The second full-length album from Simon Herody — French born, Berlin based multi-instrumentalist and composer. Featuring the visual universe of Paul Waak.
Water from Mars retraces the imaginary odyssey of a near-future conquest of space — a sonic journey conceived as a soundtrack for the imagination. Blending acoustic and electronic instruments, Herody navigates between sci-fi jazz, left-field ambient dub, space lounge, and 4th world music, crafting a world where melancholy and forward-thinking curiosity coexist in weightless suspension.
Indulgent, textured, and uncompromising — for fans of glitchy synthesizer textures, cinematic atmospheres, and music that refuses easy categorization.
Will be made available on vinyl, CD & cassette.
— Release date: 10th of July 2026 —
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Simon Herody, born in 1996, is a French musician and sound artist who loves exploring the connections between landscapes, memories and improvisation. He studied at the Villa Arson School of Fine Arts in Nice and has turned sound into a social and sculptural medium always keeping space and community in close mind.
Simon never formally studied music and never intended to. Completely self-taught, he started playing a plastic clarinet at the age of 20 without any thought of making music. He quickly got hooked and began experimenting with any instrument he could get his hands on: saxophone, accordion, piano, etc. He discovered electronic music composition in 2020 when he moved to Berlin and started recording on tape and cassettes making devotional instictive electro-acoustic ambient. In his compositions and performances, Simon mixes saxophone, flute, and piano, drawing inspiration from meditative and spiritual jazz while blending in various other influences. Improvisation is a big part of his process, helping him create immersive pieces where active listening and spontaneity change how we perceive time and space.