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Meta Marie Louise creates a varied and dense universe, which is influenced by flower pots and rainbows harsh noise at times and ambient sounds at others, which lead into groove driven psychedelic beats and melodies. A fusion between Snoop Dogg and John Cage.
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REFERENCES

"Weltklasse!"
Barbara Meyer Cesta, Edition Haus am Gern

"Un moment au rythme détonant et à l'énergie exceptionnelle!"
Valéry Monnet, Programmation La Ferme-Asile

"Thank you so much for this concert - it was the bomb, it really got me in my bones. I was carried away - in a way that doesn't happen so often at concerts. You are a fantastic duo – dynamite!"
Paquita Maria, Singer Songwriter
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Meta Marie Louise - Manuel Engel, fender rhodes and synths and Kevin Chesham, drums has been founded in 2010 and works as a vessel to advance improvised music. The group draws in pop and rock elements into their improvisations which lead to collaborations with different singers, instrumentalists  and poets such as Ana Igluka (Nantes, FR), Hans Koch (Bienne, CH), David Binney (New York, US), Rea Dubach (Bienne, CH), Nativ (Bern, CH), Fork Burke (New York, USA), Soweto Kinch (Birmingham, UK),  Marc Stucki (Bern, CH), Napoleon Maddox (Cincinnati, US) among others.

​More info: Meta Marie Louise EPK

DISCOGRAPHY
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2022 Meta Marie Louise 
with Max Usata + Sirup Gagavil (vinyl 1)
+ Dominik Baumgartner (vinyl 2) / Metonic Records

2015 Overdrive 
with Ana Igluka / Metonic Records

2013 Cultural Free Zone 
with Marc Stucki - Compilation / Landbouwbelang

2012 Sunny Spots 
with Max & Momo / Metonic Records

2011 Pestalozzi's Favorite Chair 
with Hans Koch - Compilation / Metonic Records

​​CONCERT SERIES 2.0 - THE ART OF IMPROVISED MUSIC
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In 2025 Meta Marie Louise continues their concert series (2.0) at Atomic Café in Biel-Bienne showcasing artists from all over Europe and the US. Concerts are held every first Wednesday of the following months:

March 5, 2025
with Henry Love (Psychedelic Punk Rock)

April 2, 2025
with Big Zis (Conscious Trippy Mundart Rap)


May 7, 2025​
​with Marc Stucki (Free Jungle Punk)

October 1, 2025
with sibyl
 (Acid TripHop)


November 5, 2025
with Martin Schütz
 (Chamber Electronica)


December 3, 2025
with Ainsley Burrows (Love Soul Poetry)

SOUNDCLOUD LINK:
​Meta Marie Louise Vinylomat Sessions 2024
 


​CONCERTS 2025 - TAOIM

​with Henry Strongbox
January 19, 2025 Magazin

with Henry Love
​July 6, 2025 Sommer Fest Gurzelen
August 29, 2025 Karls Kühne Gassenshow

with Frempong / Maddox  / Igluka 
December 5, 2025 Moods / December 6, 2025 Le Singe / December 7, 2025 Bee-Flat im Progr
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​Meta Marie Louise - Napoleon Maddox

​Meta Marie Louise - Soweto Kinch

​Meta Marie Louise ​

​Meta Marie Louise ​- Ana Igluka

​Meta Marie Louise - Max Usata

​Meta Marie Louise - Marc Stucki
MANUEL ENGEL - PIANIST COMPOSER PRODUCER EDUCATOR