Ätna

Since their second album, »Push Life«, ÄTNA has been on everyone's lips – and is now one of the most sought-after music duos in Europe: Inéz Schaefer and Demian Kappenstein have climbed to the peak of the volcano with wings instead of feet and are now dancing on the edge of the crater to their completely unique sound of lush indietronica, delicate art pop and R&B deconstructions. They resist stylistic conventions with a big grin and push the limits of what we in this country or elsewhere tried to define under the term pop music. Shocking expectations as the modus operandi?

For their performance at the Dresdner Musikfestspiele in the Kulturpalast, the two will receive support from the Dresdner Kapellsolisten, with which they will present old and new songs in an unprecedented form. Music from another sphere. One in which art is thought and made in a freer, wilder, more real, larger-than-life way. Together with the Dresdner Kapellsolisten and the arranger and conductor Gordon Hamilton, a very unique sound world is created that makes you almost wish you had a third ear to be able to hear the complex arrangements even more precisely. There is no standard German pop here. Instead: Artful demand. ÄTNA introduce themselves as avant-garde sound artists with a fine feel for catchy hooks and driving rhythms.

With arranger Gordon Hamilton, ÄTNA are now taking their musical and aesthetic DNA a step further. It is logical that boundaries inevitably have to be broken: those of genres, but also stylistic conventions of all kinds and long-outdated ideas of what music can and should be able to do. In a world in which tolerance for ambiguity, i. e. enduring ambiguous situations, is becoming an increasingly important skill, the Dresdner Kapellsolisten,Gordon Hamilton and ÄTNA are inventing the soundtrack. New, surprising, courageous, danceable, playful, contradictory, multi-leaf and with a love of detail, demanding, sensual, accessible and rewarding for everyone who embarks on the journey of discovery.