cocotá

Vocalist Fama M’Boup and guitarist Christian Stoltz combine their eccentric love for Senegalese synth pop of the 80s, modern jazz influences and their own compositions in extraordinary musicality. They merge into a unique fusion with recognition value. cocotá develop their own sound universe on stage, which sounds like traditional West African echoes and at the same time seeks modern ways to describe human encounters in the most poetic, bouncing and intimate way.

cocotá thus create a soundscape that is an echo of interpersonal encounters. The guitar completes the last sentence sung, the voice accompanies the solos and the conversation meanders between absolute lightness in dynamic high-altitude flights and flat thoughtfulness. After much research and refinement, condensing the sounds and concretizing the essence of her music, cocotá are now releasing their first EP "silent invasion". The debut EP embodies her artistic development and shows her inexhaustible creativity.

The music of cocotá is a tribute to the past, while at the same time they explore new paths of their musical world. In five songs, they lead through very different moods, through the tension fields in the music for two and dig themselves quietly into the everyday life of their audiences according to the title. As a soundtrack and anchor.

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Fama M’Boup is a Berlin resident and part of a Senegalese family of musicians and storytellers. She studied at the Hochschule für Musik in Dresden, at the Rytmisk Music Conservatory in Copenhagen, and until 2021, as the only one of her years at the Jazz Institute Berlin. Together with Anna-Lucia Rupp she plays in the artpop band Olicía and founded the label o-cetera. “Liquid Lines”, the Olicía debut, was nominated for the German Jazz Award 2022. In 2022 she released a solo debut album with compositions for a vocal ensemble under the title “in June”.

Most recently, she was also part of the live cast on tours of Kat Frankie and Sophie Hunger. Also recently published is “Me and You”, a collaboration with Dota Kehr as part of her Mascha Kaléko settings.

Christian Stoltz was born in 1991 in Kaiserslautern. As the son of a drummer, he came into contact with the instruments piano, percussion and guitar from his earliest childhood. After studying electric guitar at the Carl Maria von Weber School of Music, he moved to Dresden, where he has lived and worked as a musician ever since. In addition to theatre productions, he works as a lecturer for electric guitar at the BTU Cottbus in the field of jazz / rock / pop and is regularly on stage with artists and projects such as Barbara Thalheim, Tom Götze and Banda Comunale.