
Sarah Legault: “To be clear, I really didn’t know what I was doing…”
"My headphones always sooth any anxiety I feel when leaving my house solo. Music helps me think, it …
"My headphones always sooth any anxiety I feel when leaving my house solo. Music helps me think, it …
So what remains of those ecstatic moments for which so many people came together and so many others …
I catch up with James Ellis Ford in his cosy home attic studio in London. And even though he is in t…
"As a woman, as a Black woman, I saw that I had to be better in order to get anywhere, whether that …
"We don't sign musicians because we think they're bad and want to improve them, but because we think…
"I didn’t want to play normal scales, and couldn’t have even if I’d wanted to. That was my fr…
"Petra has an inner delicacy and sensitivity paired with tremendous power, which is wonderfully refl…
"I was part of the punk/hardcore scene in Italy in the mid 90s (...) This was a bunch of years that…
"Especially with the new album "Always the Sea", I wanted to re-create the landscape/seascape I was …
Am I trying to express something? I am not totally sure, but you know when you feel good, and you …
Eddie Argos and his band Art Brut delivered the most exciting slogans of the noughties. An act that …
"The fall of the Wall also opened up new opportunities to film. Unknown locations were literally eve…
"If you come from Chorweiler and this is all you see, and then you grow up, of course it is really h…
"In My Favourite Things, I usually do a deep dive into my own psyche and explore a situation or emot…
"My mother ran away from home as a young teenager and would never talk about her family again even u…
"Everything has been felt before and I love remembering that, tapping into a timeless human connecti…
"It’s different playing with or writing for an instrument versus writing for or collaborating with…
"My music reflects my energy and I gravitate toward higher intensity beats and sound. The common th…
"All my life, even as a little kid, I have been attracted by a certain melancholy or darkness and a …
Curation or organisation is just an extension of our artistic practice – we certainly do not consi…
"Every type of separation, border, or frontier is arbitrary. Our brain is trained from a young age t…
Georgian musician Anushka Chkheidze is constantly searching for new influences and ways of expressio…
"I consider it high art when people deal with language in a playful, humorous, and easy way. No flou…
Grace Cummings is a folk musician from Australia. Her second record is titled "Storm Queen" and with…
The Hungarian folk hero Attila Ambrus committed twenty-nine robberies of post offices, travel agenci…
"I just fear mediocrity, I don´t wanna be mediocre, I don´t wanna be simple – I am addicted to …
Another round of "Talking kaput", we're talking feminism and punk and at last Henry Lee plays her he…
"I grew up in a kind of poor family, I'm second generation, my mum was a political refugee – ther…
"I feel I am on a path I was destined to be on which involves setting an example of not settling to …
I had been reading all the scientific reports I could find on climate predictions between 2015 to 20…
"My style quickly became a Noir Pop style. The 1930s-40s movies inspire because, let’s face it, t…
"The last two years of time off from touring & performance & the competitive nature of the dance mus…
Biographies are so wonky and self-aggrandizing. I wanted a short poem or something to articulate wha…
"For me, I gravitated towards a very slow rhythm, the rhythm of the ocean. The ocean represented a …
"I have always been inspired by artists that are interested in more than just the façade. I´m rare…
"What's exhausting about the Bitcoin currency is its value discovery. It consists of how much comput…
"Gender inequality is still there and it works in a systematic way, but we continue to make and make…
Juan MacLean, today‘s guest on the kaput podcast is an old companion. In the 90s he was guitarist …
Shelley Hirsch is known as one of the most versatile vocalists of our times in the area of improvise…
"I think a local community is very important for a healthy scene, and especially for the upcoming ar…
Skuff Barbie is one of the most talented german MC’s. We’re awaiting her debut-album and are ver…
"I’m really just encouraging everyone to create those safe spaces for the community."…
"As much as Jon and Mike value memories and shared history they are driven by their ongoing curiosit…
"I remember being called the N- word often while on the way to school. And no white child sat next t…
She is the entrepreneur of our hearts. The city of Cologne without Meryem? Boy, this would be some k…
"Music in a way is much easier because I try not to think too much about it. I am pretty physically …
"It was the first time I’ve done a remote collaboration like that. The process reminded me of how …
"It was kind of a playful public exercise to establish that the local is not parochial. Parochial is…
"I moved to London in the early 90’s and Acid House and the Rave scene had transformed British Cul…
Joseph ‘Jazzbo’ Patel is the producer of "Summer of Soul". Based on long-lost footage, the film …
This is already the seventh episode of our very own documentary series called “Deep Talk NRW”. …
"I owe everything that defines me to my parents, my youth in the GDR, my studies straight after the …
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