Pekar
Concert Digital Culture Music & Sound
Harvey Pekar was an icon of American underground comics. His series American Splendor recounts the tales of his life as a filing clerk and record collector with dry wit. With changing illustrators, he created over a thousand pages of comic art, which were honoured with the award-winning film „American Splendor“ in 2003. Guitarist and composer Scott Fields got to know Pekar as a jazz critic. Now Fields and his ensemble are bringing a homage to Pekar’s work to the stage – a mixture of sound and image that makes his style come alive in a new way.
cast
Tamara Lukasheva (Voice)
Florian Stadler (Accordion)
Shiau-Shiuan Hung (Percussion)
Maixime Morel (Tuba)
Scott Fields (Guitar)
Scott Fields (Composer)
Harvey Pekar (Lyricist)
As a teenager in Chicago, Scott Fields played guitar, sang, and wrote songs for rock and blues bands . Early on, however, he became interested in new music and avant-garde jazz, largely by exposure to musicians who were active in the Association for the Advancement of Creative Music, which was centred in the southside neighbourhood in which Fields was born and raised. As leader of his own ensembles and as a sideman, Fields has toured throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. He has also released more than 30 CDs as a leader. In 2004, Fields relocated to Cologne, Germany.
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Tamara Lukasheva was born in Odessa, Ukraine, in 1988. Between 2003 and 2007, she studied at the Odessa Conservatory, and between 2010 and 2015 at the University of Music and Dance in Cologne, where she now lives. Lukasheva is not only impressive as a composer. With her extraordinary voice, which can sound both powerful and delicate, she falls in love with her songs with a magic of her own. In this way, she tells stories that move us all. She goes through the world full of curiosity, and with alert senses.
credits
Kunststiftung NRW, Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Music Fund, Barbara Lissner Foundation