Pioneering darkwave / postpunk outfit Pink Turns Blue
“One of the most ethically driven and environmentally conscious post-punk artists of our time… this latest offering is sure to go down in the band’s record as one of PTB’s most powerful releases” ~ The Spill Magazine
“Consistent purveyors of quality guitar-laden post punk and dark-bent indie rock… one of the most honest and most direct enduring acts in post punk today” ~ Destroy // Exist
“The timeless message is driven home with a timeless sound composed with refined effect” ~ Post-Punk.com
“There are bands which have had high ranks in the charts and still have a place deep in the heart of many fans. One of those bands is the German Dark Wave legend Pink Turns Blue” ~ Reflections of Darkness
“‘You Still Mean Too Much To Me’ from their ‘Tainted LP, an anthemic song that channels a personalized situation to dark sonic gold. We’ve all been there – this music is emotionally harsh and sublime” – The Big Takeover
“When it comes to actual darkwave, Berlin’s Pink Turns Blue are rightly regarded as one of the founding acts… up to the present, they have also been one of the finer exemplars of continental postpunk” ~ CVLT Nation
Iconic post-punk / darkwave outfit Pink Turns Blue has released their new ‘Tainted’ album via Orden Records, the result of time well spent during a lockdown year – writing, recording, mixing and mastering the new album in their Berlin recording studio. They also present their new video for ‘Not Even Trying‘, a lament for a wasting planet. On ‘Tainted’, the band added an electronic element to their classical vocals, guitar, bass and drums. The album title itself relates to the state of our world: climate change, its effects, the reaction to it, the split within society, isolation, health risks and financial uncertainty.
Today Pink Turns Blue is a trio consisting of Mic Jogwer (vocals, guitar), Luca Sammuri (bass) and Paul Richter (drums). In the first generation of gothic rock, Pink Turns Blue formed in 1985, originally as a duo consisting of Jogwer and Thomas Elbern, plus a drum machine. Naming themselves after a Hüsker Dü song, their sound was initially inspired by The Chameleons, Clan of Xymox, and The Cure. Their debut album ‘If Two Worlds Kiss’ brought dark undertones into their new wave sound, essentially advancing the darkwave sub-genre while becoming a seminal album in the post-punk genre. Emerging from the fear and uncertainty of a divided Cold War Germany, the band went on to release 11 full-length LPs.
AMBER SMITH
The amber smith band has been around since 2000. So far, they have released 7 LPs and countless EPs and singles, partly on foreign labels. In addition to Hungarian clubs and festivals, they toured Europe several times, were invited to the Swedish etaltic Song Contest in 2007, and in 2009 they also performed in the USA.
Their 2006 "Reprint" album, which brought them national fame, was produced by Robin Guthrie, known from the Cocteau Twins, while the sound engineer of their 2008 introspective album (which won the Phonogram Award 1) with Radiohead, Muse and the Spice Girls was also working with Chris Brown. At the end of 2009 at MüPa in Budapest
they gave an independent evening. In 2017, amber smith was again nominated for a Phonogram award for their album "New". The next album was released in the spring of 2020 under the title "Record", and their last 5-track album was released in September 2021 under the title "Superficial".