Updraft (band)
Aufwind is a music group founded in 1984 that is dedicated to Yiddish songs and klezmer music. The founding members are Claudia Koch, Hardy Reich and Andreas Rohde . After it was founded, several programs with Yiddish songs were created. The band took part in the GDR open chanson days in Michaelsstein Monastery . After that, Aufwind traveled to places of Eastern Jewish life in Poland , Romania and Hungary . From 1988 and through the inclusion of clarinetist Jan Hermerschmidt , the band increasingly turned to klezmer music. In 1989 the group got to know the clarinetist Giora Feidman and in the following year they were the first foreign group to be invited to the renowned Klezmer Festival in Safed (Israel), where several concerts with Feidman took place.
Theater and film
From 1988 to 1990 the band worked several times with the actor Gerry Wolff . This resulted in two television productions and a theater production at the Berlin “ Theater im Palast ”. From 1992 to 1995 the group participated in the successful production of “Ghetto” and in 1994/95 in “Schneider und Schuster” (both by Joshua Sobol) at the Berlin “ Maxim-Gorki-Theater ”.
Inland and foreign countries
The group focuses on the many national and international festivals, such as the largest klezmer festival in the world, which takes place in Toronto, as well as festivals in South America, Lisbon, Istanbul and Brussels. A sold out concert on New York's Broadway gave a boost . The English magazine Classic CD (issue 2/2000) listed the 1996 Aufwind CD “Awek di young jorn” among the top 12 Klezmer CDs, the German Record Critics' Prize had several CD's on the evaluation list.
occupation
Claudia Koch - vocals, violin, viola
Hardy Reich - vocals, mandolin, guitar, banjo
Andreas Rohde - vocals, bandonion, percussion, guitar
Jan Hermerschmidt - clarinets, bass clarinet, flute, vocals
Janek Skirecki - bass, vocals
Discography
- 1989: Lomp not yet farloschn
- 1992: Gassn singer
- 1995: young jorn
- 1996: Awek di young jorn
- 2002: inejnem
- 2004: live
- 2008: Modern world
- 2013: In essik un honik