The Bavarian singer-songwriter stumbles through the world with alert eyes and musical styles that have shaped him over the decades.

Schawumm! is the name of Georg Ringsgwandl’s new album. Schawumm! is the sound made when the busy parcel delivery driver slams the side door of his van shut. On his twelfth studio album (his eighteenth, if you count the live compilation ‘Alte Reier und verreckte Geschichten’ and the music from his plays), he is still the Bavarian singer-songwriter who stumbles through the world with alert eyes, composting impressions in his brain and setting the resulting lyrics to the musical styles that have shaped him over the decades.

At the 2017 Ruth Awards, Georg Ringsgwandl was described as a bird of paradise with a Bavarian idiom and a seismograph of human sensitivities and abysses. He is also one of the great Bavarian poets who repeatedly manage to bring out the beauty of the Bavarian dialect and incorporate it