DIONÉE to Release MILLE-FEUILLES, HASA to Drop STREIK Album
Dionée features Clarisse Bériault, Éric Normand, and Robin Servant, while Hasa's new record follows their Baden-Württemberg Cabaret Prize win.
French Canadian trio Dionée will release its album MILLE-FEUILLES on 14 August 2026. The record has been described as somewhere between Black Sabbath and Morton Feldman, blending the lyricism of chamber music with metal textures, the simplicity of drone and post-rock, and the abstraction of electroacoustic music, offering what has been called a cinematic musical journey.
With MILLE-FEUILLES, the trio—featuring a richly varied instrumentation—delivers a striking, orchestral-sounding work in which oboe, accordion, and electric bass engage in dialogue with a wide array of electronic instruments and effects.
The album is being released as a blue vinyl in a gatefold sleeve designed by Belgian illustrator Marnix Everaert.
Dionée
Clarisse Bériault – oboe, acoustic bass, effects
Eric Normand – electric bass, beatbox, oscillators, effects
Robin Servant – diatonic accordion, synthesizers, effects
Separately, the German band HASA — Heiner's All-Star Ensemble — will release its second album, STREIK, on 14 August 2026. The band describes its sound as Space-Pop from the Swabian Galaxy, combining a reimagined 70s sound with Swabian dialect. Danceable jazz, rock, blues, reggae, and funk merge with dialect lyrics that, in their onomatopoeic playfulness, often sound like poems, sometimes in Swabian dialect, sometimes drawn from real life.
The SPACE POP FROM DÅHANNA concept is presented in a multimedia-enriched, humorous stage show, including illustrated guides through the HASA universe with comics illustrated by Dieter Hermenau and the complete song lyrics as an aid to understanding.
Since the band's founding in the summer of 2017, HASA has performed numerous concerts, won the Baden-Württemberg Cabaret Prize 2022, and released the first instalment of its SPACE POP FROM DÅHANNA concept with its first album. The second album, STREIK, named after the title track, was released on March 13, 2026, on CD and all streaming platforms.
The title track, STREIK, is described as a HASA hit in the best sense: set to a driving hip-hop groove, it features a powerful lament about the downsides of (auto)mobility, alternating with virtuosic ensemble passages, whistles, and spoken-word quotations, with humour and eclectic diversity central to the listening experience on the band's second album.
EWIG ON DREI DAG, an earworm sung by Ellen Reinhardt and Caro Saia, comes in a relaxed West Coast sound and lyrically features a mantra emanating from the back seat of a car, which is said to trigger flashbacks to various holiday trips in parents.
With MOON IN THE CLOUDS, HASA indulges its penchant for offbeat humor, paired with a driving groove in a Japanese-Swabian symbiosis. It begins with a couplet reminiscent of Japanese haiku poetry, the interpretation of which, in a Swabian New Age meditation monastery, is brought to light by the abbot and his novices, revealing insights into the Tübingen subculture slang of the 1970s.
The album closes with THANK GOODNESS THAT WAS IT. Based on a quote from Goethe's Faust, an astronaut and a showgirl experience the various stages of farewell in fast-forward against a Las Vegas backdrop, culminating in an audio cinemascope outro.
Beyond songs with humorous lyrics, HASA's second album also showcases the band's romantic ballads and hippie-folk duets by Ellen Reinhardt and Caro Saia, who, alongside the humorous potential of the 'Sound of Swabian,' bring subtle, lyrical timbres and moods to the record.
Lineup
Heiner Reiff - guitar, vocals, music & lyrics
Ralf Schuon - Keyboards, Vocals, Arrangements
Ellen Reinhardt - Space Toys, Vocals, Bass
Daniel Jakobi - Drums
Caro Saia - Vocals, Naughtylus
