Kosmo Kint: The Berlin priest of the Groove and his funky album 'Groove Religion'

Kosmo Kint: The Berlin priest of the Groove and his funky album 'Groove Religion'

Kosmo Kint: The Berlin priest of the Groove and his funky album "Groove Religion"

Kosmo Kint, once New York, now Berliner, has recorded a grand summer plate for the broken heart club. A meeting on his terrace.

We meet Kosmo Kint on his roof terrace. Particularly close to the cosmos? In any case, the sky over Friedrichshain. The sun slams on its couch. And it fits all too well with these Summer-Vibes on Komo Kints Funky debut plate. The album is called “Groove Religion”. As made as a summer soundtrack for Berlin and for the world. The good Kosmo Kint (he knows from streaming statistics) has many listeners in California.

And if the groove is a religion, Kosmo Kint is the young priest of the Groove. "If something is plagued," says Kosmo Kint, "then shake it off while dancing! Become part of the groove religion!" Sounds like a sexy sound sect. And almost too summer to be true. "I don't want to get too close to anyone: but sometimes it helps to dance more than to delve in the church in itself."

A spiritual type is Kosmo Kint in any case. His day starts at seven o'clock ("I'm a morning person") with meditation: a hundred deep breaths through my nose. Kosmo Kint goes dancing at the weekend: "Berghain is like you have the best party of your life every day. I create little adventures for myself." Oha. Oscillating between deep relaxation and techno dancing. That this is not a contrast anyway - you also understand that if you listen to Kosmo Kint and your songs.

grew up Kosmo Kint, he says, almost in the church in the USA. Nevertheless, he did not want to become a valet and none of the boys from the gospel choir. But that had musical reasons: Because Demetrius (as it was called before he became Kosmo Kint) already learned opera singing in New York as a teenager. Wagner, robust! You would hardly believe it if you hear your current tracks today - or just those who were launched years ago in the Panorama Bar in Berghain: "Stay for a While", "Speed ​​of Life" and "Keep Going", at that time still under his "real" first name Demetrius.

But it would be a misunderstanding to construct an objection between opera and pop. Because Kosmo Kint sees it very differently: "The basics are always very important," he says, who smiles a lot, then with great seriousness. He seems to mean it. "I love classical music," he says. He also likes to go to the opera in Berlin. He raves about Papageno and the queen of the night. "Magic flute, Xerxes, Don Giovanni. Also a hip-hop producer or break dancer can help to learn operations first. But I lack creativity. Of course, you can vary, but don't bring real freestyle vocals." That works better in pop. But how did Kosmo Kint from the opera to Dark-Wave (to whom he indulged in a band) to disco and funk? "The voice is a muscle," he says. If you train your biceps, you can handle more kilos over time. It is the same with the music. You can also build on R&B from the classic. You should then do what you do the most in life. ”

And that is also one of the reasons why Demetrius became Kosmo Kint. Cosmic was already his nickname in the USA. Especially at the Burning-Man Festival in the Nevada desert, where he drove every year, feathers in the hair. Cosmic became Kosmo and then Kosmo Kint, like cosmic child. But without D because the English mother speakers would otherwise say child as nice. And Kosmo is meticulous about the sounds, of course. Although he is also a nice, in the best sense: caring. And he likes to cook for his friends, as he tells.

Where does the sound of Kosmos Platte feed from? 90s-R & B can be heard, gentle hints of hip-hop and above all a lot of funk, especially in the final "Only Gets Better". Kosmo Kint himself refers to his groovy soul idole, from Stevie Wonder to Marvin Gaye and Michael Jackson to Anderson Paak. That's a lot on it. Elton John (in whose tour choir Kosmo Kint Sang) and Alicia Keys (who was at the same school as Kosmo Kint and often sang with him) have certainly left their sound traces. "Magic" (perhaps the song with the poppiest hit potential of the plate) sounds like a mixture of Kylie Minogue and Bruno Mars.

"Groove Religion" by Kosmo Kint: Disco with mindfulness
Disco is definitely there-and there is a nice fun fact: from Los Angeles from Los Angeles, Greg Cerrone, a good friend of Kosmo Kint and at the same time son of the French disco legend Cerrone. At the latest when you know it, you can no longer avoid listening to Cerrone. For example in "Fake Love". "In the song I slowly get along with it," says Kosmo Kint, "that my ex is not returning. I am in this dating mode when you realize that people do not data because they appreciate you as a person; but only for what you can offer them."

The "Groove Religion" album also tells the story from the end of a love to the beginning of the new. "The plate begins with my broken heart. Then I continue the summit of the groove." Where the broken hearts dance until they are healed again or at least halfway. Although "Groove Religion" chooses self -critical ways: "Instead of complaining that I am so bad now," says Kosmo Kint, "I also sing in my songs: I should have done this or that better. I focused too much on myself and too little. I was a little self -centered." You rarely hear something like that in pop songs. Many just talk badly about the ex, like Miley Cyrus in the Smash hit "Flowers". Why actually? In any case, Kosmo Kint sees it this way: "After a ended relationship, you should also deal with what you did wrong-to be better next time. I think my ex-girlfriend has heard the song. But I don't know if she is knowing that he is for her." So many ex-girlfriends? "No, just one!", Kosmo Kint and laughs.

to Berlin came Kosmo Kint 2015. With a Oneway train ticket from Nuremberg, where he also has a family. "Many had told me how much Berlin was made for me," he says, and does not seem to want to contradict. Actually, he only wanted to stay for two weeks, a few songs