A few weeks ago I met German pianist Nils Frahm in New York (that sounds so damn cosmopolitan, doesn’t it?) and had the chance to talk to him. I arrived at the Living Room in New York’s East Village, while he was doing his soundcheck, or rather tried to get some decent sound out of

On October 12th, Codes In The Clouds played at the Prinzenbar in Hamburg and I used the chance to talk to the band before their show. Although Stephen, Ciaran, Rob, Jack, Joe and newest member Oliver (percussion) just arrived after a nine hour drive from Belgium (were they played the night before) to Hamburg, they

The debut release “Centuries” from Dark Dark Horse could be described with one sentence: it is pleasant anticipation set to music. Their pop influenced electronic sound is romantic in the best sense or as Charles Baudelaire used to say: “Romanticism is precisely situated neither in choice of subject nor exact truth, but in the way

After the first time I listened to Silent Devices and their EP “Two Decades“, I was left with two questions. Why haven’t I heard of this band until now? And why are they apparently unsigned? The most beautiful thing about their music is the way they avoid this miserable apocalyptic atmosphere that often comes along

There is no excuse or explanation why Codes In The Clouds is still a Post-Rock insider tip. Their second album “As The Spirit Wanes” is what you might call a pretty neat piece of work. And I don’t do this very often, but the Dartford based quintet released an album I would entitle a must-hear.