"mittwochs immer" - Singer/Songwriter Konzert - Die Weisse Rose
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Mittwoch 06.12.2017 - Anfangszeit: 20:00 Uhr
Kategorie: Musik
Varley
Irish singer and songwriter Claire-Ann Varley has been surrounded by music from very
early on in her life. Growing up in Dublin, she got in touch with the local music scene
through her father, who played guitar in various bands. Being raised with folk, blues and
the heritage of old traditionals, she soon picked up the guitar for herself and began to
fiddle around with first chords and melodies. It didn‘t take long until she wrote songs of her
own: „It gave me the chance to express myself, like an honest way of communication with
the world“, Claire-Ann says today.
At the age of twenty-six, after several gigs of her own in and around Dublin, playing mainly
acoustic folk music, Claire-Ann felt that it was time for her to make a change.
Intrigued by the idea of getting in touch with electronic sounds in music and incorporating
these new and exciting soundscapes into her own songs, she decided to move to Berlin:
„There were all these young and interesting artists coming up, who added something to
their music, that I hadn‘t heard before. And I wanted to explore that in my own music, too.“,
she says.
In Berlin it didn‘t take long until she met Matze Heising and Joschka Bender, two
musicians from Germany. Together they began to write songs, and very soon it became
clear, that there was a mutual understanding of what each of them wanted in their music,
and that the musical vision of Claire-Ann was more than similar to Matze‘s and Joschka‘s.
In the summer of 2017 the trio then started to play shows in the bars and on the rooftops
of Berlin to get a feel for the new songs and sounds. Soon they decided that it was the
right time to make first recordings. Moving all their instruments and mobile-studio
equipment to a shed in the countryside, they spent two weeks on arranging, recording and
finalizing their debut-EP „Roamer“.
The five songs it features explore the themes of „trying to navigate your way through
adulthood and how some of these transitions aren‘t always easy“, Claire-Ann says about
the lyrics. She writes about her reality in a world that can make you feel like it‘s turning
faster than ever, and how that can become overwhelming sometimes.
Claire-Ann’s vocals are embedded by warm acoustic guitars, mellow synths, earthy drums
and ethereal pedal steel guitar sounds.
On „Roamer“ the band manages to make music that is deeply rooted in a classical singersongwriter
and folk background but at the same time never sounds dated. There is always
that certain dash of nonconformity with the rules of these genres; a darker take on the
whole thing, at times more quirky and eerie than you‘d expect, then again taking a turn
into the more straight realms of music.
Sommerkind
Sommerkind ist ein Duo, bestehend aus Carmen Eder (Sängerin und Liedermacherin) und
Gerhard Schmitt (Gitarrist und Liedermacher).
Carmen Eder ist eine quirlige Künstlerin, die mit klarer Stimme singt, was sie betörend
ehrlich (auf Deutsch) zu Papier gebracht hat. Seit sie Gerhard Schmitt kennt, wird auch in
Berlin fleißig an Liedern geschrieben, welche in melancholische und sehnsüchtige
Gedankenwelten zwischen Illusion und Realität entführen. Gerhard Schmitt, nun auch
offiziell die zweite Hälfte des Duos, spielt dabei mit Sounds aus Pop und Folk und ergänzt
die gemütliche Liedermacher-Atmosphäre durch pure, weiche Gitarrenklänge.
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