Frollein Smilla

In the organizer's words:

Frollein Smilla thrives on stylistic, instrumental and linguistic variety. What she doesn't like are pigeonholes. Because this is obviously about music: one of the few areas around which no insurmountable boundaries have yet been drawn. Something that should belong to no one and at the same time to everyone. A band between lightness and joie de vivre, political-poetic cynicism, dance and forgetting time. A project that touches, brings together and sweeps you away and deliberately ignores genre definitions, which is one of the characteristics of this group. But for all their diversity, anyone who has ever enjoyed the captivating FROLLEIN SMILLA sound will always recognize it.

Frollein Smilla can look back on a wealth of stage experience and played up to 60 concerts in 2019, including winning the Freiburg Ladder Newcomer Award. With Golden Future, Freak Cabaret and Great Disaster, they already have three albums on the market and their fourth album KEEP SMILING will be released in September 2024. This time there are far more German-language songs; one more hit-suspicious than the other.

The fantastic new thing from the capital. An eight-piece band with horns. The sonic result is so diverse that it is impossible to categorize this urban city orchestra stylistically. The pressure and dynamics of the album are constantly changing, lush opulence alternates with sparse minimalism, sensitive emotional introversion is replaced by super-cool nonchalance and this again by uninhibitedly exuberant Latin Americana. They can set the mood like the 17 Hippies, but also alternative pop swing á la late Chumbawamba. They can play outrageously charismatic pop chansons like the Penny Princess and even jazz - but more in the style of La Brass Banda. One could add many more facets and still not come close to capturing the enormous sound palette: The album title "Freak Cabaret" says nothing at all and therefore says everything.

Peter Matzke, Blitz