Arnold Kasar

Arnold Kasar is a Berlin-based pianist, composer, producer, and mastering engineer. Over the past three decades, his work has moved fluidly between ambient, electronic, and contemporary classical spaces - often erasing the distinctions between them. He began his career in Berlin’s post-club landscape, releasing through the influential Sonar Kollektiv label and performing with nu-jazz and electro-chanson acts such as Micatone and Nylon. His collaborations with performance artist Friedrich Liechtenstein introduced surreal, genre-fluid pop into his orbit. A long-running partnership with Hans-Joachim Roedelius, including their 2017 Deutsche Grammophon release Einfluss, cemented his standing as a cross-generational connector of musical worlds. His solo albums have been praised for their quiet innovation and tonal depth. His new album Spring Songs unfolds across eight distilled pieces - interconnected yet self-contained - where Kasar’s acoustic piano drifts within finely drawn electronic contours. Evolving from the quiet architecture of “Spring Song,” first heard on Kasar’s 2019 album Resonanz, this new work extends the theme into a larger spatial meditation. The result is a sound world that feels both grounded and aerial, analogue and spectral - where memory, structure, and silence hold equal presence.