From now on, we want to upload a new session every day, coming from some living room or garden all over the world.

Das Cardinal Sessions Festival findet am 16.01.2020 zum zehnten Mal statt - diesmal in der wunderschönen Kulturkirche in Köln!

Das Cardinal Sessions Festival findet am 16.01.2020 zum zehnten Mal statt - diesmal in der wunderschönen Kulturkirche in Köln!

Full live recording of The Brian Jonestown Massacre concert in London, October of 2018, including hits like "Anemone" and "Nevertheless".

Das Cardinal Sessions Festival geht am 18. Mai bereits in seine neunte Runde. Nachdem die letzten Ausgaben in Köln restlos ausverkauft waren, freuen wir uns, die nächste Runde ankündigen zu……

Colorado singer-songwriter Gregory Alan Isakov returns to Cardinal Sessions to perform "Chemicals" live in a church in Cologne, Germany.

Peter Doherty has a new record coming out, with his band, the Puta Madres. It's amazing proof that he's still one of the top songwriters around. We took the opportunity to meet again, this time at…

Sharon van Etten, one of the best singer-songwriters around, performs a beautiful version of "I Told You Everything" solo on the grand piano.

Both Conor Oberst and Phoebe Bridgers have been hinting at a thing called "Better Oblivion Community Center". Rumours are, it's a collaboration project of the two indie singer-songwriters.

Lewis Capaldi is a british singer-songwriter with an amazing voice. He's one of those new talents everybody talks about right now, and we had the pleasure to meet before he played a sold-out show in…

Lewis Capaldi is a british singer-songwriter with an amazing voice. He's one of those new talents everybody talks about right now, and we had the pleasure to meet before he played a sold-out show in…

Hollow Coves from Australia are an indie-folk duo that played Cardinal Sessions Festival in October of 2018 in a church. Before they opened the big stage that night, we recorded a song called "The…

We present the 25 best albums of 2018, as picked by Cardinal Sessions, including records by Kurt Vile, Jack White, John Prine and Snail Mail.

L'aupaire at Cardinal Sessions Festival.

The Tallest Man On Earth is one of those Indie-Folk icons we've been listening to forever. We had the opportunity to record a song with him in fall of 2018.

Shakey Graves is the man - here he is, performing a song called "Cops and Robbers" in a church in Cologne before his show. His americana-blues-folk is wonderful to listen to, his new record is…

Snail Mail is one of those rare-to-find musicians - she writes incredible songs and we're very happy to have met her during her stay in Cologne. She performed "Heat Wave" in a park, one take.

Folk singer-songwriters have always been the ones to be the most personal, the most fragile lyricists. And women of course have always been part of it - but it feels like there is a new strength to…

Stella Donnelly is an australian singer-songwriter who has just released her first EP called "Thrush Metal" on Secretly Canadian. We've met her in the empty philharmonic in Cologne, Germany, at C/O…

Das Cardinal Sessions Festival geht am 5. Mai bereits in seine siebte Runde. Nachdem die letzten Ausgaben in Köln restlos ausverkauft waren, freuen wir uns, die nächste Runde ankündigen zu……

Sipgate presents the Open Source Festival - Young Talent Stage studio recordings. A Cardinal Sessions Showcase. Recorded at the Sipgate Headquarter.

The world of music is full of great talents and brillant artists, and a lot of them are under the age of 30. We'd like to share our personal favourites.

Jonathan Wilson is an american singer-songwriter and producer. He worked with lots and lots of our favourites, like Dawes, Conor Oberst, Father John Misty and Johnathan Rice. His solo records are a…

We've been to Venlo's Down By The River Festival to record live acoustic sessions with Andrew Combs, The Deep Dark Woods and The Yawpers.

We've met german singer-songwriter Illgen-Nur in a Café in Cologne, Germany while the band was on tour supporting Tocotronic - we recorded this song called "Matter of Time".

We've met US-singer-songwriter Lissie in Cologne, Germany to record two songs acoustically. She sat down in a tree in a park next to the venue and performed "Blood & Muscle" and "When I'm Alone".

Das Cardinal Sessions Festival geht am 5. Mai bereits in seine siebte Runde. Nachdem die letzten Ausgaben in Köln restlos ausverkauft waren, freuen wir uns, die nächste Runde ankündigen zu……

In October of 2017, we were invited alongside photographer Jean Raclet to join the german band AnnenMayKantereit on a trip to Los Angeles.

Singer-Songwriter Noah Gundersen returns to Cardinal Sessions to perform three wonderful songs in a church in Cologne, including a cover of Sade's "By Your Side".

We've collected all the acoustic sessions that Nathaniel Rateliff did for Cardinal Sessions, including songs with his band The Night Sweats and Matthew Logan Vasquez.

Brian Fennell has a solo record out and performed "Wildfire" exclusively on a piano for Cardinal Sessions in Cologne, Germany.

Ever since his version of The Postal Service's "Such Great Hights" played on the radio for the first time, we're huge fans of Iron & Wine. After all those years, we finally managed to set up a…

One of the best bands around, DMA's, performed for Cardinal Sessions in Berlin.

Cardinal Sessions is presenting Musikschutzgebiet Festival from August 30th till September 2nd 2018. They've also just announced the first bands for 2018, including our friends from Giant Rooks and…

Swiss band Bonaparte headlined 2017's At The B-Sites Festival and recorded two songs exclusively for Cardinal Sessions backstage.

