A native of Hamburg, Germany, pianist and composer Niklas Paschburg creates pastoral instrumental music that blends warm acoustic tones with electronic ambience. Much like fellow Germans Nils Frahm and Hauschka, Paschburg's music is greatly imbued by a sense of place and is inspired by elements of weather and nature. His debut full-length, the meditative Oceanic, appeared in 2018, and he collaborated with Lamb's Andy Barlow on the 2020 follow-up, Svalbard. He continued to fuse post-classical, pop, and electronic music on 2023's Panta Rhei, and has focused on ambient music with...