Malakoff Kowalski / Jugglerz - Geister by Fatih Akin (O.S.T.) [2LP]

Format: 2 x LP
Catalogue No.: RBR-01LP
Barcode: 4070209022277
Release Date: 13 Nov 2026
Genre: Original Soundtrack/Modern Classical/Arabic Tarab/Contemporary Levantine Pop/Hip-Hop/Urban Beats and Dancehall

* Deluxe 2LP gatefold: Disc 1 - Malakoff Kowalski - Geister (Original Soundtrack Album); Disc 2 - four Jugglerz productions on a 12-inch disc at 45 RPM; four-page insert with film stills and liner notes by Fatih Akin; hype sticker.

* CD digisleeve with four-page insert and hype sticker.

• Inaugural release on Radyo Bombero, the new label founded by acclaimed filmmaker, author, DJ and record collector Fatih Akin.
• Original soundtrack to Fatih Akin's new film Geister, due in November 2026.

• Deluxe 2LP gatefold edition with a four-page insert featuring film stills and liner notes by Fatih Akin; also available as a CD digisleeve.

• LP 1 / CD tracks 01-19 contain Malakoff Kowalski's complete original score – a deliberately anachronistic and romantic tribute to Ennio Morricone's great love themes.

• LP 2 / CD tracks 20-23 present four productions by the internationally successful Jugglerz at 45 RPM, including the film's title song Ya Mami, performed by Aya Samra, as well as Mood, Tip and Beirut Nights Riddim. The four tracks bring Arabic tarab and contemporary Levantine pop together with hip-hop, urban beats and dancehall rhythms.

* ABOUT THE RELEASE
MALAKOFF KOWALSKI – GEISTER ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK
Composed by Malakoff Kowalski, the soundtrack to Fatih Akin's Geister is the inaugural release on Radyo Bombero. Born in the United States, raised in Hamburg and now based in Berlin, Kowalski is a composer, pianist and multi-instrumentalist whose work moves between film music, contemporary classical composition, theatre and pop. He composed the music for eleven films by Klaus Lemke, as well as for productions including Schweigend steht der Wald and Stasikomödie. His solo work has been released by MPS and Sony Classical, and he has collaborated with artists including 2raumwohnung, Igor Levit, Chilly Gonzales and Nils Frahm. His sound combines elegiac melodies with a warm, cinematic atmosphere and a subtle sense of unrest beneath the surface.

For Geister, this distinctive musical language meets Fatih Akin's vision of a deliberately anachronistic and romantic score: a tribute to Ennio Morricone's great love themes that plays a defining role in the film's
tragic love story and atmosphere.

LP 1 contains Kowalski's complete original film score.
LP by JUGGLERZ opens up a second musical world, bringing together four productions by the internationally successful Jugglerz on a fourtrack 12-inch disc at 45 RPM: the film's title song Ya Mami, performed by
Aya Samra; Mood by Cloudee, Milaa and Jugglerz; Tip by Jugglerz, Limitlezz, Maureen and Demarco; and Beirut Nights Riddim. The four tracks bring Arabic tarab and contemporary Levantine pop together
with hip-hop, urban beats and dancehall rhythms.

* FATIH AKIN ON RADYO BOMBERO
"Radyo Bombero is on the air. Don't miss a tune!
"
Music is - alongside cinema and literature - a fundamental source of inspiration for me. Having grown up in the 1980s, the way I listen to music has hardly changed: I buy records, listen to them carefully and then copy them onto a portable device. It used to be a Walkman, then an iPod - today it is my smartphone with my playlists.

I do not use Spotify or any other streaming services. Why that is, I do not know. In most other areas, I try to keep up with technological developments. Not with music. I like unpacking a record, cleaning it before listening, holding the sleeve in my hands and reading who worked in the studio, who wrote the music and where the record was made. These things interest me. And they lower my cortisol levels.

Music plays a major role in my films. It is not that, as a director, I want to impose my favourite music on the audience. The music must always serve the story. In Head-On, for example, it tells us something about the characters and their biographies. Crossing the Bridge - The Sound of Istanbul is the musical portrait of a city. Its music tells us about the people who live there: where they come from, the cultures they brought with them and how those cultures have merged with local traditions.

The Cut was conceived as a Western, and the music had to help reinforce that idea.
Geister tells a tragic love story. The music was meant to be gloriously anachronistic. And romantic. Just like the light and colours, it had to shape the atmosphere of the film. My films are often about cinema itself, and Geister is no exception. Its music is a tribute to Ennio Morricone's great love themes.

In Malakoff Kowalski, I found the perfect creative partner. He immediately understood my idea and realised it brilliantly. That made it all the more painful when I was told by the music industry that there could be no soundtrack release for Geister because soundtracks were too expensive to produce and would simply sit on the shelves.

It is not as though I am a spoiled child who absolutely has to have a lollipop. But this music is simply too good to withhold from the audience. The idea that there would be no soundtrack release felt like a great injustice. Then several friends and collaborators advised me to release the record myself. No sooner said than done. But Radyo Bombero is not a one-off project. Geister is only the beginning.
Finally, I have the opportunity to gradually release all the soundtracks from my films that have remained unavailable. Soundtracks that were previously released but have since gone out of print will also return as
reissues.

Hainbach's soundtrack to Amrum is already in development, as is a double album featuring the unforgettable German pop songs from The Golden Glove. And, finally, a vinyl soundtrack to Head-On.
Fatih Akin

DISC 1 - MALAKOFF KOWALSKI Geister / Original Soundtrack Album
SIDE A
Approx. running time: 21:14
01 | Ya Mami (A Cappella) | 00:46
02 | Geister | 01:17
03 | Farashas Tod | 01:59
04 | Farashas Rückkehr | 02:42
05 | Erster Traum | 02:19
06 | Faris und Farasha | 03:13
07 | Ya Mami (Accordion Arr.) | 01:51
08 | Auf dem Friedhof | 02:08
09 | Hochzeit | 02:10
10 | Cutter | 00:37
11 | Schmetterling | 02:12

SIDE B
Approx. running time: 17:32
01 | Das ist kein Traum (Unused Album Arr.) | 04:08
02 | Hochzeit (Unused Cello Arr.) | 02:09
03 | Feuerwerk | 01:42
04 | Du kommst hier nicht rein | 01:48
05 | Fernsehturm | 02:16
06 | Abgrund | 02:03
07 | Am Anleger | 02:40
08 | Farasha und Shifa | 00:46
 
DISC 2 - JUGGLERZ
Four-track 12-inch disc at 45 RPM
A01 | Jugglerz, Limitlezz, Maureen & Demarco | Tip | 02:36
A02 | Cloudee, Milaa & Jugglerz | Mood | 03:15
B01 | Jugglerz | Beirut Nights Riddim | 02:24
B02 | Jugglerz feat. Aya Samra Aya Samra | Ya Mami | 02:34