Double Duo: Paul Walke & Tabea Kind | Kateryna Kravchenko & Arthur Clees at Loft

double bill;
tickets:
regular: 14,- €uro
students, disabled persons: 7,- €uro

doors: 7.30 pm CET
concert starts:
approx. 8.00 pm CET

“What and how much does music need to sound good? What can I contribute?” – are two of the central questions in the musical dialog between Tabea Kind, double bass, and Paul Walke, guitar. The duo completes their repertoire of melancholic original compositions through their constant willingness to break with all the parameters of music and create something completely new from them. The result is musical miniatures that create a meditative atmosphere and tell personal stories....

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double bill;
tickets:
regular: 14,- €uro
students, disabled persons: 7,- €uro

doors: 7.30 pm CET
concert starts:
approx. 8.00 pm CET

“What and how much does music need to sound good? What can I contribute?” – are two of the central questions in the musical dialog between Tabea Kind, double bass, and Paul Walke, guitar. The duo completes their repertoire of melancholic original compositions through their constant willingness to break with all the parameters of music and create something completely new from them. The result is musical miniatures that create a meditative atmosphere and tell personal stories.

Paul Walke and Tabea Kind met at the beginning of 2023 during their first working phase with the Bundesjazzorchester. They quickly realized that playing big band together was not their only common musical denominator and began to work together outside of the orchestra, first in smaller formations and finally only as a duo. In the process, a musical vision characterized by minimalism increasingly became the focus of their joint music-making, which combines atmospheric, expansive improvisations with personal, emotionally profound songs and classical forms such as the blues.
In April 2024, they won the recording project of 2ndFLOOR e.V. at the LOFT, which made it possible to record their debut album Wellen im Bauch in summer 2024.
The album will be released on 14.03.2025 on sts sts records.

„The unusual and conceptually exciting duo”
„In the limbo of poetry set to music and improvisational interaction, they created listening spaces of magical density, charming, personal, virtuosic.“
London Jazz News

The Dresden-based duo, consisting of Ukrainian singer Kateryna Kravchenko and Luxembourgish vibraphonist Arthur Clees, experiments with refreshing approaches to setting poetry to music, improvising, and exploring different sound palettes through the unique combination of their instruments. The two musicians met in Germany at the Dresden University of Music. Their shared desire to put away clichés and musical boundaries motivated them to explore a wide spectrum of genres, ranging from electroacoustic projects to crossover collaborations with classical orchestras and folk musicians. As a result, they received the Grand Prix at the International Jazz Juniors Competition in Krakow, Poland, and were invited to renowned festivals such as JazzFestBrno in the Czech Republic and the Music Meeting Festival in the Netherlands. Their debut album, which was created in collaboration with the Berlin producer and saxophonist Wanja Slavin, will be released in 2025.

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