FM4 Soundpark is a web platform, community, and radio show for and with Austrian musicians. In an ongoing collaboration, FM4’s team recommends particular artists of the moment to amplify. Today, the honor goes to: brazey and her debut album Five Hearts No Control.
With brazey, Ines Kolleritsch has carved out a distinctive voice at the crossroads of jazz, pop, and expansive sonic experimentation. Her debut album, Five Hearts No Control, moves like a flock of birds: up close it’s dense with detail and restless micro-motions; from a distance it reads as one slow, calm, constantly shifting drift.
Kolleritsch grew up immersed in music—piano lessons, choir rehearsals—before choosing jazz vocal studies and moving through a series of projects (Kaiko, Lucid Kid, Gazelle & The Bear) that map her curiosity and willingness to reinvent. A turning point came when she took up the guitar around three years ago. Writing no longer began at the piano; it softened, grew more intimate, and gained a new, almost domestic closeness.
On Five Hearts No Control, spareness and overflow keep trading places. Songs slip from minimal sketches into layered sound worlds; tracks such as “Easy,” “Choose,” and “Too Far” can fold in on themselves, restart, drift into improvisation, and then swell into bigger textures. The title’s “five hearts” nods to Kolleritsch’s “spirit animal”—the earthworm, which really does have five hearts—becoming a metaphor for feeling too much for a single chest to hold. “No control,” meanwhile, points to what can’t be managed in relationships, where the only workable stance is release: to allow, to let be, to let go. In the end, the album suggests a simple counterweight to paralysis: we are “water beings,” always in motion—even when we feel stuck, sad, or exhausted.
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Translated and abridged from the German original (by Andreas Gstettner-Brugger) by Arianna Alfreds.