Jenny Thiele + PAULAPAULA

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 Ornella Tobar Gaete, Mel Geisler and 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. Thiele is currently working on a new German-language album, which is scheduled for release at the end of 2025.

Paula Paula

With their song "Kaputtes Gerät", Paula Paula 2023 not only won praise from Olli Schulz, Till Reiners and numerous playlist curators on Spotify, Spiegel Online, Tidal Diffus etc., but also inspired rapidly growing audiences throughout Germany on their 25-concert debut tour. For 2024, they not only have some new, previously unreleased songs in their luggage, but have also invited up to 40 more people to join the band! In each city, a local pub choir will join them and, in addition to their own songs in the supporting program, will also reinforce part of the PAULA PAULA set with brilliant backing arrangements. Demolition and freak-outs, sobs, smiles, goose bumps and fits of laughter are pre-programmed! Songwriter Marlène Colle and partner in crime Kristina Koropecki (cello, mellotron, production) had invited Gisbert zu Knyphausen (bass), Joda Förster (drums) and Daniel Freitag (synths, production) into the studio as fellow musicians to crochet their musical universe called "schade kaputt". Some describe the result as follows: "While Marlène recommended herself solo as a piano chansonnière, pretty much all styles of modern, handmade pop music are covered here between new wave, kook, folk, e-pop, chamber, dream and art pop." (Ullrich Maurer, Musikreviews)

"The best of punk with the best of chanson!" (DLF Kultur)

"Cole's talent is to process her existentialism at the tipping point with a lot of humor and a sure eye for performative contradictions in everyday life." Andreas Borcholte (Spiegel-Online)

"It hurts a little, but it's also really fun. Quite healing then." (SCHALL. Musikmagazin)

On tour, Moritz Bossmann (git), Katha Lattke (drums) and Jenny Apelmo (bass) are also part of the line-up.

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