Golden Whale Zone
Music about our time.Songs by Johannes Kersthold about artificial intelligence, copyright, platforms and chance. In seven languages.
Listen
Every release is on Spotify and Apple Music. You can buy the music on Bandcamp.
- Stoff Kraft LebenSpotify, Apple Music
- KISpotify, Apple Music
- ParsteinseeSpotify, Apple Music
- EnshitificationSpotify, Apple Music
- Der Garten Bleibt OffenSpotify, Apple Music
- ZufallBandcamp
Wherever music plays
Songs that stand in their time
Golden Whale Zone is music, not crypto. The lyrics step into the present.
Artificial intelligence
Who makes music, who gets paid for it, and what does the machine already know? Songs about AI, copyright and fair pay for creators.
Platforms
What happens when digital services start out useful and then get worse? “Enshitification” is a song about that.
Hesitation
The “yes, but …” in the face of new technology, closely observed and sharpened.
Seven languages, one project
Each language brings its own place and its own story.
- Deutsch
Diagnoses of the times, sharp edges, pop-rap.
- English
Big-band swing about AI and contemporary pop about going the extra mile.
- Lëtzebuergesch
A song about the Echternach dancing procession.
- ਪੰਜਾਬੀ
A song about the lives of working people.
- Català
A song about repression under Franco near Montserrat.
- Français
“To Win Toulouse”.
- Italiano
“Aurora”.
Johannes Kersthold
Born in Trier in 1965, in Berlin since 1987. Johannes Kersthold studied jazz piano with Walter Norris and Aki Takase and classical piano with Elzbieta Sternlicht at the Hochschule der Künste Berlin, today’s UdK.
As a jazz pianist, composer and producer he won a prize at musica vitale in 1996 (with the group Omen) and the Jazz-Award Berlin in 2004 (with the Hattie St. John Quartett). He now lives and works in Parsteinsee, Brandenburg.
Live
Johannes Kersthold organises the Parsteiner Musik Festival in the Parstein village church. A Golden Whale Zone stage programme is in preparation.
No dates are published right now. For concert and festival enquiries, write to contact@goldenwhalezone.com.