Training Feat. Ruth Goller + Skylla at Kantine Am Berghain

Frenetic free-jazz meets post-rock riffs and looming microtonal atmospheres in the sounds of TRAINING. In 2023, the Berlin-based duo – drummer Max Andrzejewski and saxophonist Johannes Schleiermacher – collaborated with acclaimed electric bassist Ruth Goller, praised by The Guardian for her „thunderous bass-guitar hooks.“ Together, they create new, energetic music: winding grooves, instrumental-vocal interplay and weightless unison melodies.

Ruth Goller’s ‘Skylla’ shines a long-awaited light on one of the most important musicians to have driven and revolutionised the UK jazz and improv scenes over the last 16 years. The bassist, vocalist, composer, environmentalist and now solo artist, draws inspiration from deep within to create a stunningly original and beautiful piece of work....

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Frenetic free-jazz meets post-rock riffs and looming microtonal atmospheres in the sounds of TRAINING. In 2023, the Berlin-based duo – drummer Max Andrzejewski and saxophonist Johannes Schleiermacher – collaborated with acclaimed electric bassist Ruth Goller, praised by The Guardian for her „thunderous bass-guitar hooks.“ Together, they create new, energetic music: winding grooves, instrumental-vocal interplay and weightless unison melodies.

Ruth Goller’s ‘Skylla’ shines a long-awaited light on one of the most important musicians to have driven and revolutionised the UK jazz and improv scenes over the last 16 years. The bassist, vocalist, composer, environmentalist and now solo artist, draws inspiration from deep within to create a stunningly original and beautiful piece of work.
On ‘Skylla’, Goller in some ways returns to the pure untaught instincts that drove her as a teen punk musician. In this project, she was joined by a rolling cast of percussionists “to create hypnotic, haunting patterns and demented nursery rhymes” — The Guardian.

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