LOMA REQS
Album: QEMIRÎ
LOMA REQS debut album QEMIRÎ („Sunburned“) is a daring collision of modern Kurdish poetry, electronic music, improvisation, rap, and traditional singing. Shifting from from ironic feminist wedding songs to raw refl Loma Reqs takes us on a journey from Kurdistan to outernational electronic territories, blending traditional sounds with Techno, Acid House, Reggaeton, heavy bass music, sequenced synthesizer loops and distorted Saz solo.
Produced by Hêja Netirk & Carlos Andrés Rico
Release: january 2026
MASSA DEMBELE Album: FALATÔ
FALATÔ is MASSAS third album – and his first with a large band line-up. Drums, bass, guitar, shimmering synthesizer solos, crisp brass and, above all, the voice and camel N’Goni of Massa Dembele: ‘Falatô’, recorded in Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso, with local musicians, is Afrobeat and jazz, West African soul, desert blues and griot music.
The album sounds like Fela Kuti, like Ali Farka Touré, and at the same time it sounds unmistakably like Massa Dembele – the throaty, powerful voice, the hypnotic harp cascades of his N’Goni.
Release: april 2026
MASSA DEMBELE Single: BARA
BARA means work in Bambara. “Every job has its value!” sings MASSA DEMBELE, he is a ngoni player and comes from a griot family – that is his work. Every job deserves respect, including that of musicians. During his childhood in Burkina Faso he often witnessed how griots were not sufficiently valued by society for their work as musicians, historians and storytellers.
That’s how this single came about: on one side, Massa Dembele solo, just with his instrument. On the other side, a remix for the dancefloor, with rhythm guitar, synth bass, a funky beat, 108 BPM.
Release: september 2025
JEANO ELONG Album: JÂBEÂ
JÂBEÂ is the debut album by JEANO ELONG, published in late 2024. Jeano Elong comes from Eboné, a village in the Nlonako district, a three-hour drive north of Douala. With the exception of two songs “Common”, “Vieux Fascistes”, all are sung in Bakaka, the language spoken in Eboné. It was produced by Not OK Records founder Christoph Twickel, who also plays guitar on the album, and Ted Gaier (Die goldenen Zitronen); it was largely recorded at “Art Blakey Studio” near Hamburg’s fish market, and that’s exactly how it sounds: JÂBEA is a beautiful hybrid of Cameroonian and African styles and the Hamburg Underground.
Release: november 2024
TED GAIER Album: unlikley music
“unlikley music” is TED GAIER first solo album, in which he explores new tonal clusters with 40 years of band experience (Die goldenen Zitronen) still fresh in his mind, layering them into dense sequences of consistent synthesizer lines, stumbling drum machine beats, and unpredictable samples. The result is a sonic hypnosis that elegantly hovers between euphoria and paranoia, drawing on the opulent associations of brittle Krautrock, minimal techno, and other unexpected music.
Release: late 2026