The intimate studio situation really brings out the talents of musicians – mistakes are not swallowed up by the noise of the audience, inaccuracies are not smoothed out by cracking speakers in the club.
FM4 Sessions is always available on Saturdays from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Radio FM4.
None of this is a problem for Florence Arman. What’s more, in the acoustic setting one is always amazed at the apparent ease with which she pours her magical pop songs about searching and finding home, about heartbreak and getting over it, into small live treasures. The fact that her band consists of two of her dearest people, namely her brother John Arman on guitar and her best friend and multi-instrumentalist Johannes Römer, is certainly not a disadvantage either.
It was early 2020 that Florence Arman recorded this beautiful FM4 session for us in Studio 2 of the Wiener Funkhaus (you can read all about it here read) – almost exactly two years later she congratulated us with a band in one another live session for the radio birthday 2022.
Jake Bugg also visited us twice for an FM4 session
He was 12 when he started playing guitar, he was 17 when he first played the big Glastonbury Festival and that same year he got a record deal with Mercury Records. The backstory of the still young British musician Jake Bugg (born 1994) reads like a little pop fairy tale.
In addition to Glastonbury at 17, Jake Bugg also has stations such as his first appearance on a late night show at 18, at Jools Holland, in the biography. One of his very first singles, the number “Lightening Bolt”, was played several times at the 2012 Olympics in honor of 100-meter sprint world champion Husain Bolt. So the road to global fame was quite a sprint for Jake Bugg. In 2013 he visited us for the first time for a solo session at FM4 Studio; later, in 2016, he returned once more with his bass player, this time on second guitar. here FM4 colleague Eva Conversioner recorded the impressions of this session.