German folk singer/songwriter Conny Ochs has competed his third solo album, Future Fables, and released his new single “Wake Up.” Future Fables is set to be released on February 26th.

Early last year Ochs released Freedom Conspiracy (Exile On Mainstream) with fellow Scott “Wino” Weinrich (St. Vitus, The Obsessed, Shrinebuilder) and completed some touring across Europe. Conny Ochs returned to the studio towards the end of Summer, once again with producer/engineer/studio owner Thommy Krawallo, with whom his previous album, Black Happy and both collaborative albums with Wino were created in full analog fashion. The Kabumm Studio had just relocated from its historic location in a former East German and Soviet government radio complex in Berlin, to the wilderness of a rural Brandenburg village. Ochs went in with a bag full of sketches and licks, inhaling the raw atmosphere of the surroundings, a yet unfinished house full of instruments and equipment in the middle of nowhere, also trying to find its place.

This new environment showed a new start for him, letting in much more than a breath of fresh air by widening his instrumental repertoire to drums, electric guitars, piano, bass and organ. The lyrics and stories resonate more than ever around people and journeys taken over the past years. The album title refers to the tendency to give an unwritten future some kind of tangibility through dreams and visions.

Ochs’ songs focus on storytelling and bringing his lyrics alive through vision. Combining his raw lyrics with organic music, he keeps the process very pure. Ochs’ songs make you feel like you’re apart of the journey.