Olaf Hobrlant makes songs for the coast

After the long corona-related dry spell for all cultural workers without any events, Olaf Hobrlant from “Spill” is particularly happy to finally be able to be on stage again. Next week he will produce the last song from the new CD entitled “Soulrelevant”.

The CD title is an allusion to the word “systemically relevant”. “From one day to the next, we musicians were suddenly no longer noticed at all because we were not relevant to the system. “It wasn’t a nice feeling,” explains Hobrlant, explaining what inspired him to write the title. It is already the tenth CD that “Spill” has produced together with Andreas Buhse from the Warnemünde recording label COAAST TMP.

Olaf Hobrlant is the creator of ballads such as “Warnemünde in the Morning”, “Little City by the Sea” or “Hartmut's Dream” - all songs that are intended to embody curiosity about the world, but also joy of life and love of home. Oldies, country music, hits and rock are just as much part of “Spill’s” repertoire as his own compositions with songs from the coast.

The band started in the Urals, where Olaf Hobrlant worked in housing construction for natural gas workers. There he met Lutz Dammann, who, like Hobrlant, already had a music duo. They decided to get together and started making music together in 2008. Since Dammann now lives in Saxony, Olaf Hobrlant has been performing in the duo “Spill” with the trained musician Steffen Wroost, son of the Rostock wood sculptor Harald Wroost, since 2014. Hobrlant made music his career in 2003. “When I was laid off from my construction job, I just tried music and it worked,” says the 61-year-old from Lichtenhagen.

He describes himself as a freelance solo entertainer who also creates spontaneous portraits at events as a quick sketch artist. “Drawing developed along the way. “Initially, during breaks at events, I drew people who caught my eye out of boredom,” says Hobrlant. Together with Wroost he performs at city festivals, concerts and family celebrations. They are happy that they can finally perform again. “We had lost our voice for 16 months. We missed the stage and the audience,” they say looking back. With her appearances on the Warnemünder Woche Normality slowly returns for the two of them.