Sønderlings Piratencabaret
CD released on Moloko Plus, 2018
Sønderling is the stage name of artist and musician Tobias Herzz Hallbauer from Dresden. For Sønderling’s project Piratencabaret Hallbauer took inspiration from Christopher Isherwood’s novel Goodbye to Berlin. The novel, first published in 1939, consists of six stories set in Berlin in the early 1930s. George Orwell coined these stories “brilliant sketches of a society in decay” and that is exactly the atmosphere that Hallbauer has tried to capture in ten Piratencabaret songs, now handsomely released on CD by Moloko Plus. Hallbauer’s texts and music may hark back to Berlin during the Weimar Republic but are also surprisingly, or rather alarmingly contemporary… → Read more & order