Susa Berivan Band – Support: Esther Koch – Cinematic Folk/ Jazz Love/ Singer-Songwriter

In the organizer's words:

Berlin native Susa Berivan sings freely from the heart. Influenced by various genres and artists - Billie Holiday, Jimi Hendrix, Björk, Ofra Haza, Johnny Cash - Berivan and her guitar clearly belong to the singer-songwriter genre, without falling into the cliché traps. Her songs are as idiosyncratic as they are in-depth, deeply melancholic and defiantly cheerful. Skilled and free, Susa Berivan gives her audience a surprising emotionality and deceleration in times of digital overstimulation.

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. Visitors to the Leipzig concert can look forward to a new release.

Berivan's virtuoso voice meanders in the long reverb, accompanied by Gigi Guillottini on bass, drums and Esther Koch on additional guitar, second voice - and occasionally an organ from the 60s!
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.

The compositions by band member and support act Esther Koch, which will be played in public for the first time on this evening, are just as bilingual. Her music is inspired by folk greats such as Laura Marling - via Elliot Smith, Nirvana and John Frusciante. Acoustic, introspective and poetic, carried by Koch's warm voice and remarkable guitar playing.

We can look forward to two frontwomen who are in the clear tradition of singer-songwriters and who each emanate in surprising directions: lively and calm, profound and invigorating.

Admission from 19:30

Price information:

Tickets are available for 10/13 Euro in the VVK (excl. VVK fees) at Culton Ticket and TixforGigs, B.O.: 13/16 Euro. VVK runs until 17:00 on the day of the event, after that remaining tickets are always sold at the B.O.!