Apparat: the new album is "A Hum Of Maybe"

Apparat: the new album is “A Hum Of Maybe”

ByJohn

The Berlin-based musician, producer and composer Equipment (aka Sascha Ring), announces details of his sixth studio album, “A Hum Of Maybe”. The new album will be released on February 20, 2026 on Mute limited edition on turquoise double vinyl, double vinyl, CD and digital. A “Hum Of Maybe” is a complex and personal project, which carries with it the weight of the years that have passed since his last album, 2019’s LP5. It took shape after a long period of creative block, in which his connection with music seemed lost, buried and untraceable. To overcome this block, he challenged himself with a resolution: come up with an idea for a song every day, free from pressure, judgment and the pursuit of perfection, no matter how rough or incomplete the sketches were.

Gradually, this new daily routine had a therapeutic effect, helping him regain confidence in himself and his musical process. From the numerous fragments created over six months in 2025, the strongest songs soon emerged, which took shape as the outlines of his sixth album, “A Hum Of Maybe”. The first piece to be revealed today is ‘An Echo Skips A Name (Alternate Take)’. With its mix of warm percussion and dreamlike synths, the song talks about how in a relationship you can drift apart so gradually that the change goes almost unnoticed. Ring calls it a “gentle fading of recognition.” The project is an album about love – for himself, his wife and his daughter – and how to constantly preserve, protect and recalibrate it, as it is constantly changing. Working on the lyrics helped him focus on what was important to him. As the album title suggests, the songs are about being stuck in the middle. “Maybe is not weakness, but a space in which things can grow,” explains Ring. The album embraces a state of limbo, where there are no longer unshakable certainties or clear answers, but a multitude of simultaneities and intermediate states. Not “or”, but “and”: analog and digital. Ones and zeros. Micro and macro. Light and shadow. “Hum is that undercurrent of potential, the in-between, where life actually happens”.

This chapter has been done with the help of his long-time collaborators, who give the eleven tracks a warm and organic dynamic and who will also perform with Sasha Ring in upcoming live concerts: Philipp Johann Thimm (cello, piano, guitar), who also co-wrote and co-produced the album, Christoph “Mäckie” Hamann (violin, keyboard, bass), Jörg Wähner (drums) and Christian Kohlhaas (trombone). The Armenian-American singer KÁRYYN is featured on “Tilth”, while the Berlin and Roman musician Jan-Philipp Lorenz (aka Bi Disc) on “Pieces, Falling”. The artist will be in Italy on April 15, 2026 – Alcatraz, Milan; and the April 16, 2026 – Sinopoli Hall, Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome

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