We are happy to announce the release of traffic || jammed, our new album that grew out of a singular evening at the Rush Hour Kulturfestival, presented by Heussenstamm Stiftung. The music was recorded on September 8, 2024 at Atelierhaus Orber Straße in Frankfurt, in direct exchange with an attentive audience and the specific atmosphere of the space.

All pieces were written exclusively for this occasion. The album revolves around the different figures that populate our streets during rush hour, from drivers and pedestrians to invisible systems that regulate and disrupt urban movement. What emerged that night was a dense and physical sound world, shaped by repetition, friction, tension and sudden shifts, mirroring the pulse of the city itself.

The performance was recorded by Jörg See. In the process of mixing and mastering, rabirius focused on retaining the immediacy and energy of the original moment while carefully shaping the material into a coherent album that stands on its own beyond the concert setting.

That evening, mockART were Christoph Dorner, Ümit Kaya and rabirius.

The CD edition includes two bonus tracks, La Bête Noire and Kör Adamın Gazeli, performed as encores. Both tracks were previously released digitally as the single La Bête Noire (Alive).

traffic || jammed was released digitally and on CD.

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We have already released Kör Adamın Gazeli as a new single. The track features saz and vocals by Ümit Kaya and it is the last single taken from our latest album Men Who Lost Their Heads. The album was also released on as a tape right now. So if you like to buy tapes rather than CDs you can get the album as a tape with an individually hand-printed cover by MUBE via Templo Sagital.

If you prefer owning the CD you can try to win Men Who Lost Their Heads now!

We are giving away 10 CDs via rabirius’ art website. This is your chance to win a free CD!

You will find all the details about the competition on website. When you visit you can also look at rabirius’ latest artworks, including further pictures for Men Who Lost Their Heads that were not used for the final CD-cover.

We have now closed our “headless phase” and will put on our heads again to work on a new album. So stay tuned!

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Finally, we released our new album Men Who Lost Their Heads. The album features 18 tracks, including our latest singes Lizard People, Betörve, Samesjwaering Onger Idiote and A Stronger Climate.

Created under lockdown conditions we made consistent and pandemic-related use of the digital possibilities of contactless music-making – together and yet separately, social but with distancing, virus-proof and yet highly infectious.

The idea was to create an album about conspiracy theories and paranoia that spread with the Covid pandemic. The guest vocalists include Léda Szemerédi, Mark Daelmans-Sikkel, Bernd Geiling, Thanatoloop and Ümit Kaya. Special thanks go to Levente Dudás for recording some of the vocals at his N/O/E/W/A Creative Music Studio.

We released the album as a deluxe 6-panel digipak CD and to the usual streaming services. There also is a limited edition CD with a special cover created by Sonja Ackermann.

To find out more, please visit our music page.

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