On 10 February 2026, two different yet closely related forms of musical curiosity come together at Berlin’s Gretchen: CV Vision and Embryo. What unfolds will be less a genre parade than an open-ended process. Since 1969, Embryo have stood for music as a state of constant motion. The Munich-based collective fuses free improvisation, jazz and global rhythms into a musical search that resists fixation. Spanning generations and continuously evolving, Embryo remain a living system in which musical encounters matter more than finished forms.
Past meets present
CV Vision, the project of Dennis Schulze, complements this approach from a contemporary perspective. On his new album Release The Beast (Bureau B, 2025), he moves away from rigid concepts in favour of expansive, open-ended forms: Detroit techno and extreme metal energy form the foundation for a dense weave of analogue sounds, kraut-inflected grooves and self-processed tape material. When Embryo’s decades of experience meet CV Vision’s exploratory approach, a dialogue emerges between past and present – physical, hypnotic and uncompromisingly open.
