The German trio’s self-titled double album, recorded in a demolished Bavarian Forest house, arrives 12 June via Molten Moods

Carl Gari’s self-titled double album arrives on 12 June via Molten Moods, and the circumstances of its making are already part of its logic: the trio recorded in a reclusive house in the Bavarian Forest, now demolished, whose atmosphere embedded itself into the recordings in ways that resist easy description. The German trio, Jonas Yamer, Till Funke, and Jonas Friedlich, have spent years building a sound that refuses to resolve into genre, and this album pushes that tendency further than anything they have released before.

Title: CG02 Carl Gari
Artist: Carl Gari
Release Date: 2026-06-12
Genres: Ambient, Electronica, Experimental Music
Label: Molten Moods
Description: Carl Gari's self-titled double album, out 15 May via Molten Moods, features Dälek, Coby Sey, Sensational, Polygonia, and Simon Popp.

Their back catalogue sits on AD 93, The Trilogy Tapes, and Permanent Vacation, labels that between them cover a wide and serious stretch of contemporary electronic music. Live, the trio has moved through Berlin Atonal, Rewire, Donaufestival, Draaimolen, and Pop Messe, as well as more institution-bound spaces: the ICA London, Haus der Kunst, the Academy of Fine Arts Munich. They have played alongside Oneohtrix Point Never, Sunn O))), The Necks, Actress, Surgeon, and Blawan, a spread of names that says something about where their music sits without quite pinning it down.

The album pulls techno, drum and bass, post-rock, industrial, and punk into the same space, not as genre tourism but as raw material. Distorted guitars and dense basslines work against analog drum machines, tape delays, and compacted effect chains. What is new here, and worth noting, is the use of vocals: Yamer, whose instrument is bass, steps forward and sings in an invented language, something between punk directness and deliberate unintelligibility. It hints, it unsettles, it does not explain itself.

The guest contributions are structurally embedded rather than decorative. Polygonia‘s layered vocals fold into the album’s electronic architecture on their respective track. Will Brooks of Dälek cuts through ‘Poison Shyness (Anti-Social)’ with a rap feature whose weight fits the surrounding density. Coby Sey appears on ‘Inner Link’, working in the space between experimentation and restraint that has defined much of his own output. Sensational, the New York rapper whose career stretches back to the mid-1990s underground, brings a deliberately rough presence to ‘Disco Lights’. German percussionist Simon Popp drives ‘Zeitesser’ with a drum performance that functions as insistence rather than accompaniment.

The lead single ‘Pick’n’Peel’ sets the coordinates early: raw DnB percussion, sirens bent into oscillating shapes, industrial undercurrents holding the whole thing in a state of controlled pressure. It is on Bandcamp, Spotify, and Apple Music.

Running beneath the album’s present tense is a longer history. A sustained collaboration with Egyptian artist Abdullah Miniawy across what began as a cultural exchange project in Cairo brought Arabic Sufi chanting, jazz trumpet, and downtempo electronics into the trio’s orbit. That partnership, years in the making, is part of what shaped the sensibility the album now carries.

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