ENGLBRT is the collaborative duo of Georges Goerens and Niels Engel. The astonishing partnership sounds effortless thanks to the chemistry between two of Luxembourg’s most prolific and respected musicians. Like a well-adjusted science experience, they carefully draw from a vast field of source materials to achieve genre-defying results. After being active in acclaimed projects within the Luxembourgish music scene, both musicians retreated into renowned culture hub Kulturfabrik to eventually come up with ENGLBRT's distinctive sonic palette, laying the groundwork of future recordings with first single ‘Harm'.
Both musicians draw on a long legacy of omnivorous instrumental and genre-bending music, with a sound that is slow and widescreen, incorporating elements of electronica, contemporary jazz and well-crafted indie-pop. As if working from a lab setting, the duo isolates samples from their common musical lexicon to unearth hidden relationships, always leading to the discovery of enticing combinations. Those first experiments and songs shaped the nature of the collaboration resulting in their debut EP Odes to Everything released on the Berlin-based label Listenrecords in 2023. Taking cues from the endless scroll of everyday life, ENGLBRT delivers a dazzling soundtrack to our accelerated culture, shaping new sonic possibilities in the process.
PRESS
“ENGLBRT pulls off the perfect musical combination” — BOLD MAGAZINE
“The most striking thing about this project is the variety of sounds and styles Georges Goerens and Niels Engel bring to the stage, with their multi-instrumental talents being shown off.” — RTL TODAY
“ENGLBRT, jewellery in a jewel box” — WORT.LU
INDIVIDUAL ACCOLADES & AWARDS
Georges Goerens
Support shows for The Killers, Rhye, Giant Rooks, Tom Odell, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Aldous Harding
The Great Escape 2021
Reeperbahn Festival 2018 & 2019
Awarded the 2020 FOCUNA Development Grant (Rock / Pop / Electro) prized at 20 000 EUR that aims to reward excellence in current music
“Best Upcoming Artist” at the Luxembourg Music Awards 2018
Niels Engel
Concerts and festivals such as at the Blue Note in NYC and Montreux Jazz Festival (CH), Ottawa Jazz Festival (CN), Eurosonic Festival (NL), Magnetic Fields Festival (IN), Sibiu Jazz Festival (RO), Cairo Jazz Festival (EG), Le Duc des Lombards (FR)
Awards in competitions as sideman, e.g. Princes Christina Concours ; the Grote Prijs van Nederland ; Burghausen Jazz Award, Sibiu Jazz Competition and the Nancy Jazz Up in France
CONTACT
Management / Booking Luxembourg : Zach Glavan | zach@strangelooppromo.com | +352 / 621 700 805
Label / Promotion : ListenRecords | Nikola Müller | nikola@listencollective.com | +49 / 176 811 28 123
Booking Belgium : Peter Verstraelen | peter@peterverstraelen.com | +32 / 473 92 49 96
Booking Germany : Arthur Vaccari | arthur@oha-music.com | +49 / 40-38 61 60 60
Band Contact : englbrt.music@gmail.com
