Miu plays her only band concert in Hamburg this year at the Nica Jazz Club.
It reads a bit like the script of a movie: A young woman from Hamburg, who does something with advertising, quits her job and flies to New York, where she plays at The Bitter End, one of the most legendary live clubs in the world, in the cradle of her idols such as Donny Hathaway or Stevie Wonder, and thus lays the foundation for her music career. After rejections from major record companies, she collects over 20,000 euros with crowdfunding, looks for her team and produces her double album "Modern Retro Soul" herself. In 2019, the album landed without a record company in the German official album charts, at number 1 in the soul charts and she sold out the Gruenspan. In addition, one of her songs was licensed for the American Netflix film "The Debt Collector 2". That sounds like Hollywood? That's how it happened.
The Hamburg singer Miu is one of those musicians who play with a captivating effortlessness with intelligent lyrics, a sound imbued with many influences and yet an absolute pop suitability. Her versatile voice has soul and warmth and can also drift off into something dirtier if necessary. But always with a charmingly idiosyncratic sense of style. Her songs, which she writes herself, are framed by well-mixed sophisticated arrangements, which sometimes seek sonic experimentation. There is also no lack of drama and a certain, sometimes ironic, play with tonal bombast, which is reminiscent of the glory days of the good old record era. Here she can also let her vocal power come to full development in an appealing way, but she also masters quieter nuances perfectly. It is not uncommon for it to touch on the boundaries of, let's call it, a James Bond sound.
Miu, voc, g Joscha Farries, keys Magnus Landsberg, g Falko Harriehausen, b Robin McMinn, dr