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German electro singer/songwriter Masha Qrella makes music that borrows equally, and effortlessly, from folk, pop, and her homeland’s burgeoning electronic music picture. The daughter of the Russian physicist dad along with a German somnologist mom, Qrella’s career started in the past due ’90s when, motivated by famous brands Stereolab and …

Berlin’s Contriva developed from a somewhat derivative post-rock music group to an electric pop music group with an identification almost all their own. Created in the middle-’90s, the group in the beginning came together like a trio, composed of drummer Hanns Lehmann, bassist Masha Qrella, and guitarist Maximum Punktezahl. In …