About big cities and front gardens, riots and class reunions, between post-folk, Joyce and morphine

Singer/songwriter Axel Bloom, who grew up in Bremen, has been making music for most of his life and played in such legendary bands as The Hand of Fate, Cherrybomb and Der Vollmond in the 80s and 90s. On stage with Hermann Brood, praised by Annette Humpe, played live from the corner pub to the Stadthalle (but only the one in Münster); preliminary round winner of the 2014 ORF protest song contest. After parental leave and the restoration of his prenatal figure, he produced his first EP as a solo artist in Vienna in 2013.

Having emigrated from Vienna via Zurich to Hamburg with the realization that “the mountains mean nothing to me”, Axel Bloom is a big-city punk at heart and an edgy, subtle spirit in his songs, who constantly asks himself: what are we actually doing here and why? Always without a pointing finger, sometimes with a middle finger, he seeks more than just a perspective in his songs.

 

Releases:

Irgendwo, Wien (2013)

Lieder für den Tag danach (2014)

Outtakes für den Tag danach (2015)

Ein Tag mit Joyce (2017)

Liebling, bring das Morphium (2019)

Unterirdischer Lagebericht (2021)

A Day with Joyce (100 years of Ulysses) (2022)

Is this where we are going? (2024)

Axel Bloom, …ein guter Fang“  (Weser Kurier)

„Sympathisch, die Entertainerqualitäten“ (taz),

drückt den Liedern seinen eigenen Stempel auf“ (Intro)

“Gesellschaftskritische Kapitalismuskritik“ (FM4/ORF);

„Ein Soundtrack für „Ulysses“, was für eine wunderbare Idee!“ (taz)

Axel Bloom "Kartenhaus" live im The Loft, Wien