Cirkular

💿 𝗧𝗼𝗴𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝘁 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 is an overdue mix is for our birthday boy, Lazăr.

The gentle existentialist who writes sad folk songs like they’re inside jokes.
The worrier who worries just enough for everyone else to feel safe.
The big‑picture person who keeps asking 𝘸𝘩𝘺? 𝘸𝘩𝘺? 𝘸𝘩𝘺? until the whole room sees THAT thing.

Our wish for him?

That he never loses his friends, never needs a wellness center membership & never stops being warm, (un)intentionally funny,
always 2 thoughts ahead of the rest of us.

Happy birthday, Lazi.

We’d still hang out with you till the morning.
Always.

And you 🫵 Yes, you! Spin the mix for him 🎧
Maybe for yourself too, if you love a good sad song for staring out a window thinking about life choices :)

Link’s in bio,
this time only Dan, Andrei & Arina 🤍

Mid-spring was about...

Mental health walks to the studio, with bikes neatly parked by the door 🚲

Tramhaus live, all of us piled up in one photo: another reminder that we really love being in the crowd, not just in the control room 🎸

Arina caught off guard during an outfit check.

Andrei signing sheet music very seriously—the kind of boring-but-essential task.

The first sunburnt faces, officially sun-smooched ☀️

Jams between tasks, with Andrei testing space buns as a potential work hairdo.

And in between it all, the AFCN application lighting up little bulbs in our heads.

We’ve still got a bit to work on it, but we can’t wait to share what comes out of it.

That's what is about. Everything we didn’t post, from the good & to the less good stuff.

Primăvara e aici🪻 cu o doză extra de vitamina D ☀️, dar pentru mulți, e perioada aia din an când ochii sunt țintă doar pe proiecte & nicidecum pe vremea de afară.
Știm prea bine, am trecut și noi prin asta.

Dacă scrii de zor la AFCN
și simți că te-am putea ajuta cu:
🎙 producție audio
🎛 sound design
🎹 muzică originală
🎧 podcast
🎤 booking
🛠 evenimente & live
…Scrie-ne și hai să povestim despre proiectul tău.

Știm prea bine și că e mai simplu
când nu faci totul singur/ă.
Suntem mega curioși să știm la ce lucrezi.

Ne găsești pe Brătianu 4.
Cafeaua, ca întotdeauna, din partea casei ☕️

Drums in the room. Cables everywhere. Noémi taking an analog photo of the Ákos while we take a photo of them taking the photo.

The wonderful .pell came in to track drums for their new single. If you've spent any time with their music, you already know: live drums inside that glacial dream-pop universe is not a small ask. Every mic placement is a negotiation between the organic & the electronic.

A lot of distances to get right. A lot of listening before anything hits tape. The kind of session where the setup takes longer than the takes & that's exactly how it should be.

So glad you brought this one to us, Musspell. Can't wait for everyone else to hear it.
pell 🥁

Some faces more recognizable than others. All of us significantly younger.

This is what Cirkular looked like before it looked like Cirkular — open doors day, 2018. Back when the paint was barely dry & we called it open.

We've missed having the studio packed with many people.
So we're fixing that, this Tuesday, March 17 at 18:00.

We'll be talking David Bowie. For the 1st edition of Sound Encounters, a series created by our friends , we're opening the doors to geek out about his music. Not just listening, actually pulling apart the stems, isolating instruments track by track & showing you exactly how it was made, layer by layer.

Come for Bowie, stay for the pints :)
Beers on us, thanks to the wonderful 🍻

Reserve your seat with the link in bio.

See you at I.C. Brătianu 4 🎛

💿 Once a year, we break our own rule & pick
favorites.

Just 12 tracks. No fillers, just the ones that stayed with
us long after the sessions ended. Songs shaped inside
these walls & carried by all these amazing artists
beyond them.
This is : a small & careful selection of
the music produced here in 2025. All of it mixed,
crafted & cared for by Andrei Bobiș at the console.

If you’ve ever wondered what our studio actually
sounds like, this is the closest answer we can give.

