Photo credit: Carsten Aermes
Today Berlin-based musician, producer and composer Apparat (aka Sascha Ring) has announced details of his sixth studio album, A Hum Of Maybe. The new album will be released on Mute on limited edition double turquoise vinyl, double vinyl, CD and digitally on February 20, 2026.
A Hum Of Maybe is a complex and deeply personal album, one that carries the weight of the years that have passed since his last album, 2019’s LP5. The album took form after a long period of writer’s block, where his connection to music seemed lost, buried deep, untraceable. To break this block, he challenged himself with a radical resolution: to come up with one idea for a song every day, free from pressure, judgement and the pursuit of perfection, it didn’t matter how undeveloped or incomplete the sketches were. Gradually, this new daily routine had a therapeutic effect, helping him to regain his confidence in himself and his musical process. From the countless fragments created in over six months in 2025, the strongest songs soon emerged, taking shape as the contours of his sixth album, A Hum Of Maybe.
The album launches today with the first track “An Echo Skips A Name (Alternate Take).” With its blend of warm percussion and dreamlike synth pads, the track is about how a relationship can grow distant, so gradually that the change goes almost unnoticed. Ring calls it a "gentle fade of recognition."
Listen to it HERE.
At its core A Hum Of Maybe is about love - for himself, his wife and his daughter - and about holding onto it, protecting it and constantly recalibrating, as it is in a constant state of flux. Working on the lyrics helped him focus on what was important to him in the midst of all the turmoil. As the album title suggests, the songs are about being stuck in between, not a clear yes or no, but A Hum Of Maybe. “It's a ‘maybe’ that is not weakness, but a space where things can grow,” explains Ring. The album embraces a state of limbo, where there are no longer any unbreakable certainties or clear answers, only a multitude of simultaneities and intermediate states. Not or, but and: Analogue and digital. One and zero. Micro and macro. Light and shadow. "The hum is that undercurrent of potential - the in-between, where life actually happens."
The album was created with the help of his long-standing musical collaborators who lend the eleven tracks a warm, organic band dynamic, and who will also be performing with him at upcoming live shows: Philipp Johann Thimm (cello, piano, guitar), who also co-wrote and co-produced the album, Christoph “Mäckie” Hamann (violin, keyboard, bass), Jörg Wähner (drums), and Christian Kohlhaas (trombone). In addition, Armenian-American singer KÁRYYN features on “Tilth,” and Berlin-and Rome-based musician Jan-Philipp Lorenz (aka Bi Disc) on “Pieces, Falling.”
A Hum Of Maybe is detailed, finely crafted, and wonderfully unpredictable, rich in melodies, textures, free forms, and modulations. Ring elegantly combines the perspectives of an electronic producer and a classical composer.
A new chapter.
A bold dive into the complexities of life.
A Hum Of Maybe will be released on Mute on 20 February 2026.
Pre-order it HERE.
LIVE DATES:
1/27/2025 - Munich (DE), Alte Kongresshalle
1/28/2025 – Vienna (AT), Arena Wien
1/29/2025 – Zúrich (CH), Rote Fabrik
1/30/2025 – Leipzig (DE), Werk 2 - Halle A
1/31/2025 – Berlin (DE), Huxleys
2/3/2025 – London (UK), HERE at Outernet
2/4/2025 – Paris (FR), Le Trabendo – SOLD OUT
2/5/2025 – Amsterdam (NL), Paradiso
2/6/2025 – Ghent (BE), De Vooruit – SOLD OUT
4/9/2025 – Budapest (HU), Dürer Kert
4/10/2025 – Belgrade (RS), MTS Dvorana
4/15/2025 – Milan (IT), Alcatraz Milano
4/16/2025 – Rome (IT), Sala Sinopoli, Auditorium Parco della Musica
4/18/2025 – Gdansk (PL), Stary Manez
4/19/2025 – Wrocław (PL), A2 Centrum Koncertowe
6/6/2025 – Katowice (PL), Tauron Festival
7/3/2015 - Beuningen (NL), Down the Rabbit Hole Festival
A Hum Of Maybe album art:
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