Kante


What? Another new Kante album I hear you cry. Well not entirely, rather a spontaneous spin-off of a special project undertaken by Kante songwriter, singer and guitarist Peter Thiessen. Rewind to summer 2005, the last album 'Die Tiere sind unruhig' has just been released. A tour with shows in around 50 towns is underway, and their diary is full til well into December. Jan Dvorak, an opera script editor who conducted the small orchestra on three of the tracks off 'Die Tiere sind unruhig' asked Thiessen to be the writer for a musical to be staged at the Berlin Friedrichstadtpalast. Peter responded to this request bravely "Yes, of course!" Dvorak then sent him the book "Rhythmus Berlin" written by Thomas Münstermann, artistic director at the Friedrichstadtpalast and director of the show "Rhythmus Berlin". Thiessen found himself questioning the project, "A student type from Hamburg writing the script for a musical about Berlin to be performed at the Friedrichstadtpalast? At first glance that is obviously quite an absurd combination." But he also had an explanation at the ready: "It wasn't actually such a leap for me to make - the town that at the centre of the show has had a strong influence on our records for a few years now, well in our love songs at least. Also, because we rehearsed and recorded "Die Tiere sind unruhig" in Berlin I spent almost half of last year there. If one is asked to name the big town of Germany, it is Berlin. Berlin is the town that for most remains closest to the idea of a 'capital city' with this urban sprawl offering up what could be deemed as perhaps only fictional promises of freedom and hedonism.

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