Nowfrago

At the age of six years, Matthias Gunsch takes his first drum lessons. By the age of eleven years he founds his first band - a Guns’n’Roses-coverband. He then falls in love with energetic rhythms and plays in different Trash-, HC- and Crossover-bands, with whom he publishes his first demos and performs live several times. Matthias then gets attracted by the microphone and sings (or shouts) the HC-hit `Set it Off` from the Madball-album of the same title. At the same time he teaches himself the piano. 

As his teenager-years fade out, his musical horizon widens and he plays in many endless and legendary jam-nights where he indulges in the rhythms of Drum`n`Bass & Breakbeat, of Krautrock and free play.

Most of the time, Matthias takes a more relaxed approach to music.  He plays the drums in the Indie-Postrockband forstattnorm and also plays in a Drum’n’Bass-combo. 2002 sets another extension of his musical spectrum; Matthias forms and plays the drums in the Jazz-Rock-formation Delfi. In 2006, under his first artist name kakophon (later graet and chalkh), he starts to write and record his own song material. Due mainly to a lack of confidence in his ability as a singer/songwriter, none of his recorded EPs and CDs are published. 

In 2009 Matthias meets the band dukush, with whom he records and publishes the CD `dukush` in 2011 and two years later the CD `mycorrhiza` which was recorded in Bristol. `Good Knight Frank` from that album is the first published song with his singing. Both albums have been much acclaimed by the press and songs like `Phoenix` are still played on indie-radio stations. With the end of dukush in early 2014 Matthias Gunsch is finally focussing on his own project called nówfrago and has been recording his debut `In Love With The Blackbird` in the winter 2014/2015 which will be released in january 2016 at Zoey Records. His first release, the `Grandiosa EP` will be released in August 2015 on Zoey Records.