Album Pesentation “Madame A.” by Dirk Schilling

Dirk Schilling (c) Susanne Troll

Dirk Schilling Born and raised in Lübeck, he received an early education in singing in the Lübeck boys’ king office, in piano and trombone and finally in classical guitar.

Since 2000 he has been a lecturer at the Jazzhausschule Cologne and teaches guitar, bass and electronic music there. He regularly conducts workshops, including at the Folkwang School Essen, UCL London and the Cambridge University.

In Cologne he worked as a rock guitarist, songwriter and producer after his studies. As a guitarist he played for international artists such as Bonnie Raitt, Joshua Kadison and Lisa Stansfield and was a member of the German Krautrock legend “Hoelderlin”.

With his long-standing project “Filmpalast” he released 5 albums in a wide variety of genres and played at the Roskilde Festival, among others.

This was followed by extensive tours as a singer-songwriter

And freelance work as a photographer. From 2018 he dedicated himself to his solo electric guitar concert “Concert for an electric guitar” which premiered in autumn 2019. Since 2020 he has released four more albums, including Markus Junker, Arndt Fischer (as “Dynopol”) and Susanne Kubelka (as “Humming Lights”).

As a photographer, he works mainly as a portrait and event photographer and in recent years increasingly as an artistic photographer.

Together with the Carinthian artist Susanne Kubelka, they created a song evening under “Bachmann Reloaded” with set-of their favourite poems by Ingeborg Bachmann.

His latest formation offers different sizes: SOLO, as DUO with different partners or as ENSEMBLE. The music oscillates between jazz, minimal music, post-rock and danceable electronics.

The two musicians THOMAS NEČEMER and DIRK SCHILLING embark on a wonderfully atmospheric sound journey through the most diverse musical regions on their joint EP “Madame A.”

Where partisans and Carinthian mountain farmers’ blood mix with North German sailor origins, something primal and powerful is created, something deeply rooted in nature, but also something that daringly and boldly goes out into the world. Thomas Nečemer and Dirk Schilling form this unusual duo of jazz accordion and the modern sound world of an electric guitarist. The music: Ambient, minimal, meditative. Often difficult to identify which of the two is producing which sounds, they weave clusters, sounds and loops into melodic themes and thus unite sea, sky, forest and mountain worlds from the end of the world. Both masters of their craft and yet reserved in their playing style, they walk wonderfully fresh paths between instant composing and improvisation, making themselves an unmistakable part of an independent European jazz tradition.

Thomas Nečemer, deeply rooted in the rich Carinthian-Slovenian musical tradition, was already a two-time European champion with the Styrian harmonica at a young age before he began his jazz studies at the Vienna Conservatory and graduated with honors. Afterwards he was part of the Viennese and Carinthian jazz scene and worked in a wide range from compositions for “A Gschicht über d’LIEB” (including the Bavarian Film Prize and the Thomas Strittmayer Prize at the Berlinale) to the world music ensemble La Claneta.