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On November 25 Apparat officially announced his new album, “A Hum Of Maybe”. Following six years of silence and creative pause, this record marks a new chapter in the career of Berlin-based electronic composer and producer Sascha Ring. The sixth studio album will be released on February 20, 2026 via Mute Records, available on limited edition double turquoise vinyl, standard double vinyl, CD and digital formats. The release will be followed by a full-band European tour, with one of its highlight stops being Budapest: Apparat will perform live at Dürer Kert on April 9, 2026.

   A new chapter born from creative silence

    After the release of LP5 in 2019, Sascha Ring found himself disconnected from making music. The years following the world tour with Moderat — combined with the pandemic and major personal shifts — brought a period of stillness, doubt, and stagnation into his life: “After 25 years of creating, I suddenly wondered whether I still had something to say.”

    The turning point came through a radical creative experiment: Ring committed to writing one musical idea every single day — free from judgement, expectations, and perfectionism. From the hundreds of fragments born during this process, the shape of “A Hum Of Maybe” gradually emerged — an album exploring a state of uncertainty infused with hope.

    The first track accompanies the album announcement, “An Echo Skips A Name” (Alternate Take)” — a dreamy, intimate piece capturing the gentle and almost unnoticeable distance that can grow between two people. As Ring describes it: “a gentle fade of recognition.”

    The space of “maybe”: where life actually happens

    The songs of “A Hum Of Maybe” explore different forms of love — for oneself, for a partner, and for family — while asking how these bonds can be preserved in constant transformation. The title does not signify doubt, but possibility: “Maybe it's not a weakness. It is a space where things can grow,” says Ring. This “in-between space” is where light meets shadow, analogue meets digital, certainty meets suspension — the fragile yet vibrant state that Apparat describes as the very essence of life.

    His long-standing musical collaborators shaped the warm, organic sound of the album: Philipp Johann Thimm (cello, piano, guitar – co-producer), Christoph “Mäckie” Hamann (violin, keyboards, bass), Jörg Wähner (drums) and Christian Kohlhaas (trombone). Two guest artists also appear: KÁRYYN on Tilth, and Bi Disc on Pieces, Falling.

    The result is a finely crafted, deeply personal and musically unpredictable work that brings the delicate vibrations of our in-between moments to the surface. Hungarian audiences will be able to experience this live on April 9 at Dürer Kert.