Photo: Felix Basser
We are huge fans of Berlin electronic music trio Brandt Brauer Frick and while they haven’t released any new album since 2019’s Echo, they have been busy with various musical endeavours. Last year they release Step, an EP that marked their return to club music, and now they are ready to follow it up with a full-length album. Entitled Multi Faith Prayer Room, the album was originally created during Art Basel Miami 2022 as an interactive installation which featured 120 voices from over 35 countries, and explored themes of faith, rituals, and the future. “We feel like we’re drowning in the present,” the band explained. “People are unable to project themselves into an idea of the future in the same way some did in the 1970’s, for example. We decided to reconnect with the concept of utopia and encourage positive thinking about the future in our own way, away from the rise of populism.”
On their forthcoming Multi Faith Prayer Room, the trio taps into multiple genres, including house, electronic soul, techno, electro-acoustic music, synth pop and future R’n’B. They have also enlisted the help of guest vocalists, including Mykki Blanco, Sophie Hunger, Azekel, Marina Herlop and Duane Harden. “We wanted to collaborate with people from various musical scenes and backgrounds,” the band said, “in the spirit of our concept for the Multi Faith Prayer Room”.
We’ll have to wait until June 2nd for the album to be out through Because Music but Brandt Brauer Frick have today released the first single ‘Act One’ featuring American rapper, performance artist, poet and activist Mykki Blanco. “I remember being struck by the idea that Mykki’s story transported so effectively, it was as if the ultimate spiritual room could be nothing more than a dance club”, Daniel Brandt commented. “And so it became the introduction to our album’s theme, the Multi Faith Prayer Room.” The single comes accompanied by a music video directed by Daniel Brandt in collaboration with TV STORE. Here it is.
Brandt Brauer Frick put together an instalment of our monthly mixtape in 2017. Be sure to check it out.