With only two ep´s released by french imprint InFiné Music, german composer and newcomer Frieder
Nagel has already collaborated with David August and Daniel Brandt (Brandt Brauer Frick Ensemble),
appeared on Boiler Room and played at the Reeperbahn Festival. He writes regularly for orchestra,
dance, theater as well as documentary film – always luring his listeners into a mystical world, full of
warm synths and detailed sound clusters.
The self-taught musician has a secure feeling for harmonies and „combines Jazz, neo-classical, synthetics
and broken beats with supreme ease“ (GROOVE Magazine). Mostly working during night his
groundwork lies in improvisation, escapism as well as the endless overdubbing and resampling of
analogue manchinery. With his music Frieder Nagel is mainly on the lookout for the subconscious –
in an intimate mixture of melancholy and relieve. His debut ep Distract Robots (2019 | InFiné Music)
was described by XLR8R as an „otherworldly treat tak[ing] the listener down a constantly morphing
auditory wormhole full of light, darkness, and cosmic bliss“.
In 2019 he composed the music for Don Juan Techno Club by japanese choreographer Fukiko Takase
and for the interactive documentary Field Trip by Eva Stotz about Berlin´s abandoned airport
Tempelhof. In the same year he produced the musicvideo for Daniel Brandt´s Track Flamingo published
by London based label Erased Tapes. Frieder Nagel remixed french superstar Rone in 2020 and
delivered dj-sets for several radio stations such as Flux FM (Berlin), Ego FM (Munich) or WDR Cosmo
(Cologne).
During the pandemic he focused on ambient music and soundart installations. His latest work The
Arrival in collaboration with the acclaimed digital artist MAOTIK from France was premiered as part
of a spectacular audiovisual liveshow at the Multiplica Festival 2021 in Luxembourg.