MUSIC – The Morning Stars
The Morning Stars are a gift – at least that’s how it starts.
Because when a surprise birthday party is organised for drummer Sebastian Vogel to help him cross the inner threshold into the new year of life, his friends Barbara Morgenstern, Alex Paulick and Felix Müller-Wrobel thought: maybe he needs a new band.
And so they decided to give him one.
The four of them have known each other since the end of the 1990s from playing together and working on projects with their bands Kreidler, Coloma, Morgenstern’s solo project and Kante. Their paths crossed again and again in different constellations and in different places, so it immediately felt familiar when they finally stood together in a Berlin rehearsal room for the first time.
The first sessions quickly developed into pieces, pieces became songs, often enriched with polyphonic vocals. The music-making is decidedly free, yet harmonious and equal, based on a shared history and shared musical passions: influences from Kraut and post-rock can be heard in Sebastian Vogel’s drum patterns; Alex Paulick’s fretless bass and Felix Müller-Wrobel’s often percussive guitars interweave with them to form bouncy grooves, around which Barbara Morgenstern spreads out her keyboard pads.The English harmony vocals above, on the other hand, sometimes lend the music a light touch of Americana, as if a warm wind from the West Coast had carried it into the songs.
The Morning Stars recorded the songs for their first album in February and May and have now released the first single.
Photo by Marta Ricci
ART – Daniel M Thurau “Parade”
Daniel was born in 1972 in Köthen/Anhalt and currently resides and works in Berlin. He pursued his studies in law at Martin-Luther-Universität in Halle/S., Germany from 1995 to 1998. In 2009, he completed his M.A. in Drawing at NUA in Norwich, U.K. Following this, Daniel served as a Master Student under the guidance of Werner Büttner and Jutta Koether at HFBK Hamburg from 2010 to 2013. He is set to teach painting at HAW Hamburg from 2022 to 2024.
Throughout his career, Daniel has received several grants and prizes, including the Emerging Artists Award from the Art-foundation Christa und Nikolaus Schües in Hamburg in 2013, an Artist in Residence at Backfabrik Berlin in 2004, and the Anhaltischer Kunstpreis from Kreissparkasse Anhalt-Bitterfeld in 2003. These accolades reflect his dedication and talent in the field of art.
