Trotzdem: LEYA + Violeta Garcia & Hora Lunga

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TROTZDEM is a concert series for jazz, improvisation and experimental music. The focus is on formats that develop a calm, atmospheric density and create an intimate space. For each evening, two to three live acts are invited to perform in the space in different ways - not just frontally on stage, but from different perspectives and in changing arrangements. This creates new listening situations between listening session, concert and collective immersion. Nevertheless, it is an invitation to consciously engage with irritation, friction and new perspectives.

LEYA

[LEYA, the avant-pop duo of harpist Marilu Donovan and vocalist/violinist Adam Markiewicz, have defied expectations throughout their career, obtaining a singular, legendary status for their unmistakably beautiful and disturbing work. Through two studio albums, two EPs, a mixtape, a porn, and a flurry of collaborations, they have traced almost every genre of contemporary music. The duo's long list of cohorts includes Eartheater, Actress, Ecco2K, Brooke Candy (via PornHub), Sega Bodega, Varg2TM, claire rousay, Okay Kaya, and many more.

[LEYA, the avant-pop duo of harpist Marilu Donovan and vocalist and violinist Adam Markiewicz, have consistently exceeded expectations throughout their career, earning a unique, legendary status with their unmistakably beautiful yet disturbing work. With two studio albums, two EPs, a mixtape, a porno and a multitude of collaborations, they have covered almost every genre of contemporary music. The duo's long list of collaborators includes Eartheater, Actress, Ecco2K, Brooke Candy (via PornHub), Sega Bodega, Varg2TM, claire rousay, Okay Kaya and many more.

Violeta García & Hora Lunga

[I'll Wait For You In The Car Park", the first full length collaboration between Argentinian cellist, improviser and composer Violeta García and Swiss musician and composer Hora Lunga, is a work of extremes. Drawing from the realities of life on two continents, and embodying moods ranging from stoic desire to violent bursts, the album enciphers so-called ordinary moments from everyday life into an alluring collection of musical scenes. Seemingly inconspicuous moments are condensed into a tale of synchronicity: colliding time zones and seasons, metropolitan rhythms raining down onto a glacier's ice field, exploring places through street view, the serendipity of loitering at a kiosk. As such, "l'll Wait For You In The Car Park" brings documentary film essays to mind that carefully observe the private and everyday occurrences.

Violeta García and Hora Lunga crossed paths by chance in 2023 and began discussing and sharing music shortly afterwards. What started as a loose exchange of ideas, sending back and forth sketches and demos between South America and Europe, grew into several studio sessions in 2024. Being sucked into a "quite extraordinary flow", the two musicians recorded, arranged and intervened on a level playing field, using the studio as a playground to record musical layers and interweave them with field recordings and audio notes gathered over the course of a year. Speaking a kindred musical language, they quickly realized how their ideas clung to each other like two familiar souls, complementing, intertwining and merging.

From gauzy and eerie textures, musical miniatures floating through time, howling and screaming strings, to tumbling and thundering basses - the sound of the ordinary shapes a body that vibrates, writhes and breathes.