Karen Vogt

Karen Vogt uses her voice to create atmospheric compositions, experimental and ambient solo works, guest vocals, remixes, and collaborations

Karen Vogt is an Australian-born, Paris-based vocalist and experimental artist whose work centres around the voice as an instrument of atmosphere and expression. Over the course of more than two decades, she has sculpted a singular body of work that flows between song, soundscape, and extended vocal textures.

Vogt often uses improvisation, as well as vocal-looping and layering techniques, lo-fi recording methods, and long passages of material generated from extended recording sessions (Little Pink Fluffy Clouds series) as the basis for her releases. Stylistically, her music is most often associated with electronic, experimental dream pop, down tempo, and ambient genres. Writing in The New York Times, John Pareles commended her “wordless, echoey vocal loops, with hints of modal melody…”

Vogt first gained recognition with Heligoland, the dream-pop project she co-founded in Melbourne, Australia in 1999, where her unmistakably emotive and ethereal vocal character became the group’s anchor. Long-term collaboration with the producer Robin Guthrie (Cocteau Twins) refined their sonic trajectory over a succession of records.

In recent years, Vogt has carved out a parallel path and identity as a solo artist in her own right, releasing a series of intimate and atmospheric recordings that illustrate just how far her imagination and dexterity can stretch voice, guitar, and a minimal array of acoustic tools.

Vogt’s 2024 album Waterlog (Nite Hive) was warmly written in honour of her beloved feline companion and its submerged melodies and drifting, wordless lines earned widespread recognition across international press, including The New York Times, Uncut, and Electronic Sound.

Since 2019, Vogt’s vocal and guitar-woven improvisations have been released on labels such as Penelope Trappes’ Nite Hive imprint, Longform Editions, Superpang, Wayside & Woodland Recordings, quiet details, and Waxing Crescent.

Collaboration has always been central to Vogt’s creative world and her distinctive vocal presence has graced projects with a diverse array of artists including Akira Rabelais, Rafael Anton Irisarri, Ada, Robert Babicz, Hélène Vogelsinger, Alpha, epic45, Markus Guentner, David Bridie, France Jobin, James S. Taylor (Swayzak), Pepo Galán, and Jolanda Moletta.

Vogt’s forthcoming projects include new albums with Heligoland and Galán/Vogt, further collaborations with Jolanda Moletta, and a host of guest vocal appearances, collaborations, and solo work planned for 2026.

Photo by Jolanda Moletta.

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Discography

All the music I’ve made made up until now…

2026

• Rafael Anton Irisarri - Signals From a Distant Afterglow
  Released by Black Knoll Editions
• The Lonely Bell - Dancing Light Particles (feat. Karen Vogt)
  Released by Shady Ridge Records

2025

• E.L. Heath & Karen Vogt – This Is Spirit
  Released by Wayside & Woodland Recordings
• BPMoore – “Happiness (Drexler and Running Notch Remix),” feat. vox by Karen Vogt
• Jolanda Moletta and Karen Vogt – Sea-swallowed Wands
  Limited edition CD released on quiet details
• Karen Vogt – Haunted Woodland, Volume Five
  Released by Wayside & Woodland Recordings
• Guentner | Speith – Valenz (Galán/Vogt rework)
  Collaboration between Pepo Galán and Karen Vogt for Guentner Spieth album Overlay Reworks, released by Affin
• Meridian – Marja – Ossa & Karen Vogt Rework from Marja/Nocturne
  Released by Shimmering Moods Records
• Jeanette Lindström – Somehow – Karen Vogt Remix
  Available on digital platforms, published by Music Box Publishing
• Jolanda Moletta and Karen Vogt – Suspended Between Worlds
  Limited edition vinyl, cassette, and art booklet, self-released

