Reading - Becoming a Wolf
Thu, Oct 05
|Sternen Café & Bar
Katharina Morello reads from her book "Becoming a Wolf - an Afghan Life Story"


ZEIT & ORT
Oct 05, 2023, 7:30 PM
Sternen Café & Bar, Dorfpl. 8, 7208 Malans, Switzerland
INFOS
The skillful playing in the border area between folk music tradition and innovative ideas is the trademark of the formation «Gläuffig».
Similar to artists for whom gravity seems to not exist, the band «Gläuffig» juggles with Alpine folk music, with familiar patterns and common clichés. This sounds sometimes light-footed and playful, sometimes down-to-earth and almost crude, but always paired with a high degree of musicality and joy of playing.
Rooted and innovative
Mathias Landtwing (clarinet), Fränggi Gehrig (accordion), Lukas Gernet (piano) and Pirmin Huber (bass) came together in 2008 to form "Gläuffig". All of their musical roots lie in folk music, but they have completed different courses at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (folk music, jazz, classical music, composition) and have developed into virtuoso instrumentalists. Conscious of their own origins, they want to give traditional music a new interpretation and substance, while still showing the cultural asset of folk music the care it deserves.
"journeyman's journey"
In 2018 and 2019, this idea resulted in four compositions per musician, which was released as an album at the end of 2021 under the name "Gesellenwanderung". On the tour of the same name, Gläuffig presented sixteen new, self-composed and innovative pieces with lively, original elements from various musical genres and thus set new standards. Conscious of their own origins, traditional music is given a new interpretation and substance, but the cultural asset of folk music is given the necessary care. Sometimes it sounds light-footed and playful, sometimes down-to-earth and almost coarse, but always paired with a high degree of musicality and joy of playing. The "Gesellenwanderung" program opens up new dimensions for lovers of traditional folk culture as well as those interested in contemporary sounds.
performances
«Gläuffig» regularly performs at concerts and at renowned festivals, including the Tonhalle Festival for new folk music «Stubete am See», the Jazz Night in Zug, the Zug Accordion Festival, the Alpenklang Festival in the Zentrum Paul Klee Bern, the «Alpentöne» festival in Altdorf and the Suisse Diagonales Jazz Festival in Lucerne.
15th anniversary in 2023
In autumn 2023, the four musicians from central Switzerland will go on tour again with their new, upcoming album. The new program will be called "Momentum", with new original compositions in the border area between folk music tradition and sometimes radical extensions of tonal, harmonic, melodic and rhythmic forms.