensen and Julius Rothlaender are pretty best friends: they shamble through life together, don’t take themselves too seriously, and quarrel with their own ...

With the neologisms »sun-drunk sound« and »solar-based hip hop«, Kaleo Sansaa tries to capture the essence of her music: a sound that seems to ...

Lulu, Doreen, Kristin and Ilay are The toten Crackhuren im Kofferraum (»The dead crack whores in the trunk«) or TCHIK, as the band with ...

Maggot Heart is the brainchild of the guitarist, singer and songwriter Linnéa Olsson. Taking cues from the rhythmic gloom of Killing Joke, the aggressive ...

Panic attacks at the laundromat, the fake smile of a receptionist, queer dates –
 Juno Lee draws the inspiration for her lyrics mainly from ...

Under the moniker TEll A ViSiON, Berlin-based singer, songwriter and music producer Fee Kürten is rediscovering herself: evolution not revolution! While she still served ...

During the fall of 2018, after moving to Germany, Aron Ottignon meets Senegalese musician and percussionist Bakane Seck in his Berlin studio. From this ...