Live: Port Noo (IndieFolkAlternativeMelancholyBrassPop aus Berlin/München) + Seasoul (MoodyDreamyPopSinger-Songwriter aus Berlin)

In the organizer's words:

Port Noo

In the fall of 2024, the longing was finally too great for Hannah Permanetter. The longing to finally make music again after spending the last seven years looking after her children and setting up a cultural café in Berlin. When you had already founded your first all-girl alternative pop band, Angel's Delight, at the age of 13 (back then still in Munich) and have been active as a musician ever since, it's not so easy to ignore your original passion. She even played concerts in New York City with the indie folk-pop band Dear Henry Bliss, among others, and was then described by Süddeutsche Zeitung in 2014 as "one of the best singer-songwriters Munich has produced" when she started out as a solo artist, namely Port Noo. It was time to pick up the thread again, to spell DIY, to set up a home recording studio, to get to grips with things like website design and to write and produce new songs. The first six will be released this summer as the EP Standing On The Moon.

Port Noo is not only a symbolic new harbor, however, but also a place where Hannah Permanetter can indulge in her hellish enjoyment of mixing influences from a wide range of genres and eras. One moment she's playing acoustic guitar like Joni Mitchell, the next electric guitar like Kim Deal, backing vocals like Aretha Franklin or the Beach Boys and a synth bass like her late nineties heroes Portishead, Gomez and Beck. All of this, mixed with Permanetter's melancholy voice, his penchant for pop melodies and the self-critical and time-critical lyrics, nestles warmly and thoughtfully on your shoulder at first, only to tickle a surprised smile on your lips the next moment.

On closer inspection, however, Port Noo is not a solo project per se. Permanetter's talent for finding good people for her music was already evident on her first album In The Middle Of Everything from 2017. The album, produced by Paul Pilot, features renowned musicians such as Tom Osander (Damien Rice), Brian Crosby (BellX1), Ben Castle (Duke Special, Jamie Cullum, Radiohead) and Francesco Wilking (Die Höchste Eisenbahn). And for the new songs, too, she showed a good hand in her search for like-minded comrades-in-arms. Actresses Rebecca Motzel and Paula Leitner joined as backing singers, former Lemonbabies bassist Barbara Mayer ended her musical slumber here after 20 years, and even drummer-influencer Martina Barakoska, who had recently moved to Berlin, couldn't resist the subtle melancholy of the Port Noo songs.

portnoo.bandcamp.com/track/all-the-ties

Seasoul

Singer-songwriter SEASOUL's sound is like a stormy morning on a rough coast. Her raw and radical approach of softness is always an invitation to projection, her multi-faceted voice is sometimes warm, flattering and gentle and sometimes precise and clear. Her dreamy indie-pop songs tell unembellished, honest stories of the loss of companions, mental health, everyday magic, her own abysses and a never-ending lust for life.

SEASOUL's artistic influences include poet Patti Smith, singer Florence Welch, musicians SOKO and Aurora, as well as filmmaker David Lynch and authors such as Elif Shafak and Robin Wall Kimmerer. SEASOUL grew up in the Swabian province in the hippy-esque household of a foster family. Music played the biggest role from an early age and became a refuge when the family construct broke down and the budding artist struggled on her own during her final year at school. After a year of traveling through New Zealand, SEASOUL ended up in Berlin, where she studied music production (B.A.) from 2016 to 2020. During this time, she collaborated with various colleagues, one of them with electronica producer Yannek Maunz. Their joint song "Goldfish" reached one million Spotify plays in early 2025.

million Spotify plays. In 2023, SEASOUL released their first album on their own and without funding; the whole environment was involved and so DIFFUS, the taz and kulturnews became media partners of the finally sold-out release show in the Maschinenhaus of the Kulturbrauerei. A trailer for the concert was shown in all Yorck cinemas and the album earned the singer-songwriter invitations from radioeins (local heroine, interview with Marion Brasch, live concert from the radioeins studio), Deutschlandfunk Kultur (interview and live songs) and Alex Berlin (interview), as well as media attention from various indie blogs and podcasts.

In 2024, the musician moved to bigger stages; through her musical participation in KAFVKA's album "Kaputt" (MTV album charts place 22) on vocals and keys, she was involved as a stage guest in various shows of the band, including the sold-out Gruenspan in Hamburg. Since 2024, the solo artist has been playing an annual self-booked tour of Germany, with the North Sea islands of Amrum, Föhr and Sylt being her favorite musical destinations. In 2024, the artist played a concert at the Brandenburg Gate as part of a Sea-Watch campaign. 2025 SEASOUL worked on new songs with Canadian musician and producer Aaron Green. The collaboration came about through a meeting at the 2024 Pop Culture Festival and took place via video calls and joint online sessions. The musician has just won the "Pop Recording of the Year" award with his band project PILLOW FITE and has had two songs in the CBC Top 100 in recent months.

SEASOUL's new EP GIRLMOSS will be released in August 2026 on the label Duchess BoxRecords. On 20.08. is release show at SCHOKOLADEN Berlin with full band line-up. A solo summer tour with dates in Hamburg, Kiel or on the island of Rügen will take place.

seasoul.bandcamp.com