Feature Ring
with Zola Mennenöh
While others were unlearning how to play music with the recorder, Zola Mennenöh discovered her love of music. Classical flute led her to jazz, and from there she went in all kinds of different directions: Folk, avant-garde, sound experiments. Her voice floats through spaces, her music sounds like a dream of gentle layers and shimmering sounds. The audience that has made the pilgrimage to the Weinberg will hear first-hand how much her travels to China, Senegal, Oman, the United Arab Emirates and Estonia have influenced her songs! This Feature Ring will be quiet, intense and beautiful.
For the Feature Ring on September 6, Zola Mennenöh has conceived new works under the title “Celestial Bodies”, which will be performed together with Eren Solak, Felix-Otto Jacobi and Demian Kappenstein in a metaphysical-magical live performance in the Weinbergkirche “Zum Heiligen Geist” Dresden-Pillnitz. In preparation for this special evening, the artist deals with questions of existence, being, reality and things that cannot be perceived with the senses. She investigates how we can come into contact, receive and exchange with entities, spirits and forces of the invisible. In “Celestial Bodies” we ourselves become the object of knowledge transfer between the worlds and alchemists of our experience, in the here and now and in the hereafter.
Duration: ca. 2 h with break
Language: German
Zola Mennenöh (*Wuppertal) is a singer, multi-instrumentalist, composer and performer with roots in jazz and classical music. After living in Copenhagen, she now lives in Berlin. In her works, she combines organic-synthetic sound and visual worlds with a deep exploration of voice, origin and transformation. Her music is poetic, multi-layered and genre-free – it creates spaces for connection, truth and encounter.
Her debut album “Longing for Belonging” (2020, figureight records, NYC) received great recognition, was nominated for the German Jazz Award 2021 and was included in The Guardian’s list of best newcomers. She is currently touring with her electronic-ambient solo project “ANIMA MUNDI”, writing music for dance/film and collaborating with artists such as Shahzad Ismaily, Luka Aron, Max Andrzejewski and Sissi Rada. Her second solo album “A Labor of Love” will be released in November 2025 on Papercup Records.
