Maybebop – Christmas program “Schöner Schein”

Four types. Four microphones. Christmas.

 

They have done it again: MAYBEBOP presents with Schöner Schein are now playing their fifth Christmas show. And it’s amazing what the four of them are still able to bring to the festive season and how fresh and unspent it still works on stage after more than 20 years in the band!

 

With Schöner Schein opens alongside newly interpreted classics such as Carol of the Bells, Night has fallen or the lively Heidschi Bumbeidschi again many own German songs new views on the holy night: The tragicomic tango The death of Santa Claus and the touching What I possessed deal in very different ways with the belief in the man with the beard, the energetic folk-rock The ballad of Fanta-Klaus tells the story of a surprising encounter with the same person, the trenchant Christmas reveries look behind the façade of many a Christmas idyll and the song sung from the perspective of a fir tree Immergrün is recommended as a compulsory piece in every standard dance course. The undisputed highlight of the album is clearly the German rap parody  KNG of LightZ, in which it is made clear who has the hut with the highest bling-bling factor: Grandiosely funny and stylistically to the point. 

 

The vocal band once again underpins its exceptional status: the Christmas program Schöner Schein is bursting with ideas, is both virtuosic and down-to-earth and surprises live, with its usual stylistic confidence and sophisticated light and sound show, complemented by a smart and charming video performance.

 

MAYBEBOP are:

Jan Bürger – Countertenor

Lukas Teske – Tenor & Beatbox

Oliver Gies – Baritone

Christoph Hiller – Bass