Spring Songs by Arnold Kasar

Coming November 5, 2025:

Full release of Spring Songs via Curious Music on 180g gatefold vinyl, CD, and digital platforms. Pre-order now.

Curious Music is very pleased to announce Spring Songs — the label debut of German composer, pianist, and sound designer Arnold Kasar. Known for his collaborations with Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Friedrich Liechtenstein, and for a body of solo work that merges acoustic precision with quiet electronic exploration, Kasar’s Spring Songs introduces a new chapter—one defined by clarity, intimacy, and the subtle unfolding of sound.

Spring Songs unfolds across eight distilled pieces—interconnected yet self-contained—where Kasar’s acoustic piano drifts within finely drawn electronic contours. Evolving from the quiet architecture of “Spring Song,” first heard on Kasar’s 2019 album Resonanz, this new work extends the theme into a larger spatial meditation. The result is a sound world that feels both grounded and aerial, analogue and spectral—where memory, structure, and silence hold equal presence.

Recorded and mixed in collaboration with Calyx Studio in Berlin, Spring Songs represents a distilled vision — a kind of post-digital romanticism that resists genre while quietly embracing it. As a producer and engineer, Kasar has long been celebrated for his sonic clarity and dimensionality. Here, that expertise is channeled inward, in service of something intimate and timeless.

ARNOLD KASAR ON SPRING SONGS

When I sit on the meadow behind the coastline, the wind changes direction every afternoon and freshens up. The leaves begin to rush. The wind could tell me how the sounds come to me and become music through my fingers and keys. Bees buzz at the edge of the sunflower field. In the evening, the sun sets behind the last hill, just before the horizon turns orange and purple.

My new album is the first solo album that wasn't produced in Berlin. I haven't lived in the center of this city for some time now. I live in a small village, but I'm still very connected to Berlin. I regularly work there, listen to music and meet people. Now I'm discovering the city for a second time. The feelings I have are the same as the first time. This city has so much energy and at the same time it takes so much of it away from me. After every visit to this city, I am empty of energy and full of new impressions. Maybe you can hear that in the new music.

There are four pianos on this album, August Förster, Bluethner, Steinway and Yamaha. The electronic sounds come mainly from Prophet synthesizers and NI Reaktor. The oldest piano recording was made 10 years before this album production, but most of it was made in the last few weeks before mixing.

No AI was used in the creation of the music and graphics for this album.

Special thanks to my wife and family, all the people who made this production possible.

ABOUT ARNOLD KASAR

Arnold Kasar (b. 1972, Bad Säckingen) is a Berlin-based pianist, composer, producer, and mastering engineer. Over the past three decades, his work has moved fluidly between ambient, electronic, and contemporary classical spaces—often erasing the distinctions between them.

He began his career in Berlin’s post-club landscape, releasing through the influential Sonar Kollektiv label and performing with nu-jazz and electro-chanson acts such as Micatone and Nylon. His collaborations with performance artist Friedrich Liechtenstein introduced surreal, genre-fluid pop into his orbit. A long-running partnership with Hans-Joachim Roedelius, including their 2017 Deutsche Grammophon release Einfluss, cemented his standing as a cross-generational connector of musical worlds.

A graduate in music and theater studies from Freie Universität Berlin, Kasar is also a sought-after mastering engineer, having worked at Calyx Mastering, Emil Berliner Studios, and EastSide Sound. His solo albums—The Piano Has Been Smoking, Resonanz, My Favourite Colours—have been praised for their quiet innovation and tonal depth.

Whether performing at the Elbphilharmonie or composing in solitude, Kasar’s work is marked by balance: between touch and tone, intuition and restraint, structure and openness.

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