Yannis Anft, Leif Berger, and David Helm are Delusional Mind: not merely as a formation on paper or in their functions as keyboardist/composer, drummer, and bassist, but in every fiber of their organically grown music.
Delusional Mind has created their own space. Anft places compositions into this world like one plants seedlings into the earth, and Delusional Mind accompanies the process of their development. Together with producer and drummer Jan Philipp, the tracks are refined without determining them. An approach that feeds the melancholic dialectic of the pieces describes a path whose beginning and end cannot be discerned.

The term ambient seems apt to categorize everything, at the latest when you get lost in the track "Monolog," but less as a fossil terminology of pop criticism, more as an echo of an attitude. One suspects that Yannis Anft appreciates the music of Jan Jelinek and might name Zen Buddhism as a source of inspiration - and is hardly surprised when one learns that Delusional Mind also plays a track from Aphex Twin's "Selected Ambient Works Vol. 2" live at times. Music to marvel at.

Their new album, "becoming an area," features Emily Wittbrodt on Cello, the voice of Marie Tjong Ayong, and digital sound processing of Kitsune, an audiovisual artist based in Essen, Germany. The album will be released on Papercup Records in July 2025.