Heiko Maile and Julian Demarre, both pop musicians and film composers, have been collaborating since the mid-90s album classic "MEANWHILE" by Camouflage. While Heiko continued pursuing the perfect pop song, they both landed their first feature filmscore gigs. In recent years while working together on several films, they felt they should createsomething for themselves - a love letter to 70s and 80s electronic music.With some esoteric 1970s keyboards from Japan designed for the sound of tomorrow they havenow recorded an album for all the days after tomorrow. The result is the genre-bending albumNEOSTALGIA, a unique blend of various electronic styles and 1970s Krautrock with piecesfeaturing intros/outros, flutes, flanger guitars and vocoders, and tracks pushing the six-minutemark. Maile and Demarre about this album:After losing track of each other for a while, we got together again in 2018 which then led to working on music for the crime drama KILLERMAN directed by Malik Bader. In our work routine between Stuttgart and Los Angeles (we usually greeted each other with 'hello from the nighsthift'), a multitude of compositions, textures and soundscapes were created long before the first roll of film was shot. When we had finished work on the film, we realized there were so many ideas that we had put aside and just wanted to keep working on, so we did. Like everyone else in 2020, all of a sudden we found ourselves in the midst of a global pandemic and weeks of isolation at home, and so NEOSTALGIA also serves as our personal Corona diary. We got interrupted in between by film projects, so it took a little longer to get to the finish line. Which makes us all the happier today to finally hold this album in our hands..
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