Dr Walker nominated twice at International AI Film Festival in Seoul
Dr Walker of the Liquid Sky Collective is nominated for Best AI Music Video and Best Experimental Film at Seoul's International AI Film Festival in South Korea. Congratulations!
OUT: album 'Yarin Yoksa' by Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek
Big Crown Records is proud to present Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek’s latest album 'Yarın Yoksa'. The show stopping intensity of Derya backed by the psychedelic soul of Grup Şimşek with production by Leon Michels has yielded a stand out record that challenges genre with a broad appeal and a powerful message.
They refer to themselves as “outernational” over international as they say it suggests a sound that’s more inclusive or “beyond borders.” Derya, who sings and plays the bağlama, is German born to Turkish parents. Drummer Helen Wells is Berlin-based by way of South Africa while keyboard player Graham Mushnik and guitar/bass player Antonin Voyant are both French. The collective influences they bring to Anatolian music make for a completely unique and fresh sound that both pushes the genre forward and champions its rich heritage.
'Yarın Yoksa' which translates to If There Is No Tomorrow delves into deeply personal pain and collective resistance with a central thread of loss, longing, and hope for change running throughout. The lyrics are poetic and rely heavily on symbolic language, metaphors, and storytelling while the music shifts track to track making each tune stand out on its own but work together perfectly as an album.
OUT: album 'MSRYLUV$CMPNY' by Money Badoo
What Money Badoo says about her new album:
"It’s more than a project to me :( it’s a journey of self-discovery, transformation and resilience.
Through music, visuals, and fashion, it tells a deeply personal story of navigating heartbreak, battling inner demons, and confronting the complexities of mental health. At its core, the project is about alchemy-turning pain into power, sadness into art, and isolation into connection. I would like to think all my blends of alternative hip-hop, R&B, and experimental sounds creates a world where vulnerability meets strength, It’s an open invitation to embrace the beauty in struggle and the light that comes from within, even in the darkest moments."
OUT: album 'Elevator Music' by Apollo Brown
'Elevator Music' is a deceptively simple, profound experience—a sonic metaphor for life’s blend of elegance and imperfection. It captures the sensation of moving seamlessly through moments of reflection, whether nostalgic or fleeting, underscoring them with a soundtrack that is as poignant as it is unassuming. Each note feels like the slow, deliberate sip of boxed wine from a plastic cup: unpretentious but evocative, an ode to savoring the ordinary.
Much like a solitary train ride through the snow-covered Alps, the album evokes a sense of both movement and introspection, framing life's highs and lows in stark contrast. Its deliberate pacing and atmospheric compositions offer listeners a space to think, remember, or even forget. Yet, what it insists upon most fervently is feeling—viscerally, deeply, unavoidably.
This is music not just to listen to, but to live with. Press play, let the soundtrack blend into your day, and allow 'Elevator Music' to underscore life’s quiet triumphs and bittersweet reveries. It’s not just an album—it’s a reflective companion, perfectly attuned to the rhythm of existence.
This is music to live to.
Clouds Hill x Freibank Writing Camp
3 days, 12 writer, topliner and producer and a lot of stunning gear: we had a wonderful writing camp with our friends from Clouds Hill! Expact to hear some of the outcome very soon!
OUT: book 'Eine mögliche Geschichte der deutschen Popmusik' by Luksan Wunder
The multi-award-winning comedy collective Luksan Wunder (German Cabaret Award 2023) have written another new book. ‘Eine mögliche Geschichte der deutschen Popmusik (A Possible History of German Pop Music)’ describes the most important songs and artists of German pop music from 1965 to 2030 - including songs, music videos and lots of pictures. It's possible that Luksan Wunder invented all these artists and made the songs himself...
new signing: Carina Madsius
Berlin-based songwriter, producer and electronic artist Zylva is a highly respected collaborator and musician who pursued a career as a classical pianist before releasing her own music and working as a songwriter and producer. She has increasingly enjoyed contributing to toplines and instrumentals. As well as being a professionally trained classical and jazz pianist, she plays electric bass and is familiar with analogue synthesizers, always trying to add atmosphere and richness to a track. She has worked with many acclaimed artists and institutions such as Lune, Tom Gregory, Sophia Süßmilch, ZDF (score music), Ralph Heidel (producer of Casper, K.I.Z., Apsilon), S. Fidelity, Zouj, Philo Tsoungui, HKW Berlin and releases her own music on the internally praised left-field labels Squama Recordings and Public Possession. As a live act, she is represented by Karsten Jahnke.
OUT: album 'It's Hard To Be A Blizzard' by Juli Gilde
The first evening at the fair, the rollercoaster rollercoaster rides between candyfloss and and scary cabinet, flashing towards the starry sky, people shouting, laughing, throwing colourful balls balls at aluminium cans. And in the middle of it all person in her early 20s who is aware of every of this scenery and much more. Who sees and hears and sniffs and has the feeling of wanting to be to want to be everything at the same time. To have to be. Loud and quiet, fragile, exhilarated and full of mental leaps into a distant running into a distant future. ‘it's hard to be a blizzard’ - it's exhausting to be someone someone who has never existed and then to be as well as possible.
That or something like that would probably be the setting and mood of the debut album of indie artist Juli Gilde. The melancholy and dark blue, calm restraint of her first two EPs have disappeared. Instead, this is a roaring indie pop record that is louder, bigger and bolder than anything the Berlin-based artist has released so far. In light green, blue, pink, yellow and snow-white, July's songs are radiant, diverse, chaotic and diverse, chaotic and without a common thread. And yet, despite all the hustle and bustle in a funny way quite wonderful. Just like life in your early 20s.