Waves Vienna 2021

From September 9 to 11 2021, the WANDERLUST stage at WUK Beisl presents showcases of outstanding acts from Germany at WAVES Vienna 2021.

Twelve acts are part of the WANDERLUST – New German Talent Showcase. WANDERLUST is a cooperation of Initiative Musik and the regional pop music funding organizations Musicboard Berlin, popNRW (Landesmusikrat NRW), Pop-Büro Region Stuttgart, RockCity Hamburg e.V. and Verband für Popkultur in Bayern with the aim of increasing the presence of young German acts abroad in the long term.

Burkini Beach & Sir Simon, Discovery Zone (ETEP), June Cocó (INES#talent), Mira Mann, Wolfgang Peréz and Sparkling (INES#talent) are another seven musicians and bands from Germany that will also be taking part in the Waves Vienna showcase programme.

and also…

CONFERENCE
Thursday 9th September, 11:30 – 12:30 h @ WUK Conference Room 1
What’s up Germany? Music festivals beyond the mainstream, hosted by Initiative Musik
Speakers: Alex Härtel (Summer Breeze Open Air/DE), Christoffer Horlitz (Fuchsbau Festival/DE), Friederike Tesch (Immergut/DE), Florian Zoll (Taubertal/DE)
Moderation: Neus López (Initiative Musik/DE)
https://www.wavesvienna.com/conference-schedule/

NETWORKING
Friday 10th September, 12:30 – 13:30 h @ Cafe Weimar
Meet the Germans!
Apply to participate at the Speed Meeting session with representatives of the German acts playing in Vienna this year!
For music professionals only, registration required until 5th September.
https://www.wavesvienna.com/speed-meeting-application-meet-the-germans/

NETWORKING
Friday 10th September, 17:30 – 18:30 h @ WUK BEISL
WANDERLUST Reception
Join us at the German WANDERLUST Reception and meet all the German participants, before we start with our second showcase day.

German Acts @ WAVES VIENNA

Thursday, 09 September

LIONLION


[WANDERLUST-Act]
Thursday, 09 September / 18:30 - 19:15
Location: WUK Beisl

Sir Simon

Sir Simon Indie Pop
Thursday, 09 September /
Location: Krypta
LOOKING FOR
Interational Label / Promo
BOOKING
Danny Simons
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MANAGEMENT
Conrad Wiechens
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Sir Simon is a Berlin Based Songwriter and Producer. His new solo album „Repeat Until Funny“ is a colorful happy-sad indie album featuring international Guests like Maria Taylor or the Swedish Artist Jenobi.

Burkini Beach

Burkini Beach Indie Pop
Thursday, 09 September / 19:30 - 20:15
Location: Krypta
LOOKING FOR
International shows, PR, Label
BOOKING
Danny Simons
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MANAGEMENT
Conrad Wiechens
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After the first Burkini Beach album “Supersadness Intl.” was released in 2017, Rudi Maier spent his time in the studio, producing records, movie scores and TV soundtracks.

Ava Vegas

Ava Vegas Pop
[WANDERLUST-Act]
Thursday, 09 September / 19:45 - 20:30
Location: WUK Beisl
LOOKING FOR
International Management, Label, PR, Booking
BOOKING
Wido von Wienskowski
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MANAGEMENT
Sarina Giffhorn
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Ava Vegas is an outstanding newcomer based in Berlin. In late 2020 she released her debut album, which was widely featured and praised by the media. It contains nine subtle, catchy songs: Art Pop inspired by John Cale, Lana del Rey and Hildegard Knef.

Keshavara

Exotic Spiritual Pop
[WANDERLUST-Act]
Thursday, 09 September / 21:00 - 21:45
Location: WUK Beisl
LOOKING FOR
Bookings outside of GER
BOOKING
Alexander Arlt
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KESHAVARA make songs that sound like the shimmering mirage of a stroll through an Indian metropolis - a music hybrid, a transcultural sound exploration full of imaginary bubbles, iridescent and effervescent - in a fantasized Bollywood aesthetic.

Discovery Zone

Discovery Zone Experimental Pop
Thursday, 09 September / 21:00 - 21:45
Location: Canisiuskirche
LOOKING FOR
Booking (Eastern countries, USA), Publishing (WW)
BOOKING
Graham Clews
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MANAGEMENT
Amande Dagod
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Discovery Zone is the space in which musician and multi-media artist Weihl creates pop music and algorithmic art experiments exploring what it means to be a human in relation to cyberspace.

Mariybu

Mariybu Hip Hop
[WANDERLUST-Act]
Thursday, 09 September / 22:15 - 23:00
Location: WUK Beisl
LOOKING FOR
Booking
MANAGEMENT
Julia Strangmann
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Sexists get scared when Hamburg rapper Mariybu grabs the mic - and the stage is on fire when she delivers her show. Bass-heavy beats, straightforward announcements and queer feminist empowerment - that's all the brand Mariybu stands for.

Sparkling

Sparkling Indie
Thursday, 09 September / 00:00 - 00:45
Location: Krypta
LOOKING FOR
Booking (AT), Management
BOOKING
Felipe Mina Calvo
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Sparkling released their debut album 'I Want to See Everything' in 2019 and is making big waves. The group played a Maida Vale Session for BBC Radio 1, made it to heavy rotation on BBC 6 Music and was remixed by bands like Digitalism and Hot Chip.

