Meret & The Tiny Teeth - Le Grand Ordinaire

In the organizer's words:

Line Up:
Vocals, saw, homophones: Meret Becker
Glass harp, piano, accordion: Ben Jeger
Guitar, banjo, mandolin: Buddy Sacher
Cello: Marie-Claire Schlameus
plus special guest performance (TBC)

"Le Grand Ordinaire" is a collage of musical images and surreal songs that tell of travelers. The longing to run away together, departure, escape - inside and out, never arriving, fear of the unknown & fear of being a stranger... The recurring theme is a circus that makes its way like a vague memory. "The magician does the tricks, the audience does the magic," says Meret. What at first sounds like a cheesy statement is a fact. The magician manipulates objects and exploits human perceptual weaknesses. For the audience, however, things can float in space, disappear, reappear and much more. The spectator is the actual magician. Meret wants to make use of this ability and, together with her band "The Tiny Teeth", brings musical images to the stage, comparable to a soundtrack to an inner movie. On the one hand, it consists of miniatures that sound like music from a music box or a snow globe. The romantic and bizarre instruments of musical clowns are used here: music box, children's piano, glass harp and singing saw. They tell of the sailors among the stage people, who speak all the languages, often at the same time, and who hold on to the cliffs with all their might, standing upright, with tangled hair. And the tent creaks and groans like a sinking ship, but not a single rat gets off the ship, because it smells - no - stinks of adventure.

Meret Becker (a Berliner from a family of artists with German, Danish and Polish-Yiddish roots) writes concept albums. She enters her own worlds, which revolve around shifts in reality, transience, the love of human flaws and insatiable longings. Over the years, she has created her own sound cosmos, which clearly shows that her musical career once began in Berlin's vaudeville and cabarets.