Behind the label "Nektarium Music" stands a cooperation of artists who have been producing music together for many years and now also publish it. The musical influences go from indie folk to jazz to electronic.
The idea of a label as a collective means for us the greatest artistic freedom paired with mutual support in the studio, in marketing and on stage. In addition, we work with external agencies that help us distribute and promote our publications.
Hi I‘m metty, I love cats and composing sad pop songs late at night. When I started writing, it was just me and my guitar in my room. I wasn’t showing anybody any of my songs and had no intention to release music someday. 3 years later some of these tracks made it to an EP I never thought was going to happen. It means a lot to me to finally share these songs that grew with me over time. Even though many things have changed since the beginning, one thing stayed consistent: Each and every song was recorded in my bedroom, the place where it all started.
Wolfgang Ritter, Gyso Hilger and Steffen Stütz played together in several bands and studio sessions since 1995.
Generally focused on electronic music, the tracks are not only programmed, but completed by using acoustic instruments and analogue synthesizers. The band can use a wide range of electronic sound generators, that covers the majority of the most legendary synthesizers since 1970.
Because of using vintage instruments, somebody might hear influences from the 1970s and 80s, but combined with contemporary sound design, it does not picture pure retrospective. Now and then, a vocoder had been used, which brings some pop appeal into the music. Nevertheless the musicians do not belong to a single certain genre of music, so different elements such as jazz take place in the arrangements.
Tilman Bruno appears as a guest percussionist on the first E.P. He was a friend and colleague for over twenty-five years and died by accident in summer 2018. These recordings may be among the last ones he did.
Gwen Dolyn is an independent singer who mixes mewing guitars behind her post teenage lyrics. Next to lyrics about love and loss, she sings about ambivalent feminism and everlasting yearning.
Born in Berlin, she spent eight years looking for freedom and music there, interrupted by some time on the East Coast of the US where she started her first published project. In these Berlin years she wrote not only lyrics but also theses for her philosophy studies and articles for independent and lifestyle magazines. She illustrated and fought with herself and sometimes with others as well. By now Gwen Dolyn has decided to escape the city hype about the German capital and is receiving inspiration in nature, on animal noses and in inside the bristly hair of her friends.
With her EP "Things to Tell a Crying Girl" she is releasing her solo debut, which aims to capture, unite, question and continue all these topics.
ROOKI got into singing because she lost a bet when she was 19. Her first time on stage has not been planned but nowadays singing and making music is what keeps her wheels turning; in fact she has a hard time shutting up.
Since then she has joined many bands and choirs and experimented with new exciting projects and different musicians. But it has always been on her bucket list to write an album all by herself.
With "HOORAY FOR TODAY" she is finally realising her dreams of creating everything by herself. Soft and funny electro beats meet a cute mix of children`s instruments and are topped off with vocals that make you see a winking eye and a hand raising a glass. There is an undeniable love for detail in ROOKI`s songs, somewhat bubbly but never annoying, dealing with the little things in life while realising it`s not that bad after all.
Max Clouth Markenzeichen sind die mit dem Gitarrenbauer Philipp Neumann entwickelten
Doppelhalsgitarren, basierend auf orientalischen und indischen Saiteninstrumenten wie
Oud oder Sarod. Mit seiner Gruppe Ragawerk/Max Clouth Clan entwickelte er einen
einzigartigen Musikstil, der sich vom Mahavishnu Orchestra, Kraftwerk, Led Zeppelin
sowie von indischer Klassik und zeitgenössischer elektronischer Musik inspirieren lässt.
PRESS:
“Clouth, who is trained in Indian classical, aptly lays over fretwork that oscillates between
sitar-like melodies and jazz progressions on a double-neck guitar.”
Anurag Tagat, Rolling Stone India
“Frankfurt jazz musician Max Clouth is considered a contemporary prime example
of the combination of Indian music, German electro and jazz.”
Lukas Lautenbacher, GUITAR
“Citing Jimi Hendrix and John McLaughlin as musical godfathers,
Max Clouth also moves at the speed of light and seemingly effortlessly”
Concerto, Austria
"GOLGATHA IS NOW"- new Single out 10/12/2021
Nachdem er auf seiner letzten Veröffentlichung (Lucifer Drowning In A Sea Of Light; 2021) Synth-Sounds und elektronische Texturen zum ersten Mal als tragendes Klangelement einsetze, führt Clouth dies auf “Golgatha is Now” konsequent weiter, indem er Live-Instrumente durch die Linse einer elektronischen Produktion betrachtet. Der Track enthält Beiträge der Cellistin Leana Alkema, des Perkussionisten Tayfun Ates und von Jason Schneider am Kornett, die ein Gegengewicht zu den mächtigen Synthesizer-Sounds von Matthias Vogt, einem Pionier der elektronischen Musik, bilden. Das Zusammenspiel und die daraus resultierenden Arrangements bilden eine solide Grundlage für Clouths mikrotonale Melismen auf der bundlosen Gitarre.
Konzeptionell liegen die Ursprünge dieser Single in der christlichen Mystik und insbesondere in den Schriften Rudolf Steiners. Dessen Betonung der Bedeutung der Kreuzigung ('Mysterium von Golgatha’) weckte Clouths Interesse und gaben den Anstoß zu den ersten Ideen für “Golgatha is now".
"Falls ich in meinem Leben irgendwann noch ein Tattoo bekomme wird es auf jeden Fall eine Brezel“, sagt Songschreiberin und Sängerin Itta. Und auch wenn sie in ihren Songs Fernweh und Sehnsucht nach Übersee-Abenteuern besingt hat sie sich selten musikalisch so zuhause gefühlt wie mit deutschen Texten und ihren musikalischen Weggefährten der letzten Jahre, den „Emmerichs“.
Itta selbst singt lieber als sie spricht, was aber nicht bedeutet, dass sie zu den wichtigen Themen unserer Zeit keine klare Meinung hat. „Hey, Chamäleon“ ist die ersten Single aus ihrem im November 2022 erscheinenden Album „Sammelsurium“ und handelt von: Farbe bekennen und Maul aufmachen.
Mitgewirkt haben: Daniel Stelter (Gitarre), Tommy Baldu (Drums), Dominik Krämer (Bass „Seemannsgarn“), Wolfgang Ritter (Bass „Hey, Chamäleon") und Matthias Dörsam (Klarinette).
Release: 2. September 2022
