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2024

Approached by filmmakers Christian Labhart and Helena Dali I was given the chance to contribute the closing theme for SUSPEKT and the film score for CÄSAR. Both movies premiere in 2025, I am delighted to be a part of it!

Apart from that I was still taking a creative break, or maybe you could call it writer's block: I wrote and drafted several songs in the past years, among them Lullaby, Colourblind, 11-13 and Treadmill - but I was and still am struggling to bring them to life. After the heavily produced electronic album L-WORD I wanted to do something simple and acoustic, something comforting yet resolute in these troubling times.  But those songs are still sitting in the drawer, waiting to see the light of day.

2022 - 2023

Difficult years. My father passed away in May 2022 and my partner was struggling with mental health problems. A war broke out in Europe, followed by one in the Middle East, and society was faced with new crises after three years of pandemic. After releasing L-WORD in November 2022, I had to take a creative break that would last over a year. One major highlight, though: I started working for the Zurich label INTAKT RECORDS, arguably one of the most renowned jazz labels in the world. And Micha Lewinsky and I were invited to play at several venues, among them the Swiss National Museum, with our cover band SYCKAMORE.

2021

A busy year:

  • Producing an album without the support and know-how of a label is a hell of a lot of work... but also extremely educational. I applied for (and received) public funding to be able to produce L-WORD professionally. In the fall, the album was mixed and mastered, the cover art was created and I placed the order for the vinyl pressing.

  • I did background vocals for Zurich band Niece. Their wonderful new album was released in summer 2023.

  • As a pleasant surprise, I was invited by the Erna and Curt Burgauer Foundation to apply for an award totaling CHF 30'000, as one of four candidates. They chose someone else eventually, but I felt very honored to even be considered.

2020

A quiet, yet creative year. During the COVID lockdown, I started playing around with synthesizers and composing more songs. The result was L-WORD, my first published album. I also started meeting with author, filmmaker and guitarist Micha Lewinsky to try and reinterpret famous, if dismal punk-, metal- and popsongs in a loungy, mellow fashion (think elevator music): The Syckamore project was born.

2019-2020

Collaborations with media artists Benjamin Breitkopf and Carmen Stadler:

2019

Exploring different genres, I wrote and recorded the album BLENDWERK and released two songs (Towelboy and Bleed) on Spotify:

© 2024 by Ariane Pollo / Linear Loop

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