Vinyl Record
Masha Qrella - Songbook
Masha Qrella - Songbook on LP vinyl. A 2025 record available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel, Ireland.
LP ยท 2025
Available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel.
Buyer notes: 2025 LP, currently available from the Kilmorna Collection vinyl shelf. Pay for pickup in Listowel or ship within Ireland for EUR 5.50.
Songbook is Masha Qrella's 2025 studio album and a revealing portrait of an artist who has never treated cover versions, theatre songs and original writing as separate rooms. After Woanders brought Thomas Brasch's poems into her own musical language, Songbook widens the frame again. Cool Breeze opens the record through a Jeremy Spencer Group song; Heart Failed, I Wanna Dance With Somebody, I Want To Break Free and September In The Rain sit beside German-language material, stage-connected writing and Qrella's own compositions. The result is not a karaoke exercise or a museum of taste. It is a musician remaking material until authorship feels porous: baroque, indie pop, German song, English pop memory and theatrical miniature all become recognisably hers. The 2025 context matters because Qrella arrives here with a long Berlin history behind her, from Contriva and Mina through Morr Music solo albums and Staatsakt releases. Songbook sounds like a career logic made audible: everything she touches is pulled toward restraint, clarity, melancholy and a softly stubborn sense of arrangement.
Songbook matters because it shows Masha Qrella's gift for transformation in a full-album frame. The record joins covers, theatre-linked songs and original material without making a spectacle of the concept, proving how stable her musical identity is even when the origin point material changes radically.
For collectors, Songbook is a strong 2025 Masha Qrella entry and a useful companion to Woanders. It is especially appealing for shelves focused on Berlin independent pop, Staatsakt releases and artists who treat interpretation as composition rather than as a secondary activity.
Elegant indie pop with German and English songcraft, minimal arrangements, cover-version intimacy, theatre-song poise, cool vocals and a reflective late-night Berlin atmosphere.
Recommended for: Listeners interested in artful covers and reinterpretations; Collectors following Masha Qrella's Staatsakt-era catalogue; Fans of Berlin indie pop with literary and theatrical edges.
When was Songbook released? Songbook was released in 2025, with vinyl listings placing it in the March 2025 release window. What kind of material appears on Songbook? It combines covers, German-language songs, theatre-connected pieces and Qrella's own writing in one carefully unified album. Which songs show the idea of Songbook clearly? Cool Breeze, Heart Failed, I Wanna Dance With Somebody, I Want To Break Free and September In The Rain show the album's interpretive range.