Фирма Trikont

Record Label: Trikont Style: Singer / Songwriter

Two voices, double bass and electric guitar - that's all. Textor & Renz leave out everything that is unnecessary, and so their very own sound is created. This has nothing to do with classical blues or country music, but with the hip hop of Kinderzimmer Productions, which is part of Textor. With deliberate minimalism, all the more so. The two have heard a lot of Johnny Cash and Hank Williams, you can feel that, but also the melancholy and loneliness of Neil Young, Nick Drake or Townes van Zandt can be found in this special sound. The fine of Bill Evans, the velvet of Dean Martin shimmers through, the woody and creaky of Tom Waits or Willie Dixon, too. Likewise, the flaming red, the furious, the deeply dark, sometimes appears only as a hint or as a brief change of musical perspective. Textor & Renz have a sound that finds the magic in a single note or in a simple sentence and makes it shine. They seem to be strangers at home and at home in the stranger. That's strange, but somehow surprising and refreshing, and sometimes you feel like in a Kaurismäki movie. Record Label: Trikont Style: Pop

Record Label: Trikont Style: Pop

Local music, reinterpreted: Against right-wing extremism, prejudice and exclusion. The brass band Banda Comunale has been active in Dresden for over 15 years. In doing so, it is uninhibited in the cultural heritage of alien countries and peoples. Their repertoire mainly contains music from the crisis regions of the world: North, West, East and Central Africa, Balkan and Eastern Europe, Middle East, Colombia. In the last two years, the band has made a very special impression on the band. On the one hand, the PEGIDA strolls, and the fate of the many refugees. After more than 40 concerts against PEGIDA and "No to Home" initiatives and for refugees in first-time recording facilities in Dresden and the surrounding area, the band founded the Banda Internationale project together with migrants. The almost 20-strong collective won numerous prizes in 2016 and played more than 60 concerts. With its great aim of reinterpreting local music, the formation wants to open up hearts, to reduce prejudice and resentment, and to contribute to an understanding between new and old Saxons, Germans and Europeans. And that sounds damn groovy! Record Label: Trikont Style: World Music

100 years of Dada and a half century of Embryo. Two good reasons for Embryo to celebrate, and a perfectly good reason for a new record. “Do It”, one of the slogans of the Beatniks and Hippies of the sixties, has been and still is a statement enormously important to Embryo. Inspired by Dada, the group has changed the slogan to “It Do” and has named their new album accordingly. The Embyro collective has been active for almost fifty years now, always led by their musical leader and visionary Christian Burchard. That Burchard energy has doubled now, as his daughter Marja, who stood on stage with the group the first time when she was only 11 years old, has now stepped into the spotlight. The multi-instrumentalist lives and breaths the “Do It” concept with the same conviction as her father Christian. And on “It Do” the group for the first time also has recorded songs composed by her. About Embryo: They played right after Jimi Hendrix at his last live show at the Fehmarn Open Air in 1970. They founded the first artist-run independent label in Germany, Schneeball. They played with international musical legends such as Charlie Mariano and Mal Waldron. Embyro were one of the first European bands to combine jazz and rock music. Later they became pioneers of the then still un-named world music genre, with countless travels through Africa and Asia where they were joined by local musicians. Always on the move, always incorporating new players, the band has been a force in the music scene for almost 50 years now. „Embryo - real Krautrock based in Germnay, connected worldwide.“ John Peel „Embryo is not so much a musical style, but an attitude. It’s about the serious study of traditional music.And it’s the wish to bring the world together via music Nick McCarthy, Franz Ferdinand (with Embryo from 1999-2002) “Embryo – they are these crazy creative musicians playing really weird stuff” Miles Davis Record Label: Trikont Style: World Music

100 years of Dada and a half century of Embryo. Two good reasons for Embryo to celebrate, and a perfectly good reason for a new record. “Do It”, one of the slogans of the Beatniks and Hippies of the sixties, has been and still is a statement enormously important to Embryo. Inspired by Dada, the group has changed the slogan to “It Do” and has named their new album accordingly. The Embyro collective has been active for almost fifty years now, always led by their musical leader and visionary Christian Burchard. That Burchard energy has doubled now, as his daughter Marja, who stood on stage with the group the first time when she was only 11 years old, has now stepped into the spotlight. The multi-instrumentalist lives and breaths the “Do It” concept with the same conviction as her father Christian. And on “It Do” the group for the first time also has recorded songs composed by her. About Embryo: They played right after Jimi Hendrix at his last live show at the Fehmarn Open Air in 1970. They founded the first artist-run independent label in Germany, Schneeball. They played with international musical legends such as Charlie Mariano and Mal Waldron. Embyro were one of the first European bands to combine jazz and rock music. Later they became pioneers of the then still un-named world music genre, with countless travels through Africa and Asia where they were joined by local musicians. Always on the move, always incorporating new players, the band has been a force in the music scene for almost 50 years now. „Embryo - real Krautrock based in Germnay, connected worldwide.“ John Peel „Embryo is not so much a musical style, but an attitude. It’s about the serious study of traditional music.And it’s the wish to bring the world together via music Nick McCarthy, Franz Ferdinand (with Embryo from 1999-2002) “Embryo – they are these crazy creative musicians playing really weird stuff” Miles Davis Record Label: Trikont Style: World Music

