In the artist's words:

"One would have to...". The best stories often begin with this sentence.

Or, as in this case, an extraordinary music project: HERRENGREY: Waterkant Suite.

The Waterkant Suite is a musical journey through time. A sonorous homage to the "most beautiful city in the world" and at the same time a musical monument to its port, the engine that drives the Elbe metropolis 24/7.

The Waterkant Suite lives through its highly individual poetry, with which the three musicians of HERRENGREY tell exciting stories in German: From the recent history of Hamburg and its people, but always looking to the future.

The band members had not been on stage together for over forty years. Dieter Voigt and Gérard Rudschuck last played together at the end of the 1970s at the invitation of the Goethe Institute in Paris. Afterwards, the two musicians produced some songs in the style of the

Maschen to produce a few songs in the style of Neue Deutsche Welle - and parted ways in the early 80s. As is often the case, dreams burst, new ones emerge and everyone needed the space for their own ideas.

When Dieter and Gérard met again by chance at the beginning of 2020, they were already planning their "Unruhestands" project Waterkant Suite after the second beer . Gérard's brother, pianist Kurt Rudschuck, was quickly brought on board for the studio recordings.

The brothers, who have been making music together since childhood, are no strangers to each other:

They were founders of the bands Pago Pago and Monkey Business, among others. Kurt toured for years with the exceptional German jazz musician Joachim Kühn.

The Waterkant Suite unites the beat of the wild 60s, the power of rock 'n roll, the honesty of folk, the progress of the avant-garde and the melancholy of tango under one musical roof. "Chanson Nouvelle" is HERRENGREY's credo.

Artists are special people. Dieter Voigt, frontman of HERRENGREY, knows this because he has met many of them personally. From actor Mario Adorf to photographer Peter Lindbergh and French singer ZAZ. To name just 3 of at least 300 possible examples. In addition to his long-standing job as an editor for SAT.1 in Hamburg, he has produced reports, image films, video clips and documentaries as an editor and director. In 2017, he produced the feature film "Percy - Alles muss raus" without financial support, but with enthusiastic, committed artists. The selection of its five protagonists was rather random. The parodist Jörg Knör, the singer Alin Coen, the pianist and singer YOUNEE, the Dadaist visual designer Rob Wirth and the painter and calligrapher Jeannine Platz were his victims and perpetrators at the same time. The film gets to the bottom of the artists' souls.

(Trailer Percy - Alles muss raus | Elbfabrik)

Voigt is currently writing down the memories of his childhood in Hamburg in the 50s and 60s. His father jammed with the legendary Comedian Harmonists and was a senior buyer at Norddeutscher Rundfunk. But his artistic roots were encouraged more by his mother.