Live concert with DOTA

Dota is back, with new songs, a new chapter that fits perfectly into the series of their
previous albums, yet it feels new, as if an unknown ingredient has emerged in the
song laboratory.

What's nice is: It could just as well be the first DOTA album ever. There is nothing missing that
you love about Dota, but the music is even more minimalist, bouncier – adults would say:
more contrasting. The lyrics go even more directly to the heart of darkness, are even
more devotedly searching, even clearer in their ambiguity. Perhaps it is also a product of their
engagement with the poetry of Mascha Kaléko, to which they have dedicated two albums in the last
three years.

DOTA – not without reason in capital letters, because the name represents more than the lyrical self of Dota
Kehr; it also embodies the community around her, in which the music has been evolving for several years: guitarist Jan Rohrbach, drummer Janis Görlich, keyboardist Patrick Reising
and bassist Alexander Binder. Together with this band, Dota Kehr arranges the songs and
records them. Together, they write the DOTA formula on the board: Every word means
at least its opposite, there are questions everywhere – hardly any exclamation marks.

The first single Einfach zu abgelenkt plays the DOTA game to perfection. The guitar sits by the
lake in summer, the synth shimmers. The drums dance stop-and-go, Dota sings as if she must
leave at any moment – about her inability to commit and how no one else can either. So
ADHD as a societal diagnosis.

In Kettenkarussell, one of those songs that only DOTA can pull off – relaxed and tense
at the same time, like a contemplative bouncy ball – she sings: “Time to spin around something else / That's
fine, I can't stand everyday life.” And the band grooves along, driving the singer, as if
to say: “One more round.”
Question: What are songwriters supposed to sing about in these times?
Next question: What exactly are “these times”?

Dota has also asked herself these questions in preparation for her new album. The answers
lie on her path like signs on the road, as soon as she begins to work seriously.
It has always taken only attentive eyes, a voice that is her own, and a heart that can
hold more than just her own retirement plan. Dota knows who she is, and sees the things that she
connects and separates from the world she lives in. Things that give her hope and
things that repel her – which she confronts in her songs with honesty (Das wogende Meer) or biting
irony (Milliardäre).

Doors open at 5:30 PM. Start at 7:00 PM.