Anyone who hears voices is declared crazy. And vice versa: those who seem crazy are not heard. Those who move away from the supposed normality, the existing social conditions and fossilized concepts of the same, or try to shift them just a little, are often only heard a little.

Eva Klesse's "Voices" project turns up the volume for the overheard and unheard. The topics include contemporary witnessing in the GDR, mass protests in 2021 against the Russian regime and, most recently, queer hostility in the jazz scene as well as the practice of female genital mutilation, which is still common in Egypt. Reports from those directly affected are the mouthpiece for this; the audience is thus gripped and challenged to engage with these relevant topics. Speech-song episodes are contrasted and complemented by improvisations that are sometimes epically rousing, then, in keeping with the stories, seem questioning and desperate, but ultimately provide hymns of hope! 

"Voices" is therefore a musical plea for a shift in this sense: to give the critical, affirmative and emancipative voices a resonance space and thus at the same time give the grievances and marginalized roles visibility on the social stage.