Isolation Berlin Geheimnis + Live In Ho Chi Minh City HHV Exclusive Orange Vinyl Edition

Limited to 300 orange copies available only at HHV. In gatefold sleeve with bonus live album.

They call their album "Secret" and address everything we are afraid of: Love, hate, soccer, Nina Hagen.

Still, if there's a band in Germany that's shrouded in mystery, it's Isolation Berlin. Where fans can't distinguish between role prose and personal revelations, between the stage character and the private person, where the performer is a real star and one of us at the same time - strange but possible!

Isolation Berlin, with their singer Tobias Bamborschke, have matured into great songwriters over the last few years.

Together they have produced eleven songs for "Geheimnis" and in the seclusion of their new, self-built studio in Berlin-Buch, they have reflected on their greatest strength: On their songwriting and storytelling. Stories from a damaged life. Stories of outsiders:inside, of crashes, of disappointed love and of the eternal on that flies around our ears with every beaten snare drum.

The music is somehow different compared to the previous albums. This is Isolation Berlin, BUT! not a gram of fat. Rock riffs have almost completely disappeared. The band gives the lyrics a lot of air. Arranger and guitarist Max Bauer has arranged many strings around the vocals and uses the electric guitar more sparingly. The rhythm section of Specht and Cöster also apparently had the trip-hop sound of Portishead or Jean-Claude Vannier in mind when they recorded, rather than that of a classic rock band, anyway.

This band is unique, it is the punk rock diamond among pop clunkers, a splintered mirror, a lost sneaker, a déjà vu from the future and in general a rare stroke of luck. Fatalistic, pure, dancing on the precipice.

"Secret" is the third album by Isolation Berlin and will be released as Do-LP, CD, etc on ... on Staatsakt. A limited version includes as a bonus the live album "Live in Ho Chi Minh City".

Tobias Bamborschke releases "Schmetterling im Winter", his 2nd poetry book, in October on Kiepenheuer&Witsch.