Press play. Step into the room:
li.sten.to/cirkularworks2025 🎧

This is .
Think of it like a love letter, in the form we know best 💿
…or a dedication from a friend who sends music instead of long voice messages 📞

Every Wednesday (or so), we cherry-pick 12 tracks that stuck with us:
in the studio, on the walk home, or somewhere between two coffee refills.

No rules, no genre loyalty.

Folk next to electronica, punk brushing shoulders with jazz…
Whatever’s been living rent-free in our heads.
Random, yet eerily on point.

We’ve been doing this for years,
as a way to keep track of what moves us:
when the studio lights are on, off, or somewhere in between. ˚ 🛋️⋆｡˚

Lately, it felt right to open the circle a bit more.

What’s next?

First, listen, steal a favorite, and send it to a friend ▶️

is ready for your speakers of choice,
on Spotify or YouTube Music 🎧

…and very soon, we’ll flip the script and build playlists with 𝘆𝗼𝘂, .

Yes, collaborative playlists are coming 🫂

For the ones that move & move & move with us,
Dan, Andrei, Arina & Lazăr 🍻

 As always, link in bio.

⚲ Same spot on I.C. Brătianu 4. Different seasons. Plus one in the circle.
Some things really do move & move & move 𖦹

Between these 2 photos, Arina joined the team
& a whole wave of you, ,
drifted into our orbit too.

So we figured…
Maybe it’s time you hear what we sound like when the studio lights are low & we’re just being, well, us ⋆˙🛋️⟡ ⋅˚🕯️ .𖥔 ݁ ˖

Unlike (which is our way of keeping up with the world),
this one’s for when you want to get to know OUR world.

The moods, the references, the genres that shaped who we are & how we work 💜

We each took a mission of:
1 folk → 1 punk → 1 electronica → 1 world/jazz
(…and yes, we almost respected the assignment).

The result is a small love letter to how our taste overlaps, clashes & keeps moving through the years 💌

A mixtape that sounds like our refreshed identity:
playful, rooted & a little restless.

This is a place for you, sonic explorers,
to find 16 new hidden gems or revisit The Classics.

Take it for a spin: li.sten.to/soundthatmovesandmovesandmoves 💿🤸‍♀️

P.S. & because getting to know each other goes both ways:
collaborative playlists with you are coming soon!

Let’s see what your sound is like in our circle 🫂

[◉°] We finally got all four of us in one picture, against colorful backdrops & in fancy clothes, so we might as well seize the moment & yap about ourselves a bit.

origin story goes something like… this?

A forgotten forum post led to Andrei starting his first band.

A pack of chasing dogs led Dan to catch their opening act. (true story!)

Then, after years of DIY music & shows, they figured that the local scene needs more daring, exciting music for you.

Which sparked a wild idea: why not create this themselves?

At the center of their idea – the studio.

🩷🎤Here, Andrei has been moving between cables & conversations with quiet precision, empathy & assurance ever since. Now he hears the potential in a half-sung melody, knows when to nudge a compressor or just let the room breathe.

💛🔆Dan, on the other hand, has been making sure your idea has a stage – staying warm, calm & upbeat while everything else is on fire.

Already booking next year’s line-up, making a poster for local shows, or putting together a team for the next festival, Dan is a meticulous planner with an eye for detail & a real love for a well-built Excel. But if you ask the bands, it’s not the spreadsheets they rave about, but his backstage presence.

🧡💽 One of the first people to bring their ideas to us was Lazăr. This has turned into Alone at Parties & him becoming vital part of the . Nowadays he is responsible for big-picture decisions & long-term planning – helping us help you release your ideas into the wild.

💜⏭️Ready to invite you in is Arina: the latest, most-colorful addition to our team. Knowing how to turn the stories we tell into a space where you belong — both online and off, she is here to guide you through our studio, answer your questions & make sure that your music finds a community.

And yes, now we want to get to know you too!
How about you come by for a coffee ☕ (or a beer🍻)?