Flie­gen­de Haie

Baring their teeth, opening their mouths and repeatedly sinking their teeth in: in a world drowning in contradictions, Kristina Paulini and Jan König are learning to fly. The trained pianist and the producer who has seen it all are rising above the shallows of musical mediocrity with an idiosyncratic sound design that sees pop as a blank canvas for all kinds of experimentation. The energetic electro house of Stromae, the lyrical social criticism of the Orsons, even the lascivious bubblegum dance of Blümchen all swirl together here in an effervescent mixture. The result of this process? Nothing short of a reconfiguration of German pop music, which Fliegende Haie (engl. Flying Sharks) have christened ‘sharp electro pop’. Club bangers with a message, a tingling peel treatment to remedy encrusted musical tastes, emerging from an old attitude to life – for the Sharks, conventions are simply easy prey. This applies to genre pigeonholing as well as supposed identities, intellectualism as well as trash, the past as well as tomorrow. And that’s exactly where they want to go with their debut album ‘Amor und Psyche’: towards the future, with boundless passion and pulsating beats for a better world.