On their first joint CD „Chanson total” Suzanna and Karsten Troyke present a selection of older and newer chansons, including: by Georg Kreisler, Hugo Wiener, Friedrich Holländer and George Brassens.
In an idiosyncratic mess, they perform seemingly pleasant melodies with supposedly apolitical lyrics – “tasteless songs” with a shock effect and a „hit” feeling.
Karsten Troyke, the idiosyncratic interpreter and „rediscoverer” of Yiddish songs, and Suzanna, the great singer of Russian Roma songs and romances, musically deal with both the big feelings and the small adversities of everyday life – sometimes solo, sometimes together – but always with wit, charm and passion ...
