NOUK: is an indietronic & chamber pop band with creative center in Dresden. Our music breaks classical song structures without losing the charm and lightness of honest pop music. Sometimes string lines interweave with guitar and vocals to create a filigree poem setting, then drums, synth basses and circulating piano patterns build up to multilayered arrangements. In a very natural way, different influences merge into a multi-faceted overall sound.
Diskographie: Aurora, Figures Afloat
NOUK is an extraordinary combination of E- & U-Musicians and unites creative individuals of the local music scene. In our band, it is not uncommon for the classically trained violist to transition into an improvisation to drum grooves or for the acoustic guitarist, influenced by Argentine folklore, to create a polyrhythmic tapeloop. We explore new forms of expression and soundscapes, creating an individual, unique language.
Released in October 2022
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Recording by Max Grüner
Mixing by Jonas Dannecker
Mastering by Bernhard Range
Cover Artwork by Carolin Israel
Single Artworks by Mathias Fleck
Composition & Arrangement by NOUK
Anna-Lucia Rupp (voice, keys, percussion)
Max Grüner (voice, guitar)
Alma Stolte (cello)
Maria Körner (viola)
Felix Demeyere (drums)
Our debut album »Figures Afloat« is a pandemic grown mixture of tangible stories, abstract images and inner streams of thoughts. We question the forces that move us, symmetries and structures, static existence and time as a construct. Neither the music, nor the band resist going down unconventional paths. The physical product in the form of a lovingly designed record on vinyl and a graphic lithograph - an art print through stone slabs – is intended to create a nostalgic reference to the lyrics and expression of our music and to decelerate the consumption of our album.
All in all we released four Singles that each unfold their own soundscapes and tell their very personal story.
»Waltz for a Custom-Made Friend« is a thought experiment, the what-if, the idea that you could buy a friend in the store. How would he/she look like, behave, move, and how would it feel if this friend sat in my living room and started a conversation?
»Mantra« is about a river that touches everything, but at the same time is forced to leave everything behind and cannot turn back.
»Artificial Lake« is a song about shaking up and wanting to unleash. At the center of the narrative is a person who has lost touch with reality.
»Symmetries« is a song about longing for closeness and points of reference that give you support and security within a society where everybody seems to live for themselves.
Go check out our beautiful Figures Afloat band shirts or buy an LP or CD on the o-cetera label shop.
»Aurora« is our debut EP and it was released in 2018. Is was created as one whole arch, one journey, one big soundscape where we explored colors, atypical songwriting, field recording and so much more.
Released in March 2018
Recorded by Max Grüner & Jonas Dannecker
Mixed & Mastered by Jonas Dannecker
Cover Artwork by Hannah Rolland & Sam
Composition & Arrangement by NOUK
Anna-Lucia Rupp (voice, keys, percussion)
Max Grüner (voice, guitar)
Alma Stolte (cello)
Maria Körner (viola)
Felix Demeyere (drums)
special appearance on Aurora: Jonas Dannecker (clarinet and drums)
Spanish film maker Loida García created this beautiful music video in Barcelona for »The Flood«.
This song is about spring, about the anticipation of light and brightness. The ice is melting, it becomes clear and fresh water, all the white turns into blue and the water is flooding round and round and round...
For further information and upcoming tour dates visit our website.
