Orbit

Orbit is a dream pop project of 26 year old producer and songwriter Marcel Heym. With a soundscape marked by a blend of raw acoustic sounds and atmospheric synth leads, orbit combines imagery of life in the countryside with a longing for higher purpose. At the age of seventeen, Marcel gained international stage experience with his first rock band which he formed together with his brother Patrick. As teenagers they played shows in Shanghai, Los Angeles, London as well as major festivals in Germany. After becoming a music producer in his early twenties and moving to Berlin, Marcel realised he could not find happiness in the noise of the metropolitan jungle. Some weeks after escaping the city and going back to his small hometown he launched his first own music project in dedication to his roots.

„There’s a heavenly place in the North of Germany in between forests, wide fields and a beach at the river. Here I grew up with my friends, a big group of girls and boys who know each other from school and decided to stay together.“

Six months after the Debut of his EP Perspectives, Orbit gave his first live performance together with his friends and collaborators Morlin Baginski and Nils Oswald. The session recorded at Tonstudio Tessmar in Hannover got released in October 2020.Instead of being a shiny new product of the music industry, orbit increasingly turned into a multidimensional place for creativity and a real community inside and outside the internet. Going without the help of bigger music companies, Marcel and his friends have formed a collective that realises various kinds of projects, including artworks, videos and handmade merchandise.

In Spring 2021, along the latest release Summer Someday, Orbit called up his followers to co-organise concerts in their hometowns. A few months later Marcel and his friends played over 20 shows at private festivals, in wild forests and backyards all across the country. The tour soon became an expedition into the depth of German independent culture and a movement of true human connection.