FFT Düsseldorf September 018
After “Songbook Oberbilk”, a series of audio portraits for the public space and for the smartphone, matthaei & konsorten have followed the Moroccan migration through other European cities. On the trail of trance rituals, they find stories of personal successes and social slights, Western longings and Moroccan transformations. Until finally, in Morocco itself, ancient healing rites and African musical traditions meet the fast market of world music. In an evening with performers from Casablanca and Brussels that is both concert and lecture-performance, Matthaei draws the audience into an oddball tale of possessed people and world travelers, ancient wars and healing intoxication. Migrating Djinn speak to us through their media of mutual appropriations & foreign images.
As part of the Alliance of International Production Houses sponsored by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.