"A ROOM WITH A VIEW" IS OUT NOW

Listen to our Debutalbum "A Room With A View" on Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/0LTobX...
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Producer/Mix: Zbikbeat Studio
Mastering: Gabriel Schütz @ Gabston International
Text: Linda Kyei & Jesse Safferling
Music: Linda Kyei & Zbikbeat
Musicians: Carsten Netz (Flute, Saxophone), Jean Pierre Barranqué (Keys), Rainer Ziener (Bass), Michael Hauser (Keys), Gudrun Wagner (Vocals), Axel Nagel (Guitar), Andreas Schäfer (Guitar), Zbikbeat (Drums/Sequencer), Linda Kyei (Vocals, Violin, Keys)
Foto: Frank Bayh & Steff Ochs
Artwork: FeedbackMediaDesign
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The album title "A Room With A View" goes back to a personal caesura. As virulent and
urban the album sounds, its completion was preceded by a process of consciously chosen retreat.
retreat. Following an intuition, Linda Kyei fled from the temperate climate of the
southwest to the freezing cold solitude of the Swedish winter, where unexpected doors opened.
unexpected doors opened. "There it was totally deserted, I was fascinated by this vastness and clarity.
and clarity. That gave me inner wings. I wrote a lot during that time. From then on
I realised that I needed a good view, a sense of space and something pleasing to the eye to make it work.
to make it work. Since then, I've always been drawn back to the north."
The fact that the songs were written in very different creative phases and ultimately tell the story of an entire
the story of an entire decade, you can't hear it on the album. All the songs are part
of the journey, Linda Kyei explains. Under these circumstances, the album's astonishing wholeness speaks for the astonishing con
album speaks for the amazing consistency of the singer and her drummer/producer. Quite
from the beginning of the process that voice and electronics are the two pillars of the project.
are the two cornerstones of the project, on the basis of which everything else is allowed.
North by Southwest - many opposites pulsate in Linda Kyei. Sparkling vitality in the here and
here and now is combined with a longing for solitude in the distance.
expressive dynamism of the thoroughbred performer with the introspective seclusion of the private person.
The irrepressible joy of sound volume and density goes hand in hand with an obsession for soft tones. All
can be heard on "A Room With A View", and the one would be inconceivable without the other.
without the corresponding other. All of a piece, her debut album is a monolith of contrasts and surprises.