20ps leporelo booklet. Liner notes by Wladimir Kaminer: “Where I come from, the music played by the government-owned radio stations always sounded hopeful and optimistic. It was the state’s attempt to create the impression that their citizens and pastors lived together in harmony. Yet, the songs which the Soviet citizens sang in their small kitchens, on trains, on long trips or in the forest around the campfire sounded pretty different, they were melancholic and fragile and anything but optimistic. They were about the senselessness of life, about misfortune, suffering and death. The most famous ones are entitled ‘When I Die’ or ‘Don’t Cry for Me’. Or ‘Black Raven’ which isn’t about an endangered bird but symbolizes the singer’s imminent death. When people don’t get the chance to evolve their lives they start configuring their death out of desperation. They believe that life is a trap, an exhausting challenge every one of us must face and that all life benefits won’t last. As a result, defeats are passed on as valuable experiences to future generations. Many important and precious things in our life depend on the Black Raven, or worse, on the black cat of fate. For example Germans, the world’s famous optimists, believe that the cat’s way of crossing their path determines their future: great if it’s from left to right but heaven forbid if it’s the other way round! By contrast, Russians, being convinced fatalists, don’t give a damn in which direction the cat walks, it is the encounter that brings misfortune and suffering and poisons the already complicated and unmanageable life. Death, however, is much easier to handle, you’re free to choose its layout. That’s the reason why in my country people prefer talking about taking lives than about flourishing lives. Dictatorships mess up your personal plans for the future, therefore, designing your death becomes of great importance. In a totalitarian regime it is dangerous to talk about how you want to live, that’s why people constantly talk about how they’d like to die, either you die a victim or a hero, in upright or lying position, for a better future, for a more beautiful past. Too bad that dying is a unique opportunity that can neither be repent nor corrected in hindsight. A fatalistic russian wisdom says: ‘Grounded meat can’t be reversed, a meatball will never be a cow again.’ But meatballs have hopes and dreams, too. In sheer despair they freak out. They start a revolution. This happened in the Ukraine during the so-called ‘Post-Soviet transitional period’ and hardly anyone had expected the former Soviet republic to do so. The totalitarian socialist system has proven itself to be surprisingly versatile, and, with any problem appearing it was ready to burn itself, to announce a reconstruction, a ‘perestroika’, to rise like Phoenix from the ashes with the same passengers on board. Actually, after Stalin‘s death his crimes were pilloried by the people who where heavily involved in them. Nobody from the nomenklatura got ever injured, was held accountable. The following leader of the country was easily removed, the system could repeatedly reinvent itself right before the people’s eyes. If it didn’t work out in the old suit, they just put a new one. The same happened in the nineties, all changes were directed from above, socialism was renamed capitalism, farms and factories got privat¬ized by its directors, the Party Secretaries turned into oligarchs, everything remained as it was, it just got renamed. Except in the Baltic countries, it was impossible to establish civic democratic institutions and bring their leaders under control. People could only dream of independent courts, the effectiveness of social media, or a political opposition. In the post-Soviet societies the political caste is like an airbag between the capital and the people, accepting kickbacks for their ‘services’ from both sides and corrupts itself continuously while harbouring a false image of democracy. A democracy with a solid struc¬ture and a book of unspoken rules and unwritten lawsto be respected and ‘internalized’ by every citizen, just like a fish internalizes its gaff, acting like no other type of democracy exists in the whole world. History teaches us, that it’s impossible to fool so many people for such a long time. One day they explode. And that happened in the Ukraine. Thousands took to the streets, remained there throughout the harsh winter and didn’t give up. At first it was thought that this would cause riots, hooliganism, even an attempted coup. Wrong! This was the revolution. The Ukrainians appealed even to their russian neighbors. ‘Russians, stand up!’ the crowd shouted on the Maidan. The Russian leadership did not like that at all. The ex-State Security officers who, as it is customary in this tormented and maltreated country, were of course never elected but shoved into their offic¬es through the back door. They smelled danger. Again they started quoting from their old KGB textbooks: the free will of the Ukrainian people was merely staged and financed by the hostile Americans who clearly have never had other plans than to separate Russians and Ukrainians. No matter what, the Americans have always been the perfect enemy, far away enough but handy if necessary. To prevent a revolution in their own country, Russia invaded Crimea and started a devious unofficial war in eastern Ukraine to disorient its own people and to stultify the Ukrainian revolution as a sudden outbreak of nationalism. But the Ukrainians withstood, they didn’t give up, they chased away their black raven and sang new songs. The system is incredibly stiff, even today the upper echelons of the Ukrainian leadership consist of functionaries of that time who managed to ride the tide of revolution in their favor. It’s still too early to celebrate the victory over their corrupt power. Nevertheless, the revolution has already accomplished a lot, the country has changed significantly. The Ukraine is economically poor and battered by the war but it is breathing in the spririt of Europe. A dream fulfilled by the people by relying on their own strength and that hasn’t been achieved by any president so far. Politicians and business leaders are no longer the sole decision makers, the public opinion in the Ukraine is strong and spoken aloud and contributed anywhere. The people have managed to be heard. Independent media and civic institutions help them to control their politicians. The self-confidence of the people got boosted. It is now expressed in the good music produced in the new Ukraine and compiled on this record by my friend Yuriy Gurzhy: he presents us brand new soundscapes. Here comes the Sound of the Ukrainian revolution — the new Sound of Europe.” Record Label: Trikont Style: Folk

Record Label: Trikont Style: Indie Pop

Record Label: Trikont Style: Indie Pop

Artist: Coconami Label: Trikont (Indigo)

Artist: Coco Schumann Label: (Indigo)

Artist: Various Label: Trikont (Indigo)

Artist: Various Label: Trikont (Indigo)

Artist: Artisti Vari Label: Family

Artist: Artisti Vari Label: Family

Composer: Various

Style: Indie-Pop

Artist: Eric Pfeil Label: Trikont (Indigo)