When "New York City's Noir Folk Goddess" (The Huffington Post) meets a "soul poet like Nick Cave" (translated by Merle Leonce Bone), it's no wonder that demons and troubles converge on stage. It may come as a surprise that these two figures of the musical underworld, Lorraine Leckie and Mark Steiner, invite you just then to "leave your cares at the door [and] lose yourself in an evening of dark music, madness and cheeky humor." Steiner's profound underground rock and Leckie's equally mystical and beguiling work, accompanied by Czech violinist Pavel Cingl, guarantee that.
Lorraine Leckie is originally from Ontario, but makes her home in New York City. Mark Steiner, born and raised in Manhattan, has been traveling the world from Oslo for twenty years. Together with Pavel Cingl, the three dark troubadours return to Berlin to present two different live sets of poetic melancholy and beguiling gloom.
If Steiner's songs are described as the "perfect soundtrack to a drinking binge," for example, especially if it takes place "in a smoky living room" (Music Feeds), the live act could hardly be in better hands than at Eschschloraque and its inner semi-darkness for the musical underworld.
