{"id":918,"date":"2025-04-25T12:22:21","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T12:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lukastowerband.com\/?page_id=918"},"modified":"2025-05-03T18:23:59","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T18:23:59","slug":"muenchner-merkur","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lukastowerband.com\/en\/muenchner-merkur\/","title":{"rendered":"From: M\u00fcnchner Merkur"},"content":{"rendered":"

Original language: German<\/em><\/p>\n

Lokalteil Wolfratshausen\/Bad T\u00f6lz 09.12.2024<\/p>\n

Challenging Highlight
\nLukas Tower Band Takes You Into Exciting Worlds<\/strong><\/p>\n

Gelting \u2013 The group’s name harks back to an unusual rehearsal location.
\n\u201cWe once practiced in the tower of St. Luke\u2019s Church in Munich,\u201d revealed flutist Regina Willecke when asked by our newspaper. It has now been four decades since the Lukas Tower Band was founded. Over the years, the lineup has constantly evolved. At their most recent performance at the \u201cHinterhalt\u201d cultural stage, the six-member ensemble transported the audience into an exciting world full of vocal passion and jazzy sound experiments.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re hard to categorize,\u201d warned band founder Wolfgang Fastenmeier before the first song. Together with bassist Miguel Pires, drummer Thomas Willecke, keyboardist Markus Lamek, and Wolfratshausen-based flutist and saxophonist Regina Willecke, the guitarist rolled out a multi-layered soundscape. Above it all, singer Paola Ottaviani laid her charismatic voice, performing songs in various languages\u2014including one in a Sardinian dialect. \u201cEven most Italians don\u2019t understand it,\u201d said the Italian-born \u201cHinterhalt\u201d performer.<\/p>\n

The English lyrics were easier to follow, some of which drew from the literature of Scottish poet Sir Walter Scott and Renaissance humanist Thomas More. The poignant piece \u201cSisters\u201d told the blood-soaked tale of a young woman who seeks revenge on her sister\u2019s murderer\u2014her husband\u2014by seducing him and ultimately stabbing him.<\/p>\n

What was surprising was that this band-style tragedy wasn\u2019t presented with gloomy, somber tones but rather with an almost danceable groove. It reminded some listeners of the lively tracks of Jethro Tull or songs from early Pink Floyd. \u201cI want to be a tiger instead of a lamb that lets everything happen to it,\u201d guitarist Fastenmeier said defiantly, referencing the poetry of English writer William Blake, who died in 1827.<\/p>\n

With so many musical and literary references, some concertgoers left the over two-hour performance with their heads spinning. Nevertheless, the Lukas Tower Band was undoubtedly a sophisticated highlight of the now-concluded PiPaPo Festival.<\/p>\n

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