LIVE & UP CLOSE: RIO NIN FOR YOUR EARS ONLY

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RIO NIN
FOR YOUR EARS ONLY



"I want music that celebrates what is and what we often no longer even perceive. Something that is beyond words."

On his two CDs "For Your Ears Only" and "Traces Of The Past", guitarist Rio Nin takes the hectic pace of everyday life down several gears. The meditative sounds come with serenity and tranquillity in their luggage. They turn listening into a summer walk for the ears. The Danes call this feeling of security "hygge". But what do words say?



It all started in sleepy Nordhorn. Covering songs? Singing along? Not possible. At the age of 15, you have a lot to tell the world. So Rio Nin, alias Mario Brünink, taught himself a few fingerings, founded a band with a friend and stormed ... no, not into the charts ... but onto everything that somehow resembled a stage. You have to sweat your first musical laurels. "We didn't want to be coffin savers," says Brünink. "Not people who were dumbing down their lives."

Music was protest. Against feet falling asleep, stuffy thinking and sofa wasteland.

"I wanted something completely different. To break open with "Smoke on the water" and "Wish you were here" in the musical long-term memory. Something is moving and he wants to be part of it. The first compositions were recorded with a borrowed tape recorder. Singer-songwriters like Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen or the Eagles cheered him on.

"That has always remained: I want to move something with my music," says the guitarist.

And for that, any stylistic device was and is fine with him. He mixes elements from folk, rock, jazz and classical music in a well-tempered way and creates his own, unmistakable sound.

Rio Nin: "Nature in particular has always inspired me.