Released December 7, 2025, the video for The Unspoken by Robert Gromotka and Jonas Hain opens their album Between Us, a project focused on the invisible threads binding people. The Berlin duo have carved a niche with piano-driven pieces that sidestep vocals, letting the instrument carry emotional nuance. Gromotka brings precision from years of ensemble work, while Hain adds a freer, responsive flow. Their joint efforts shine in low-key settings that amplify vulnerability. Past outings have placed them in offbeat locales, building a catalog that nods to the sparse eloquence of contemporaries like Hauschka or Ólafur Arnalds, but always with a distinctly Teutonic restraint. Between Us aims to explore the relational spectrum, friction, faith, and the bonds words can’t touch, framing it through dual perspectives at the keys, a method that demands trust in the gaps between strikes.
The track unfolds as a piano conversation in the dead of night, captured inside one of the AEG turbine factory’s surviving chambers. That vast concrete shell breathes life into the recording. Darkness swallows the edges except for a pinpoint light over the bench, where Gromotka and Hain lean in. Their playing is a back-and-forth that stirs unease from silence’s buildup, then settles into a comfortable hush. Restrained dynamics keep the focus sharp: soft clusters yield to fuller chords, the sustain blurring lines until the hall joins as an uninvited echo, thickening the air with resonance. It is all captured raw, with no post-production gloss, turning the viewer into an eavesdropper on a private exchange. Hands brush, motifs repeat like half-formed thoughts, and the whole evokes how proximity breeds its own quiet code.
Jonas Hain shared: “Sometimes silence says more than any word. That’s exactly the silence we wanted to make audible.” In an era of relentless sonic overload, Gromotka and Hain’s approach feels like a reset, using the piano’s natural decay to map out what’s left when talk falls short. Between Us should build on this foundation, offering more dispatches from the front lines of unspoken rapport.
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Robert Gromotka & Jonas Hain – Between Us – Tour 2026:
30.01.2026 – Berlin
31.01.2026 – Leipzig
01.02.2026 – Lichtenberg
02.02.2026 – Nürnberg
03.02.2026 – Nürnberg
04.02.2026 – Stuttgart
05.02.2026 – Kreuzlingen, CH
06.02.2026 – Munich
07.02.2026 – Ulm
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