Described as a tightrope walker, singing folk tunes with a loop station, marrying a fragile song to the distortion of her keyboard, Berlin-based artist KOSCHKA made her solo debut on the label Part du Decor Records with the beautifu
lly minimalistic single The Flood in 2018 followed by a second release of the song Abendstern; her first adaptation of a classical piece with the original title ‘Abendstern D 806’. While she’s not a classically trained musician, she works extremely intuitively and manages to combine her classical interests with her love of PJ Harvey and experimentation to create something gently genre-defying. KOSCHKA fronted the German-Dutch indie-pop band NAUSICA until the end of 2019 and has played concerts all over Europe. 2020 she decided to fully dedicate herself to her solo project KOSCHKA. In November 2022 KOSCHKA released the first single of her upcoming debut album, another adaption of a classical piece by Schubert with the title Tiefes Leid. In March 2023, she returned with another evocative single: You Can’t Bear My Love. Her raw, smokey vocals combined with earthy percussion and subtle brass moments are undeniably encapsulating throughout. Previous supporters include the likes of Atwood Magazine, NOTION, The R***e, Get In Her Ears and With Guitars. The self-produced debut album, due to be released in March 2024, was recorded and mixed by Markus Abendroth and Peter Thomas in Berlin and mastered by Emily Lazar and Chris Allgood (e.g. It will feature various Berlin based musicians and contain a combination of her own songs and re-arrangements of classical German songs from composers such as Franz Schubert and Robert Schumann. The first album tour concerts will start in Spring 2024.
„...For nearly seven minutes, the Berlin-based singer-songwriter will leave you in complete awe and in utter paralysis because it is one of the most beautiful things you will hear not today, not tomorrow, not even this week, but this entire year. It is simply extravagantly gorgeous...“ THE REVIEW, CA
