Imagine a style of electronic music that’s perfect for dancing in a dark club or lazing on a sunny beach, and you have imagined Birrd’s debut album, with its cosmic harmonies and reconstructed real-world sounds that combine to form a highly personal and deeply melodic version of machine music. Curiosity—a distinct approach to life—gives birth to new forms of expression, which in turn create new desires. In the case of 30-year-old Stefan Vogel, alias Birrd (the Anglicized version of his German surname), curiosity has fostered soaring discovery. With the covid lockdowns came the ideal opportunity to devote himself to his passion: melodic electronic music that is at once laid back and dreamy, but with swing, evoking such disparate scenes as the Corsican coast and the New York skyline, which are among the numerous inspirations for this Franco-Italian-American artist.