In this episode Natalia talks with Franziska ‚Ziska‘ Staubli (musician, artist) about learning to play guitar, how to improvise and the importance of speaking to girls, non-binary and queer people in their songbook.

About Ziska

Franziska Staubli is a musician and artist. They have been on stage and making music for over 15 years – formerly with Acid Amazonians, Long Tall Jefferson, Haubi Songs, Steiner & Madlaina, None Of Them and now with their solo project, Dalai Puma, One Sentence. Supervisor and Nemo. Their work is characterized by great stylistic and formal versatility. In their master’s thesis in transdisciplinarity (ZHdK) they dealt with gender and the writing of song lyrics. A selection of their texts were published in June 2018 by Amsel Verlag Zurich. As a songwriter and composer they work with various artists: With Andrina Bollinger and Erik Truffaz they wrote „She’s the Moon“. „Kafi Togo“ by Haubi Songs won the award for best song 2019 from Radio 3fach and „Scho No Geil“ by rapper KimBo was voted best club track 2019 by GDS.FM. They coached young finta musicians at the Helvetiarockt Songwriting Camp and Bandworkshops.

Check out the songs Ziska shares in this episode:

Places mentioned by Ziska:

Material Bookshop

Ziska’s Influences

Audience questions

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