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Providing the right sound (from left): Sibylle Ebbertz (violin), Brigitte Friebertshäuser (accordion), Günter Krause-Friebertshäuser (saxophone), Ina Maria Simon (trombone) and Luis Jessl (e-bass). alexandra flieth © Flieth
The bands Fechoffs and Komodenlack will play the evening of the new concert series
Two bands related to Fechenheim are playing today in the garden of the Evangelical Melanchthon Church under the motto “Sounds of Summer”. The event is part of the still new musical concert series “MelanchTöne”. In addition to the rock band “Komodenlack” with their singer Daniela Schulze-Biermann, who is also the children’s representative in the district, the “Fechoffs Five” will perform on this occasion – a musical quintet that only got its name a little more than a month ago. In the formation, however, they have been playing together for more than a year.
A combination of the places of residence
“Fechoffs” is a neologism made up of Fechenheim and the neighboring town of Offenbach, which is exactly opposite the Frankfurt district. Not only the Arthur-von-Weinberg-Bridge connects the two cities over the Main, but also the music in this case. Brigitte Friebertshäuser and her husband Günter Krause-Friebertshäuser, owners of the Fechenheim bookstore “Bücher vor Ort”, have been making music together for 20 years and regularly perform together as a duo. She plays the accordion, he the saxophone and the cachon, a seat drum.
Both are at home in the district where the quintet meets every 14 days for joint rehearsals in their music room in the house. Luis Jessl, whose instrument is the double bass, is also there. He and Günter Krause-Friebertshäuser have known each other for many years. Jessl is neither from Fechenheim nor from Offenbach, but is at home in the north end, which does not appear in the jointly found name of the quintet. It didn’t fit, say the musicians. Sibylle Ebbertz, who plays the violin, and Ina Maria Simon, whose instrument is the trombone, come from Offenbach.
“We got to know each other through various workshops,” says Günter Krause-Friebertshäuser. He only started playing the saxophone when he was an adult. The quintet mainly plays traditional, Eastern European melodies, exclusively instrumental, interpreted in a modern way. These include klezmer melodies, as can be heard during the rehearsal.
Sheet music is superfluous
“We don’t play a song one-to-one, we make our own arrangements,” he continues, emphasizing: “We aim to develop arrangements.”
As a rule, no sheet music is required, the melodies are perfect and each of the musicians knows exactly what and when to play. This enables the quintet to act performatively on stage and to react to each other with their instruments. “We combine very unorthodox rhythms,” says Luis Jessl, who has to use the electric bass for today’s performance. Unfortunately, his double bass is damaged.
“When Ina came to us with the trombone, at first I couldn’t even imagine how the instrument could be integrated. It has now been shown that it suits us perfectly,” says Jessl. Ina Maria Simon also plays as a jumper in the Big Band of the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences. “The trombonists are the coolest,” says the musician, whose instrument has long been the piano. “I didn’t start playing the trombone until I was in my mid-30s,” she says.
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The situation is different with the violin by Sibylle Ebbertz. She received the instrument she is holding in her hands when she was 16. The corpus itself tells a story, revealing her enthusiasm for improvisation, which she shares with the other musicians in the group.
The concert series itself came after there was a solidarity concert for Ukraine in the Melanchthon Church in March last year. “As a result of this, a regular group of musicians has developed from Fechenheim,” says Brigitte Friebertshäuser. The first concert of the music series was performed by a women’s choir in March 2023.
Powerful music experience
With today’s performance of the quintet and the rock band “Komodenlack” the second edition is coming up. With their powerful melodies, “Fechoffs Five” take their listeners along and invite them to move to the rhythms. This also becomes clear during the rehearsal – in combination with the rocking sound of “Komodenlack” the listeners can look forward to a powerful musical experience.
Alexandra Flieth
admission free
The concert in the Melanchthon Church, Pfortenstraße 4, begins at 5 p.m. Donations welcome.
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