Ensemble New Babylon: With new music and concert series into the year 2021 – Culture in Bremen: Current news

The New Babylon Ensemble (photo: fr) presents its new CD “9” with a concert in the broadcasting hall. The album brings together nine compositions by members of the working group …

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Because on the one hand there was and is the possibility of gaining new audiences through digital content; an approach that is also followed in the concert series in the Kesselhalle, especially with the free stream of “Beyond Rock”. You can just take a look, says Fischer, to see if you like it, and: “That may also take away the inhibition threshold to consider whether you want to spend money on something you don’t know yet.” With the decision to change the venue anyway linked to the idea of ​​presenting oneself to a new audience.

On the other hand, there are hardly any limits to the spread of one’s own creativity through the Internet. In concrete terms: “The streaming has the effect that international festivals and music series see the quality of our work here,” says Fischer. So the reputation rose recently, invitations arrived from Spain and Switzerland. Commissions that otherwise would hardly have gone to the Bremen ensemble. Jobs that are currently causing a lot of joy. Maybe that’s why they extended the concert series. Six instead of four as last year – time and opportunity to show that the ensemble continues to work. And time and opportunity for more exchange, more encounters, more new music. The countdown is on, it will start in a few hours.

Down to business

This is the New Babylon Ensemble

The group of 15 artists was founded in 2012. The aim was to establish new music in Bremen’s cultural scene. There is no artistic direction. Instead: concert planning and topic finding in a grassroots democratic manner. And you don’t want to submit to a stringent artistic line either. “Everyone here has a different background,” says Managing Director Benjamin Fischer. Whether jazz scene, improvisation or classical training, the ensemble gathers everything. Fischer: “This is also reflected in our projects.”

With their music, the New Babylon ensemble represents the contemporary repertoire: broad, the boundaries between styles are diffuse, sometimes classic, sometimes loud to rock. They use it to play at all concert venues in Bremen. Whether in the Weserburg or the Kunsthalle, whether at the Breminale or, as now, in the slaughterhouse. For this, the ensemble has received several sponsorship awards from the German Music Council.

Further information

The New Babylon ensemble will start the concert year 2021 on Tuesday, February 23 at 8 p.m. via live stream on its homepage as well as on Youtube and Facebook with “Beyond Rock”. The other concerts will be on April 25 and April 6 June 4th, July 4th, August 29th and October 17th. Single and subscription tickets can be ordered at www.nordwest-ticket.de.

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