Musa Dagh

Musa Dagh: At the end of 2021, Musa Dagh, a new, massively noisy formation of distinguished experts, crashed into the German alternative rock world. Their eponymous debut album, recorded in the home studio and workroom of Beatsteaks drummer Thomas Götz, was according to media voices "clearly one of the exciting surprises of the alternative sector" (laut. de). It offered "playfulness and compositional unpredictability" (musikreviews) and was "a wonderful noiserock album like from the nineties. With high walls of guitars, refined drumming and a voice that can turn any track into a pop song. Impulsive, feverish and powerful." (Ox). In other words, it was one hell of a loud, musically sophisticated hussar ride from three absolute pros who know what they're doing.


Just over a year later, the second Musa Dagh album, "No Future", has been released, and a lot has happened in the meantime. Thomas Götz left the band around guitarist Aren Emirze (ex-Harmful, Emirsian) and singer Aydo Abay (ex-Blackmail, Abay), Madsen drummer Sascha Madsen took his place. They first optimized the working conditions - short, impulsive joint sessions in the rehearsal room - and then also those of the recordings: together with producer Moses Schneider, who had already supervised the debut, they entered Hamburg's Clouds Hill Studios and within a week beat up this incredibly dense, powerful, partly rattling and fabulously playful second album.