An extraordinary Bavarian “supergroup” will bring its official program premiere (after two trial balloons) to the stage in the Lustspielhaus on Tuesday. A trio that very few would have expected, Josef Brustmann, Sebastian Horn and Benny Schäfer come from very different musical backgrounds and generations.
The 68-year-old Josef Brustmann is actually a classical musician. He learned tuba, double bass, piano and cello, studied music at the Munich University of Music and initially worked as a music teacher at a Munich high school for ten years. He became known as a musical cabaret artist – in the 1990s with the Bavarian diatonic yodeling madness (with Otto Göttler and Monika Drasch), then with the Monaco baggage. Since 2004 he has also been playing successful solo programs, he has forged projects with Roger Willemsen and Marianne Sägebrecht, and in recent years he has also been attracting attention as a poet.
52-year-old Sebastian Horn grew up with punk. His band founded at 17 banana fishbones, in which he plays bass, sings and writes lyrics, only made a name for himself regionally as a live event and from 1998 onwards was one of the most successful German indie pop and alternative rock bands with the hit “Come To Sin”. Founded as a duo with Gerd Baumann in 2012 and now expanded to a septet Three-quarter blood Horn turned to the Bavarian language and new folk music as a guest singer in the Oberkrainer parody band The Heimatdamisch a little like music cabaret.
43-year-old Benny Schäfer also started with punk as a teenager, but then found jazz through the school big band. With the quartet founded in 1997 max.bab He was one of the pioneers of modern, young German jazz. Since then he has been one of the most sought-after bassists in southern Germany, increasingly beyond the jazz sector. That’s how he plays Balloon pilot and Alien Ensemble, and last but not least, independently of each other with Horn Three-quarter blood and with Brustmann Brustmann’s desire. So he was the link and connected everyone together.
All three are united by musical curiosity. So now they sing old Bavarian folk songs like the “Tölzer Maut-Lied” or the 17-verse one with zither, guitar and bass in their own way! – Räuber-Kneissl song, “because they are brilliantly beautiful”. But also our own new songs, “that our lives write to us”https://www.sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/.”When folk music takes place in the media, it is reduced to what is entertaining and funny; yet it often has something very mysterious about it “Magical, abyssal, erotic. We want to show this whole spectrum, all the beauty and primal power that lies within,” they say.
Brustmann, Schäfer, Horn, Tuesday, September 26th, 8 p.m., Lustspielhaus, Occamstr. 8th, www.lustspielhaus.de