Plewka & Schmedtje

27.09.2025

“Between the 80’s”

"Piano Cosmos - classical music for the next generation"

For many years, the duo Jan Plewka and Marco Schmedtje have been a guarantee
for intense musical moments. With Zinoba, they had a band together from 2003 to
2005. With the now two-part series “Jan
Plewka sings Rio Reiser”, they created an extraordinary memorial to the band Ton Steine Scherben and
the songs of their late frontman Rio Reiser live and on record
, complemented by a great live band and
an audiovisual realization that is as much modern theater as
a rousing live concert. This was followed by an approach to two other artists, Simon & Garfunkel, who are no less appreciated by both
.
With all these encounters with these great artists from the past
, they also went on tour again and again, resulting in another
program entitled “Between the Bars”, in which the two now
completely open to reference no longer only performed their finely chiselled, quiet and acoustically
reduced, yet so urgently intense cover versions
, but also their own songs from the Zinoba catalog, as well as
the respective solo albums of Plewka and Schmedtje. Every now and then
another cover version was mixed into the programme,
mostly songs that told of the youth and musical socialization of the
two. And so the idea for another cover album was born:
“Between the 80's”, a collection of consistently highly successful
songs - one might say classics - from this decade, completely reinterpreted and
in their very own way.