GREENHOE & BILGER

GREENHOE & BILGER features NYC natives Hans Bilger and Eli Greenhoe, two vibrant young voices at the intersection of acoustic pop music and the avant-garde. Clothing delicate songcraft in gorgeous arrangements showcasing their backgrounds in classical, New Music, and jazz, the pair's songs burst with instrumental and vocal color to enchant, delight, and challenge listeners.
Hailing from Brooklyn, NY, Greenhoe has made his name as a composer of contemporary classical music in addition to his work as a songwriter; his concert works have been commissioned and performed by Contemporaneous, the Bergamot Quartet, Aki Takahashi, and S.E.M. Ensemble among others. He was awarded a Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was a finalist in the Beth Morrison Projects "Next Generation" program.
Also from Brooklyn, Hans Bilger is a sought-after bassist, composer, and recording engineer who fuses his expertise in the science of sound with his techniques in the recording studio. His doctoral dissertation in bioacoustics focused on the evolution of the voice in frogs, bats, and humans, and he has published scientific papers on musical structure in birdsong and the anatomy of the avian voice box. He is currently the composer-in-residence for Brooklyn-based dance company Cora Dance and a Visiting Scientist at Berlin's Museum für Naturkunde.
But the two have also been writing folk songs together since they were children, gradually mixing them with influences from their other disciplines. Under the moniker Airborne Charlie, the duo released their eponymous debut album in 2020, which was called, "A record that recalls the memories you've forgotten… Listening is like stumbling onto a Super-8 reel of your formative moments, rendered with the intimacy and pathos of a Bildungsroman."
Most recently, they've teamed up for Orchids, a new 10-song album to be released in April 2025 on Adhyâropa Records. Orchids uses the duo's ability to reach something essential in the listener as a starting point while also expanding their sonic palette in extraordinary new directions. The album was tracked in myriad spaces (among them the balcony of a Brooklyn church, the creaky kitchen of a cottage in Vermont, and a Berlin dance studio that just happened to house a nine-foot Bösendorfer) and has an ample cast: string quartets, bass clarinetists, mandocellists, and even a metal folding-chair all make an appearance. The album places affecting, incisive songs within a grand, imaginary world of orchestration and texture, both impossibly large and exquisitely detailed.
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“Overall, fabulous magic dominates, getting under your skin again and again. What Eli Greenhoe and Hans Bilger create with moods, atmosphere, and contrasts not only commands massive respect but also gets under your skin within seconds, nests there, chases away all bad thoughts, and creates a zen state […] Somewhere between folk, classical, pop, and songwriter craftsmanship, Greenhoe and Bilger deliver a masterpiece, food for the soul, spring awakening, and sound journey in one.”
- Walter Kraus, beatblogger.de | Full Review
“Orchids is an intense, valuable contribution to pop culture. The pop art product is inventive, loving, brittle, often introverted, and quiet. Above all, it appears attractively resonant, demandingly inspiring, melodically indulgent, sonically moving, as well as vocally engaging, and it carries the irresistible essence of bitter sweetness within it. Orchids is great, truly great!”
- Heino Walter, Lost & Found: Musik ohne Grenzen | Full Review
"Orchids is their clearest, most mature statement to date [...] As a songwriter, bassist, and sound researcher, Hans Bilger brings his sensitivity for acoustic structures. Eli Greenhoe provides form, dramaturgy, and a preference for playfulness. Together, they write songs that embrace traditions without copying them. Orchids is not a bouquet in perfect pose, but a vibrantly living flowering—and very fascinating."
- BRF1, Belgischer Rundfunk | Full Review
“When musicians in a highly formatted genre like indie folk seek their own paths and musical expressions beyond the expectations associated with the genre, it often comes at the cost of accessibility and occasionally ends in overthought, atonal aimlessness. The New York duo Eli Greenhoe & Hans Bilger […] manages to avoid precisely these pitfalls, succeeding with previously unheard melodic and harmonic soundscapes while incorporating stylistic boundary-crossing as a constructive supporting element—without getting lost in unlistenable experimentation.”
- Ullrich Maurer, Gaesteliste.de | Full Review
BOOKING CONTACTS | BUCHUNGSKONTAKTEN
Hans Bilger
contact@hansbilger.com
+49 178 6830615
Eli Greenhoe
eligreenhoe@gmail.com
+1 (347) 886-9180
PR CONTACTS | PR-KONTAKTE
USA
Adhyâropa Records
adhyaroparecords@gmail.com
Germany/DACH-Region
popup-records
info@popup-records.de
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Adhyâropa Records
adhyaroparecords@gmail.com