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Promise “a completely new show” in the Gautinger Bosco: the members of the band Jamaram with their musical partner Jahcoustix (front).
We are dinosaurs.
For us, success is not measured in click numbers.
Jamaram bassist Benni Beblo © Jamaram
Gauting is going big: the Bosco wants to attract more younger audiences with a series of concerts without seats.
At the start, the district's flagship band Jamaram will play with singer Jahcoustix.
The combo based in Weßling is releasing an album this year and is already working on the next one.
Gauting/Weßling - “We feel honored that we have been chosen to drive people off their seats.” Having been chosen, Benni Beblo, bassist from Jamaram, expresses the anticipation of an extraordinary concert in Gauting on Thursday, February 8th. out of.
The reggae crossover band from Weßling, known throughout Germany and internationally for many years, is opening a new series at Bosco.
It's called "Vielklang unchained", so it's supposed to be "unchained", danceable and, above all, without seats.
A standing audience is everyday life in Munich locations, but a rarity outside the big city - and a novelty in the Gautinger Kulturhaus.
“The series is a good addition to our program.
We also want to bring a younger audience into our house,” says Lukas Zellner, who is responsible for public relations at Bosco.
However, the concert “Jamaram meets Jahcoustix” (with singer Dominik Haas) is a pilot for the new format.
Four more appearances are planned for the 2024/25 season from September to July.
The organizers don't want to reveal who will be on the Bosco stage until later in the spring.
The concert in Gauting will not only be exclusive because of the lack of seating.
Jamaram member Benni Beblo announces: “It will be a premiere evening.
We are playing the program for 2024 for the first time - a completely new show.” Songs from the joint album with Jahcoustix entitled “Morning”, which will not be officially released until April 12th, will also be heard.
On Friday, the band released the second single "Be You" - an intimate ballad that shows that Jamaram can not only party, but also heartbreak.
According to the announcement, the songs address “isolation through social media, propaganda and shouting while at the same time very shortened but highly emotional discourses”.
But: “The message remains positive, in the end it’s about treating the planet and treating each other well as people, in small and large ways.”
Big release show on April 25th in Munich
The release with “long-time homie and reggae veteran” Haas will be celebrated in a big way at the Munich Backstage Werk on April 25th.
In addition, Jamaram is already preparing for the next album.
According to Beblo, if everything goes well, it could be released in spring 2025.
“We had a lot of time during the pandemic and have already recorded around 140 demos,” says the bassist, who lives in Wörthsee.
Some of them are finished songs, but above all they are passages that can be combined in new ways.
The 45-year-old explains the range that will also be reflected on the new record - from 80s reggae to Latino, cross-over and world music to hip-hop, dubstep or electro.
It's not for nothing that Bosco's announcement says: "Jamaram rides the genre rollercoaster through Gauting."
The career of what is now the district's flagship band began around the turn of the millennium in the rehearsal room of Beblo's parents' home in Hochstadt.
Even though individual band members now live in Mannheim, Rosenheim and Mühldorf, the eight-member group, which toured Europe, Africa and South America and collected sound fragments everywhere, is still firmly rooted in the Five Lakes Region.
In 2019 she won the district's culture prize.
The studio and rehearsal room are in Hochstadt, the record company, music publisher and management are in Weßling.
We are a band that never actually rehearses.
We all have family lives and no time for it anymore.
Benni Beblo, bassist of Jamaram
“We are a band that never actually rehearses.
We all have a family life and no longer have time for it,” says Benni Beblo.
But Jamaram have found a strategy to continue making music together successfully and productively even after 24 years.
The band arranges to meet in Hochstadt for entire weeks of rehearsals and production and then gets creative.
Always, says Beblo: “We simply don’t have any inhibitions about writing.”
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Jamaram play on Zeitgeist, Spotify & Co., and are currently even fulfilling the requirement of releasing a song every six weeks if possible in order to stay in the listeners' heads.
“But we’re actually dinosaurs,” says Beblo.
“For us, success is not measured in click numbers.
It’s always about the musical project.”
By the way, you can experience Jamaram closer than ever on March 9th in the small Village pub in Habach (Weilheim-Schongau district).
The concert in Gauting on Thursday, February 8th starts at 8 p.m.
Entry costs 30 euros, those up to 25 years old pay twelve euros.
Tickets are available at (0 89) 45 23 85 80, by email at kartenservice@theaterforum.de or at bosco-gauting.reservix.de.
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