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Where modernity and the past collide with elemental force, where space and time foam out of their traditional paths and borders melt into gently meandering waves, there is the sphere of Qntal. An ever-changing refuge, oscillating, iridescent and mysterious. And from its pulsating interior it gives birth to a new work with “Time Stands Still”, the ninth album in its more than thirty-year history.<\/p>\n

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Mezzo-soprano Syrah and composer and multi-instrumentalist Michael Popp created an innovative acoustic amalgam beyond common listening habits, a self-sufficient genre that is so much more than a Gottfried von Strasbourg on Jean-Michel Jarre or a Kraftwerk’s Wolfram von Eschenbach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2507,"template":"","festival":[37,28,44],"class_list":["post-2510","act","type-act","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","festival-37","festival-28","festival-2023-en"],"acf":{"website":"https:\/\/www.qntal.de\/","facebook_url":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/qntalmusic","spotify_url":"","date":null,"begin":"","end":"","location":"","amphi_festival_premiere":false},"yoast_head":"\nQntal - Amphi Festival 2026 - Tanzbrunnen Cologne<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Where modernity and the past collide with elemental force, where space and time foam out of their traditional paths and borders melt into gently\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/amphi-festival.de\/en\/act\/qntal\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Qntal - 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