Ward Dhoore // Outsiders (album release)

There are evenings when music detaches you from yourself for a moment. When you are sitting in a hall and suddenly notice that your breath falls differently, that thoughts become looser, that you are taken to another place. Outsiders is made for those evenings. Ward Dhoore is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, and storyteller. After 15 years of touring through Europe, America, and Canada, a broader and international audience got to know him through his solo debut album It Was All Heart, which was selected for, among others, the German Critics Award and the World Music Charts Europe. His artistic growth did not go unnoticed in his own country either: Radio Klara selected him for the series De Twintigers. And yet, anyone who has seen Ward on stage knows that his strength does not lie in recognition, but primarily in the connection he makes with his audience in the hall. In his new album Outsiders (January 2027), that connection remains central. An album for each of us who sometimes feels vulnerable, lonely, or an outsider and is looking for what holds us together despite everything. Instrumental music and narrative connecting texts alternate in a concert that feels like a confidential conversation. Cinematic soundtracks that belong in a world without borders. An invitation to listen, to dream, and to stand still for a moment at what is moving out there. For fans of Ólafur Arnalds, Nils Frahm, Henrik Lindstrand, Poltrock, Balmorhea, Svaneborg Kardyb … Music created with love and a modern edge (Songlines, ★★★★) Heartwarming, cinematic, and atmospheric music to dream away to, with the potential of a soundtrack for documentaries or nature films. (Musiczine)