Conic Rose - Wedding A guitar stands alone in Wedding, that metropolitan biotope in thewestern center of Berlin, caught in constant transformation betweenidyll and abyss. It lets its gaze wander, unsettled, almost shy, until itencounters a trumpet, with which it begins a cautious, then ever moreintimate pas de deux. Welcome to the second studio album by the Berlin-based band ConicRose. The album title Wedding is no coincidence. The story of Conic Rose isclosely intertwined with the Berlin neighborhood that gives the recordits name. The band's studio is located here, and both studio albumswere created in the immediate vicinity of the small river Panke. Thisplace settles over the music like a warming patina. The album feels asthough the musicians and the neighborhood have invited one anotherto get to know each other. Not least because Wedding also means 2 of 2 WAS - Word and Sound Medien GmbH marriage. These marriages between a band and an urban landscape, afading past and an emerging future, fear and hope - unfold in everysingle song on Wedding. For their second album, Conic Rose repositioned themselves completely.Not in terms of personnel, but in the question of how to move forward.Conic Rose still sound like Conic Rose; their distinctive blend ofcinematic jazz, ambient textures and guitar-led contemporary musicremains untouched. And yet Wedding is, in many ways, the conceptualcounterpart to their debut album Heller Tag. Where the debutdocumented movement within an urban setting, Wedding describes astate of being. Behind every piece seems to hover a large questionmark.The group opens up its palette, allowing more infl uences,becoming at once more subtle, more profound, more fi ligree. It is lessabout defi nition than about the spaces in between. The mostimmediately striking diff erence from the previous album is the strongpresence of the guitar. In Bertram Burkert's playing, many voices seemto converge. His yearning openness forms an equal counterpoint toDöben's trumpet and fl ugelhorn. Blurred and layered soundsoccasionally make the ground seem to slip away beneath one's feet,while Döben's gliding lines create both closeness and distance.Together, the band express in a deeply subtle way a sense of life thatcorresponds precisely to our time. Something lurks in the background,omnipresent yet still unnameable. Conic Rose need no words to conveythis feeling of uncertainty with remarkable eloquence. Perhaps this hassomething to do with Wedding being a place of confrontationalintrospection, but Conic Rose confront the escape from escape itself.With the recording and release of Wedding, this process is far fromcomplete. The seed only begins to grow in the listener's ear. With everylisten and the echo it leaves behind in memory, the studio budcontinues to bloom. The album is merely the point of departure. Whatultimately matters is what it sets in motion within those who encounterit.