Kurt Rosenwinkel - COVER ZONE

Kurt Rosenwinkel Gives First Live Preview of COVER ZONE at Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival. Photo Credit: Guitar Center 

 
 

COVER ZONE

Familiar songs, different perspectives

COVER ZONE is a new project created by Kurt Rosenwinkel with co-producers Paul Stacey and Jochen Wilms, built around a simple question: what happens when songs we all know are placed in the hands of extraordinary musicians and rediscovered from the inside? Familiar music becomes a point of departure, opened up through new arrangements, harmony, rhythm, sound and improvisation. The listener already carries a memory of the songs, and COVER ZONE starts from that memory.

"These songs already live somewhere inside people. That is what makes them interesting to me. We are not trying to reproduce the original recordings — we are discovering what else exists inside the songs and exploring the shared emotions."
— Kurt Rosenwinkel

A preview of the tracklist:

  • Everybody Wants to Rule the World (Tears for Fears)

  • Ordinary World (Duran Duran)

  • Careless Whisper (George Michael)

  • Kurt Song (Kurt Rosenwinkel)

Human interaction at the center

The project is not a statement against technology or artificial intelligence. It celebrates interpretation, intuition, imperfection, risk, and the musical decisions that emerge when exceptional musicians play together in the same room.

The album

  • Kurt Rosenwinkel: guitar

  • Tim Lefebvre: bass

  • Earl Harvin: drums

  • Jason Lindner: keyboards and synthesizers

  • Co-produced by Kurt Rosenwinkel, Paul Stacey and Jochen Wilms

  • Recorded in Berlin, 2026

  • Label: Heartcore Records, distribution: The Orchard

  • Release: February 2027

The complete visual identity, official photography and further music and audiovisual material will be unveiled later in 2026.