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Quadro Nuevo has recorded a new album: "It's different than anything before"

2022-05-13T04:13:52.367Z


Quadro Nuevo has recorded a new album: "It's different than anything before" Created: 05/13/2022, 06:00 By: Sabine Hermsdorf-Hiss The musicians of Quadro Nuevo on board the brigantine "Florette". © Quadro Nuevo The music ensemble Quadro Nuevo has recorded a new album. It is called "Odyssey - A Journey into the Light" and will be presented in the Hollerhaus. Irschenhausen – What do Odysseus, K


Quadro Nuevo has recorded a new album: "It's different than anything before"

Created: 05/13/2022, 06:00

By: Sabine Hermsdorf-Hiss

The musicians of Quadro Nuevo on board the brigantine "Florette".

© Quadro Nuevo

The music ensemble Quadro Nuevo has recorded a new album.

It is called "Odyssey - A Journey into the Light" and will be presented in the Hollerhaus.

Irschenhausen – What do Odysseus, King of Ithaca, Aeneas and the music ensemble Quadro Nuevo have in common?

They all embarked on the great journey.

After the Trojan War, Odysseus wanted to return home – but he only managed to do so after ten years of wandering around.

Aeneas, in turn, was expelled and had to find a new home.

And Quadro Nuevo?

They boarded the old brigantine "Florette" owned by the Wolfratshausen couple Ron and Nicole Haynes.

Their mission: to search for connections between myth and the present.

They are now presenting the results of their "Journey into the Light" in collaboration with the Pasinger Fabrik at Lia Schneider-Stöckl in the Hollerhaus.

Icarus' flight to freedom: A work by Count René van der Voorden.

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The destination of the already experienced musicians was the Aeolian Islands north of Sicily in September 2021.

The approximately 30 companions of Mulo Francel, Chris Gall, DD Lowka and Andreas Hinterseher could not have been more diverse: in addition to other musicians, there was a biologist, a crime writer, a yoga master, several photographers, art historians and Homer specialists who understood ancient Greek, as well as a brain researcher of the Berlin Charité on the trail of the heroes from Homer's stories.

What's left of it?

What references can be made to current issues such as climate change, environmental pollution, war and flight?

In order to find answers to these questions, scenes from Odysseus' story were recreated in different roles at the traditional locations and filmed.

But what would the situation be like now?

Would Poseidon, god of the sea, once wearing a squid as a headdress, now be crowned with plastic waste and other debris?

Or would the sorceress Circe be in a junkyard today?

Old stories meet new music

Inspired by this trip, songs, texts and lots of photos and videos were created.

"The album is definitely different than anything before," say Quadro Nuevo, who are considered the European answer to Argentine tango, about their work.

In addition to improvisations, there are ballads and even a lullaby for the fallen Icarus on the album.

So to speak: Old stories meet new music.

The program on Saturday

The Hollerhaus in Irschenhausen is presenting three extraordinary cultural events on Saturday, May 14th.

At 5 p.m., in cooperation with the Pasinger Fabrik, the vernissage of the exhibition "Odyssey - a journey into the light" begins with photos by Annette Hempfling, Rene van der Voorden and Mike Meyer.

Thomas Linsmayer, Annette Hempfling and Mulo Francel take over the introduction.

At 6 p.m. there will be an introduction to “The Odyssey and its meaning to this day” with discussion, music and the author and classical scholar Albert von Schirnding.

Other participants are Thomas Linsmayer, Munich cultural worker (Pasinger Fabrik, Ebenböck-Haus, Salon im Lehel), Oliver Hochkeppel, Italy specialist, director of the Deutsches Theater and philosopher, historian and culture journalist for the Süddeutsche Zeitung, and Mulo Francel from Quadro Nuevo.

At 7 p.m., the book “Odyssey – A Journey into Light”, which has just been published by Munich-based Volk-Verlag, will be presented for the first time.

Michael Volk, owner of the publishing house, will speak, while Mulo Francel will provide the musical accompaniment with his saxophone.

We ask that you register by calling 0 81 78/44 08.

The exhibition can be seen on Saturdays and Sundays from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. until May 29.

Speaking of Icarus: This was also the inspiration for the cover of "Odyssey - A Journey into the Light".

According to legend, Icarus and his father Daedalus were held captive by King Minos on Crete.

Since an escape across the seas was not possible, both wanted to fly away like birds.

Daedalus invented wings by gluing feathers to a frame with wax.

Before taking off, he warned his son not to fly too high - the sun could melt the wax.

It happened as it had to happen: Icarus dared to climb too high and fell.

Also read: This is how it is to live on a two-master in the Mediterranean

The musicians reenacted this flight with its tragic end – albeit with wings made from life jackets that they had fished out of the Mediterranean.

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