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Apparat will return to Budapest next year with a new album. The defining figure of the Berlin electronic music scene will present his upcoming album, A Hum of Maybe, at the Dürer Kert on April 9, 2026.
Six years after his Grammy-nominated album LP5, Sascha Ring, aka Apparat, will release his album, A Hum of Maybe, in early 2026, which he will present on a full band tour, one of the stops of which will be the Hungarian capital - the organizers announced to MTI on Tuesday.
One of the most important representatives of live electronic music
Apparat has become one of the most important performers of live electronic music in recent years. His last band tour ended just during the pandemic, when the world's concert scene came to a standstill. The composer's name may also be familiar to many from the theme song of the Netflix series Dark, which brought Apparat's melancholic, atmospheric world to millions.
The new album was produced with Apparat's long-time collaborator Philipp Johann Thimm, and continues the soundscape that has elevated him to cult status worldwide in recent years: it mixes subtle electronic textures, organic instruments and unique, emotional vocals.
Apparat in Budapest again
Apparat has played in Hungary many times, most recently in 2023 at the Sziget festival as a member of the Moderat supergroup, and a year earlier - also with Moderat - he played at the Budapest Park. He also performed solo at the CAFe Budapest Contemporary Arts Festival in 2019.
Ambient music, theater and film projects
His career started in 1996 in techno, later ending up in the world of soft ambient music. In the early 2000s, he worked with renowned producer Ellen Allien, and since 2003, he has been regularly in the studio with Modeselektor members Gernot Bronsert and Sebastian Szary, with whom he created the project Moderat. Moderat's music has been used in several films (for example, in the science fiction film Annihilation starring Natalie Portman).
While on his previous solo albums (Walls - 2007; The Devil's Walk - 2011; Krieg und Frieden - 2013) Apparat ventured more into the ambient, sometimes almost neoclassical genre, on his 2019 album LP5, in addition to cellist Philipp Thimm, he also played trombone, trumpet, saxophone, harp, double bass and other string instruments.
In 2012, he composed music for the theatrical adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace. He was also co-created by the Italian Mario Martone: the latter's film Leopardi won the Premio Piero Piccioni award for best film score at the Venice Film Festival in 2014, and a year later he won again in Venice with his film score with Dustin O' Halloran, this time winning the Soundtrack Stars Award for Drake Doremus' film Equals.
Source: MTI.hu
Photo: Apparat Facebook page
