CHARLES PETERSOHN AND CHILDREN OF ZU ZU
Sat 31.05.25, 19:30
Pina Bausch Centre under construction, Bundesallee 260, Wuppertal
Tickets
Box Office / 20,00 € / 10,00 € reduced
Presale / 19,00 € / 9,00 € reduced
Concert for the release of the new album Children Of Zu Zu by Charles Petersohn. The first release in 18 years—an international restart.
The musician, sound designer, DJ, curator and event organiser Charles Petersohn dares to take another leap into the international music world with this record, on which he combines an enormous range of musical styles with six tracks. The advance praise from England, France, Japan and elsewhere shortly after its release reads very promisingly.
On Saturday, May 31, he will celebrate this music live at the Pina Bausch Zentrum with his new six-piece band, Children Of Zu Zu. Maria Basel (keyboards), Antonia Nickel (drums), Maxime von Koblinski (percussion), Amaka aka AdaSoul (vocals), Luca Greco (mix + samples), and Charles Petersohn (digital bass + vocals) will perform not only pieces from the album but also previously unreleased songs in the atrium of the former Schauspielhaus foyer. Petersohn has always loved blending styles, merging them into something unique, sometimes entirely new. The anticipation for this concert is high—combining electronic dance music with spiritual jazz, African and Brazilian rhythms, and ambient music. Through sound design, the music will also be transported to different places: a marketplace somewhere in Africa, the backstreets of São Paulo during Brazilian Carnival, or even deep into the vastness of space. But what is Zu Zu? The term originates from the spiritual world of the multicultural city of New Orleans. It embodies spiritual healing, universal love, and, for Charles Petersohn himself, the heat of the night—inside a nightclub where nothing seems real, yet everything feels just right.
Last but not least, this concert is not just a return for the album—it’s also a personal homecoming. At the Schauspielhaus, now the Pina Bausch Zentrum under construction, he worked alongside other Wuppertal cultural figures in solidarity with artistic director Christian von Treskow. Here, he produced his first theater music—for Shakespeare’s Macbeth, directed by Claudia Bauer. With Theater Anderwelten, he was a musician for the play German Song, which also featured Chrystel Guillebeaud. And finally, in this very venue, he performed one of only two concerts with Dutch jazz legend Jasper van’t Hof for their joint album Delirious.
After the concert, you are invited to experience the light art of RaumZeitPiraten Tobias Daemgen in the foyer and the Japanese garden of the venue, accompanied by ambient music from Brian Eno, Charles Petersohn himself, and other artists.
A collaboration between the Pina Bausch Foundation, LOCH Ug, Thöne & Partner, and the Caritasverband Wuppertal/Solingen e.V.