Conic Rose
Today, the spotlight shines on the German electronic jazz collective Conic Rose. Their new, self-released debut album Heller Tag (or, Bright Day, in English), is out tomorrow, February 17, worldwide.
Members of the group who joined our talk included Trumpeter Konstantin Döben, keyboardist Johannes Arzberger, bassist Franziska Aller and guitarist Bertram Burkert. All come from diverse musical backgrounds, with their individual projects including work with artists like arena-filling German pop star Clueso and Jazz icon Joy Denalane.
Conic Rose’s music interweaves electronic elements, cinematic jazz, vibey soundscapes and hints of German art rock. All songs are written, recorded and produced by the group in their own recording studio in Berlin.
Enjoy our talk and check out the new album.
About Conic Rose
Host Lawrence Peryer
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Conic Rose
Every city has its own special sound. But how do you, for example, capture the special atmosphere of Berlin in sound? The Berlin band Conic Rose, led by trumpet player Konstantin Döben, has found an answer and poured it into the twelve songs on their debut album. Imagine cruising through the streets of the capital city on your bike at two in the morning, alone in the sparse flickering neon light, no one on the road, every now and then a fox shyly crossing the road. And yet there is this permanent background noise, this hidden murmuring and whispering, this clinking of glass and the whirring of flowing electricity, the furtive rustling of the trees, the sound of your tyres on the pavement and one's own heartbeat, which, in the supposed silence of the night, shows itself to be a driving groove. Occasionally this harmony is disturbed by the squeak of a car taking a bend too quickly on the empty road, the agonised cry of a cat in heat or the empty sneer of a drunk. It is precisely this mood Conic Rose captures, without allowing itself to be limited by it. Amongst the intoxication of the metropolis, there always remains a longing for faraway places. Places like La Palma, Hamburg, or Braunschweig were equally formative for the atmosphere of the band's debut album, on which gloomy journeys through the city are interspersed with more relaxed moments flooded with light.
Trying to place Conic Rose's music into a standard formula is almost impossible. Depending
on your perspective, you could describe it as indie pop, jazz, ambient, electronica, or as a soundtr…
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