AWKWARD i & ANGELA AUX

In the organizer's words:

------------> ANGELA AUX

Angela Aux, for years on a mission between pop and underground, anti-folk and avant-pop.

Notorious songwriter and weirdo, mastermind of Aloa Input, film music and typewriter performances, contemporary eclectic, behind the scenes to melancholic to bizarre. His live shows have long been insider tips, solo and with a great band, beautiful choral singing to broken hobo lyrics with changing references from Beck to Velvet Underground, Mac DeMarco, Beatles and Justin Vernon. Many years on the road in dress and wig, most recently disguised as an alien.

Angela Aux has released five albums since 2011, and the circles she has drawn are getting bigger and bigger. Critical euphoria and growing worldwide attention reached their temporary peak with the two current albums "Instinctive Travels on the Paths of Space and Time" (2023) and "Spacelarking in the Age of Spiritual Machines" (2024), awarded in many best lists (RBB radioeins, BR2 Zündfunk, Abendzeitung, Goethe Insitut, Brigitte, Morgenpost Hamburg, In-München, Tip-Berlin, Musikexpress and many more).

On the dreamy longplayer "Spacelarking in the Age of Spiritual Machines", Angela Aux explores the fantastic grey areas of the mythologies of digitalization, space travel and artificial superintelligences. The political scientist counters the "spacelarking" of the apologists around Elon Musk with a set of fantastic trips in the "Kraut-Pop" genre: psychedelic, dreamy and permeated by second and third levels. In addition to classic Aux catchy tunes, "Spacelarking in the Age of Spiritual Machines" consists of experimental compositions between ambient, lo-fi hip-hop and film music.

------------> AWKWARD i

AWKWARD i is the more song-oriented pseudonym of composer and musician Djurre de Haan. The debut I Really Should Whisper sounds like a layered DIY record with a strong indie folk feel, long before that term would be massively abused (hello Mumford!) . The influences from his time in the Alamo Race Track band are also clearly audible here.

On AWKWARD i's fourth album, Unalaska , Djurre de Haan translates his longing for the unknown into a unique musical landscape. Inspired by an elusive spot on a yellowed map, this album takes you on an inward journey full of poetic reflections and organic melodies.

De Haan explores themes of transience and self-discovery. Unalaska is both intimate and grand, a beautiful addition to AWKWARD i's idiosyncratic oeuvre, full of melancholy and subtle beauty.

Over the years, De Haan has made several well-received records, both under his own name and under the alias AWKWARD i, and has composed scores and soundtracks for films, theater and television. His work has already earned him two nominations for a Golden Calf.