Blythill + Klub Demboh & Guests Play Sun Ra at Jazz Am Kaisersteg at Hasselwerder Park

Berlin-based bassist Joel Grip assembled this wonderfully chaotic, theatrical, and droll orchestra of some of the city’s best and most distinctive improvisers (including cellist Tristan Honsinger, trumpeter Axel Dörner, and saxophonist Mia Dyberg among the changing cast) back in 2017. It is a house band that’s changed homes several times over its existence. Most recently it’s taken up residency at Petersburg Art Space in Moabit for weekly Monday night performances. Earlier this year the motley crew was joined by Frenchman Simon Sieger (piano and tuba) for five evenings at Au Topsi Pohl to play the otherworldly music of bandleader and composer Sun Ra...

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Berlin-based bassist Joel Grip assembled this wonderfully chaotic, theatrical, and droll orchestra of some of the city’s best and most distinctive improvisers (including cellist Tristan Honsinger, trumpeter Axel Dörner, and saxophonist Mia Dyberg among the changing cast) back in 2017. It is a house band that’s changed homes several times over its existence. Most recently it’s taken up residency at Petersburg Art Space in Moabit for weekly Monday night performances. Earlier this year the motley crew was joined by Frenchman Simon Sieger (piano and tuba) for five evenings at Au Topsi Pohl to play the otherworldly music of bandleader and composer Sun Ra. With its book of Sun Ra tunes, Klub Demboh forges uninterrupted sets of joyful cacophony, stringing together the composer’s indelible themes with improvised transitions, spontaneously conceived arrangements, and bizarre humor—saluting his music while retaining its own “extemporary collective logic,” in the words of Grip.

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