Banda Internationale

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Banda Internationale
Banda Internationale, 2018
Banda Internationale, 2018
General information
origin Dresden
Genre (s) World Music
founding 2001 as "Banda Comunale"
Website bandacomunale.de
Current occupation
cello
 Akram Younus Ramadhan Al-Siraj
Thabet Azzawi
Guitar, vocals, drums, percussion
 Ezé Wendtoin
Trumpet, flugelhorn
 Germi Riess
Trumpet, flugelhorn
 Alexander Valnov
Trumpet
 Arystan Petzold
Clarinet, kalimba
Michal Tomaszewski
Tenor saxophone, flute
 Richard Ebert
Alto saxophone, baritone saxophone
 Julian Loehr
trombone
 Martin Schulze
trombone
 Felix Korte
Helicon, tuba
 Alfred Haberkorn
Sousaphone
 Peter Birkenhauer
Drums
 Arne Müller
Percussion
 Qutaiba Abu Rashed

Banda Internationale is a 15-member band from Dresden , whose style can be classified between brass and world music .

history

The band "Banda Comunale" was founded in 2001 by initially eleven Dresden musicians as a reaction to the growing neo-Nazi marches in the state capital. The musical style was shaped from the beginning by strong international influences (Balkans / Eastern Europe, North Africa, Latin America).

The band became known nationwide for their political engagement against xenophobia and racism, especially against the PEGIDA movement, which is strongly represented in Dresden . The band regularly supported corresponding initiatives and demonstrations with their performances and initiated with other cultural workers a. a. the "Dresdner Neujahrsputz" as a creative counter-reaction to the daily walks of the racist Pegida. For these actions she was nominated for the Saxon Prize for Democracy.

In June 2015 the band performed in front of the former Hotel Leonardo in Freital, which was intended as an initial reception facility for asylum seekers. Right-wing extremists tried to prevent refugees from being accommodated in Freital and brought the city into the headlines nationwide with protests, riots and right-wing terrorist attacks.

Banda Internationale from Dresden (2017)

From around 2015 the band was looking specifically for musicians among the refugees arriving in the Dresden region and has since strengthened itself with band members and the like. a. from Syria , Iran , Iraq , Palestine and Burkina Faso . On the occasion of the initially only temporary project, the band changed its name to "Banda Internationale" and continues to lead it. In 2016, the project was honored with the special prize from State Minister for Culture and Media Monika Grütters (CDU).

Campaigns against the right

  • Since 1998, more and more right-wing extremists have used the annual commemoration of February 13, 1945 for their propaganda. This development is considered to be the motivation for the establishment of the "Banda Comunale", which from 2001 took part in numerous counter-demonstrations.
  • On February 14, 2009, over 15,000 people demonstrated " Loud against Nazis " in Dresden. "Banda Comunale" played alongside Smudo , Sebastian Krumbiegel and Rolf Stahlhofen as part of GEH THINKING in front of 9,000 people on the stage at Theaterplatz in front of the Semperoper.
  • In 2010, the Saxon city of Riesa renamed Mannheimer Straße to Geschwister-Scholl-Straße. This also gave the NPD a new address. The "Banda Comunale" accompanied the festive act with an appearance.
  • Against the background of the racist riots in front of the refugee accommodation "Hotel Leonardo" in Freital, the Hamburg association " Laut gegen Nazis " initiated a concert on May 2, 2016 as part of the "Counter Speech Tour" on the Platz des Friedens in Freital which Leslie Clio , Smudo , Irie Révoltés , the Syrian band Khebez Dawle and Banda Internationale took part.
  • In the summer of 2016, the band took part in the campaign “Not completely fucked up yet. Holding together against the shift to the right “of the punk rock band" Feine Sahne Fischfilet "with a concert in Boizenburg. In this context, a cover version of the song "Not yet completely in the ass" was created.
  • In 2018 Banda Internationale played at the demonstration #hocked against the shift to the right in Bavarian politics in front of around 50,000 people on Munich's Königsplatz .
  • On November 9th, 2019 the Banda Internationale was part of the stage program at the celebrations of 30 years of Peaceful Revolution - Fall of the Wall at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin.

