Gunkl & Breinschmied

Cabaret artist Gunkl and double bassist Georg Breinschmid take language and music at their word. Promised and set to music.
Gunkl is a cabaret artist. Georg Breinschmid is a composer. Both master the bass. One well, the other better. They are equally fond of witty wordplay and playful linguistic subtleties. Not only verbal ones, but musical ones as well. For both involve alliterations and anagrams, rhythm and groove, counterpoints and crab figures, palindromes and spoonerisms. If you will.

Gunkl and Georg Breinschmid want to. It is no coincidence that one is regarded in the cabaret scene as the most meticulous turner of pointillistically pointed nested sentences thought out from various angles - and the other as a virtuosic musician with a quirky penchant for Dadaism and raucous comedy. His passion for linguistic nonsense is also reflected in his Facebook thread for "freshly brewed nonsense," which already includes nearly 30,000 comments.
However, the two language playmakers do not view their artistic material uncritically, despite their love for it, as it is not only a means of communication but also the cause of many misunderstandings. Furthermore, it is a willing servant of lies and propaganda. Can one actually lie with the language of music? Is the Canarian whistling language more tactful than the Morse alphabet? Can dialects be condensed into musical form? Is Appenzeller dialect perhaps merely onomatopoeia devoid of any semantics? The two artists reflect on such matters and more today in "Thoughts." Thankfully, it is audible.