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Alan Abrahams
Song To The Siren
After ‘Ascend’, Alan Abrahams album from the beginning of the year on Italic, now a cover version. With ‘Song To The Siren’, Abrahams - of Bodycode and Portable fame - takes on a classic. The song, written by Larry Becket and Tim Buckley and first released in 1969, has inspired countless artists to interpretations across musical genres.
Artist: Alan Abrahams
Title: Song To The Siren
Format: Digital Single
Label: Italic Recordings
Cat. No.: ITA142
Release date: 20 June 2025
Barcode: 199350857447
Written by Larry Beckett, Timothy Charles III Buckley. Produced by Alan Abrahams. Mastered by Jörg Burger.
Vocals: Alan Abrahams
Bass: Kitsch Kub
Strings: Alexey Kochetkov
French Horn: Aurélie Verdon
℗ 2025 Italic Recordings © 1969 Third Story Music Inc, Fifth Floor Music Inc, BMG Rights Management GmbH
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Zwietnig
A Second, An Eyeblink
ZWIETNIG, consisting of Ella and Florian Zwietnig, are releasing their debut album ‘A Second, An Eyeblink’ on 19 September 2025. The single ‘Are We, If We Are Sleeping?’ is now available to stream and download.
01. Bum (1:51)
02. Are We, If We Are Sleeping? (3:16)
03. The Art Of Missing (3:35)
04. Is It Still You In The Mirror? (3:43)
05. A Random Motion Of Coincidence (3:57)
06. Now All Of Us Will (4:17)
07. How Far Are You Going? (3:02)
08. To Follow Through (4:08)
09. Without Time, Exist (5:04)
10. Fin (1:36)
Artist: Zwietnig
Title: A Second, An Eyeblink
Format: Digital Album
Label: ITALIC
Cat. No.: ITA138
Release date: 19 September 2025
Barcode: 199350704956
Written and produced by Ella and Florian Zwietnig. Cover by M. J. Peiffer. Design by Philipp Carbotta.
℗ 2025 Italic Recordings
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Julian Knoth
Unsichtbares Meer
JULIAN KNOTH (Die Nerven, Peter Muffin Trio, Die Benjamins, Yum Yum Club und Njelk) veröffentlicht sein erstes Soloalbum. Es heißt UNSICHTBARES MEER. Im pandemiegeplagten Jahr 2020 schrieb Knoth einige Lieder, die zu keiner seiner Bands so richtig passen wollten. Nur seine Stimme und eine akustische Gitarre. Texte, so roh und persönlich, dass schnell klar war: Das ist ein Soloalbum. „Ich habe während dieser Zeit viele Sachen verstanden“, sagt Knoth. Selbstentblätterung, Depression, Konsum, Abstinenz, Therapie, Hoffnung.
Artist: Julian Knoth
Title: Unsichtbares Meer
Format: LP / DA
Label: Italic Recordings
Cat. No.: ITA137
Release date: 23. Mai 2025
Produziert von Nicolas Epe und Julian Knoth. Gemischt von Nicolas Epe. Gemastert von Mike Grinser/Manmade Mastering. Alle Songs (außer „Unsichtbares Meer“ und „Endloser Ozean“) geschrieben von Julian Knoth. Alle Texte, Gitarren, Gesang, sowie Orgel auf „Nimmt die Blätter“ mit von Julian Knoth. Chor auf „Nie wieder allein“: Trio Abstrich und Seb Urquell. Alle Streichersätze komponiert von Seb Urquell. Streicher eingespielt vom Trio Abstrich (Violine: Nina Paul, Viola: Charlotte Oelschlegel, Cello: Louise Engel). Zu hören bei „Hinterhof der Welt“ sind am Klavier Seb Urquell, am Schlagzeug Philipp Knoth, am Saxophon Marius Schwingel.
