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Programme
Photo: Kurt Hobby | Layout: Georg Reimann
My Starry Eyes
brings the programme of the current album of the same name to the stage, which has been awarded two Silver Medals at the Global Music Awards!
The very different personal stories drawn from life are presented authentically in equally diverse musical guises: in their arrangements, SIMONE HELLE & THE 6th SENSE create a wide range of soundscapes that touch the listener and take them on an emotional journey.
Dani Karavan
Way of Human Rights, Nuremberg 1988-93
ph. Roman Mensing courtesy Studio Karavan
Let Us Agree
– the intercultural concert for diversity and human rights
“LET US AGREE for diversity and human rights” is more than just a concert: it is a powerful musical statement for respectful coexistence. The five musicians from different cultural backgrounds present this moving programme with passion and virtuosity, creating a blend of “Orient meets Occident”.
Photo left: Kurt Rade
Photo right: sceneline studios
My Baby Just Cares For Me – Love Affairs and Civil Rights
– a tribute to Nina Simone and her musical era
With joy, virtuosity and deep feeling, Simone Helle (vocals) and Martin Scholz (piano) dive into jazz and soul from the era of Nina Simone, Billy Preston and Jimmy Smith through to contemporary jazz pieces. A reminiscence of a time of transformation on every level. Powerful, tender and fragile at the same time.
My Starry Eyes
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Simone Helle, a jazz singer who grew up in Germany with Persian roots, presents the album of the same name together with her band “Simone Helle & The 6th Sense”. Through her lyrics, Simone Helle tells personal stories from very different perspectives:
As a child reflecting on the experience of an (inner) search for home in “My Inner Home”, as a loving partner in “This Fragile Love”, or as a mother in “My Starry Eyes” and “Lullaby for a Little Star”, she conveys with great authenticity the themes that matter most to her.
At the same time, the band enchants the audience with its distinctive soundscapes and emotions turned into sound – in the spirit of “Emotions Become Sound”.
Line-up
Simone Helle (vocals & compositions)
Martin Scholz (piano)
Johannes Nebel (double bass)
Boris Becker (percussion)
Daniel Sanleandro Fernández (drums)
Let us Agree
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The development of the moving programme LET US AGREE, consisting of soul, swing and oriental jazz, was supported by Soziokultur NRW and the City of Duisburg.
Musically, the programme includes excursions into the US civil rights movement, complemented by original compositions by Kioomars Musayyebi, among others a member of the Dortmund Transorient Orchestra, and Simone Helle.
“Simone Helle & The Let Us Agree Connection” skilfully combines these serious themes with joyful and optimistic aspects. The result is an oriental-inspired jazz – a “virtuosic overall soundscape” (WN, Martin Feldhaus 07/24) and a musical blend of “Orient meets Occident”.
Line-up
Simone Helle (vocals & concept)
Kioomars Musayyebi (santur)
Martin Scholz (piano)
Alex Morsey (double bass)
Reza Samani (tombak)
My Baby Just Cares For Me
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Simone Helle (vocals) & Martin Scholz (piano) bring this programme to the stage with passion and virtuosity. They create multi-layered atmospheres ranging from blues and ballads to swing – as soulful as they are captivating.
The programme MY BABY JUST CARES FOR ME presents well-known and lesser-known titles from the musical era of Nina Simone, with the subtitle Love Affairs and Civil Rights reflecting themes that also strongly shaped Nina Simone’s life. The programme is rounded off with original compositions by Simone Helle.