Tsunami Sessions: Faira x GINA ÉTÉ

In the organizer's words:

Tsunami Sessions

24.02.2025 - Faira & Gina ÉTÉ

Doors: 19:00
Start: 20:00

Ticket price: 10-15 Euro

Faira

"Complex authenticity - There are singer/songwriters whose songs and voices are primarily pleasing - and there are others: Musicians who dare to experiment despite the conventional framework. Sophia Spies undoubtedly belongs to the second type." Oliver Minck, Stadtrevue Köln, issue 09/2020

Faira, Sophia Spies' experimental folk project, breaks with traditional song structures and challenges the usual listening experience. The 33-year-old self-taught musician from Cologne creates her very own version of folk with her daring compositions. Faira's songs are about family, vulnerability and hope and reflect the trials and tribulations of life. With her soft and sombre voice, she sings her way out of the human heaviness of being into a permeable lightness. In June 2024 Faira released her EP "Skies, Waters" on Papercup Records.

faira.com

instagram.com/faira.music/

facebook.com/fairamusic/

https://soundcloud.com/faira

https://faira-music.bandcamp.com/

Gina ÉTÉ

"Prosopagnosia is the inability to recognize people by their face." (Wikipedia)

I am many faced and twisted
I am bold and scared
I am angry and understanding And these few are just some of me

On her second album "Prosopagnosia", which will be released on Backseat in February, GINA ÉTÉ deals with classification, recognition and demarcation. She writes about being human, being a body and being born as a woman, about injuries that occur when personal boundaries and identities are not recognized and false classifications are made. And she poses the question of whether prosopagnosia is an illness or perhaps a gift?

The Zurich-based artist presents artistic hybrid pop with a political message. Take the first single "Love to Work", for example: in it, GINA ÉTÉ addresses the topic of care work - and addresses the social taboo of talking about sex work as part of it. "It's an attempt to question my learned, white, middle-class sexual morality, which stems from existing hierarchies. With 'Love to Work', I want to advocate for the recognition and appreciation of all care professions."

Her previous releases have earned the Swiss songwriter comparisons with Radiohead and Björk: rhythmically intricate, genre-fluid, with influences from classical music and jazz. It's no wonder that the viola student is regularly asked by acts to arrange for string ensemble(Sophie Hunger, Panda Lux, Evelinn Trouble) or to provide support at live shows. For example, she accompanies Swiss indie greats such as Faber, Black Sea Dahu and To Athena on tour, as well as Canadian singer-songwriter and film composer Patrick Watson.

On "Prosopagnosia", however, the focus is on GINA ÉTÉ: this time she has co-produced more intensively than ever, together with Noé Franklé and Wannes Salomé (Luwten, Klangstof). On her second album, the musician plays piano, synthesizer and guitar as well as viola. She has focused on edgy beats, spherical, expansive string arrangements and synths. Thanks to her own signature style, the album shines in many facets, like the facial expressions of a face: sometimes subtle, sometimes expressive, sometimes dark, sometimes tenderly beautiful.

"Boxes are your invention - I make my own" she makes clear in her mission statement. GINA ÉTÉ has many faces and artfully combines them on "Prosopagnosia" to create her unique hybrid pop.

https://www.ginaete.com
https://ginaete.bandcamp.com
https://www.instagram.com/gina_ete/