LUAH – Equilibrio

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Release: 11.04.25

Elsa Johanna Mohr: vocals, guitar, baritone guitar, ukulele, percussion

Lena-Larissa Senge: vocals, synthesizer, glockenspiel, percussion

Ula Martyn-Ellis: electric guitar, vocals, mandolin

Lively lightness meets gentle longing: After “Sunlit” and “Movimento”, awarded the German Jazz Prize 2023, the Cologne-based vocal trio LUAH around Elsa Johanna Mohr is now releasing its third album: With “Equilibrio” (GLM Music) nthe three musicians embark on a loving search for equilibrium and balance carefully balancing a wide variety of styles and moods. This balance draws on a rich diversity. What is new is that for Mohr has involved the musicians Lena-Larissa Senge and Ula Martyn-Ellis in the songwriting for “Equilibrio”. involved in the songwriting. Their trio partners were not only able to contribute their own album, but were also closely involved in the entire creation process.
process. This is clearly evident in the music: it’s not just the voices that blend together on
voices blend together particularly effortlessly on “Equilibrio”, but also the wide variety of
colors, instrumentation variations and atmospheres. There is a rich eclecticism that combines the unusual and always provides musical surprises.

One example: “Voices” surprises with its snotty, rocky guitar sounds alongside light-footed vocals, which are joined by baritone and acoustic guitars. Unusually for LUAH, it even becomes explicitly political here: “Voices”, inspired by the situation of oppressed artists, is an appeal to the role and power of art – “because art is created in people, it is a source that can never run dry,” says Mohr.
The result is a flourishing album – meaningful, familiar, playful and dreamy. Daring and warm, LUAH sings in English and Portuguese as multifaceted as a wildflower meadow about relationships with nature and people.