tickets:
regular: 14,- €uro
students, disabled persons: 7,- €uro
doors: 7.30 pm CET
concert starts:
approx. 8.00 pm CET
„A successful return to an important chapter of European art music of the early 20th century. Caspar van Meel continues Erik Satie’s achievements in an extremely creative and captivating way, giving them a very individual and contemporary side. A highly recommended listening experience.“
Thomas Loewner / WDR3 Jazz 30.11.2023
„A wonderful album with poetry, unobtrusive melancholy and a gloomy gloom‘ by the ‚Dutch master bassist Caspar van Meel‘ with an ‚excellent sextet‘ of ‚brilliant bandmates.“...
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tickets:
regular: 14,- €uro
students, disabled persons: 7,- €uro
doors: 7.30 pm CET
concert starts:
approx. 8.00 pm CET
„A successful return to an important chapter of European art music of the early 20th century. Caspar van Meel continues Erik Satie’s achievements in an extremely creative and captivating way, giving them a very individual and contemporary side. A highly recommended listening experience.“
Thomas Loewner / WDR3 Jazz 30.11.2023
„A wonderful album with poetry, unobtrusive melancholy and a gloomy gloom‘ by the ‚Dutch master bassist Caspar van Meel‘ with an ‚excellent sextet‘ of ‚brilliant bandmates.“
Ernst Weiss / Concerto 12/2023
Satie: A Time Remembered – on his second album as bandleader, bassist, composer and arranger Caspar van Meel presents his personal, innovative interpretation of the impressionist composer’s music, bringing together an international sextet of outstanding musicians from the German and Dutch jazz scene. On December 8, 2023, the album was released on vinyl, CD and all major streaming platforms via the O-Tone Music label.
Van Meel focuses on the Gnossiennes – a series of works for piano written by Satie at the end of the 19th century. The melodies and harmonies in these works are deceptively simple and almost romantic. They cling to the classical tradition, but break out through the use of innovative scales. „Although many jazz musicians were influenced by impressionist composers like Satie, the scales that Satie used are still not often used,“ says van Meel. On this album, van Meel makes Satie’s harmonic innovations clear and introduces them into an improvised musical context.
Van Meel focuses on the Gnossiennes – a series of works for piano written by Satie at the end of the 19th century. The melodies and harmonies in these works are deceptively simple and almost romantic. They cling to the classical tradition, but break out through the use of innovative scales. „Although many jazz musicians were influenced by impressionist composers like Satie, the scales that Satie used are still not often used,“ says van Meel. On this album, van Meel makes Satie’s harmonic innovations clear and introduces them into an improvised musical context.
Van Meel’s arrangements were influenced by old masters such as Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus and Gil Evans as well as contemporaries such as Dave Holland and trumpeter Avishai Cohen. The title of this project, „Time Remembered“, was derived from the famous composition by jazz pianist Bill Evans. It is a good example of how impressionist composers such as Satie have influenced jazz musicians. Van Meel deliberately chose to juxtapose his version of this piece with Satie’s music. Indeed, Evans‘ use of certain harmonic structures and the slightly sombre mood this evokes are quite similar to Satie’s harmonic progressions.
It was this mood in particular that first appealed to Van Meel when he came into contact with Satie’s music in his early twenties. When Satie wrote his famous piano works, Europe was going through a turbulent time. The feeling of tremendous political, technological and social change must have been quite similar to the mood of the times we live in today. The Gnossienne seem to reflect this zeitgeist – they breathe a heavy, melancholy mood, as if mourning the loss of a time that should be remembered: „There are striking similarities between our time and the time in which Satie wrote these works, which makes this music as relevant to me as ever.“
NOTE: In 2024, the concerts at the LOFT will start round 8pm - the LOFT opens approx. 30min before the concerts begin.
Exceptions (until Eastern): Sunday Concerts (start approx at 6pm, if not noted otherwise).
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