About this event
"from Yellowstone to Yenisei"
Don't look for me,
You know my heart doesn't beat here,
It lives in the spaces of dreams.
Don't call for me,
You know where I'm going anyway,
In the estuary of the Missouri and Yenisei…
This is how musical border-crosser and cultural-political bridge-builder Tino Eisbrenner writes and sings on his 2020 album INDIGO, and he means it metaphorically. A year later, his Christmas album HEILIGE NACHT (Holy Night) was released, a typically Eisbrenner-esque world-music and poetic contribution to simple peace.
From the beginning, this project did not rely on the usual commercial singing of Christmas carols, but one can feel that Eisbrenner loves the quiet, pacifying power of winter. For him, the time of reflection and coming together goes far beyond the short Christmas season, and so, with his WINTERREISE (Winter Journey) concerts, he seeks lyrical images that dwell not only in thousandfold-interpreted classics, but above all within himself. Images that he has experienced or dreamed of. Images of the wintry Yellowstone at its confluence with the Missouri, all the way to the Siberian expanses of the Yenisei. That is where Eisbrenner's sacred winter journey stories and songs from timeless spaces live, which he brings to the stage with his band formation EISBRENNER & TATANKA YOTANKA from December to February. In 2026/27, he is completely foregoing strings and piano.
Guitars, vocals, Native American flutes, a blues harp, bass, and drums form exactly the mystical, magical atmosphere that we hope to find every year and that can be found in far more than just one holy night. The dream of the cleansing power of winter and songs that make the sacred magic tangible even after the Christmas season.
Once a year
So wonderfully clear
What the idea of humanity was. (TE)
