Amithias at Loft

tickets:
regular: 14,- €uro
students, disabled persons: 7,- €uro

doors: 7.30 pm CEST
concert starts:
approx. 8.00 pm CEST

At a young age, Matthias Schriefl was invited by the famous saxophonist Charlie Mariano to represent him on a tour with the Karnataka College of Percussion. Inspired by South Indian music, he still travels to Bangalore time and again to study Indian music.

Years ago in Bangalore, this developed into a deep friendship, as well as Amithias, a band with two bandleaders: Amith Nadig and Matthias Schriefl. The musicians in this band come from South India and the Allgäu – a great mix for real world music!...

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tickets:
regular: 14,- €uro
students, disabled persons: 7,- €uro

doors: 7.30 pm CEST
concert starts:
approx. 8.00 pm CEST

At a young age, Matthias Schriefl was invited by the famous saxophonist Charlie Mariano to represent him on a tour with the Karnataka College of Percussion. Inspired by South Indian music, he still travels to Bangalore time and again to study Indian music.

Years ago in Bangalore, this developed into a deep friendship, as well as Amithias, a band with two bandleaders: Amith Nadig and Matthias Schriefl. The musicians in this band come from South India and the Allgäu – a great mix for real world music!

Amith Nadig is a flute virtuoso who plays classical Indian music with the best musicians from the subcontinent. He not only deals intensively with his own rich culture, but also plays samba, blues and mambo pieces with Amithias, for example, and yodels in Indian style. All the musicians are constantly exploring the connections between jazz harmonies and Indian ragas, as well as the similarities between grooves from all over the world. The result is a fascinating interplay between the complex rhythms of South India and European harmonies. True friendships emerge here, far beyond the music itself. A virtuoso encounter that can only take place in the heavenly realms of the boundless, pure joy of music.

“From Bavarian and Swiss Alps to how a morning in Bangalore sounds and feels like, the music of Amithias Project is varied and culturally diverse.”
Indien Garima Arora / Deccan Herald

“For the first time, the India-jazz fusion convinced me here.”
Ashish Sankrityayan

“The arrangements by Allgäu trumpeter, flugelhorn, sousaphone and tuba player Matthias Schriefl, written for the HR Big Band (and nominated for the German Jazz Award 2025) under the motto “The Big Amithias – Allgäu meets India”, are a furious musical spectacle. In a kaleidoscopic swirl, Schriefl’s alphorn meets the bright-toned Indian bamboo flute of Amith Nadig, who forms the Indian section with a predominantly percussive trio. In Sarah Buechi’s vocal improvisations, a hint of yodeling appears at times. It’s circus-like, colorful and buoyant.”
Frankfurter Rundschau

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