2024

• Pepo Galán – guest vocals on new album Simple
  Released on Fluid Audio
• Jolanda Moletta and Karen Vogt – Suspended Between Worlds
  Released by Longform Editions
• Rupert Lally – Running Circles (feat. Karen Vogt)
  Collaboration with Rupert Lally from his Interzones album, released by Mortality Tables
• Karen Vogt – Cloud forty-three (Markus Guentner 21h rework)
• Karen Vogt ft. Guillaume Eymenier – Losing The Sea (Ben Holton mix)
  From Landnotes. 1, released on Wayside & Woodland Recordings.
• Markus Guentner – All Light Will Remain (feat. Karen Vogt) from Kontrapunkt
  Released by A Strangely Isolated Place
• Guentner | Speith – Valenz (Galán/Vogt rework)
  Collaboration between Pepo Galán and Karen Vogt, released by Affin
• Karen Vogt – diary#5
  Released by Sonic Dialogue
• Karen Vogt – Your Colour Is Gold (demo)
• Site NonSite – Remixed
  Remix of the song “Creative Life Store”
• Epic45 – You’ll Only See Us When The Light is Gone
  Remix of the song “Passing,” released by Wayside & Woodland Recordings
• Karen Vogt – Waterlog
  Released by Nite Hive

2023

• Galán/Vogt – All The Time In The World
  Remix album of The Sweet Wait, featuring collaboration between Pepo Galán and Karen Vogt, released by Editions Furioso
• Epic45 – Another Year, guest vocals on “Tower Blocks”
  Released by Wayside & Woodland Recordings
• Heft – Hive Mind And I (feat. Karen Vogt), guest vocals
  Released by EC Underground
• BPMoore – What Remains Of Us, guest vocals on “Home” and “Happiness”
• Karen Vogt – I’ve Been Waiting for the Longest Time (Extended Version)
• Galán/Vogt – All The time in The World (Alpha / Madeleine Cocolas Remix)
  Collaboration between Pepo Galán and Karen Vogt, released by Editions Furioso
• Karen Vogt – Losing The Sea Remixes
  Feat. France Jobin, Lucy Adlington, Jolanda Moletta and Claire Deak
• Karen Vogt – Le Mans
  Released by Waxing Crescent Records
• Galán/Vogt – The Dark Opens The Way (Markus Guentner Remix)
  Collaboration between Pepo Galán and Karen Vogt
• Pepo Galán & Karen Vogt – A Visible Light
  Compilation for sLOW sketch, Vol. 3, released by El Muelle Records
• Karen Vogt – Losing The Sea
  Released by Mare Nostrum
• Pepo Galán – Family Harmony, guest vocals on “I Need You More Than Anything,” “A Wave That Carries Me,” “When I Fade,” and “It’s All Around You”
  Released by Fluid Audio Label
• Karen Vogt & Simon McCorry – The Path Divides
  Compilation Anxiety/Hope, released by Ambient Echoes

2022

• Karen Vogt – Whirring Signals
  Compilation Bivouac of the avant​-​garde: contemporary minimal, electronic and experimental music, vol​.​3, released by Difficult Art And Music.
• Karen Vogt – Little Pink Fluffy Clouds – D
• Galán/Vogt – All The Time In the World (Akira Rabelais remixes)
  Collaboration between Pepo Galán and Karen Vogt.
• Karen Vogt – I’ve been waiting for the longest time
  Released by Superpang.
• Karen Vogt – Little Pink Fluffy Clouds – C
• Rodrigo Stradiotto & Karen Vogt – Noctilucent – reworks
  EP feat. reworks by zakè, Maiya Hershey, Ossa, Belly Full of Stars and The Green Kingdom.
• Karen Vogt – Little Pink Fluffy Clouds – B
• Jupi/ter & Karen Vogt – All Heart
  Compilation Sustain Series, Vol. 3, released by Ambientologist.
• Karen Vogt & Mottle – Time Will Grant You Space
  Compilation Sustain Series, Vol. 3, released by Ambientologist.
• Karen Vogt – Little Pink Fluffy Clouds – A
• Yotam Avni and Karen Vogt – Voices
  Released by AVNIart.
• Recue and Galán/Vogt – Bright and Ascending
  Compilation Sonic Landscapes, released by EC Underground
• Rodrigo Stradiotto & Karen Vogt – Noctilucent, single, re-mastered
• Karen Vogt – The less I say, the more I hear
  Compilation Songs For Ukrayina, released by Audiosport Records
• Karen Vogt – I Know It Is Hard
  Compilation Healing Together: A Compilation For Mental Health Recovery, released by PITP
• Karen Vogt – Now and Then, Again
  Cassette only release on Stellar Frequencies.
• Rodrigo Stradiotto & Karen Vogt – Sunyashniki
  Compilation Siren Songs: Solidarity with Ukraine, released by Mailbox
• Karen Vogt – Every Feeling (feat. Cedrick Eymenier)
  Compilation ДОДОМУ II. Released by Додому
• Karen Vogt – Light Must Come
  Compilation “For Ukraine, Vol. I, released by Headphone Commute
• Karen Vogt – Light from Far Away
• Karen Vogt – In Sheltered Places
• Karen Vogt – The Fading Light in Everyone