Movie

At DOK Leipzig 2017, the Dresden filmmakers Hechtfilm showed the documentary "When will it finally be summer again?", Which accompanies the band's commitment over the course of a year, in the international program. The film can be seen in German cinemas from February 2018.

Since Pegida has existed, resistance has been stirring - colorful, loud and sometimes rhythmic. The rhythm of the counter-demonstrations was often set by the local demo brass band "Banda Comunale", which formed when it came to recapturing the streets in Dresden, Freital or Clausnitz. But soon it was no longer enough for the musicians to always just be "against". They emancipated themselves from the manic defenders of the West, played more and more in initial reception centers and asylum shelters, and it wasn't long before the eleven-member combo was reinforced by musicians from Syria, Burkina Faso, Palestine, Iraq and Iran and became the “Banda Internationale”. - Luc-Carolin Ziemann

Projects

Since 2017, the musician collective has been running in addition to the band work, sponsored by projektschmiede Dresden (2017) and Ausländerrat Dresden e. V. (2018) conducted intercultural music workshops at Saxon schools and a band project with unaccompanied young refugees.

Label

The band is under contract with the Munich label TRIKONT .

Discography

Albums
  • 2004: Banda Comunale (as Banda Comunale)
  • 2007: Who was at the barber's? (as Banda Comunale)
  • 2014: Schall und Rausch (as Banda Comunale)
  • 2017: Kimlik (as Banda Internationale)

Awards

Web links

Commons : Banda Internationale  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nominated for the Saxon Prize for Democracy: Banda Comunale - New Year cleaning initiative and fearful rabbit procession | Belltower News. Retrieved January 25, 2018 .
  2. ↑ sz-online: “Banda Internationale” presents CD . In: SZ-Online . ( sz-online.de [accessed on January 25, 2018]).
  3. ↑ Banda Internationale: Music is a language of its own | Culture opens worlds! Retrieved January 25, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Dresden: More than 15,000 people demonstrated on February 14, 2009 “Laut gegen Nazis” - a complete success - 9,000 people visited the GEH THINKEN stage on the Theaterplatz in front of the Semperoper - and yet there is still a stale aftertaste | Loud against Nazis | The blog. Retrieved January 25, 2018 (German).
  5. ↑ Dana Hoffmann: Resistance with the Scholl siblings . In: sueddeutsche.de . June 28, 2010, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed January 25, 2018]).
  6. ↑ Counter Speech Tour - April 27 to May 4, 2016. For the local people. Retrieved January 25, 2018 (German).
  7. ↑ DOK Leipzig: When will it finally be summer again (When will it finally be summer again) | DOK Leipzig . ( dok-leipzig.de [accessed on January 25, 2018]).
  8. ↑ DOK Leipzig: When will it finally be summer again (When will it finally be summer again) | DOK Leipzig . ( dok-leipzig.de [accessed on January 25, 2018]).
  9. ↑ Banda Internationale - Band - Music | Trikont. Retrieved January 25, 2018 (German).
  10. ↑ Saxon Promotion Prize for Democracy 2015 /
  11. ↑ Federal Government | Article | "Music is our language". Retrieved January 25, 2018 .
  12. ↑ Prize for socio-cultural commitment . Website of the Landesverband Soziokultur Sachsen eV, accessed on December 5, 2019.
  13. ↑ Banda Internationale - Integration through Music. Retrieved January 25, 2018 .
  14. ↑ https://rudolstadt-festival.de/de/programm/ruth.html
  15. ^ Banda Internationale: Noisy against Saxon hatred - The Power of the Arts . In: The Power of the Arts . August 21, 2017 ( thepowerofthearts.de [accessed January 25, 2018]).
  16. ↑ Banda Internationale wins the Euro-Med Dialogue Award 2017 | Anna Lindh Foundation. Retrieved January 25, 2018 .