NOUK: is an indietronic & chamber pop band with creative center in Dresden. Their 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
photo by Lea Fleck
NOUK is an extraordinary combination of jazz/folk and classical musicians and unites creative individuals of the local music scene. In their 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)
Their debut album »Figures Afloat« is a pandemic grown mixture of tangible stories, abstract images and inner streams of thoughts. They question the forces that move them, 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 their music and to decelerate the consumption of our album.
»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?
»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 their 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)
For further information and upcoming tour dates visit their website.