Tsunami Sessions: Reich & Linster x Schäfer/Grau

In the organizer's words:

Tsunami Sessions:
07.09.2025
Admission: 7 pm
Start: 8 pm
Admission: 10-15 Euro

Reich & Linster:
Bio Alex

Alex Linster is a musician. He regularly appears on stage as a bassist, guitarist
or with various electronic sound generators on stage.
From 2011 - 2016 he studied at the Cologne University of Music and Dance in the
Jazz and Popular Music course, majoring in electric bass.
His intensive involvement with effect devices in the band context
led him deeper into the subject of electronic sound production and
sound design. Since 2019, he has been working intensively with
improvised and generative electronic music and produces pieces
pieces that range between danceable club sounds and meditative ambient collages.
ambient collages.
Alex is part of various musical projects, gives instrumental
instrumental lessons, writes music and works in the field of
sound design/music production.


Bio Luis

Luis Weiß is a church musician and music producer in Cologne. His
work is characterized by artistic projects in church spaces and the development
the development of liturgy-sensitive innovation in church music.
As a music producer, he also releases music albums between jazz,
jazz, church music and electronic music on his label Acoustic Motion
Concepts. Under the alias Luis Reich, Weiß releases artful ambient
ambient music and performs live with flugelhorn and synthesizer - solo
as well as with the formation Reich & Würden.

Artful music from two heads of the Cologne ambient scene: Luis Reich and Alex Linster play music from their new album "Watching ants from a distance" and create an enraptured atmosphere with lost-and-found tapes, synths, bass guitar and modular. Music to listen to and dream away to.

Schäfer/Grey

SCHÄFER/GRAU, the duo of Cologne-based musicians Lukas Schäfer and Benjamin
Grau, creates atmospheric soundscapes between ambient and drone.
Unusual instruments are used to create dense soundscapes: Schäfer plays analog synthesizers
analog synthesizers, while Grau uses digital sound generators and field recordings
with a self-developed MIDI controller.

Cologne-based musician Lukas Schäfer uses various analog sound generators to tell his musical stories.
to tell his musical stories. As solo artist SCHÄFER, he uses analog synthesizers and effect devices to create
synthesizers and effect devices to create associative sound journeys between ambient, drone and electronica. Together with Luis Weiß
he founded the Cologne-based Sono Kollektiv for ambient and spatial music and the duo Betonklang, with whom he realizes
with which he realizes site-specific sound installations. Together with Benjamin Grau, he explores the musical
potential of digital-analog interfaces, where vintage synthesizers meet innovative MIDI controllers.
His music has been released on KOMPAKT, AMC Records and the Eurorack Ruhr Kollektiv label.

Benjamin Grau (he/him) is a musician born in 1987 in
born in Hamburg and lives in Cologne.
musician and composer. In 2020 he completed his
concert exam in electronic
composition at the Cologne HfMT with
Michael Beil and received further
lessons from renowned composers:
inside. Grau works with various ensembles and
ensembles and artists and has performed
performed his music internationally.
In his music, Grau combines influences from popular music and contemporary
composition in an experimental way. In recent years, his artistic focus has shifted
artistic focus has increasingly shifted from classical composition to self-programmed
self-programmed live electronics in collaborative, interdisciplinary contexts.
interdisciplinary contexts. To this end, he developed and produced a customized
electronic instrument that allows him more flexibility and intuitiveness in these settings.
in these settings.
www.graumusic.de