Kata y Co - Bossa & no' Was (2019)

Katharina Mais Stimme: Passionate in Canzone, feathery in bossa nova and samba, fiery-dramatic in tango, an aria in a new guise - four voices in one hand. Bossa and Baroque, Forró and Fuge, Polka and Piazolla, Jobim and Chopin, the unusual line-up of the rare and thus never heard 7-string bass, the silky cello, pimped-up puffs of the piano, imaginative arrangements of beautiful songs from South America and Africa Concentrating on the musical substance of Western song culture - Kata y Co unites the Old and New World in a single ode to beauty.
Kata y Co takes the Greek strophē at the word: turning to the magic of music, to the essence. Thus, Katas stanzas are indeed catastrophes for those who prefer mica instead of glamor, dumplings instead of singing and musical muscle games instead of elegance.
Where the soul sings, the music tells its own stories: in "Fotografia", flageolets open the pearl curtain into a southern room, into the soul of a woman. A photo, a string breeze blows memory across the room, somewhere else a man just says another to Ade. In "A Felicidade" the final chord after feverish hunt through the harmonies lays as a melancholy f (n) on Jobim's reflection on the fragility of happiness. In "Brigas nunca mais" the vocal offer of reconciliation is angrily rejected - until all quarrels end in harmonious sixths - as in "Falando de amor" Bossa Nova and Tango shake hands! Even standardized rudiments of nerd standards such as "How Insensitive "or" Vou te contar "(Wave) brings new life to Kata y Co, sets standards by itself: At the end: Classically sung, timely drama-tinged, descending bass notes in Purcell's" When I Am Laid in Earth "bring Dido to the grave.