Jenny Thiele + Band - Killing Time

In the organizer's words:

Jenny Thiele is an independent musician from Cologne. She writes songs and creates sounds in various formations.

For her current album Killing time (2022, Hey!blau Records), she did most of the production herself and released it independently. She is accompanied live by multi-instrumentalist Philipp Ullrich. The music is handmade and digs deep, the accompanying tour is self-organized.

Thiele's crystal-clear voice takes center stage, the reduced lyrics tell of longing distance and strange feelings. The music, which is sometimes reminiscent of Chris Isaak or Feist, modulates merrily along and stirs up emotional dust without making any big arm movements.

The songs are accompanied by poems, such as Zeit, which Thiele has just published as a zine together with illustrator Helen Karl.

At the end of 2023, the EP Jenny Thiele Haldern Sessions was released digitally, featuring three songs from the current album and one unreleased song as a live studio version.

With the desire to create her sound authentically and independently, the musician keeps leaving the nest she has made: as part of the experimental electro duo AnnaOtta, Jenny Thiele explores electronic sounds and beats based on her voice. Her solo project celebrates minimalist instrumentation, warm synth sounds and hypnotic drum loops.

She also spent five years on the road as a keyboardist and singer with the indie band Fortuna Ehrenfeld and toured the club circuit in German-speaking countries.