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Nabelose (Elena Kakaliagou / Ingrid Schmoliner): Haar (Trost Records)

The duo Nabelose — Elena Kakaliagou (horn, voice) and Ingrid Schmoliner (piano, voice) — present five song-oriented pieces balancing hypnotic rhythms and airy textures, blending poetic recitation, breathy horn timbres, prepared piano, and striking vocal explorations, joined by percussionist Els Vandeweyer and subtle electronics from Bilgehan Ozis to create an atmospheric sonic landscape.
 

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Els Vandeweyer-vibraphone, objects

Ingrid Schmoliner-piano

Bilgehan Ozis-synthesizer, production

Els Vandeweyer-percussion

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UPC: 9120036684249

Label: Trost Records
Catalog ID: TROST 264CD
Squidco Product Code: 37263

Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2026
Country: Austria
Packaging: Cardboard Gatefold
Recorded at Ocean Sound Studios, in Giske, Norway, by Henning Svoren.
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Artist Biographies

"Els Vandeweyer is a Belgian vibraphonist, percussionist, and composer currently living in Berlin. After studying classical percussion in Antwerp and jazz vibraphone in Brussels and Oslo, Els co-founded the IMI Kollektief, whose critically acclaimed album Snug as a Gun was released on Clean Feed in 2006.

Today, Els plays regularly in Berlin, including solo performance, group improvisation, and contemporary music (including a performance of Xenakis's Rebonds b at the A L'ARME! Festival in Berlin).

In 2017, her composition Landscape, a 25-meter-long textile that functions as a mobile graphic score, was performed in Berlin as part of the Kontraklang series on contemporary music.

Past projects include a duo with Fred Van Hove, Quat (with Fred Van Hove, Paul Lovens, and Martin Blume), Andromeda Mega Express Orchstra, Pascal Niggenkemper´s Vision 7, the Serenus Zeitblom Oktett and collaborations with Hans Unstern en Real Geizt.

Recent projects are Metal Illusion (a shadow play with Rieko Okuda), Kudu (with Ignaz Schick and Klaus Kürvers), participation in the SFO- orchestra of Georg Graewe and a cooperation with Theater Zuidpool in Antwerp. With "Debut" she released her first album under her own name. (90%Wasser, 2019)"

-Els Vandeweyer Website (https://www.elsvandeweyer.com/about-me.html)
4/29/2026

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"Ingrid Schmoliner (* 1978 in Villach) is an Austrian musician (singing, piano) of New Music and Jazz - which also touches improvisation and volkmusik. Life and Work

Before her classical studies at the Kärntner Landeskonservatorium in Klagenfurt, Schmoliner had a piano interest in improvised, experimental and contemporary music. Further, she was trained in classical singing but also in jazz singing. As a gastsolist, she sang at the Graz opera in the opera Buio by Hannes Kerschbaumer. The composer Denovaire wrote the Solostimme for her as an altist in the Muata Erdn choir.

Together with Pascal Niggenkemper (double bass) and Joachim Badenhorst (saxophone), she released the album Watussi. In the Trio Taro (with Matthias Erian and Martin Schönlieb) she recorded the CD flaechten (Ostblock). There is also a composition for piano solo by and with Ingrid Schmoliner on record and two albums of the trio Para with Elena Kakaliagou (horn and voice) and the contrabassist Thomas Stempkowski. She also worked with Xu Fengxia, Clayton Thomas, Marco Eneidi, Daniel Lercher, Susanna Gartmayer and Frantz Loriot.

He is also active as a music teacher. She also teaches in the disciplines of overtone singing and yodeling. She has also devoted herself to "researching pianos and the ideal wood preparations for years."

Schmoliner received the promotion prize for music in Carinthia in 2013."

-Wikipedia (Translated by Google) (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingrid_Schmoliner)
4/29/2026

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Bilgehan Ozis is a Berlin-based musician and mix engineer whose work spans a wide range of genres — from jazz and indie to classical, fusion, avant-garde, folk, and electronic ambient music. As a solo artist, he releases music under the moniker Offseeds on Yatak Records.

After graduating from MIAM in Istanbul in 2002, he began working with local rock bands, folk musicians, and pop artists. As Istanbul's club culture expanded, he found himself increasingly drawn to electronic music and jazz. This evolving interest led him to explore and create sounds across a variety of musical styles, contributing to projects that spanned genres. In those years he released music under various aliases through compilations and collectives.

In 2010, he relocated to Berlin, where he expanded his practice to include recording and mixing for film, alongside producing albums. His collaborative work includes projects with artists and musicians such as Ali N. Askin, Ensemble Musikfabrik, David Moss, Hannes Strobl, Meritxell Aumedes, Johannes Malfatti, Elena Kakaliagou, Ingrid Schmoliner, Boris Hauf, and Ali Perret, among others.

Since 2024 he has been mixing in Dolby Atmos, expanding his practice into immersive audio production.

-Bilgehan Ozis Website (https://www.bilgehanozis.com/about/)
4/29/2026

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"Els Vandeweyer is a Belgian vibraphonist, percussionist, and composer currently living in Berlin. After studying classical percussion in Antwerp and jazz vibraphone in Brussels and Oslo, Els co-founded the IMI Kollektief, whose critically acclaimed album Snug as a Gun was released on Clean Feed in 2006.

Today, Els plays regularly in Berlin, including solo performance, group improvisation, and contemporary music (including a performance of Xenakis's Rebonds b at the A L'ARME! Festival in Berlin).

In 2017, her composition Landscape, a 25-meter-long textile that functions as a mobile graphic score, was performed in Berlin as part of the Kontraklang series on contemporary music.

Past projects include a duo with Fred Van Hove, Quat (with Fred Van Hove, Paul Lovens, and Martin Blume), Andromeda Mega Express Orchstra, Pascal Niggenkemper´s Vision 7, the Serenus Zeitblom Oktett and collaborations with Hans Unstern en Real Geizt.

Recent projects are Metal Illusion (a shadow play with Rieko Okuda), Kudu (with Ignaz Schick and Klaus Kürvers), participation in the SFO- orchestra of Georg Graewe and a cooperation with Theater Zuidpool in Antwerp. With "Debut" she released her first album under her own name. (90%Wasser, 2019)"

-Els Vandeweyer Website (https://www.elsvandeweyer.com/about-me.html)
4/29/2026

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