German Rock Prize 2019 and 2023
Best Progressive Band


We are very happy about this important and recognized award. Many thanks to all supporters who accompanied us on the way up to here!
different image project is a German rock band led by Ruth and Jorge Klapproth (keyboards and vocals), guitarists Jannik Geiß and Claus Goose and drummer Mischa Wyboris. The group is based in the west of Germany between Aachen and Mönchengladbach. 
The group's music can be categorised as rock with progressive elements. Classic rock elements can be found as well as sacred chorales, hard guitar riffs, driving rhythms and sensitive vocals. The melodies are always catchy and have a high recognition value. 

Listeners of the radio station WDR 2 voted the musicians ‘Best Band in the West’ in September 2019. 
The band project different image project was honoured by the national jury of the German Pop Foundation for the German Rock and Pop Prize 2019 and 2023 as ‘Best Progressive Band’. In four other categories, the band won awards for ‘Best Arrangement’, ‘Best Pop Song’, ‘Best Music Video’ and ‘Best Rock Singer’. 

In 2017 and 2020, the band released two albums, TOTAL ECLIPSE and FREEDOM, as well as the EP IMAGE 1 in 2018. 
The new album EMBERS OF TIME was released on 20 September 2024. A first single release with the song WHAT HAVE YOU DONE and the accompanying music video have been released so far.

History

Preliminary end

After years of creating music together, the paths of the musicians broke up at the end of their studies. They all took themselves across whole Germany in existing musical projects or started their own.

Image 1

The band "Image 1" was one of the new music projects by the singer Jorge Klapproth. Together with the guitarists Klaus Linde and Ulrich Böckels, the keyboardist Markus Schnabel, the drummer Matthias Schneidawind and the background singer Ruth Timter, many new songs were created, which found their way into music video productions and studio recordings. Among other things, the EP IMAGE 1 was created in the Aschaffenburg tunefish studio.

Total Eclipse

After the end of "Image 1" Jorge Klapproth brought the core team from "different image" back together and they recorded the album TOTAL ECLIPSE with songs from their time together in Munich with keyboardist and singer Ruth Klapproth in Erkelenz at Nysterbach studio.

Refoundation as different image project

The musical roots of the group around Ruth and Jorge Klapproth and Claus Goose can be found in different image project. The album TOTAL ECLIPSE was remixed in their own Red Carpet Studio and released in 2017 under their own label and publisher CMC ECLIPSE Publishing. The EP IMAGE 1 followed in 2018. 
While working on the new album FREEDOM, which was released on 9 April 2020, drummer Mischa Wyboris joined the band. Bassist Olaf Renner supported the project.
So far, the band has released three albums, TOTAL ECLIPSE (2017)  and FREEDOM (2020) , as well as the EP IMAGE 1 (2018).
While working on the new album EMBERS OF TIME, guitarist Jannik Geiß joined the band. The album was released on 20 September 2024. A first single release with the song WHAT HAVE YOU DONE has been released so far.

Awards
The listeners of the radio station WDR 2 have the musicians in September 2019 "Best band in the west" chosen.
In the same year the band in Siegen/Germany was chosen by the national jury of the German Pop Foundation for the German Rock and Pop Prize 2019 as "Best Progressive Band".
The band won awards in four other categories for "Best Arrangement", "Best Pop Song", "Best Music Video" and as "Best Rock Singer". This repeated in 2023.