Bella Wakame

𝘼 𝙘𝙖𝙡𝙘𝙪𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙤𝙨 𝙖𝙧𝙧𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙨 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝘽𝙚𝙧𝙡𝙞𝙣’𝙨 𝙢𝙤𝙙𝙪𝙡𝙖𝙧 𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙘𝙪𝙧𝙧𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙖𝙨 𝘽𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙖 𝙒𝙖𝙠𝙖𝙢𝙚 𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙣𝙚𝙡 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙝𝙖𝙯𝙮 𝙨𝙥𝙖𝙘𝙚 𝙗𝙚𝙩𝙬𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙟𝙖𝙯𝙯 𝙞𝙢𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙫, 𝙢𝙤𝙙𝙪𝙡𝙖𝙧 𝙖𝙗𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙢𝙖𝙡 𝙧𝙝𝙮𝙩𝙝𝙢𝙞𝙘 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙧𝙤𝙡.

Formed by drummer Andi Haberl (The Notwist) and synthesist Florian Zimmer (Saroos, Driftmachine), Bella Wakame’s first full-length emerges from a live-centric workflow that privileges immediacy and response over studio polish. The result: a series of freeform exchanges that stretch and fold rhythm, harmony and texture into unpredictable shapes.

From the ritual pulse of “Shadows of Nambei” (featuring Indra Dunis of Peaking Lights) to moments that echo Groupshow, Jeremiah Chiu or Bitchin Bajas, the duo dance between tactile percussive energy and expansive modular drift. Recorded live in Berlin and built around the tension between control and spontaneity, the album moves between motorik club motifs and ambient jazz abstraction without ever settling in one place.

It’s a deep dive into instinctive, dialogic performance—loose, kinetic, and constantly evolving. A project that thrives on immediacy and impermanence, Bella Wakame lean into the slipstream, letting sound spill where it wants.