Coverfoto: Marina Buneta
Artwork: Philipp Carbotta
Video „Der Regen“: Marius Schwingel & Adrian Sagolla
℗ 2025 Italic Recordings
Julian Knoth - Nie wieder allein Tour 2025/26
Alan Abrahams
Ascend
Limited edition LP, printed inner sleeve with lyrics, credits, and artwork.
A1. It’s A Fragile Space (3:59)
A2. Terminus (3:47)
A3. Try (3:43)
A4. Ascend (6:46)
A5. You And I (3:29)
B6. It Is (3:29)
B7. The Greasy Pole (3:56)
B8. I Used To Be (3:47)
B9. To Your Love (4:18)
B10. Take Me Home (3:10)
Artist: Alan Abrahams
Title: Ascend
Format: LP / DA
Label: ITALIC
Cat. No: ITA135
Release date: 24 January 2025
All songs written and composed by Alan Abrahams. Contrabass on It’s A Fragile Space, I Used To Be, To Your Love by Leo Fernandez. Strings on Try, Ascend, The Greasy Pole by Alexey Kochetkov. Bass on You And I, It Is by Kitsch Kub. Trombone on Take Me Home by Bica Tocalino. Mastered by Mike Grinser at Manmade, Berlin. Photo by Kira Bunse. Artwork by Jan Lankisch.
℗ 2025 Italic Recordings
Nessuno
Future Music Future People Future Problems
Artist: Nessuno
Title: FUTURE MUSIC FUTURE PEOPLE FUTURE PROBLEMS
Format: Digital Album
Label: ITALIC
Cat. No.: ITA136
Release date: 21 March 2025
Recorded and produced at Studio Katzenauge, Berlin between April and November 2024.
Lyrics and music: Lothar Hempel
Vocals on ‘Jetzt ist für immer!’: Alexandra Matloka
Saxophone on ‘Ocean Drive’: Margeaux and Carla Godefrey
Mastering: Jörg Burger
℗ 2025 Italic Recordings © 2025 Italic Songs
Nessuno - Zukunftsmusik
Niklas Wandt
Forellental (Simas Slabačiauskas Remix)
Original version appears on "Balearische Bibliothek” by Niklas Wandt. Additional remix production by Simas Slabačiauskas. Additional keys by Paulius Vaitulevičius aka Sesija. Mastering by Rupert Clervaux. Illustration by Joshua Gottmanns. Artwork by Infuso Giallo.
Artist: Niklas Wandt
Title: Forellental (Simas Slabačiauskas Remix)
Format: DS
Label: ITALIC
Cat. No.: ITA133
Release date: 21 July 2024
℗ 2024 Italic Recordings © 2024 Italic Songs
ISABELLA
BUBBLEGUM
Isabella from Rimini.
Artist: ISABELLA
Title: BUBBLEGUM
Format: DS
Label: ITALIC
Cat. No.: ITA130
Release date: 1 September 2023
1. BUBBLEGUM (4:21)
2. BUBBLEGUM (Jürgen Paape “Frutti di Mare” Remix) 5:15
Music & Lyrics: Lothar Hempel
Vocals: Isabella
Additional remix production: Jürgen Paape
Mastering: Jörg Burger
℗ 2023 Italic Recordings © 2023 Italic Songs
Berlin Strings
On A Dark Night
BERLIN STRINGS is a classically trained chamber ensemble specializing in collaborations with pop and indie musicians, as well as cinematic compositions. The quartet consists of Lisa Marie Vogel (violin), Johanna Wundling (violin), Tabea Haarmann-Thiemann (viola) and Luisa Babarro Fernández (cello).
