Kaskaden

Description

With their own musical language, Julia Kadel, Karl-Erik Enkelmann and Steffen Roth have become a regular topic of conversation in recent years and have established themselves as an expressive jazz piano trio well beyond German borders. Releasing their first two records on Blue Note/Universal, they were nominated in 2015 for the prestigious German Music Award Echo Jazz as “Newcomer of the Year” and Julia Kadel as “Female Instrumentalist of the Year.” Most recently, they released their latest work Kaskaden. Julia Kadel’s varying competitions, her imaginative playing and the band’s striking improvisations have become bolder over time. On Kaskaden, they have now reached a new dimension of detail and intensity. More determined than ever, the trio balances the fine line between harmony and atonality, intuition and reflection, poetry and austerity. more freedoms and discovered new harmonies for ourselves.” The unpredictable turns, the playful and tonal richness of variation of all participants as well as the long, nuanced suspense arcs motivate repeated listening, which is rewarded with ever-new impressions. The trio’s live qualities, founded in 2011, their subtle interaction and intuitive understanding encouraged the trio to produce the new album under live conditions - all the more so as it took place in the legendary MPS studio in Villingen (Black Forest, Germany). Its history dates back to 1958, and great jazz pianists such as Oscar Peterson, George Shearing, Monty Alexander and Bill Evans once recorded there. With the Bosendorfer Grand Imperial grand piano - once acquired for Friedrich Gulda - at the center surrounded by classic analog technology, Kaskaden was captured on individual tape. This influenced not only the charismatic sound but also the special atmosphere that characterizes the album. In addition, the recording location was not only a surprise but probably also a small sensation for all MPS fans, as the Julia Kadel Trio is the first MPS act in 35 years to record in the historic studios, the popular German magazine Der Spiegel reported.