Klaus Johann Grobe (CH) + support: Tiflis Transit

Klaus Johann Grobe are a Swiss duo who often sing in German and have their roots in a vintage Krautrock style, using bass, synths, and drums to craft a sound both familiar and modern. After the release of their first LP, Im Sinne der Zeit, in 2014, they expanded their vintage-leaning sound to incorporate disco and chillwave (on 2016's Spagat der Liebe) then R&B and soft rock (on 2018's Du Bist So Symmetrisch) before moving into even more relaxed, cinematic songwriting with hints of jazz fusion on their melancholic fourth album, 2024's Io Tu il loro.

«Io tu il loro» is a record that cannot be done by endlessly fiddling around with hundreds of ideas and sounds. All it needed was a real break (Dani and Sevi didn’t work on any Grobe related stuff until they met up in the mountains in 2022).

It’s an album with a blurry vision and soft limitations. You can somehow feel them looking back on all their work forgivingly and then moving on to what felt right.

So here we are with nine tracks full of embracing warmth, so melancholicly welcoming you don’t know if you want to smile or cry. Some might call it timeless, some might call it dad-rock... well, it certainly isn’t disco for the masses, it’s more like, «If I can’t make myself dance after four beers, I can as well go home.»

So, no disco? No syncopated synths? No German? No reverb? Where’s The Grobe?

Take your time, you’ll notice Klaus Johann Grobe aren’t gone, they just took a turn before driving yet into another unknown.

Tiflis Transit
When Tiflis Transit kicked off 2018 with their debut EP featuring lead single "May," the road was hardly mapped out. When Tiflis Transit started as a side project for: Fabian Till and Birk Buttchereyt, it quickly became clear that something very special was being created here. Tiflis Transit consists of set pieces from soul, psychedelia, jazz influences and an indie past. After the first tour was played with great success, Tiflis Transit's debut album was released on April 12, 2024. The debut album received a sea of ​​overwhelming reactions. "A Thought Is Not A Feeling" is the title of the album, and it reveals that: If songs are to become really good under the temporal, economic and social conditions in which we write, compose, arrange and record, then it takes time. " 
The musical team is completed by numerous musicians and their long list of instruments: Piano, guitar, bass, drums, percussion, various synthesizers, trumpet, trombone, alto and tenor sax, clarinet, bass clarinet and flute.