The international press places his name alongside Sophie hunger and Björk. But the comparison is redundant and cannot express the individuality of theHybrid Pop by GINA SUMMER. Violist by training – although she plays piano and keyboards – she sings in German, French, Swiss German and English. From the start she performed not only on her own, but also with her group made up of the three French musicians and Romand Jeremie Revel, Phillip Klawitter and Noé Franklé.
Using acoustic as well as electronic elements, they arrange the songs sometimes complex and jazzy, sometimes simple and minimalist. Above all this, Gina never ceases to take the listener by surprise with the emotional force of her music.
Is it his voice that transports us like this?
Sometimes hoarse, sometimes subtle, but always with force, she wrote the song Mauern after Trump’s election in 2016 whose clip shows shocking footage of Mexico’s northern border. ” Word Politics has a bad reputation, immediately I think of middle-aged men in fancy suits who change our lives for the worse, ”she said. “Nevertheless I think that in everyday life, everything we do and everything we omit is political.”
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After she started learning Arabic and volunteered at a community center for refugees on the Island of Lesvos, she wrote the first single from her album: Trauma, which highlights the forgotten thoughts of a young Syrian. The clip illustrates the fatal consequences of European inaction in providing safe routes to escape. “It sounds very militant, but above all I feel paralyzed. Music is my way of getting out of it. I especially don’t want to write these songs to make myself feel better, or if I do, it just doesn’t work. ”
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His 1st album “Erased by Thought” (Erased by thought) contains 12 songs, which individually open the doors to clean and incredible worlds, giving 12 food for thought. Recorded analogically by John Vanderslice (Death Cab for Cutie, St. Vincent, Dear Reader) in his studio “Tiny Telephone” in San Francisco, this first album was released on Motor Music end of May 2021.