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Wedding

Conic Rose

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2026
Duration: 55:55:00
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Tracks

Future Has Got You; Less Lonely; Twist; You Gonna Help Me; Too Many Flowers; Wedding; Loving Parents; Never Ending Story; Patterns; Walking Memories; Kids; Prophet Spring.

Personnel

Additional Personnel / Information

Konstantin Döben: trumpet, flugelhorn (1-12); Bertram Burkert: guitar, bass (1-12); Johannes Arzbergers: piano, synthesizers (1-12).

Album Description

Wedding is the second independently released album by young Berlin band Conic Rose. The band's first album Heller Tag found fans in Gilles Peterson, Lauren Laverne and Nemone among others thanks to its unique take on jazz, infused with seemingly disparate influences like Radiohead and the local Berlin techno / electronic scene.

For their second album, Conic Rose repositioned themselves completely. Not in terms of personnel, but in the question of how to move forward. Conic Rose still sound like Conic Rose; their distinctive blend of avant-garde jazz, alternative rock, ambient and electronic music remains untouched. And yet Wedding is, in many ways, the conceptual counterpart to their debut album Heller Tag. Where the debut documented movement within an urban setting, Wedding describes a state of being.

A guitar stands alone in Wedding, that metropolitan biotope in the western center of Berlin, caught in constant transformation between idyll and abyss. It lets its gaze wander, unsettled, almost shy, until it encounters a trumpet, with which it begins a cautious, then ever more intimate pas de deux. Welcome to the second studio album by the Berlin-based band Conic Rose.

The album title Wedding is no coincidence. The story of Conic Rose is closely intertwined with the Berlin neighborhood that gives the record its name. The band’s studio is located here, and both studio albums were created in the immediate vicinity of the small river Panke. This place settles over the music like a warming patina. “We spend a great deal of time there and experiment a lot in our studio,” recalls trumpeter Konstantin Döben. “When you meet regularly in one specific place over the course of a year and make your discoveries there, it’s impossible for it not to leave its mark on the music.”

Yet this encounter between a band and its surroundings is not a one-way street. The album feels as though the musicians and the neighborhood have invited one another to get to know each other. Not least because Wedding also means marriage. These marriages between a band and an urban landscape, a fading past and an emerging future, fear and hope - unfold in every single song on Wedding.

The group opens up its palette, allowing more influences, becoming at once more subtle, more profound, more filigree. It is less about definition than about the spaces in between. The most immediately striking difference from the previous album is the strong presence of the guitar. In Bertram Burkert’s playing, many voices seem to converge. His yearning openness forms an equal counterpoint to Döben’s trumpet and flugelhorn. Blurred and layered sounds occasionally make the ground seem to slip away beneath one’s feet, while Döben’s gliding lines create both closeness and distance.

Together, the band express in a deeply subtle way a sense of life that corresponds precisely to our time. Something lurks in the background, omnipresent yet still unnameable. Conic Rose need no words to convey this feeling of uncertainty with remarkable eloquence.

Perhaps this has something to do with Wedding being a place of confrontational introspection, but Conic Rose confront the escape from escape itself. With the recording and release of Wedding, this process is far from complete. The seed only begins to grow in the listener’s ear. With every listen and the echo it leaves behind in memory, the studio bud continues to bloom. The album is merely the point of departure. What ultimately matters is what it sets in motion within those who encounter it.

About Conic Rose

Putting the music of Berlin-based band Conic Rose into a common formula is nearly impossible. Depending on perspective, it might be described as indie pop, jazz, ambient or electronica — or as a soundtrack that evokes its own imagery. What defines the group’s sound is not genre, but atmosphere, collective interaction and a strong sense of narrative flow.

The band gained international attention with their debut album Heller Tag (2023), which received significant airplay and press coverage, including BBC Radio 6 Music (Gilles Peterson), a four- star review in Mojo Magazine, and features in Jazzwise and Jazzthing. The release also marked the beginning of Conic Rose’s growing international presence, leading to invitations to major festivals such as Sydney Festival.

With their upcoming release, Conic Rose continue to develop their distinct musical language, expanding their international profile as one of the most promising contemporary jazz groups to emerge from Germany in recent years.