Line Up: "Live in the City" Concert Series
Without freedom everything is nothing.
Absinto Orkestra always plays for freedom. Behind bars in prison, behind the flags at demonstrations, behind the moon in the sunshine. So let's set ourselves free – top and bottom, in our heads and hearts.
The band virtuosically drives through Balkan metropolises, circles the Mediterranean, and detours just before the Urals, blending eras, languages, their own with borrowed, popular songs with improvisational art. Love and transience, wit and longing, melancholy and intoxication.
Freedom is when the four quarter notes of a measure come together in a friendly way, making room for a fifth or sixth quarter note. When Western harmonies are embraced by jazz scales in the valley of Klezmer. When lyrics break free from the shackles of language and we still understand them. We are so free – Fulitschai!
For 20 years, the Absinto Orkestra has been telling its stories of freedom, big and small, together and each musician in his own way: the violinist oscillates between Gershwin and Grapelli, the guitarist plucks Django Reinhardt on his moustache, the saxophone races through the bebop rollercoaster, and the singing mandolin player has dug his Bessarabian roots deep into the soil of the man on the double bass's Russian homeland.
