Klangkarussell, GIVVEN, and Marieme

Before the duo came together, the name “Klangkarussell” referred to Rieser’s solo work. Around a similar time, Adrian Held produced electronic music under the alias, I herald, which is almost an anagram of his real name. It was in 2011 that the duo put their music together, under the name “Heldenklang” which is the German for “Hero Sound”. Afterwards, they began to use Rieser’s mononym Klangkarussell to refer to their collaboration.

2012 saw the breakthrough of this duo, on July 23rd, when they released their debut single “Sonnentanz”. It was their debut single, and was in fact published to the duo’s SoundCloud on September 29th 2011. The track became a viral hit and entered the charts by downloads only. It reached the Top 10 in 6 countries, (Austria, Belgium, Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland and the United Kingdom), and went 2x Platinum in Germany, and 3x Platinum in Switzerland. They released another version of the song with vocals from Will Heard, a British soul and jazz singer/songwriter. It was released through Capitol and Universal Record Labels and went to number 3 in the UK.

Their full-length debut album “Netzwerk” released in Europe July 25th 2014, and on September 1st 2014 in the United Kingdom. It charted in over 5 countries and made it to number two in Switzerland.

The title track from the album, which was released prior to the release of the album on May 9th 2014, the song charted in the Top 50 of six countries. It features the vocals of British singer songwriter Tom Can and also a sample from the song “Madan” by Salif Keita.