NICA live: hilde

One of hilde's great strengths lies in finding completely unexpected, sometimes downright daring hinges between abstract sound invention and traditional grace. This gift is particularly evident in her live concerts. For their latest album Tide, the band made a conscious decision to shift this relationship considerably towards experimental sensuality. It hardly matters from whom which playful impulse, which timbre, composition or spontaneous idea comes. Here, four musicians grow together into one person, into hilde, an individual with four heads and eight arms, who confronts us with massive gentleness.

For Julia Brüssel, Marie Daniels, Maria Trautmann and Emily Wittbrodt, improvisation is an expression of freedom that excludes nothing and allows everything. The foundation for this intuitive unity of the musicians lies much deeper than the much-cited mutual trust within a band. It is based on a benevolent reliability that gives each of the four musicians a sense of security, which they need to be able to go to the extreme as hilde and always reach the innermost - and vice versa.