Helikon
Helikon, once called "Hamburg's chamber pop hope", has grown up and the sound has matured into pop: influences from folk, chanson, rock and disco - the latter, however, rather in homeopathic doses - melt into compact songs.
In general: the song is the star at Helikon. Jochen Schmadtke still writes the songs at home and they have to stand the low-fi sound - and touch. Only then does the songwriter work out a duo version of the pieces with singer Anne Otto.
And last but not least you meet up with friendly musicians in the rehearsal room. The step-by-step production process is important: It goes out of the poetic space of the living room - into the rock.