Esperanza
Summer 1936: Luxury-liner « Esperanza » leaves the port of Buenos Aires. Aboard on a quest for happiness and light heartedness, South Americas’ rich and beautiful and with them for their entertainment: The « Her Majesty’s Sound » Orchestra.
After a journey of 33 days, contact to the ship is lost – she and her passengers have never been seen since. The only indication of her disappearing is discovered years later: A telegram sent by a passenger to his fiancé, describing strange light appearances in the sky.
Summer 2003: Recordings of « Her Majesty's Sound » are discovered in an estate. Parts of those and the mixture with contemporary urban sounds make « Her Majesty's Sound » resurrect again, as if this was a distant message from the widths and depths of the Ocean.
The result of this unique combination is « Esperanza » : An album recorded and produced by the Swiss sound visionary Alexander Friedrich (an ancestor of a member of « Her Majesty’s Sound ») with Swedish singer Karen Hanssen and multi instrumentalist Adam Taubitz, a former violinist of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.
This new sound and the fascination with the fate of the « Esperanza » capture everyone who is on a quest for hope and a better world, as were the passenger of the « Esperanza », and invite to a musical expedition.
