ARKADEN

It was quiet for a long time after the band »AUFBAU WEST« broke up in 2018. But then, singer Florian's phone rang. It was his old bandmate Sebastian. No matter how much every drum soundcheck annoyed him back then, no matter how long the two hadn't spoken, Florian could hardly believe what he was learning – his friend Sebastian, with whom he had shared a rehearsal space and so many stages for so long, could surely be so seriously ill now? On the Tuesday evening of that phone call, Florian made him a promise: "No matter what happens now – you and I have to make another record together, okay?!" First and foremost: Sebastian is fortunately doing brilliantly again, and a frightening suspicion turned out to be a misdiagnosis! He was extremely lucky, and his health remains consistently excellent. The idea of ​​continuing was born. Then another phone rang – this time it was Moritz's, who, following the dissolution of his old band »NEOH«, would surely have plenty of time and enthusiasm to play guitar for the new idea. A pop band with guitars that sings about the potential for violence within a breast, about an alcoholic mother, the tornness of our world – but perhaps also about their own, about the big and the small. ARKADEN make what a band friend once quite aptly described as "pop with attitude." This attitude is already very clearly heard and felt in the first single, "Keiner will was gewusst haben" (Nobody wants to have known anything). The four musicians live across Germany and began writing songs remotely during the pandemic, for a long time without the opportunity to be together in a rehearsal room. Perhaps the band has a very special connection to feeling "homeless." When the containers in Moria burned in September 2020, the band's horror and compassion condensed into a song that, unfortunately, has still not lost its relevance almost two years later. This attitude is sometimes missing from the highly frequented playlists of streaming services, major festivals, and within the broad public media spectrum. Now ARKADEN is bringing them back – to the center of German-language pop music.