Thu 2010/10/21
Beat Kaestli
Far From Home - A Tribute to European Song
Switzerland / Germany
Café Prag, Mannheim
pre-sale 10 € plus fees due / box office 13 €
start 9pm / doors 8pm
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Beat Kaestli: voc
Jan Eschke: keys
Benny Schaefer: b
Martin Kolb: dr
It’s a truism but no less true: who leaves his ancestral place, suddenly also sees home with different eyes. Beat Kaestli comes from Switzerland, as isn’t difficult to tell by his name. He went to New York because all jazz musicians who want to accomplish something go to New York at some point. He studied there – not only song but also life – and engaged intensely with the music that he loves. First, R&B and funk, then also jazz and brought out the album “Happy, Sad and Satisfied” with American standards. Beat Kaestli’s voice grew with this, and trained with greats like Chet Baker and Kenny Rankin, to finally find its own pitch. Once one has settled in New York as a European, then perhaps a yearning for the old world stars to grow. And, with this broader perspective, this heritage suddenly becomes very interesting. So it is no wonder that Beat Kaestli engages with European songs in his youngest projects: “Far From Home – A Tribute To European Song” has become a transatlantic back coupling. With his band Kaestli interprets pieces by Kurt Weill and Michel Legrand, and he sings them knowingly and finely modulated, like somebody who is at home on both continents and can translate between them as a musician.
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