Sven Bien - Chronic Musician He has improvised in Azerbaijan with traditional dance orchestras on the charango and in the desert nights of Morocco with the berbers there. He has celebrated with 40 wandering journeyman a half-hour version of the Homegoingsong and played as well for the transsexual carnival in the Argentinean jungle delta.

Curiosity and empathy are the qualities that define Sven Bien as a "Chronic Musician", inspired by the magic of the first time. Whether with Bulgarian puppeteers in Barcelona, Belgian Koraplayers in the Pyrenees, whether in Breton harbor pubs or at the beach bars of Uruguay, Sven Bien brings the magic of music into the everyday world away from the concert halls.

His compositions are heard at film festivals, websites or funerals, in jewelry stores, silent films, body painting events, weddings or contact improv festivals, in the villages of Colombia, at Moroccan leather dyers or on the streets of Buenos Aires when improvising with an Argentinean juggler. An ex-girlfriend once called him a "people´s addict" and so he worked with dancers, filmmakers, poets, fire artists, singers, performance artists and jugglers in many countries ...

For the conventional music business there was in consequence no time or not the necessary interest, instead he sells his CDs directly to his street audience. A chronic musician who wins his audience one day after another, currently on the streets of Barcelona.