01. About Glow And Soaring (w/ Ralph Heidel) 5:00
02. Aur_Ora (w/ Therese Strasser) 4:56
03. What Brings You Down (feat. Ella Zwietnig) 3:23
04. Night Ride Under Ground (w/ Gunter Papperitz) 4:24
05. Dear Father (Drumless) feat. Philipp Johann Thimm 3:16
06. Phases (w/ Konstantin Gropper) 8:38 *Digital bonus track
07. Somnium (w/ Tabea Haarmann-Thiemann) 4:23
08. Signals (w/ Conrad Oleak) 4:18
09. Moonoom (w/ Anneli Bentler) 3:46
10. The Walk (w/ Shannon Sea) 2:37
11. Play It On A Dark Night (w/ Dascha Dauenhauer) 3:34
Artist: Berlin Strings
Title: On A Dark Night
Format: LP / Digital (Limited vinyl via Edition Dur)
Label: ITALIC
Cat. No.: ITA128
Release date: 14 July 2022
℗ 2023 Italic Recordings
Philipp Johann Thimm
Birds Singing Till The World Ends
A1. Dear Father (feat. Berlin Strings) 3:10
A2. Tripping Over Guns At Sunset (feat. Fil Bo Riva) 5:26
A3. Land Of Plenty (feat. Apparat) 4:17
A4. Last Drops (3:12)
A5. Unland (7:39)
B6. Birds Singing Till The World Ends (1:37)
B7. Spring Palmz (feat. Gheist) 4:44
B8. Meine Muse (Rework for The Düsseldorf Düsterboys) 8:33
B9. Goodbye To The Jungle (3:18)
B10. Nawan (1:56)
B11. Fuck War (4:55)
12. Apallo Orala (5:55) *Digital Bonus
Artist: Philipp Johann Thimm
Title: Birds Singing Till The World Ends
Format: LP / DA
Label: ITALIC
Cat. No.: ITA126
Release date: 8 September 2023
All tracks written & produced by Philipp Johann Thimm. All lyrics written by David Roeder except Last Drops lyrics written by Anna Auersperg, Land Of Plenty lyrics written by Sascha Ring & Elisa Mishto.
Recorded at AP4, Panorama, Vox–Ton & Hansa Studios, Berlin & many trains, planes, homes & forests. Additional engineering by Alex Sprave. Viola: Tabea Haarmann-Thiemann, Organ: Fabian Neubauer.
Mixed by Jan Siebert & Henne Müller, except tracks 3 & 7 mixed by Pablo Mateo and track 11 mixed by Henne Müller. Mastered by Jan Siebert.
Artwork & design by YAWN, Annika Janssen & Sandra Greiling. Photo front Pavlo Volkov & Aaron Broß by Andres Hidalgo. Photo back by Marcus Lieder.
℗ 2023 Italic Recordings © 2023 Random Noize Musick
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Nessuno
Wie man überlebt wenn die Welt die man liebt sich nicht mehr dreht
Poster design by Lothar Hempel. Published on the occasion of the release "Wie man überlebt" by Nessuno.
Digital print on 135 g/m² glossy art paper. Din A0 (84,1 x 118,9 cm).
A Rocket in Dub
Rocket No. 3 (feat. Jan Delay)
Limited edition vinyl 7" with artwork by Hendrik Krawen.
Artist: A Rocket in Dub
Title: Rocket No. 3 (feat. Jan Delay)
Format: 7" Single
Release date: 2 December 2022
Label: ITALIC
Cat. No: ITA123
Distribution: Rough Trade
Stefan Schwander aka A Rocket in Dub has been producing electronic music in Düsseldorf since the mid-1990s. He releases under a variety of pseudonyms such as Antonelli, Repeat Orchestra, Rhythm Maker, Harmonious Thelonious and While My Sequencer Gently Weeps. His music draws influences from techno, disco music (especially Giorgio Moroder), new wave, dub, abstract electronica and African music.
Dumbo Tracks
S/T
DUMBO TRACKS is the project of Cologne-based producer Jan Philipp Janzen (Von Spar, Die Sterne). His self-titled debut album features contributions from Markus Acher (The Notwist), Portable, Roosevelt, Marker Starling, Julian Knoth (Die Nerven), Indra Dunis (Peaking Lights), Eiko Ishibashi, Julene and DJ Koze.
