In the organizer's words:

Hypnotic city night drives and places of longing flooded with light. A journey into no man's land between dream and reality, hope and disillusionment, everyday life and escape. It is almost impossible to put the music of the Berlin band Conic Rose into a common formula. Depending on your perspective, you could describe it as indie pop, jazz, ambient, electronica or a soundtrack that evokes its own images. It is everything together and yet much more than just the sum of the styles listed. The unmistakability of a hoarse trumpet tone on the tranquil soundscapes of electric and acoustic guitar, keyboards, bass and stoic drums, which translate influences from J.S. Bach, Krautrock, Thom Yorke or Bonobo into a sound aesthetic that evokes associations with Jon Hassell, Nils-Petter Molvaer or Toshinori Kondo's unforgettable band IMA, is what gives this album its special flair.

The magic formula for trumpeter Konstantin Döben and pianist/keyboardist Johannes Arzberger, who know each other from Clueso's band, as well as guitarist and multi-instrumentalist Bertram Burkert, bassist Franziska Aller and drummer Nicholas Stampf is barrier-free openness in all directions. As focused as the band's cascades of sound may sound as a result, many of them were created, recorded and ultimately produced just once, out of improvisation. Nothing was prepared. The formation surrendered to inner moods that they could only make audible by playing them. The recipe consisted of the perfect mixture of intuitive calculation and calculated intuition.

This desire for her own sound can be felt in every single moment on Conic Rose. It translates into images whose haunting casualness lingers on the inner canvas of the listening viewer and lives on. On their second album Wedding, Conic Rose deepen their surreal journey into the world of distorted mirror images to celebrate a new ideal of undisguised beauty in sound at the other end of the wormhole.

The concert at Nachtasyl in fall 2023 was one of our highlights of the year and we are very excited that Conic Rose will be back with new music in spring 2026. See you on May 1st at Halle424?