In 2014 i was invited to play in Heidelberg in a Club. Due to the lack of other fellow musicians that night, i started to build a concept for playing my first solo-concert under the synonyme "Bertino - just guitar", first only for this date.
On this evening i realized that it seemed to have worked pretty well, as the audience liked my gig and program. So i started further investigating and developing that solo-program, so i would be able to play gigs all alone - just me and my guitar - and thus the Project "Bertino - just guitar" was born.
Still i have to admit that the interaction with other musicians playing music in a band is always something special and not replaceable, as this is (in the best case) possible creating a special deepness in the music by communication.
Thats the reason why i also still keep on working with my other musical projects such as the "Bertino Rodmann Trio", the bandproject "Bertino & le coeur du Bois". And the concert series "Coeur du Bois invites..." with which we already played concerts with all kind of international working musicians as for example Fapy Lafertin (BE), Lulo Reinhardt (D), Jordan Weiss (D), Christoph König (D), Robin Nolan (NL), Doug Martin (USA) and Dario Napoli (IT). Or indian/german vocalist Pramila Chenchanna with which we still have irregular ongoing concerts. More infos on these projects on our bandwebsite www.coeurdubois.de
But playing alone (in my case i use a so called "Looper" as my "acompaning band"), is in the same time giving also a great musical freedom. Beeing able to play anything you want on your instrument, without negotiating with other collegues first...
You are able to play without any time pressure or changing the timing or style just the way you decide to do so in just a minute to the other. This way i am able to present music absoloute freely without beeing bound to any category.
Thats why i decided to further investigate and develop and work on my Program. Meanwhile i have built up a repertoire of approx. 60-80 Tunes of all kinds of styles, a blend mix of Jazz, Pop, classics and original compositions that i perform in my own style somewhere between Jazz-Manouche, Blues, Pop - in a kind of "how-ever-you-might-call-it"-Style.
You may call it "jazzy Singer-Songwriter-stuff with a touch of Jazzmanouche" or "swingy Pop-Guitar with Jazz and vocals".
Call it what ever you want ... up to you. I call it - music :-)
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If you like to book me for any kind of event, your wedding, birthday party or else kind of event, feel free to contact me here.
Here you may download my EPK (electronic presskit) with more infos.
Here you may look at some tunes and songs that i am able to perform with my Soloprogramm "Bertino - just guitar".