Albertine Sarges

In the organizer's words:

Albertine Sarges achieved a surprise success with her debut album The Sticky Fingers (2021) on the London label Moshi Moshi. It was Album of the Day and Album of the Week on BBC6 and Radio X, and her songs were on rotation. This did not go unnoticed in this country either: VUT Awards and Deutschlandfunk Kultur nominated her as Newcomer of the Year 2021. 2023 followed Family of Things (EP). Now their second LP Girl Missing will be released on January 31, 2025 (Moshi Moshi Records).

The cover of Girl Missing is adorned with a mural from the oldest St. Mary's Church in Rome. A pair of silent eyes stare ghostly out of an otherworldly nothingness. Work on the album began with a disappearance. A close friend of Albertine Sarges broke off all contact without comment. Memorabilia and open threads were left behind. The Berlin native withdrew and began to piece together a mosaic of songs. The result was the image of a monumental longing.

Girl Missing is not a sad album. Behind the loss is the realization of how good it is to keep on loving, even if what you love disappears. This desire for connection has always been a driving force behind Sarges' musical work. Perhaps Girl Missing is not a missing girl, but a missing girl. She translates the inherent pain into an outwardly radiant musical experience full of joie de vivre. With each of the album's 13 songs, the singer appears more, steps out of the darkness and stands in the room as the subject of her love.

Eclectic but never epigonal, the tracks are strung together with a large musical vocabulary. Impressions of indie rock, blues, artpop and the golden age of the 70s suggest themselves, but do not impose themselves. Albertine Sarges may have developed her musical diversity as a collaborator in various genres (Kat Frankie, Holly Herndon, Christiane Rösinger, Ostia).

The album was created in two very different places. On the one hand, in the concrete landscape of a commercial district in Berlin-Marzahn, where Sarges spent many winter weeks, illuminated only by the small lamp on the windowsill, probing the sensibilities of her confessional songs. The other was in the British coastal town of Margate, a small town of colorful houses whipped up by gusts of wind and the cries of seagulls, where she developed the songs together with her musical companions in a music studio belonging to her London label, the PRAH Foundation.

For the record release concert in Berlin, Albertine Sarges gathers her full band and musical circle of friends on stage to celebrate music for what she believes it is above all: a reason to come together.

Price information:

VVK: 18€ plus fees, B.O.: 22€.