Ambient duo Tschaikowsky & Kann share dreamlike new video 'Journey Through Wannsee'
Photo Credit: Jascha Kreft
Berlin ambient duo Tschaikowsky & Kann have released their new single and video, ‘Journey Through Wannsee’, the final preview of their debut album, A New Way To Life, arriving 23rd October via Vesperian.
Named after the lake and district on Berlin’s south-western edge, ‘Journey Through Wannsee’ captures a fleeting moment of quiet reflection. Ethereal and unhurried, the track drifts through delicate textures and understated melodies, evoking the melancholy of a lakeside sunset as the last light fades from the sky. Beneath its weightless surface lies a deeper emotional resonance, drawing the listener into its quietly hypnotic world.
Shot by the duo themselves, the accompanying video has been animated and edited by Miles Skarin (Steven Wilson, Porcupine Tree, Blood Incantation). His work draws out the melancholy at the heart of the footage, transforming a lakeside sunset into a quietly hypnotic meditation on light, atmosphere and passing time.
Watch the video: https://youtu.be/MvnQiYEM-R8
Pre-order A New Way To Life: https://tr.ee/vesperian_tschaikowskykann
That sense of reflection runs through A New Way To Life, a deeply personal record concerned with the possibility of starting over, finding your footing after a fall and taking stock of life at a crossroads. Across eight tracks, the duo favour gradual shifts and unfolding arrangements over easy resolution, creating space for listeners to find their own meaning in the music. Seven pieces are entirely instrumental, with ‘Relocate My Heart’ providing the album’s sole vocal-led moment. Watch the video for the previously released single 'I Knew It Would Be A Mistake But I Did It Anyway'.
Formed by Niklas Tschaikowsky (guitars) and Leonhard Kann (synthesiser, drum computer, field recordings), the Berlin duo draw on the rich lineage of German electronic and experimental music. The spectral synthscapes of Tangerine Dream and Klaus Schulze, the exploratory spirit of Harmonia and the ambient sensibilities of Brian Eno all cast their shadows across their sound, reimagined through a distinctly contemporary, introspective lens.
Having already shared stages with artists including Hayden Pedigo, Minami Deutsch and Blood Incantation, Tschaikowsky & Kann are now preparing to open a new chapter with A New Way To Life, an album that finds quiet beauty in uncertainty and possibility in the act of beginning again.
Tschaikowsky & Kann online:
tschaikowskykann.bandcamp.com/
www.instagram.com/tschaikowsky.kann
Vesperian online:
www.vesperian.world
www.instagram.com/vesperian.world
A New Way to Life tracklist:
1. Begin Again (7:50)
2. Journey Through Wannsee (3:26)
3. Relocate My Heart (4:14)
4. To Enhance Living Spaces (8:14)
5. Lichtenberg (4:22)
6. Blaue Stunde (1:36)
7. I Knew It Would Be A Mistake But I Did It Anyway (4:25)
8. I Thought This Was Going To Be My Year (11:51)