Friendship. Familiarity. Charm.

Three words that automatically spring to mind when Lusterboden plays. Their music is honest. A rare commodity in times when sound often seems synthetic. Real music never dies. It cannot be crushed. Lusterboden is one of those cornerstones that art can always lean on when it stumbles. It remains, it shines, it carries.

Merlin and Florian have known each other since they were children. Back then, they stood together on the stage of the Burgtheater, two boys who played before they knew that one day it would be called “art.” The attic above this stage is called Lusterboden. There, between dust, light, and stories, something was created that still resonates today: a friendship that has become music.

And it is precisely this friendship that you can hear. It is the invisible bond between the notes. The oxygen that lets their music breathe. When Merlin and Florian talk to each other on stage, it's not a stage act, but pure trust. Their conversations are unaffected, their laughter infectious, their silence as honest as their melodies. Perhaps that's the secret of Lusterboden: that you don't just hear music with them, you also experience what friendship sounds like.

An event by Spoon Agency