Concerts
Dagobert "Die Tour mit Band" + Support: Massfit Oddy
Friday, 30/10/2026 / 08:00 PM / Hafenklang
- club concert
So now it's guitar rock! Just a few months after his gently wistful dream-pop album "Rama Kalala," Dagobert reveals his hardest side on his ninth album, "Tier," delivering nine essays on the human condition over a powerful wall of guitars. Less sentimental than usual, but as anthemic as ever, Dagobert's new songs captivate listeners even in the guise of a classic and timeless rock band.
The lyrics are sometimes just as brutal as the new sound. In "Here Come the Humans," he sings, "Sweet how they get angry / Sometimes someone has to die / Sweet how they wage wars / For they must feel their pride," and in "Eternal Flight," Scrooge describes us humans like this: "A lump of dirt that's fermented for too long / The millionth animal that hasn't proven itself / We are chance and chaos." Scrooge finally finds the way out of this chaotic human existence in the title song, in becoming an animal: "Forms of security / False shame and no time / I certainly don't want any of that / I'd rather become an animal / Can be wild and evil and alone and free from all worries."
The ways of Dagobert are unfathomable. After his gothic-suicidal chamber piece "Schwarz," he delivered a highly ambitious and, for the first time, quite socially critical R&B masterpiece with the unwieldy title "Dagobert und die wahre Musik vom südlichen Blütenland" (Dagobert and the True Music of the Southern Flower Land), which was followed by a delicate love album ("Rama Kalala"), and now Dagobert presents us with his first philosophical mini-rock opera. All this, mind you, in less than three years. Anyone willing to follow the voice of this boundary-crosser between genres and social classes will be richly rewarded. The album "Tier" (Animal) can also be read as a kind of self-help guide, promoting the simple, true life that has become so alien to us. And that brings us to the essence of this artist, who remains the most marginal of all Swiss musicians: in their simplicity and immediate power, his honest expressions of emotion and observations are unique among his contemporaries.
Massfit Oddy, the singer-songwriter project of Jakob Zimmermann from Fribourg, Switzerland, is a treasure trove of brilliant songs that are both raw and unpolished, yet delicate and sensitive. The stripped-down, yet consistently surprising arrangements, centered on Jakob's understated vocals and acoustic guitar, invite the listener to immerse themselves in an enchanted realm filled with embracing melodies and emotions that wash ashore from the past, telling personal stories—some lived, some imagined, others simply evoking fleeting nostalgia. The focus lies in their simplicity and honesty. Massfit Oddy is thus less a finished concept than an ongoing quest and an adventurous musical journey.
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