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… Read More