A1. Everybody Knows (w/ Markus Acher) 4:35
A2. Compliance (w/ Portable) 3:07
A3. Letter From An Unknown Woman (w/ Marker Starling, Roosevelt) 6:16
A4. Total Eclipse Of My Brain (w/ Wir sind die Sonne) 3:35
A5. Information Overload (w/ Julene) 3:33
B6. The Corpse Of A Frozen Flower (w/ Eiko Ishibashi) 4:48
B7. Face Cleanser 3:29
B8. Bordstein in der Nacht (w/ Julian Knoth) 4:01
B9. Always Something (w/ Indra Dunis) 4:25
B10. Everybody Knows (DJ Koze Remix) 4:18
Artist: Dumbo Tracks
Title: S/T
Format: LP / Digital
Label: ITALIC
Cat. No.: ITA119
Release date: 28 October 2022
℗ 2022 Italic Recordings
Editorial
Merchandise
THE ITALIC SHIRT
THE ITALIC CHAIR
ITA101. Furniture, Finland birch plywood, Dark walnut oil on surface, 4.34 kg, 85,5 × 48,0 × 36,0 cm (Sitting height: 45 cm), Manufactured by Möbelatelier Stefan Schwander, Düsseldorf.
A chair is a chair - is not a chair. Or at least not only. Some things in our environment are currently experiencing a transformation: from mere commodities to artifacts of biographical relevance. Take for example that old armchair, which once stood bleakly next to the trash. Or that shelf, screwed to completion in a seemingly endless procedure. This may sometimes seem kitschy or nice, but above all, it is normal. These are stories that wrap around metal, wood or plastic and offer meaning.
But the story often begins much earlier. Most inventory has its very own past life. It usually starts with people we do not know. Such constructions emerge in their minds, are gradually developed and, if craftsmanship is available, they can even find a physical form. And one of these stories starts with Stefan Schwander, already familiar through his musical output as Antonelli or Harmonious Thelonious. We have him to thank not only for countless pristine tracks, but also for the chair we are referring to here. It's name: THE ITALIC CHAIR. Therefore, this message is one of celebratory enthusiasm - with excellent results and providing an example that unusual combinations are more than just possible. Because THE ITALIC CHAIR not only serves without any problem as an aesthetic-haptic bridge between a record label, artistry and furniture - it wishes to be is understood as such.
That of course is no coincidence. Stefan Schwander pursues an artistic practice that brings tears of joy to the eyes of many a creative coach: he simultaneously maintains different interests and abilities – a music studio on one side, a furniture workshop on the other. Thus THE ITALIC CHAIR originated in Düsseldorf, and after nearly three years of conceptual work it left the nursery between sawdust, glue and oil to begin its service as tasteful seating object and bear the title "the only label chair, far and wide". And despite its remarkable singularity, THE ITALIC CHAIR represents the label perfectly - classic and futuristic, simple and extravagant, avant-garde and minimalist, and of course, also functional. It is a successful synthesis in Finnish birch.
Real hand-craftsmanship, with a seemingly freely-hovering plateau, impetuous shape and dark colour speak a powerful but discreet language. THE ITALIC CHAIR is Stefan Schwander, it is ITALIC and it is also a story that requires updating – at home, in the office, in the studio, in the gallery, the restaurant or any other premises that one appreciates and loves. A bit more of Stefan Schwander's inherent narrative is a highly enjoyable footnote beneath the seat... and it has to do with music.
Text: Carolin Weidner
Editions
Kira Bunse
Untitled (Mudgirls)
2 x analog C-print,
40 x 30 cm each,
signed, numbered,
2013/2017,
Edition 10+1 AP
Kira Bunse (b. 1979, Braunschweig) is an artist living in Paris. Fashion photography is at the heart of her work, so she works for various labels, but also publishes editorials for international publications, from underground to glossy, from Purple to Vanity Fair. Kira Bunse's subjects are glam, pop culture, the joys of youth, sexualities, beauty of the body. This sets in motion an arousal of mutual condition, of curiosity and desire.
Published on the occasion of the exhibition Kira Bunse - Przystanek Woodstock.