Susi und die Spießer - Wilde Zeiten
Susi Raith and the Spießers
Witty stories and home sound from the Upper Palatinate “Wilde Zeiten” - that’s the name of the second program of the Spießers “Sometimes I'm a Spießer and then I'm a connoisseur and then I'm a sunshine and then I'm like sour wine.” When “Susi Raith and the Spießers” sing in harmony and accompanied by cheerful major chords on guitar and ukulele like four little chirpers, it sounds so light, joyful, and full of zest for life, as it might simply be in life. Well, we are all just as we are. Each with edges and corners and each a Spießer sometimes. How simple. How freeing. How sympathetically human and at the same time musically top-notch. In between, the four musicians like to chat playfully from the sewing box. That’s how they are, Susi Raith and her Spießers! For almost 20 years she sang as one half of the Raith Sisters freely over several vocal ranges, sometimes strong and striking, sometimes delicate and quiet. Since 2019, three well-traveled multi-instrumentalists accompany them with diverse inspirations from classical music, folk music, pop, and rock. Musicians out of passion, just like them, who can also sing in harmony and play versatile instruments. Because besides keyboards, guitars, and bass, the ukulele is often plucked, the accordion is swung, and percussion is played. In between, the four musicians like to share amusing anecdotes. The sound from home, the Upper Palatinate, is clearly audible, but with its own timbre: sometimes with gentle melodies, but definitely not kitschy! Sometimes poppy, sometimes driving rock and louder, but no noise! Sometimes emotional, but not pathetic and mostly in dialect. Blues-rocky “Wieda mal gschafft, a durchzechte Nacht” recalls tired yet happy hours at dawn. Guitarist and bassist Jochen Goricnik, the rock representative of the band, whom many know from the Ringlstetter band, brings just the right pinch of Rock’n’Roll into his arrangements. All of this is laid over the grounding yet flying light sound carpet that Sebastian Stitzinger lays out with keyboards and accordion, and over which he also casually sings a third voice – and in the highest tones. Max Seelos, whose name is also known from bands like Keller Steff, always ensures the right groove as the son of jazz legend Ambros Seelos, and when inspiration strikes him, he treats us to one of his songs. Everyone contributes musically and with creative songwriting, sometimes expressing their lyrics from the heart, mourning love pain or pouring out in love happiness, rejoicing over a child’s smile in Nepal, commenting with a wink on everyday situations that everyone knows and that are simply annoying. No topic in the songs is the much-sung Bavarian beer. The four prefer to drink that and dig a little deeper thematically. With success, as one can see after the concerts. When the audience, happily smiling with a beer or wine, googles the next concert date. A program to enjoy, listen to, and participate in.
The Band
Jochen Goricnik // Guitar, Bass, Vocals, Songwriting (including Sick Sick Sick, Ringlstetter Band)
Max Seelos // Drums, Vocals (including KellerSteff Big Band, Max Seelos Orchestra)
Stitzi // Vocals, Keyboard, Accordion (including Ringlstetter Band)
Susi Raith // Vocals, Ukulele, Guitar, Bass, Songwriting (including Raith Sisters and da Blaimer)
Doors open: 30 minutes before the event starts.
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