Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm

Gorilla Club was founded by Stefanie Schrank and Björn Sonnenberg as the children’s music incarnation of the Cologne indie pop institution Locas In Love. Their second album “Ok cool” is a comforting album, one that simultaneously offers an embrace while making an entertaining racket. The Gorillas remain true to their philosophy: rather than offering an entertainment programme for children, they provide a collection of unusual, colourful and smart pop songs with which to enter into conversations with children. They do this sometimes in an absurd, sometimes in a nerdy, sometimes in a jubilant, sometimes in an introverted way, starting with a non-fiction groove song about octopuses in “Facts about Octopods” and culminating in the lullaby “In Bed” performed in seven different languages.

For Gorilla Club, both the repeatedly emerging poetic depths as well as the joys of anarchic nonsense are not ends in themselves: the clever and funny thing about their music is their knowledge of the cleverness and humour of children. This is where the Gorillas meet their young fans, with melodic and playful stories about food, arguments, animals, cities, memories, films and friendship.