Susa Berivan from Berlin sings freely from the heart. And with her guitar, she can clearly be classified as a singer-songwriter, without falling into the cliché traps.
Berivan's virtuoso voice meanders in the long reverb - accompanied by Gigi Guillottini on bass and drums, cinematic soundscapes are created that are both retro and future at the same time.
Influences from Tracy Chapman and Björk, Amália Rodrigues and Johnny Cash flow magically into each other and create a unique amalgam:
Susa Berivan's songs are as idiosyncratic as they are in-depth, deeply melancholic and defiantly full of life. Live, the result is a surprising emotionality and deceleration in times of digital overstimulation.
Berivan is also venturing into new linguistic territory: having previously sung in English, some of the new songs turn out to be poetic outliers in German.
Susa Berivan has opened for the Georgian jazz sensation Nino Katamadze, the French alternative band 'Moriarty', sung backing vocals for numerous bands, played electric guitar for glam rockers Jemek Jemowit/Zygmunt Blask and sang hot jazz with members of the Syncopation Orchestra. She has released several bootleg albums - and is touring throughout Germany in October.
We can look forward to a front woman who is in the clear tradition of singer-songwriters and who moves in surprising directions: lively and calm, profound and invigorating.
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