"They are fantastic!" - Tommy Emmanuel

They play with the intensity of a band and the timbre of an orchestra. And the two guitarists manage the rare feat of completely forgetting stylistic boundaries as well as those of the instrument and conjuring up music for all the senses.

With their album "OFFROAD", released in 2005, HANDS ON STRINGS succeeded in inspiring audiences and critics alike and immediately earned themselves a leading position in the international guitar scene. This was followed by numerous invitations to festivals in the USA and many European cities from Rome to Hamburg. Their new album "Prometheus" takes you into a mystery of sounds, characterized by Arabic and South American elements as well as concert music and jazz, and forms a very unique, fascinating approach: a kind of GUITARRA NUEVA, you could say.

Thomas Fellow and Stephan Bormann are regarded as two of the most influential protagonists of the current guitar scene - Stephan not least through his publications and successful musical projects and encounters (Cristin Claas, Nils Landgren) and Thomas as a percussive one-man band with Friend 'n' Fellow and mastermind of the European Guitar Quartet. Together as HANDS ON STRINGS they offer a captivating mixture of concert music, world music and jazz - often breathtakingly virtuosic, always refreshingly new and independent. And the two musicians celebrate these pieces with a joy of playing that immediately captivates the audience.

An event organized by Pasinger Fabrik GmbH