Verlegt: Pomplamoose

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Since 2008, indie pop duo Pomplamoose (Jack Conte & Nataly Dawn) have been inviting viewers behind the scenes to witness the recording process. The band's DIY attitude, split-screen music videos and live studio sessions have inspired generations of independent artists. Over the past three years, Pomplamoose has shared the making of Photogénique, a lush and groovy French bossa-pop album produced by Jeremy Most (Emily King), Conte and Philip Etherington (Lizzy McAlpine). The album tells a romantic, playful and deeply nostalgic coming-of-age story rooted in Dawn's childhood memories of France and Belgium. Collaborations include legendary jazz organist Larry Goldings and French singer-songwriter Laura Cahen. Photogénique was released on July 16, 2025 with a release party at El Rey in Los Angeles and two sold-out evenings at Le Bal Blomet in Paris. Following the deluxe version of the album in summer 2026, the band will go on tour in the most important markets in the USA and Europe.

ÖV: prime entertainment GmbH.
TourVA: Buback Tonträger GmbH

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Stadtgarten

The first concert in the newly built Stadtgarten concert hall in the mid-1980s launched a program unlike anything Germany had seen: an independent, artistically driven concert series devoted to contemporary improvised music. It was guided neither by attendance figures nor by public subsidies, yet it guaranteed musicians minimum fees and was run on professional terms. The conditions mattered just as much: an acoustically optimized, street-level concert space offering a strong setting for audiences and performers alike. Operations were financed through the adjoining hospitality business, the Stadtgarten restaurant and beer garden, a model that drew attention well beyond Germany.

Today the Stadtgarten Köln ranks among Europe's internationally recognized venues for contemporary and improvised music. The American magazine Down Beat features it regularly in its listings; it has received Germany's federal APPLAUS venue program award several times, including "Venue of the Year" in 2016, followed by the German Jazz Prize in the same category in 2022. More than 400 events across the full spectrum of contemporary music now take place there each year. Its international standing rests above all on the high proportion of demanding, experimental programming.

A programming mission of this kind depends on reliable public support. The venue's 30th anniversary in September 2016 opened that prospect: through a partnership between the City of Cologne and the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, programming work is being substantially strengthened, and from 2017 onward the Stadtgarten Köln is being developed step by step into a "European Center for Jazz and Contemporary Music" – with the goal of becoming one of Europe's leading music centers.

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