83 strings - 2 harps - one virtuoso. Ulla van Daelen impresses with her second solo album - released on Stockfisch Records. The enigmatic title of Ulla van Daelen's new SACD is revealed as soon as you look at the cover. Two harps ‘come into play’ and expand the already broad spectrum of expressive possibilities of a concert harp with numerous additional colours.

"What you hear is not just the singer-songwriter picking his guitar. It’s my songs seen through the eyes of a very special Grammy-nominated producer, Gunter Pauler. Thanks to Gunter, I get to record with some fantastic musicians, who played their parts to perfection." Paul Stephenson

"This album, like the others that came before it, is a collection of experiences from life on the road. Recorded in the world famous Stockfisch studios in Northeim, Germany by Günter Pauler and his team I am pleased to present this new Album to my audience throughout the various countries I have travelled." Allan Taylor

"Closer to the Music Vol.6" is a compilation of 18 tracks, offering a more than 70 minutes of overview on music released by Stockfisch Records in the last 8 years.                                 

The style icon of electronic music and at the same time "spoken word" artist surprises with an acoustic album at Stockfisch - borderland between poetry and music.

At the end of the album, Hannes Wader sings his setting of the touching poem "Still here", which his friend Manfred Hausin once gave him for his birthday. It says: "The enemies, the friends / are all far away, / only I am still here / and taking my time...".  "How good that you are here, Hannes!", one would like to shout to him, with a new studio album and terrific guest musicians who give the songs a unique sound - among them Jens Kommnick on the bouzouki, Ulla van Daelen on the concert harp, Lydie Auvray on the accordion, Justin Ciuche on the viola, Martin Bärenz on the cello and even Nils Tuxen on the guitars.

Weightlessly light, yet grounded: that’s how the music on the new album from Bassface Swing Trio sounds. For this session they invited Bruno Müller, one of Germany’s most renowned jazz guitarists, and it was worth it! Because Müller is a perfect fit for the swing trio with his warm guitar sound.

The fact that they recorded these tracks live through an analog chain with the Neumann VMS-82 lathe cutting a DMM-Matrix in real-time shows at what a high-level these musicians are playing.

Once upon a time… - fairy tales often begin with these familiar and beloved words. But only fairy tales? It can’t be a coincidence that Jens Kommnick opens his new solo album “Stringed” with the piece “Es war einmal (Once Upon a Time)”. His compositions make one thing clearly perceptible and audible: this is Jens Kommnick himself, who lends a soul to the songs with his human warmth.

Steve Folk is a rare breed of songwriter that leaves nothing hidden nor shrouded from view. His songs, beautifully constructed paeans of life’s trials and tribulations, are always delivered with unflinching honesty. Folk by name, ‘folk’ by nature.

John Jenkins - "Late Chamber Music": DSD-4.0-/DSD-Stereo-/CD-Audio-Layer

"The idea to re-release 'Win or Lose' on Stockfisch Records came from Günter Pauler after I had sent him the original master-tape that I had found amongst my archive material. I thought he might be interested, mainly because the original quality of recording was so good. Furthermore, it fell within the parameters of quality that Stockfisch demand from all of their recordings, so we decided to go ahead with the idea, releasing it on the 'Analog Pearls' series.

It is almost forty years since that original recording, and although much has changed as regards recording techniques and equipment, I hope the songs have stood the test of time, and you, the listener, will enjoy the result." Allan Taylor, 2020

Available as SACD, LP and digital download.

Analog Pearls Vol.5: This Hamburg recording of one of Benny Goodman’s last concerts in Germany (which was held for NDR’s “Sunday Concerts” series) is much more than a newly discovered collector’s item for fans of the eternally young American swing tradition. (Double-SACD)

Katja Werker: "My album “Contact Myself” was released in the year 2000 and it was/is in many aspects a musical milestone for me. It opened many doors and paved my way as a singer, guitarist and songwriter up to this day. Regardless of the ups and downs I faced since the release of this album, these songs were always there for me like the strong and caring arms of a father.

During an intensive phase of radical changes and new beginnings in 2018/2019/2020 a wish grow in me to record the songs from “Contact Myself” anew for the 20th anniversary of this album. It would be live and minimalistic – exactly like how I wrote them in my kitchen in Hamburg back then.

Stockfisch was the only label I considered for this project."

Ulla van Daelen is considered the ambassador for the harp: "Simply amazing - we have never experienced the harp like this!"

With her virtuoso and soulful harp playing she has enchanted her audience in a unique way for decades! Her compositions are inspired by jazz, pop, folk and of course classical music in its most lively form! On her new album "Mandala" Ulla van Daelen presents her wonderful diversity as a composer and interpreter for the first time at Stockfisch!

22 years ago Stockfisch Records released “Powderhouse Road”, the debut album of the New York-Singer/Songwriter Steve Strauss. It was groundbreaking with regard to its recording quality and was very well received. “A Very Thin Wire”, the fourth and newest album of the now 55 year old American artist is being released on SACD by the Stockfisch label boss and producer Günter Pauler.