Nicon's debut album "Orange Glow" is an outstandingly fine piece of German musical engineering, full of characer and emotions. Bettina Derksen's weightlessly magic voice floats over the music that was crafted between stage and studio, rehearsal space and Powerbooks. Orange Glow sports a wide spectrum of progressive electronics, elegant grooves and elaborate pop-song-writing. And thus, unrelenting, Nicon thread their trip-pop-pearls on nylonstrings, shining bright in a range of colors, somewhere between everyday-melancholy and some very special optimistic visions of something different. Nicon are Bettina Derksen, Kai Niggemann, Peter Buhr and Jörg Steeg. Their lives and their music are founded in the Ruhrgebiet, Germany.