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Dos Almas

babeln

a Colombian-Jewish evening by and with Max Loeb and Dos Almas

A man enters the stage - and a world unfolds. With "babeln" we listen to a concert - and encounter the unknown, which seems strangely familiar. Max Loeb García takes us on a musical journey to his mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. As we follow him along the paths of his ancestors, we also hear the Babylonian coexistence of the languages that shaped his family: German, Spanish, Yiddish... We accompany Max to the Colombian villages where his German-Jewish family has found a new home, and in doing so we unknowingly connect with our own history.

In the compositions created especially for this programme, Max Loeb García organically combines the temperament, melancholy and liveliness of Jewish and Colombian culture. We have never heard music like this before! But like his stories, it sounds strangely familiar. Max has found wonderful musicians for this project, some of whom have been with him for a long time:

Guido Richarts on double bass and Eduardo Mota on percussion create a rhythmic foundation that makes it difficult for the audience to sit still. Martina Stoye unfolds almost spherical cascades on the accordion. Vinzenz Wieg seems to have the soul of a faun, and with his virtuosity on the clarinet he creates his own space in which childlike playfulness and ancient experience can meet. Last but not least, the composer himself takes us through the stages and moods of his life with his voice and concert guitar.

The fact that this programme is more than just a concert is also thanks to Christian R. Schmidt. He has combined lyrics and theatrical images to create an arc of tension that allows the audience to wander through a whole garden of emotions. The evening lingers long in the memory. It leaves behind quiet images of places and people that remain in the memory like good acquaintances.

Max Loeb García (guitar, voice and composition), Vinzenz Wieg (clarinet), Martina Stoye (accordion), Guido Richarts (double bass and voice), Eduardo Mota (percussion), Christian R. Schmidt (director), Birgit Schuh (photo), Martin Büst (poster design).

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Stringed Compass

Paths that cross. Two worlds enriching each other. Travellers meeting, interacting and learning from each other. The alliance of two different cultures, where the joy of making music together is the point of convergence; two opposite poles that attract each other through their differences, increasing the intersection to create a new undiscovered musical world. A desert tango, a Turkish bluegrass, a Latin belly dancer... all images that emerge from the music. Thabet Azzawi (Syria) and Max Loeb García (Colombia) use the melodic fretless oud and the harmonious rhythmic guitar to transport the audience into these musical fantasy worlds.

Stringed Compass plays their own compositions

Videoclips:    Harmonious Heterosis      Migrant Migrane      Petrichor

Mlokawka

The Sorbian word Mlokawka contains the terms - milk - which symbolically refers to the Sorbian roots, and - kawka - the woman with sparkling ideas and fantasies in her head. Singer Walburga Walde and guitarist Max Loeb García move artistically and experimentally between traditional song, jazz and new music, using their own compositions and improvisations to set Sorbian and German poetry by Sorbian writers to music. The poetic work is not only given a musical guise - it also gains in expressiveness

Audio sample:       Mej ty dobru noc