Restless, by Rubin Henkel

Restless

by Rubin Henkel

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lereddia Great atmosphere!
I've loved this album from the firts listening and getting deeper into it I love it more. The filtered piano sound is really breathtaking.

anancastic Beautiful but above all very interesting. A lot of energy. A wealth of small details scattered everywhere like tiny diamonds. Everything sounds perfect together. I am very curious what Rubin will achieve with his extraordinary talent. Favorite track: In Regard.

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The album 'Restless' comes along with a book collecting the sheet music of piano pieces composed and produced by Rubin Henkel. The book contains specially selected compositions for piano, as well as street photographs by Philip Pocock taking the viewer on a journey back to Berlin in 1982.
It demonstrates the connection between image and sound, it tells the story of every single photo and shows how these visual impressions were translated into piano melodies.

Transcribed songs:

Postman
Pigeons Tale
Ruhelos
Bi
Some Don't Care
Hello Yellow

Music and lyrics: Rubin Henkel
Graphic design: Rubin Henkel
Photographs: Philip Pocock
Artwork: Rubin Henkel
Score edit: Sofi Paez
Translation: Sofi Paez

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Copyright: Rubin Henkel
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1.	Future 03:58	info	buy track
2.	Ruhelos 03:11	info	buy track
3.	Postman 03:30	info	buy track
4.	Bi 03:59	info	buy track
5.	This Is The Wall 04:02	info	buy track
6.	Some Don't Care 03:39	info	buy track
7.	In Regard 02:33	info	buy track
8.	Gitterbande 04:07	info	buy track
9.	Light & Day 02:25	info	buy track
10.	Pigeons Tale 04:39	info	buy track
11.	Bestie 02:40	info	buy track
12.	Hello Yellow 02:04	info	buy track

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'Restless' is a record which cradles the listener, themes of contrast, survival and the fragility of our own existence, both socially and environmentally.

Rubin Henkel is an artist who reconfigures memory throughout his music. In his debut album ‘Ruhe’ (2018) Rubin collected the first melodies he ever recorded around his childhood and early teens. Back then he captured the music on a number of devices; his mother's old compact camera, various iPods, and sound recorders. In 2018 he reinterpreted those works in his studio in Berlin and released the album in the same year.

During the pandemic, Rubin spent most of his time with his father the photographer Philip Pocock, and delved into his archive of street photography taken in Berlin, before the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Through the imagery he found a sense of escapism contained in the scenes and after hearing from his mother and father about the social milieu of the time he saw many parallels to our contemporary fragmented society. Browsing through countless photos Rubin felt a strong connection to the characters and scenes. After carefully selecting 12 photographs he entered into an artistic dialogue with the work of his father from over three decades ago, resulting in the making of ‘Restless’.

Rubin’s new release ‘Restless’ cradles the listener with themes of contrast, survival and the fragility of our own existence, both socially and environmentally. The album breathes and vibrates, as though it is living, telling of a Berlin marked in different eras.

The laconic titles evoke their own stories related not only to the photographs but to the listener's own experiences of the everyday characters, scenes and plot lines which Rubin traces across the album. In the stunning and gestural ‘Ruhelos’ we can hear an artist coming to terms with his own voice, after listening to his parents stories of the 80s Berlin punk scenes. “Inspired by their unconventional approach to music, I started composing a piano piece that was finally loud enough to be heard by my neighbors” Rubin explains.

''Postman'' in contrast is a softer, more introspective piece which embraces the listener with its intimate textures of the piano. While ‘’This is The Wall’’ moves us in a slower pace, showcasing the inherently human fragility, the unforeseen difficulties of survival and interior space in the mind which can be lit up by inspiration. Rubin Henkel has a story to tell in each piece of music he writes, with each vignette he weaves together another story in his fiction.

All tracks were recorded in his home studio to give a sense of intimacy but also recreate the claustrophobic and restless feeling of being surrounded by walls. A result of those circumstances is an album that is louder and darker than his previous works but also features hopeful and calm passages that shine through the strong contrast.

Rubin Henkel’s second album ’Restless’ will be released May 6th 2022 on contemporary classical label 7K!.

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released May 6, 2022

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Rubin Henkel Berlin, Germany

Rubin is a half-Canadian half-German composer for film and media who was born and raised by a painter and a photographer in Cologne (Germany).

Taking lessons at the Jazzhouse School in Cologne he improved his talent for improvisation and his teacher Ron Cherian taught him to strengthen the structure of his compositions and maintain the listeners interest while improvising. ... more

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