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Train Songs
Music Performance
Dauer 60min
Mq Summerstage & Livestream

Paul Wallfisch Feat. Tony Buck & Martin Siewert: Train Songs

Paul Wallfisch From New York, Former Music Director At The Volkstheater Wien, The Australian Drummer Tony Buck From Berlin, Member Of The Legendary Band The Necks, And The German Guitarist Martin Siewert Based In Vienna Bring The Groove Of The Rails To The Museumsquartier.

Concept

Trains Are The Most Romantic And Most Fraught Means Of Transport. Of People, Prisoners And Prospectors. And Of The Freight And Goods That Fuel Our World. The Rhythm Of The Rails Conjures Seduction And Anticipation. Paul Wallfisch’s Parents Left Romania By Train Not Even 80 Years Ago And He’s Been Headed Back That Way Almost Since The Day He Was Born.
On The Same Day Of The Performance, The Tonspur_passage In The Mq Will Become The “tunnel Of Love”, Imported From Ukraine, But As A Universal Artifact Of Our Collective Desire To Find And Conspire With The Endless Instances Of Accidental Natural Beauty That Surround Us.
Wallfisch’s Grandfather Studied Moss, Among The Tiniest Manifestations Of Our World’s Wonders. He Never Left Romania. He Was Too Scared. He Studied Moss And Wrote A Book. He Got Really Close To The Ground And Never Truly Saw The Forest For The Trees. But Most Of The People Around Him Were Killed Trying To Leave. Or Even Trying To Stay.
Paul Wallfisch Went To Ukraine, Via Wroklaw—breslau—where All The Wallfisches Are From; All The Jews. He Doesn’t Really Consider Himself Jewish In The Religious Sense, But He Certainly Is A Jew.