28/7/18 dresden // hören vor sehen 07/8/18 berlin // european...
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c o n t a c t // Felix Räuber // [email protected] · George Percy (Management) // [email protected]
Felix Räuber is a singer, composer and producer known as the frontman of the electropop band Polarkreis 18 (Allein, Allein).
His musical sound is a unique blend of pop, neoclassical and electronic. On his solo debut, ‚WALL‘, he grapples with personal and political boundaries, inspired by his travels to the Middle East. Musically he is between artists such as Nils Frahm, Moderat or Radiohead, and has collaborated with star violinist Daniel Hope and singer-songwriter Scott Matthew.
Räuber creates epic soundscapes on his debut EP, carried by his powerful, fragile voice in a style described as „Cinematic Pop‘. This is Felix looking back and consolidating on an exciting and diverse 20-year musical career.
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u p c o m i n g d a t e s28/7/18 Dresden // Hören vor Sehen07/8/18 Berlin // European Athletics
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The solo debut WALL by Felix Räuber represents the former Polarkreis 18 frontman Felix Räuber opening himself up. This is where the singer, composer and producer reveals his personal conflict song by song, in the style of ‚Cinematic Pop‘. The result is five self-contained pieces that depict a delicately sensitive introspection - an artistic liberation for Räuber, combining his touching voice, melancholic strings and electronic crescendos.
Felix Räuber withdrew himself for a long time and carefully sculpted the debut EP in his bedroom, taking elements of neoclassical, electronic and pop and crafted arrangements in his own idiosyncratic style. Somewhere between Moderat, Woodkid and Sigur Rós. A sound that is influenced by artists like Nils Frahm, Scott Matthew, star violinist Daniel Hope and pianist Clemens Christian Pötzsch, with whom he has collaborated with on the EP
With the WALL EP, Räuber creates a vast encompassing landscape, only liberated by his touching poignant voice, unveiling his inner turmoil.
c o n t a c t // Felix Räuber // [email protected] · George Percy (Management) // [email protected]
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c o n t a c t // Felix Räuber // [email protected] · George Percy (Management) // [email protected]
Since childhood, Felix Räuber (* 1984) has been obsessed with all forms of making music and the communication of emotions. At age 13, he founded his first band in his basement that developed into the indie-pop band „Polarkreis 18“. The first studio album (2007) introduced the band presented by frontman and singer Räuber, performed throughout Europe. The second studio album achieved gold status, and the first single release „Allein Allein“ became one of the most successful German-language songs of all time (platinum status) and a global hit. The band decided to take a break, which continues today. Räuber moved to Berlin (2012) to realign himself as an artist. He began to work as an actor and lecturer, set up his own studio and produced albums and EP‘s. In 2014, Räuber work began on a new pop project called „Zwei von Millionen,“ which was released by Universal Music in 2017. Inspired by his travels to the Middle East, Räuber has worked tirelessly on his own over the last year to create his own genre-spanning compositions that push his artistic limits. The release of his debut EP „WALL“ represents, as he says himself, „a musical liberation“ for Räuber.
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c o n t a c t // Felix Räuber // [email protected] · George Percy (Management) // [email protected]
d a n i e l h o p e :”Wall is a wonderful song. Felix has a great voice, he‘s a thinking artist, he has something to say. That really moved me.”
j a z z a n o va :”Wall is like a trickle that swells into a huge river and then dies again. One that is split up into innumerable rivers by sound fragments and finally sweeps everything away as a torrent.”
n o t h i n g b u t h o p e a n d p a s s i o n : ”An epic piece of cinematic beauty that carefully walks between multiple worlds.”
n o i s e p o r n : ”Damn this kinda gets me in the feels. I need that sometimes.”
m p 3 h u g g e r : ”The drama and the heartbreak is palpable, a voice that while unwavering has had to absorb lots of pain and boy does it it translate in a Sigur Ros like manner when I had least expected it. This is a beguiling, operatic even and that orche-stral embellishment will have your tear ducts bursting at the seams. Arresting stuff.”
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