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 summarise the music on the debut album »Conic Rose« by the Berlin band of the same name in a conventional formula. Depending on your point of view, you could call it indie pop, jazz, ambient, electronica or a soundtrack that conjures up its own images.

The special flair of this album comes from the hoarse trumpet tone on the calm soundscapes of electric and acoustic guitars, keyboards, bass and stoic drums. Influences from J.S. Bach, Krautrock, Thom Yorke and Bonobo can be heard. The result is a sonic aesthetic that evokes associations with Jon Hassell or Nils-Petter Molvaer.

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 Silvan Strauss is barrier-free openness in all directions. As focused as the band’s cascades of sound may sound, many of them were created, recorded and finally produced only once out of improvisation. Nothing was prepared. The recipe was a perfect blend of intuitive calculation and calculated intuition. This desire for their own sound is evident in every single track on »Conic Rose«.