The solo project of German artist Alexandra Grübler, Baal & Mortimer's music is filled with detached rhythms, fragmented voices, and grainy textures. Grübler states that her work sonically explores questions of resistance, autonomy, language, and identity. Somewhere between ambient pop and abstract sound collage, she issued her debut album, Deixis, in 2020, and her 2022 release Con-Struct was based on material from the vast archive of the late Conrad Schnitzler.
Grübler began making music as Baal & Mortimer in 2014, when she was living in Düsseldorf. She later relocated to Be...