Valk-Mahnig-Manderscheid-Sternal is a band of musicians coming from different generations. An „Island tour through changeable seas“, as metaphor of the project‘s musical structure, runs like a thread through the release „POP“. Its „natural ports“ are the band‘s original works and pieces of New York based colleague Thomas Heberer, but „open bays“ are compositions of Claude Debussy and Karlheinz Stockhausen – inspiring interpretations by Valk-Mahnig-Manderscheid-Sternal. Spontaneous improvisations during changing wind and weather complete the structure of this release. As result there is a considerable different variation of POP music: dramatic, pensive, wild, groovy, spontaneous, ecstatic and especially not streamlined or „off the rack“.