Tide Hilde

• 1 Fragility 01:47
• 2 Tide 02:27
• 3 Tomorrow 03:24
• 4 Blau 04:18
• 5 Lull 01:51
• 6 Kostouxjak5 03:01
• 7 Equity 01:35
• 8 Leak 01:10
• 9 River 03:10
• 10 Body 02:52
• 11 Lime 03:07
• 12 Once 02:00
• 13 Melt 02:49
• 14 Newborn 05:45
• Total Runtime 39:16

Info for Tide

Who or what is Hilde? A person? An idea? A sound? A band? A combination of all these components? In search of Hilde, we come across singer Marie Daniels, violinist Julia Brüssel, trombonist Maria Trautmann and cellist Emily Wittbrodt in the middle of the Ruhr area. They got to know each other in the large collective The Dorf and caused a stir under the name Hilde with their first album "Open" back in 2020.

So much for the history, because their new album "Tide" is, from the outside, an absolute new beginning, even if the four band members would contradict this statement and call it a logical continuation of the first album. But while on "Open" they were still wildly revolting into the world and its surroundings, on "Tide" they are pulling on completely different strings. The uninhibited, unrestrained playfulness of their debut gives way to a clear commitment to beauty and a dwelling in sound. Without letting themselves fall out of the present, they recall song and music-making forms whose traces point back to the Baroque and beyond into the Middle Ages to lead back to the attitude to life of contemporary pop music via the arc of improvised chamber music.

One of Hilde's great strengths is her ability to find completely unexpected, sometimes almost foolhardy hinges between abstract sound invention and traditional grace. This rare gift is particularly evident in her live concerts. They never lose sight of their counterpart, the creative listener, with whom they maintain eye contact and to whom they intuitively respond.

Hilde - and this brings us back to the question posed at the beginning - is always Hilde. It hardly matters from whom which playful impulse, which sound colour, composition or spontaneous idea comes. Four musicians grow together to form one person, Hilde, an individual with four heads and eight arms, who confronts us with massive gentleness on "Tide". The same applies to the entire arc of the album. Each song stands on its own, but the order is not arbitrary. Hilde tells a story that wants to be heard from the first to the last note.

Julia Brüssel, violin
Marie Daniels, voice
Maria Trautmann, trombone
Emily Wittbrodt, cello

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