Luis Ake - Ehrenvoll … Luis Ake Tour 2025

Three shirt buttons open, a cleavage down to the solar plexus, well-cut threads on an athletic body - that is the first impression of Luis Ake, a contemporary artist who is surrounded by a lot of questions.

Did he really build a machine that can create love? Is he, with his tie and signet ring, actually the nouveau riche son of a noble family from Württemberg, or does he steal his jackets from the cloakroom of a casino in western Munich? Or is this mysterious man with his masquerade perhaps the true dandy of our present day?

When he gets out of his vintage Porsche, with an expression of tormented sadness on his face, at least one thing is clear:
His suit fits perfectly and his suffering is real.

His full lips, narrow hips and lost look speak the poetry of his pop music, which is characterized by exaggeration and sentimental affirmation. His poses of glamorous masculinity, from gold chains to ties, which are immediately broken by his never-hidden vulnerability, which can be heard in each of his songs, prove the phrase that pop is about more than just music. His theme is love -
This is also the title of his second album, "Liebe". Like the first album, "Bitte lass mich frei", it was released on the Berlin label Mansions & Millions and was praised by representatives of the press, such as Rolling Stone and Spiegel, both as a contemporary interpretation of German pop music and as a new hit song - there is a consensus that Luis Ake's first two albums are considered to be the forerunners of the Neue Neue Deutsche Welle.
Luis Ake started playing guitar excessively in his childhood bedroom in Stuttgart, which attracted international attention early on. Travis Scott, Kenrick Llamar and Kanye West used samples from the then 19-year-old for their songs (e.g. »goosebumps«).
But since then, the young talent has become a man, an artist who is not only known for his expressive stage show (among others, the Belarusian band »Molchat Doma« hired Ake for the opening act of their entire European tour, »Edwin Rosen« took him with him to his first concerts and the Frankfurt Schirn invited Ake to a concert in their museum rooms), but Ake is also in demand as a remixer. Acts that could hardly be more different, such as »Edwin Rosen«, »Saló« and most recently »Roy Bianco & the Abbrunzati Boys« asked Ake to mix their songs. Together with »DANZIGER99« Ake wrote the song »regen«, which went viral.

Luis Akes’ new EP “Horse Trance – Melodies of Freedom” will be released in November.
With 10 new songs, Ake founded the music genre of “Horse Trance”.
This is music that not only has to be seen as a new interpretation of trance, D'n'B, house and electro, but remains pop despite its danceability.
As if Ake had driven the club sound of the returning noughties onto the kitschy horse paddock, inoculated it with the new melodiousness of the speed-up scene and at the same time not forgotten his influences from pop and 80s wave - »Horse Trance - Melodien der Freiheit« is an impressive continuation of his last album, which is both new and goes far beyond it; as an EP it seems like a branch on the long path of his extraordinarily independent work.
There is not only a cover of the early Digi hit »Kuschelsong«, but also collaborations with young artists such as »Amandus99« and »Jay Pop«.
They sing with Ake about love – the great theme that reaches beyond national borders, never ends and to which the man and artist Luis Ake once again devotes himself without mercy for himself.