Fabrique Records

07/01/2025

Great news and highly deserved. Laikka have been nominated for the Amadeus Austrian Music Awards 2025.

06/12/2024

Out now! DRAMAS »Every Year At Christmas Time«

Unexpectedly created and rooted in a profoundly personal experience, the song stands as a heartfelt tribute to family and loss.

Viktoria „This song is deeply emotionaI for us. I dedicate this song to my beloved grandpa, who passed away in 2024 shortly after Christmas. Celebrating and singing together always meant so much to him – right up until the end.“ Mario:„If there’s ever going to be a DRAMAS Christmas song, it must stand out through dark drama.“

Aside from this one off single, the duo is working on completing a new album, which is scheduled for release in spring 2025.

photo by Tim Cavadini

25/10/2024

Out now! Jana Irmert's wonderful new album »When I Dissolve« is based on a collection of fascinating compositions that she wrote for the film To Be An Extra by Henrike Meyer. For the album, she has reworked all the pieces and added two completely new tracks.

Bonus: To enable you to immerse yourself in the wonderful soundscape and multi-layered character of the music, »When I Dissolve« was additionally mixed for Dolby Atmos by Philipp Rumsch. Sit back and enjoy!

Stream album: https://janairmert.lnk.to/WhenIDissolveAlbum
Dolby Atmos: https://music.apple.com/at/album/when-i-dissolve/1767959112

„I like to think of the music as a sort of bog or swamp landscape that lies underneath the film’s structure, all connected - sometimes you just see the surface and it can look very unassuming, until you dip your foot in. Then you dive down all the way, and there’s a whole universe where you never reach the bottom. It’s a mysterious, expanding, strange world and it’s my job to decide how much of it we get to hear.“

Cover art by Julie Calbert
Artist photo by Kasia Zacharko

22/10/2024

Preview: Saturday, 26.10.2024 - Christopher James Chaplin will present is new epic album »Door 1 Door 2« live at Hans-Joachim Roedelius' More Ohr Less Festival.

Info & tickets:
https://www.more-ohr-less.com

Stream & album LP:
https://christopherchaplin.lnk.to/Door1Door2

21/10/2024

💥

4 months of ONDA 🌊🖤🐚

Thank you for all the listens & love ~ and huge appreciation for everyone that helped bring this album to life musically & visually 🪸

.hunter .batley

ONDA is out on all places you stream music & vinyl available worldwide & on my BC ✌️

14/10/2024

Video premiere! Laikka "Safe Space"
Link in comments.

04/10/2024

Out today! Laikka »I close my eyes, tomorrow«

Stream: https://laikka.lnk.to/ICloseMyEyesTomorrow
Coloured vinyl LP: https://laikka.bandcamp.com/

"'I close my eyes, tomorrow' is unmistakably Laikka. Through playing live, we developed a sound that's deeply expressive—impulsive, cathartic, and emotionally raw. It’s a sound that creates a space to get lost in, a place to release the darkness within. The album combines big pop moments with shattered, destructive electronic landscapes, telling our story through the time in which it was written, in a raw and intimate way. 'I close my eyes, tomorrow' begins motionless under a paralyzing summer heat, trapped in a suffocating room, and ends in the same place. Along the way, it journeys through stress, fear, anger, anxiety, dependency, loneliness, and surrender—but also ecstasy, release, and acceptance." (Laikka)

01/10/2024

Out now! Jana Irmert »When I Dissolve«
Stream: http://janairmert.lnk.to/WhenIDissolve
Pre-order album: https://shorturl.at/9znrX

The title giving single of Jana Irmerts upcoming album (coming on October 25). The release will be a collection of compositions she made for the film To Be An Extra by Henrike Meyer, reworked as an album and additionally mixed for Dolby Atmos by Philipp Rumsch.

cover art by Julie Calbert
artist photo © by Kasia Zacharko

27/09/2024

Out today! DRAMAS "Twenty Oh Nineteen"
Stream: https://dramas.lnk.to/TwentyOhNineteen

"A song about emotional growth, progress and setbacks—nostalgia versus the present versus a loss of control. It’s about how the only thing that ever remains and has remained is the love for another person. The five-year production period, including countless re-iterations of „twenty oh nineteen,“ is a musical summary of our own lives; the final song, therefore, is a snapshot of our current existence."

photo by Tim Cavadini
cover art by DRAMAS

17/09/2024

Drum & Lace live in the US

03/09/2024

Preview! Sound artist and composer Jana Irmert will perform a great new spatial live performance at Zimmt in Leipzig on September 14th. Tickets: https://shorturl.at/uNiiT

There's also great news from the music side: she will release a new album in October (also in Dolby Atmos). More details soon.

