Tristan Brusch

In the organizer's words:

The Berliner-by-choice plays more than just guitar, he sings, breathes, spits, makes the infinitely beautiful and the ugly visible. You will be spared elsewhere.
Tristan Brusch's talent only fully unfolds when you experience him on stage. He doesn't spare himself, he doesn't spare the audience, just sitting next to them with a beer is not an option here. Stage magic, that's a word for the next time you play Scrabble, but at a Tristan Brusch concert you get an idea of what that could actually mean.

The new album by songwriter and singer Tristan Brusch will be released on March 24, 2023. "Am Wahn" is the wild, disturbingly beautiful document of a hypertoxic relationship. A rousingly indulgent declaration of love to the great days of pop music with grand gestures and chanson, with which Tristan Brusch doesn't make the mistake of playing it safe for a second.

Something that doesn't happen all that often in this country: Ambiguity in pop. We Germans really like to sing, say and explain exactly what is meant. And in such a way that even the last person understands it. Precision is highly valued in the land of engineers. This is honorable, but in the context of music it often leads to predictability and a heavily pedagogical undertone.

In this respect, it is good that there are songwriters and singers like Tristan Brusch. The 34-year-old belongs to that rare breed of singers who brilliantly master the playful use of unambiguous and ambiguous metaphors in song lyrics. With Tristan Brusch, a song always means exactly what it means to the listener at the moment of listening, i.e. theoretically more or less everything. The highest art of all.
He already perfected this approach to the supposedly so difficult German pop language on his last album "Am Rest" in 2021, and with the direct follow-up "Am Wahn" he is now finally putting the finishing touches to his poetry. Brusch has understood: Pop is never just about the words you sing, but always about the mixture of performance, lyrics, melody, instrumentation and arrangement. It is all of these components that ultimately form the temperature and meaning of a song.
"When I say something very clear in my music, I feel downright ashamed because I automatically exclude so many points of view," says Tristan Brusch. "I find it much more interesting not to be told how to feel and to let the reaction to a song develop in the person themselves."