matka

martin kleinmichel / ulrika segerberg

Some bands have their beginnings at concerts or parties. Matka has its origins in a television shoot where the Swedish singer / artist Ulrika Segerberg and the German musician / filmmaker Martin Kleinmichel bumped into each other with a team from the local channel. They first played in the mathcore post hardcore band “Kratze” in Berlin and soon after founded their own project for Segerberg's multilingual lyrics and Kleinmichel's eclectic electro sound. Since then, the duo has grown together in songwriting and their new tracks cover a wider stylistic variety from triphop ambient to electro and jazz.

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das Versteck

**song and video release 1 December 2023**
video in collaboration with Hildegard Skowash
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baumhütte, music video and song release — Baumhütte

**matka** spent their holidays in the woods. Now they are back and they brought a souvenir - a generous **EP containing their new single Baumhütte and three remixes**. Deep in the forest they also made a furry friend. With their camera they caught the bewildering encounter and the footage is whirled into their new music video. Baumhütte tells about separation and new beginning. Free falling and and star watching. Ants and butterflies. From the second floor of a wooden hut, mixed feelings of frustration and empowerment are told. At the end, a peaceful tone prevails. Feel invited to a coffee above tree tops. The four versions of the song span the wide terrain of dark pop, liquid drum and bass, EBM and bar jazz. What seems like an unlikely mix, however, is united by the distinctive voice of Ulrika Segerberg and Martin Kleinmichels crush for musical detail and melancholic tunes.
Baumhütte is the third single from the debut album of *matka*.
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blue lagoon, video and song release from matka — Blue Lagoon

**released** 5 **Januar** **2022**
***Blue Lagoon***. Holiday resort. A man suddenly disappears when he and his wife and boy go out on a small boat trip. The search continues for days but the man remains gone. I imagine him still alive at the bottom of the sea. The fish are his friends. A year later the widow returns to the holiday resort to remember her lost husband and the father of her child.
*Blue Lagoon* is the second single from the debut album of *matka*.
The video for Blue Lagoon was realised in the studio of artists John Schlesinger and Loudwig Van Ludens with their kind support.
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