Friday, 10 September

Kya Kyani

Future R'n'B
[WANDERLUST-Act]
Friday, 10 September / 18:30 - 19:15
Location: WUK Beisl
LOOKING FOR
Booking, PR, Publishing
BOOKING
Cliff Goncalo
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MANAGEMENT
Cliff Goncalo
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Kya Kyani arises and creates an utopian world through them art and music. Unplugging from all habitulized social attachements, Kya emerges from them true self as a non-binary, unaffected HUMAN.
Kya Kyani live show - a voice of a minority.

Zimmer90

Electro, Indiepop
[WANDERLUST-Act]
Friday, 10 September / 19:45 - 20:30
Location: WUK Beisl
LOOKING FOR
Booking, PR
MANAGEMENT
Danja Bumler
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Zimmer90 is an imaginary Room. It felt right to name the band after that emerges when we make music - everybody is invited into Zimmer90.
Enter Zimmer90!

Elena Rud

Elena Rud Indie Pop
[WANDERLUST-Act]
Friday, 10 September / 21:00 - 21:45
Location: WUK Beisl
LOOKING FOR
Label, PR, Publishing
BOOKING
Jakob von Stillfried
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Music celebrating anxiety and dance escapades. Elena Rud lives the "melancholic love shit" and everything that makes this generation fragile. Music invites you to free yourself from conventions and to let go. We are all Elena Rud.

Wolfgang Pérez

Avantgarde Pop
Friday, 10 September / 21:00 - 21:45
Location: Krypta
LOOKING FOR
Booking (GSA & international) , Management
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In recent years, Wolfgang Pérez was mainly busy with the pop band GOLF. Now he is preparing to leave the German pop worlds as a solo artist - supported by an opulent session band. His music is caught between indie pop, funk, jazz and tropicalismo.

Mira Mann

Electronic, Pop, Spoken Word
Friday, 10 September / 21:45 - 22:30
Location: Canisiuskirche
LOOKING FOR
Management, Booking (ex GER), Label, PR
BOOKING
Robert Glanz
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Mira Mann was in the Postpunk band Candelilla, writes for magazines and newspapers, produces the radio show "Text + Musik" for Radio 80000 and curates events and festivals.
She released two solo EPs of Electronica-Pop and two books of poetry.

Schorl3

Indie Pop
[WANDERLUST-Act]
Friday, 10 September / 00:45 - 01:30
Location: WUK Halle
LOOKING FOR
Booking GSA
MANAGEMENT
Jonathan Bachor
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Schorl3 means not taking ourselves and life too seriously. That's why we present ourselves with a never quite resolving, slightly ironic wink. We want to bring joy to our listeners, make them dance and to bring a little piece of magic into the world.

Saturday, 11 September

Gaisma

Gaisma Contemporary R'n'B/Electro
[WANDERLUST-Act]
Saturday, 11 September / 18:30 - 19:15
Location: WUK Beisl
LOOKING FOR
Booking, Publishing
BOOKING
Alisa Scetinina
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MANAGEMENT
Alisa Scetinina
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Passion for analog equipment and sound, is seen in Gaisma's performance. Her music can't be defined within the usual genre categories as it carves a new nische.Her art resembles symbiosis of technology and human energy, that unifies in a lucid dance.

June Cocó

Singer/Songwriter/Pop
Saturday, 11 September / 18:45 - 19:30
Location: Canisiuskirche
LOOKING FOR
Booking, Label, Sync
BOOKING
Daniel Kempf
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MANAGEMENT
Daniel Kempf
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Underpinned by carefully placed touches of electronica, pure innocence meets a serene and worldly-wise attitude, adorable naiveté meets sweeping gestures. June Cocó's laid-back songs are true anthems of the slow movement.

Mulay

Soul/R'n'B
[WANDERLUST-Act]
Saturday, 11 September / 19:45 - 20:30
Location: WUK Beisl
LOOKING FOR
Booking (AT), PR
BOOKING
Leonard Etzkorn
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MANAGEMENT
Florian Baufeld
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WEB

Vaovao

Post-Deutsche Welle
[WANDERLUST-Act]
Saturday, 11 September / 21:00 - 21:45
Location: WUK Beisl
LOOKING FOR
Booking, PR
BOOKING
Oliver Bersin
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MANAGEMENT
Oliver Bersin
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Vaovao is a free floating affair through vibes and literary allusions, a six letter journey through an eclectic world of analog synthesizers, sound collages, fragmented violins, pumping electronic beats and German vocals that are dadaist and vague.

[LEAK]

TripHop, Indie, Electro Pop
[WANDERLUST-Act]
Saturday, 11 September / 22:00 - 22:45
Location: Pfarrsaal
LOOKING FOR
Label, Booking
BOOKING
David Lodhi
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MANAGEMENT
David Lodhi
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[LEAK] are building a warm electronic soundscape, which reveals a world of heartbreaking desire and paradisiac romance. Shimmering synthesizers, dark hip-hop elements and cinematic, distorted guitar loops make their way towards the surface reminding of the melancholic slow movement and the choppy samples of artists like Massive Attack or Portishead and the visual-musical approach of Woodkid. A sound like (a) trip(-hop).

Our International Tour Grants

Our International Tour Grants help musicians make special appearances abroad with the goal of facilitating their entry into a market or to continue establishing their presence there. Artists can apply for sponsorship for travel and promotional costs when invited for support shows and gigs at showcase festivals like Waves Vienna or other music festivals. Since the programme’s launch in 2010, more than eight hundred sponsorships have been approved, mainly for performances in high-sales markets such as the United States, Japan, Great Britain and France.

CONTACT

Neus López

head of department

Lena Engeln

export project management