Exciting things are coming up in the next few weeks:

🌀on Sept 14th I will present a new spatial live performance at Zimmt in Leipzig

🌀on Sept 27th the first single of my upcoming album will be released, which will be additionally be available in Dolby Atmos 🪐

Both have been a long time in the making and are very special to me, can’t wait ✨

Fabrique Records

25/08/2024

Out now! Christopher James Chaplin "The Feathered Girl"

Video: https://shorturl.at/EuIlp
Stream: available on all platforms

Album pre-order: https://christopherchaplin.lnk.to/Door1Door2
Album pre-order (USA): https://shorturl.at/DfoU2
Album pre-order (UK): https://shorturl.at/Cv5Qf

"The Feathered Girl" is the powerful first musical foretaste of the new album "Door 1 Door2", which will be released on September 20, and contains spoken words by Carmen Alt-Chaplin from the riddle of the Sphinx of Athens by Naucratis.

18/08/2024

September 20! Following the release of his acclaimed last major project „Patriarchs“ (2021), a musical exploration of the antediluvian patriarchs from Adam to Noah, with which he also thrilled audiences live, British avant-garde artist and composer Christopher James Chaplin has topped himself once again.

"The myths of our Western tradition have often captivated me, whether they be Greek, Roman, or Judeo-Christian. Myths are a transcendent collective narrative; a buried memory, not intellectual but spiritual, alive to all the senses of another world. These stories often describe forbidding passages guarded by terrifying monster-like creatures, which, if conquered, give access to other planes. 'Door 1 - Door 2' are two of these planes, opening to prophecy and kingship." (Christopher Chaplin)

After three years, Chaplin presents his new studio album »Door 1 Door 2« (LP / digital) and it has become one of his most epochal works to date. He has also enlisted the magnificent vocal support of Carmen Alt-Chaplin, Tassos Apostolou and the soprano Michela Varvaro and none other than Grammy-nominated American composer TIM STORY Music, a long-time musical companion of Chaplin, is responsible for the strong and minimalist cover painting. Cover design by Denise Faber-Ledinger.

Pre-order link in comments!
photo by Tim Cavadini

26/06/2024

Out now and a masterpiece! Drum & Lace »ONDA«. Link in the comments.

15/06/2024

Video premiere: Peter Zirbs x Bolland »Melancholy Mary«

Videolink in comments!

Starring: Miyo Noire, Rob Bolland
Directed by Michael Martinek
Director of Photography: Bernhard Roschitz Cinematography
Styling & Make-Up by Cameron Lee Felton
Editing and Compositing by Bernhard Roschitz
Set photography by Tim Cavadini

(Peter Zirbs) „When I was 14, I discovered Rob Bolland on Falco’s ‚Rock Me Amadeus‘. A superhero! He and his brother also wrote ‚You’re In The Army Now‘ - pop gods of my youth. Their name always stuck in my head. In autumn 2023, I heard from Michael (Fabrique Records) that he was meeting Rob in Vienna. I jokingly asked if he would sing over my demo. To my surprise, he agreed. In the studio, Rob was 100% in ‚the zone‘ - pure creativity, with no distractions. His attitude inspired me deeply. I also learnt from him: a song has to be authentic, we leave the interpretation to the audience. ‚Melancholy Mary‘ remains mysterious: a misunderstood relationship, multiple layers, many interpretations. Rob is the medium, not the explainer.“

15/06/2024

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07/06/2024

Jana Irmert live at INA grm in Paris tonight!