A child of this age is the Emigranski Raggamuffin collective Red Front 2003 by Gurzhy, together with the guitarist and producer Simon Wahorn, founded. After Mitte and Prenzlauer Berg now are more suitable for wooden toys and environmentally responsible food and the party scene has there evaporates largely, the artists situate today although not as yet in the eternal Berlin anthem B-Style - between Pankow and Anklamer road but revel with the similarly catchy 1990s logically prefer the good old days of Kreuzberg turning years. The scene to survive, from which they have emerged that can not tell a lot of bands from itself.
But of course, many nations project as Red Front feels well between Oberbaumbrücke and Victoria Park home Yuriy Gurzhy, the Jewish Ukrainians with Russian mother tongue who sees himself as an ambassador and innovator of Klezmer, the Hungarian Simon Wahorn, Australian saxophonist Dan Freeman and recently the magical , originating from the sunny Bulgarian seaside singer Katya Tasheva together all migration story to the stage, the Berliner rapper Mad Milian the local color, and producer Kraans de Lutin has made his Phlexton studios in the Silesian road once already the multicultural troupe Culcha Candela in the pop scene catapulted.
And of course, the Berlin-style, without the need to sing about it, as a marketing attribute on the world stage long at least as effective as the London Underground, or Esprit Parisien. Thus, Red Front, despite the different directions that intersect here, and the fact that the members mostly do not come from Germany, where perceived primarily as a German band. A good reason for interested parties to take a closer deal with their homeland. The title of the album 17 German Dances leans on Haydn's 12 German Dances on, Bach, Beethoven and Wagner is proven with song titles reference, and in A Girl from Bayreuth's Red Front to hear for the first time with a string orchestra.
But even if in Paris quieter tones strikes and here almost a Chanson created together with Marla Petal, show songs like the Flo Mega Feature Everyone Speaks Russian or Case of Drugs, the lurid story of a drug suitcase that the ensemble in the drawer grown wrong would. In fact, sound Red Front with her unorthodox to other facets extended style mix of reggae, ska, hip-hop, punk, polka, klezmer, cumbia and Soul, the bitingly ironic way to tell their stories, and that certain spark craze in particular their energetic live performances can be felt, in the eleventh year of its existence, so fresh and playful as ever.
With all party suitable pace and wit the 17 German Dances remain but one in particular: the flaming plea for a united Europe.
