Die Bäume (Florian Gass & Robert Kraiss)
18 SEPT 2021, Cologne
KUNSTVEREIN FÜR MECKLENBURG UND VORPOMMERIN IN SCHWERIN
[ART ASSOCIATION FOR MECKLENBURG AND POMERANIA IN SCHWERIN]
The Cologne band DIE BÄUME are a meeting of opposites. Since 1994, the psychiatrist and pain doctor Florian Gass and the artist Robert Kraiss have been meeting weekly for recording sessions. Their music is based on non-competence-centred improvisation, with touch points to noise, punk and traditional ethnic music. It's a free approach. An attempt to explore extremes; experimental unprotected exposure. In the course of the musical work, there is a mixture of ironically commented ethno-kitsch and 'authentic' world music up to a primitive synthesis or as German artist Stefanie Popp writes: "...from the surging feeling of the bloodstream in the veins or perhaps the digestion in the intestine. Singing from deep inside. Like the unconscious that has become sound. Or the free-flowing inner pulp.”
