music

bernsteinzimmer

Despite or because of the bandwidth and creativity of the Berlin music scene, the feeling of stagnation and the realization that I need new impulses for my musical development arose at the end of 2018. Searching for myself and my own musical inspirations, I locked myself in at home and tackled my first solo project: “Bernstein Zimmer”. Every day in December 2018, a composition was created that I published in an online “advent calendar”. In Summer 2019 I did a road trip (8.000 miles) through the USA with my car were I met different musicians form techno to electro and noise music.

BernsteinZimmer was re.producing / re.writing Songs from Luise Volkmann and appears on her Album Rites De Passage released in April 2023

flying cakes

The Berlin quartet by pianist Benjamin Geyer operates under the beautiful name Flying Cakes.
"19 Ways To Rain" (Double Moon / in-akustik) is the name of his debut CD, and No. 77 in the "Jazz thing Next Generation" series is characterized by a very special band feeling.

Pianist Benjamin Geyer of the young Berlin Flying Cakes has a soft spot for traditions. He is interested in modern electronics as well as acoustic jazz, which includes Flying Cakes. The band fits in the list of contemporary jazz bands in which it's all about group sound and band members are not in the service of certain celebrities. This is often expressed in the group name: GoGo Penguin, Phronesis, Mammal Hands or Rymden. Geyer once saw the name Flying Cakes on a wall in India. The horizontal, democratic set-up makes these groups extremely sympathetic. 19 Ways To Rain' appears in the Next Generation series of the German magazine Jazz Thing with promising young bands.

mononoke

Mononoke is a Berlin based duo. Founded in 2015, Benjamin Geyer (Keys) and Fabian Rösch (Drums) are playing flourishing, one-set electronic music. The debut album „The Foreign Loomers“ captures some of their strongest musical and sound ideas that are formed into a virtuously flourishing and forward moving piece of art. 

During the last two years, Mononoke continuously refined their sounds, set up and concept. The two jazz musicians gained experiences while playing in different bands and touring throughout Europe to now be well prepared and join forces for their upcoming journey. In summer 2018 they started recording and created the unique and complex sound of „The Foreign Loomers“. Mononoke’s song dynamic and progressive development is reminiscent of Floating Points, Flying Lotus and the dirt of Gaslamp Killer. The duo also got very inspired by the interplay and live character of Taylor McFerrin / Marcus Gilmore duo and the modern virtuosity of BADBADNOTGOOD.

Flora Sophi is a singer and composer from Amsterdam. In 2016 she completed her BA in Voice at the Conservatory of Amsterdam, after which she spent three years in Berlin, where she recorded her eponymous first EP together with multi-instrumentalist Benjamin Geyer and producer Jethro Cooke. Shaped in the scenes of these two creative cities, her music brings together influences from jazz, pop and electronica, combining a storytelling sensibility with an instinct for atmosphere and mood to create worlds that feel both immediate and eternal – each of her songs is a small cosmos that you can dive into and explore.