Open Mind Festival

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The Open Mind Festival stands for interdisciplinary music and sets an example for tolerance on several levels. In a time of increasing social polarization, the festival invites you to broaden your horizons - with music that touches and moves.

From multi-genre electronica and world music to danceable grooves from Latin America and virtuoso, refreshing gipsy jazz from Paris: the carefully curated line-up offers something for everyone.

MAIKA (Avantgarde Pop)
www.maikaofficial.de

Avant-garde pop with energy, emotion and stubbornness

MAIKA creates a musical world in which wild sounds inspired by the 80s meet modern, multi-layered soundscapes. Driving rhythms, atmospheric synths and a distinctive voice combine to create songs that are both electrifying and vulnerable.

MAIKA is not a style, but an attitude: powerful, contradictory, free. Between pop, electronic avant-garde and artificial intimacy, sound spaces are created for desire, resistance, sensuality and energy. Their aesthetic transcends conventional genre boundaries and thrives on strong visual elements, performative presence and an intense, multilingual language - German, English and Polish.

Following her debut album Holy Noon (Jazzhaus Records), MAIKA is working on new material that is even more dedicated to the physical and energetic aspect of her music - uncompromising, accessible and artistically charged.

MAIKA live means: sonic force, intimate power and a radical sense of the now.

Line-up:
Vocals & Guitar: Maika Küster | Drums: Anthony Greminger | Synthesizer: Benedikt ter Braak | Guitar: Jan Krause | Bass: Yannik Tiemann

Antigua Quartet (Gipsy & Latin)
www.antiguaquartett.band

As an astronaut, you see the earth as a whole - boundaries disappear. The Antigua Quartet brings this change of perspective musically to the stage. With a lively mixture of gipsy jazz, Latin American rhythms and multilingual lyrics, they create a sound that transcends genre boundaries.

The songs are sung in German, Portuguese, English and Spanish - about longings, dreams, fears and contradictions: timeless, human themes that connect people across generations and countries.

The band led by Elsa Johanna Mohr - winner of the New German Jazz Award in 2023 - combines retro charm with contemporary wit and musical innovation. They present songs from their debut album Astronauta and the current album Trovador. Since its formation in 2018, the group has been extremely productive: in addition to concerts and CD releases, it has produced videos and contributions for Deutschlandfunk and SWR2.

One highlight is the collaboration with Colombian musician Santiago Prieto Sarabia (Monsieur Periné) in the songwriting project Ohne Dich - another bridge to Latin America.

Line-up:
Vocals & percussion: Elsa Johanna Mohr | Guitar, vocals & foot percussion: José Díaz de León | Violin: Frank Brempel | double bass: Stefan Berger

Adrien Moignard Quartet (Gipsy Jazz)

Alongside Bireli Lagrène, Adrien Moignard is regarded as one of the prodigies of French jazz manouche. He discovered the guitar at the age of twelve - as an autodidact. He found his way to the music of Django Reinhardt via blues rock.

Since 2002, he has been playing with scene greats such as Samson Schmitt, Serge Krief, Ninine Garcia, Tchavolo Schmitt and many more. He founded projects such as Zaïti and performed with artists such as Costel Nitescu, René Soppa and the Danish Radio Big Band.

In 2009 he signed a contract with Dreyfus Jazz. This was followed by solo albums and collaborations, including with Ben Powell, Cyrille Aimée and Rocky Gresset(Entre Actes, 2012), as well as with Classico (2013) as a duo with Gonzalo Bergara. He is also an integral part of the renowned Selmer #607 series.

Instrumentation:
Guitar: Adrien Moignard | Guitar: José Díaz de León | Double bass: Stefan Berger