The 11th of November, eleven minutes past 11 o’clock in the morning, sees the beginning of carnival season in Germany. Many people, including myself, don’t really care about this. But the 11th of November 2009, at 9 past 11 A.M., my son saw the light of day. Children born on this day are called “Faschingskinder” in Germany - carnival kids. And since this event changed basically every aspect of my life, including my perception, writing, and interpretation of music, I felt it to be a pretty perfect name for a solo project. Carnival also includes the idea of hiding behind a mask, which I am kind of doing in a linguistic sense when I am writing and singing in English (or when I’m writing this pseudo-international text). The kid-part of the name might give a hint to all the struggles you go through in your thirties, but I guess I better leave that to interpretation. And if this description made you laugh your ass off since it’s so cheesy, then that’s also some kind of carnival I suppose...

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Songs we featured :

January 17, 2020 - We Used To Shout At You

February 07, 2020 - We Were The Shadow

February 28, 2020 - Blackout at the Kindergarten

April 24, 2020 - The Avalanche

October 30, 2020 - The Remains (with Jovernanté & A Little Nothing)

January 15, 2021 - Ever Present Past (EP)

May 05, 2023 - Friend of Mine (with Sun Smash Palace)

 

Over the years, Chasing Tales has collected countless songs and stories that stem mostly from the feelings he doesn't talk about, questions about life he can't answer and conversations that move him.

Sitting down with a guitar and writing is his way to process what would otherwise drive him crazy.

The results are personal, often dark songs that find their musical inspiration somewhere in the realm of Folk, Alternative, Americana and Blues.

This new musical journey is one without a set goal or many expectations.

He knows that he wants to sing his songs and share music, whatever comes from that will stay a mystery until it happens.

So let's see what happens.

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IMC Features: 

May 16, 2020: This Soul of Mine

Eveline grew up in a suburban town, always feeling out of place and daydreaming about the big world out there. From an early age, she felt a tingling severity in her chest. An energy she wasn’t able to identify at that time but couldn’t wait to get out. Later she would realize it was the wanderlust-a desire to break out. But for a couple of years, her liberty was limited to the number of grey concrete building floors and depending on the blank-faced decision makers that used to call themselves adults.

Her few, desultory attempts at becoming a part of the crowd she grew up with failed but taught her about insecure, spiteful behavior patterns and the human fear of the different. She created her comfort zone by consuming fictional and absurd stories in books and movies and was attracted to the seemingly endless possibilities of the worlds that were outlined. With a fine line of distance, she was observing characters in real life and started journaling herself.

At the age of 9, Eveline wrote her first short story.

At the age of 13, she was laying up over 50 poems, short stories, and anecdotes. Inspired by the soundtrack of her favorite movies and legendary voices such as Etta James or Freddie Mercury she wanted to add music as another level of expression to her self-written work. She learned to play the guitar and the piano and started writing her own songs at the age of 14.

While singing and performing her songs she certainly felt euphoric and safe in public. As if an invisible bubble was surrounding and protecting her from the outer world but making her become a part of this world as well. She felt heard. It was only natural that as soon as she could Eveline would pack her bag to move to Berlin-ready for shaking up the scene and collecting those experiences she could only write about before. In the big city, she felt surrounded by diverse characters, creatives, and outsiders like her. She was attracted to life and what people could actually make her feel emotionally and sexually.

At the age of 19, she was performing her songs in the clubs of Berlin and on stages nationwide supporting artists like Låpsley, Billie Eilish, and Adam Lambert. Appearances were including Reeperbahn Festival, MELT, and venues like Huxley’s Neue Welt, Berghain, and Große Freiheit 36.

Her stories formed a way of therapy for herself and a safe space for her audience-far away from the eternal popularity contest. Pursuing her artistic vision the songwriter, performer and producer was recently focusing on her first coherent musical piece.

Cinematic soundscapes emerged, interspersed with dark and light moments and rousing narratives. Like movie episodes, a whole world started to unfold around the artist. Self-determined and independent, she continues to challenge her audience to dig deeper into their own minds, face their fears, and be bold about their dreams. The result is a debut album that wants to open the floodgates to different perspectives from the mainstream." Modern Disaster" is an electronic dystopia, presented by Eveline's stirring voice and told with fragile and blatant lyrics. A mirror of the real world and a door into a different reality.

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IMC Features:

November 25, 2022: sunflower

Lucie Glang is a young singer-songwriter from Germany with a deep passion for music that you can hear through every single line of her songs and a unique voice that can send shivers down your spine in just a few seconds.

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IMC Features:

June 17, 2021: Visions

January 26, 2024: Friend (with Dominic Romano)

February 29, 2024: Seagull

December 05, 2024: Little Me

May 31, 2025: Underwater Skies

Luna Keller grew up in a very musical family – her father playing several instruments like guitar, bass, and piano, her mother playing the piano and singing. She has been singing in the local choir with her mum since being 8 and started to try out all kinds of instruments at more or less the same age. However, it took her five years to fall in love with the guitar, which she learned to play with the help of her father.

She started soon to write her first songs on her newfound favorite instrument. She's the fantastic presenter of a wonderful monthly podcast called "Why Doesn't Everyone Know These Songs", which is hosted on IMC.

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Songs we featured : 

November 11, 2018: I Don't Know Where I'm Going

May 18, 2020: I'll Bring You Home

July 10, 2020: A Ray Of Light

September 18, 2020: Let Me Go Now

November 27, 2020: Prophecy

December 18, 2020: By The Coast (with Thomas LaVine)

April 01, 2021: High Low High Low

June 03, 2021: Never In My Dreams (with Dominic Romano)

September 23, 2021: Shadows on my Wall

January 11, 2022 - No Man's Land

November 18, 2022: Overgrown

March 04, 2022 - Wanderer

November 15, 2022 - Wolves

March 09, 2023: The Philosopher

April 28, 2023: Woman in the Van

October 02, 2023: Live It All (with Clouds And Thorns)

October 26, 2023: Ocean Inside Of Me (PREMIERE)

February 08, 2024: Swallow The Sea

February 23, 2024: If I Was No More

March 29, 2024: Not Ready

June 10, 2024: She's Not Good For Me

June 27, 2024: Lighter Than Before

November 05, 2024: Interview in Niko's Music Magazine issue 01

December 05, 2024: Paper Moon (with Jory Avner)

I started writing poems when I was thirteen of fourteen. At that time I began carrying notebooks with me all the time, writing down lyrical ideals and observations on a daily basis, and also made my first attempts of playing with words in rap music (German Hip-Hop was very popular at that time). In the same years, I discovered Eric Clapton's MTV Unplugged record, and started to learn guitarplaying. In this instrument and my first shy tries of singing I soon found a very comforting place and a form of self-expression. After discovering classical music as well as 60s and 70s bands at that time the 2000s made me stumble upon more contemporary heroes: Ahead my favourite lyricist of all time, Conor Oberst and his Bright Eyes stuff, but also Damien Rice, Elbow, The National, Turin Brakes. (Oh, and the early Coldplay. Despite their very pop-ish latest works these beautiful first two records really made me want to become a musician.) While studying (something with economics that didn't mean too much to me) some friends and me founded the Indie band "Fugitive Dancer". That band became my dream place to live my adolescent fantasies of desireful dark indie pop. After the band had fallen apart in 2014, Sebastian I put my remaining creative unrest into a new musical journey, calling myself November Me then. In 2015 my first solo EP under that moniker "Don't Believe the Tide" saw the light of day.

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IMC Features:

January 05, 2025: Where Does the Sun Sleep?