2021

• Heligoland & She Owl – Please Fall In Love With Me (Robin Guthrie Version)
• Karen Vogt – Almost Nowhere
• Karen Vogt – Now / Again / Whenever
• Galán/Vogt – The Sweet Wait
  Collaboration between Pepo Galán and Karen Vogt, released by Editions Furioso.
• Karen Vogt – Suspire
• Karen Vogt – Heartsease
• The Green Kingdom – Empyrean, guest vocals on “Another Sky,” released by Dronarivm
• Karen Vogt – Every Feeling (feat. Cedrick Eymenier)
• Heligoland – This Quiet Fire, released by Editions Furioso
• Rodrigo Stradiotto & Karen Vogt – Noctilucent Compilation “Music for Another Sky“. Released by Mailbox.

2020

• Pepo Galán & Karen Vogt – Daily Nightmare
  Compilation Slow Sketch, Vol.2, released by El Muelle Records
• Benoît Pioulard with Pepo Galán & Karen Vogt – Try to be (more) realistic
  Compilation Sustain Series, Vol. 1, by Ambientologist
• Epic 45 – Cropping the Aftermath, guest vocals on “Endless”
  Released by Wayside & Woodland Recordings
• Thesis Recurring – Infinite Loop #145
• Karen Vogt – I Just Want To Feel
• Karen Vogt – We’re Floating
  Appeared on compilation From Our Corners and later self-released
• Karen Vogt – I Just Want to Feel (exclusive single)
  Collaboration with She Owl and anonymous voices
• Thesis Recurring – Infinite Loop #106

2019

• Bückle/Vogt – Before We Rise
  Collaboration between Philipp Bückle and Karen Vogt, released by Editions Furioso
• Akira Rabelais – cxvi, guest vocals on within bending sickles compass come

2018

• Philipp Bückle – Paintings, guest vocals on “Figures On A Road Through The Woods”
  Released by Moving Furniture Records

2017

• Heligoland – Coriallo

2013

• Heligoland – Sainte Anne
• Robert Babicz – The Owl And The Butterfly, guest vocals on “Flow”

2012

• Heligoland – Bethmale
• BFW Recordings – The chain (volume one) Track Enthrall

2011

• Robert Babicz – “Moments,” guest vocals

2010

• Heligoland – All Your Ships Are White
• Heligoland/Les disques du 7eme Ciel – Two Summers
  Compilation, track: “The Whole Way Round The Circle

2008

• David Bridie – Succumb (Deluxe Edition), guest vocals on The Healing
• Kurosawa – Your Star Has Fallen Over

2007

• Machine Translations – Seven Seven, background vocals on Oh Ma The Sea Is Rising

2006

• Heligoland – A Street Between Us
• The Pollen Choir – Last Trip to the Sun, background vocals on Addison’s Way

2004

• Season – Avatar, guest vocals on Throw Me To The Sky

2003

• Heligoland – Shift These Thoughts

2002

• Heligoland – Along The Snowline, 7” single on Steady Cam Records

2001

• Heligoland – Separate, 7” single on Steady Cam Records

2000

• Heligoland – Heligoland, debut five-track CD EP