Tryin' Times by Christian Prommer feat. Justine Hoerwarth

A decade in the making, this re-imagining of Roberta Flack's 1969 classic "Tryin' Times" turns a protest soul song into a modern jazz-rave invocation. Prommer loops, fragments, and deconstructs elements of the original recording, amplifying its message as a deep, dark yet urgent call for unity in a fractured world.

The track features a stunning recreation of the original vocal style by Justine Hoerwarth. Additional piano from Berlin-based Mosés Yoofee adds harmonic fire, while Prommer's snare fills are played on the very first snare drum he ever touched as a child in Styria, which he inherited from his marching-band uncle and that carries decades of history in every hit. The result is a swirling, hypnotic anthem where memory, politics, and the dancefloor collide.

This upcoming album, "Rhythmique Nocturne," distills ten years of Berlin into a twilight drift between order and abandon. Daytime studio sketches are pulled apart at night, reshaped by shifting perspectives that swing between jazz harmony, textural experimentation, and the heavy gravity of techno basslines and analog drums. Intimately close-mic'd piano, drums, percussion, cello, and strings are constantly recontextualized - dropped into new rooms, resonances, and imagined spaces - so their meaning keeps mutating. Room noise, human breath, and accidental sounds are folded into the pulse, turning spill and imperfection into rhythm. Even a piano lid thudding shut on "Dark Matter" is claimed as part of the beat, underscoring an album that embraces freedom, spontaneity, and the beautiful lack of accountability that defines this city at night.

Christian Prommer feat. Justine Hoerwarth - Tryin' Times
Release Date June 2026
Label Compost Records

Tracklist
01. Christian Prommer feat. Justine Hoerwarth - Tryin' Times
02. Christian Prommer feat. Justine Hoerwarth - Tryin' Times (Radio Edit)