“Uwe feels weak and only wants one thing: a little power.” He finds a few who feel the same way he does. But the music feels something completely different. Three, four minutes, 1000 ideas, a jittery punk chorus, in between somehow some chanson and the future sound of the eighties, but from today. Uwe and his fellow non-thinkers dream of “golden, brown times”: “People hunt on the heath until I finally drive them away.” Music can hardly respond better to what is currently happening in this Germany, which is dark in spirit and spirit.
Ira Blazejewska wrote her first songs while studying, and after that she had a solid opera career, but with an Alt-68er in Bordeaux. Back in Germany, she realized that the opera business was going differently than she had hoped, so she decided to do her own thing. Or better: your own things. Art events implementing all sectors, various music projects, Putin. At the suggestion of a gallery owner, she painted 30 Putin portraits based on images from the newspapers and media, clairvoyant, profound, multi-layered images, the exhibition became a book, that was in 2017. The war, says Blazejewska, began in 2014.
Ira Blazejewska, equipped with German-Ingushetic roots, a dark voice full of bright silver shine and the ability for awake, political indignation, is now sitting obediently next to Tuncay Acar on the sofa in the Habibi kiosk at the Kammerspiele; the two talk about the loss of freedom and the places for it, talk about “dystopians”. Name of her record, from which she will turn three songs into theatrical events unplugged, but with three musicians – the release party with a big line-up is on January 25th in import-export.
Originally Blazejewska was looking for a different producer for each song, but now Frankie Chinasky combines the desired diversity. The songs are breathtaking, angry, sarcastic, but grandiose. The title refers to learning to actively deal with everything that is bad, and to do so with attitude. The brown caterpillar Glutton eats its way into society, Marie bakes cakes out of her tears. Text, composition, everything Blazejewska, everything big, wide, open, there’s Weill, there’s Stravinsky, electro, punk – stunning.
Dystopianern Concert and Party, Thursday, January 25th, 8 p.m., Import Export, Schwer-Reiter-Str. 2h, import-export.cc