Die letzten Ostgoten

How it all began: a stroll through the big medieval festival, suddenly the sound of the stage sounds unusual for the setting: an electric bass playing together with drums, a hint of a jam session is in the air, it smells of jazz.  I approach the stage: a young woman on bass is playing acoustic balls with the drummer, virtuoso - someone has mastered his craft. There are nyckelharpa and bagpipe, then a flute - all dressed in medieval clothes, also the melody and he singing in a language that is foreign to me medieval - in contrast to this jazzy jam session.  I am impressed and speak to the musicians after the performance ... the beginning of “cave painting”!  Where do you think the origins of jazz lie?  What might that have sounded like in the days of Cro-Magnons?  Who inspired whom?  “Because the last Ostrogoths do not approach with clear musical norms or guidelines, but improvise on the painted cave paintings and let new things grow out of them. The images were created in the south of France over 12,000 years ago.  While Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock and other heroes of jazz have experimented with the times, “The Last Ostrogoths” take a look behind the curtain and thus supposedly a look back.  Presumably, because the journey goes from the quaint (in the truest sense of the word - the origin, the original) on the paths of development and experimentation to something new - “Ostrogoth jazz”!