MARIA DE VAL

Longtime HvG singer and percussionist releases her debut solo album

Maria De Val gained her special view of the world early on: as a Ladin woman in South Tyrol, a south Tyrolean in Italy, an Italian in Germany and not least as a drummer in the male-dominated world of music: "I don't want to claim that I suffered as a result, but of course it sharpens the senses." Musically speaking, it's no wonder that Maria Moling, who grew up in a mountain village in the Ladin alps, is at home with many instruments: drums, guitars, bass, keys, sequencer as well as theremin and marimba. She has demonstrated this as a multi-instrumentalist on grand stages with artists such as Hubert von Goisern and now all the more impressively on her debut album Mëda Medusa (AT). First the time after earlier band projects (Ganes, ME + MARIE) her voice is given appropriate room to develop.