Cardinal Sessions are presenting the ORI "1986" Album Release Tour through Germany and Switzerland.

Listen to ten songs most of you might only know from other artists - here are the originals!

German indie band Frère perform a song on a cliff in Essen, Germany, live for Cardinal Sessions. The song is called "Portugal".

Learn how to record an acoustic session and what gear to use - Cardinal Sessions

The french acoustic-session website La Blogothèque recorded one of their famous concerts in a series called Soirée de Poche with one of our favourite artists Damien Rice.

German band Milky Chance performed "Firebird" from their new record "Blossom" in a live acoustic session for Cardinal Sessions in Cologne, Germany.

Laura Marling, one of our favourite singer-songwriters, decided to cover a Bob Dylan song for a new episode from "Peaky Blinders".

After a very busy 2017 in every possible way, let's take the time to look back. We love music. We love more than 30 records. But we can't write about every single one of them. So here's our TOP 30…

Käptn Peng & die Tentakel von Delphi performing "Tier" at 2017's Haldern Pop Festival, acoustic in the woods, with a guitar and a double bass.

We met Alexi Murdoch three years ago at the Haldern Pop Festival to record two hauntingly beautiful new and unreleased songs called "Golden Mountain" & "At Night My Heart" which seem to make it on…

Mighty Oaks teamed up with Cardinal Sessions again to record two songs off their new record live and acoustic in an artist community.

Langhorne Slim returns to Cardinal Sessions with a wonderful video for his new song "Lost This Time" - Casey Jane is singing with him in New Orleans.

Cardinal Sessions 20 Top Tracks of 2017 - The list is featuring bands like Courtney Barnett, The War on Drugs, Future Islands, Baxter Dury and Warhaus.

U2 have released a new record earlier this month and they went on the Berlin Subway to promote it. The record entitled "Songs of Experience" was presented, but Bono and The Edge played some more…

In the beginning of 2017, we met Mac DeMarco in Berlin - he was on tour all year, until he stopped by in Cologne to play a sold-out show at Kantine. We decided to shoot another video, this time for…

We met with british rock-pop band Amber Run in a run-down house in Cologne to record two of their songs called "I Found" and "No Answer".

Giant Rooks are a young, exciting new band from Hamm, Germany. We've invited them to play our Cardinal Sessions Festival in january 2017 and after that arranged a session in may that same year. The…

Our very own Cardinal Sessions Festival has seen it's sixth installment this October - we started with six bands in Cologne, took five of them with us to Hamburg and then to Berlin the days after.…

Hayden Calnin is an australian singer-songwriter with an amazing voice - we've met him at New Fall Festival in Düsseldorf, Germany. In a church. The reverb fits this beautiful song very well, as he…

Cardinal Sessions met Seasick Steve for a live acoustic sessions in Cologne a while back. He has come a very long way in 10 years. Since his first appearance on British TV, his popularity exploded,…

We met Nahko and Medicine for the People almost two years ago to record a session with Nahko and his trumpet player on a cold day in January. As Nahko released his solo record in 2017, we decided it…

It was a foggy morning in Haldern, Germany, where we met Matthew and the Atlas. The whole atmosphere was very fitting to his music and it felt really special.

We made a music video for emerging german band Neufundland for their song 'Alles Was Bleibt'.

Die Höchste Eisenbahn is a german band formed in 2011 consisting of four brillant and experienced musicians. They have released two LP's and an EP, the latest record came out in 2016 called "Wer…

If you close your eyes, you might think it's Jeff Buckley singing to you, while really it's one of UK's best new singer-songwriters called Isaac Gracie. We've met him at Haldern Pop Festival 2017,…

Voodoo Jürgens from Vienna with his morbid sense of humor is one of Austrias most exciting artists right now. He played a wonderful tune just seconds after his gig at Haldern Pop Festival 2017 in a…

In 2015 we've met Bear's Den for the first time. They played a great show in Cologne after our session, Alex Vargas opened for them and we felt that this was something special. Since then, a lot has…

Lets make this text as short as possible cause this album takes time. 1h 59min and supposedly longer. Get your headphones, power on your krk studio monitors or whatever you are using for some quality…

Taylor Hollingsworth from Birmingham, Alabama, is a singer-songwriter and guitarist who has a couple of bands and played guitar in Conor Oberst's Mystic Valley Band. He's back on tour with Conor, and…

The Amazons from the UK are one of the most important new rock bands the UK has to offer right now. They were included in the BBC's "Sound of 2017" and MTV's "Brand New 2017" lists, they have an…

The Jesus and Mary Chain from Scotland have always been one of the Greats in not giving a fuck - it's even more surprising that they recorded "Sometimes Always" in 1994 on their fifth record "Stoned…

Phoebe Bridgers is an artist from Los Angeles who really stands out for us when it comes to singer-songwriters. Every word she sings feels very real and raw and, positively, a little out-of-time. She…

"Is it cruel or kind not to speak my mind, and to lie to you, rather than hurt you?"

English folk-guitarist and singer-songwriter John Smith first got our attention some years ago when we filmed a session with the wonderful Lisa Hannigan. We went to her show afterwards and John was…

Early 2017, we managed to film Peter Doherty in Cologne, shot the session and went to his show afterwards. This irish guy called Sion Hill was supporting Peter on this tour and it was the first time…