tickets:
regular: 14,- €uro
students, disabled persons: 7,- €uro
ATTENTION:
doors: 5.30 pm CET
concert starts:
approx. 6.00 pm CET
Concert duration: one set / approx. 60 min
Sensitive, expressive, courageous and tender. Four words that fall onto paper without hesitation when thinking about the Eva Klesse Quartet and its protagonists. Ten years after the release of their first album XENON in 2014, the band is releasing STIMMEN, their sixth and possibly most personal and political album to date, in the fall of 2024. Together with the three guest musicians Michael Schiefel, Zuza Jasinska and Philipp Rumsch, the four musicians of the Eva Klesse Quartet create a complex cosmos of sound in the form of a musical essay that does not shy away from confronting pain, grief, anger and despair and at the same time repeatedly tells of hope....
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tickets:
regular: 14,- €uro
students, disabled persons: 7,- €uro
ATTENTION:
doors: 5.30 pm CET
concert starts:
approx. 6.00 pm CET
Concert duration: one set / approx. 60 min
Sensitive, expressive, courageous and tender. Four words that fall onto paper without hesitation when thinking about the Eva Klesse Quartet and its protagonists. Ten years after the release of their first album XENON in 2014, the band is releasing STIMMEN, their sixth and possibly most personal and political album to date, in the fall of 2024. Together with the three guest musicians Michael Schiefel, Zuza Jasinska and Philipp Rumsch, the four musicians of the Eva Klesse Quartet create a complex cosmos of sound in the form of a musical essay that does not shy away from confronting pain, grief, anger and despair and at the same time repeatedly tells of hope.
https://evaklesse.de/de/infos/
The starting point for the joint development of the now eleven-year-old quartet was a session opener concert at the former Liveclub Telegraph in Leipzig in January 2014. Since then, the band has traveled thousands of kilometers halfway around the world together and received awards such as the ECHO Jazz and the SWR Jazz Prize. The musicians have grown together and have continued to develop their shared feeling for capturing and telling stories, which has become so special to them. Evgeny Ring, Philip Frischkorn and Eva Klesse are founding members, since 2022 and the recent release songs against loneliness feat. Wolfgang Muthspiel, double bassist Marc Muellbauer has been part of the quartet. The quartet bears the name of the drummer. Artistically, the band has been a collective since the beginning. The new release STIMMEN underlines this.
https://projekt-stimmen.de/
Philip Frischkorn, Evgeny Ring and Eva Klesse have each individually developed a conceptually and compositionally independent chapter based on a common idea. A special quality of the quartet lies in this equal and integrating artistic collaboration. STIMMEN was created at almost the same time as the previous album. What both releases have in common is that they refer to current events by commenting musically, so to speak, on current situations. STIMMEN was premiered in 2021 and is now being released in a slightly revised form.
What does it mean to have a voice? Who is heard? Who is not heard? Why? What does it mean to make your voice heard? Can a voice become too loud and what happens to it then? How can a voice be given to a counterpart whose story is in danger of being lost in the fast pace of everyday life or in the flood of images that assail us?
The collective’s idea for STIMMEN was born in 2020 in the loneliness of the first COVID-19 lockdown. The starting point for the work was the ensemble’s conviction that the external lockdown needed to be resisted internally. In response to the restrictions, the musicians decided to listen to people whose stories seemed more distant than ever and whose voices they felt were in danger of being drowned out by the roar of the present, determined by the pandemic and global political conflicts.
This resulted in 13 new pieces in three chapters, through which the theme of social upheaval is woven like a common thread: stories of life, dreams, hopes and misses under socialism. Poems and stories by and about Russian freedom fighters who bravely stood up as long as they could. Tales of the oppressively violent discrimination based on gender, skin color, (social) origin or sexuality in the world.
The quartet’s description of symbolic life stories and realities, the associated individual struggles and their consequences for those involved, is accompanied by a message of hope: individual commitment, dedication and the fight for a future worth living are worthwhile.
The collective idea, which has long supported the band and is one of its strengths, is taken even further on STIMMEN and the quartet has invited three guest musicians for this production. Berlin singers Michael Schiefel and Zuza Jasinska lend their voices to those whose stories are told, while Leipzig pianist and sound designer Philipp Rumsch contributes electronic sound facets, becoming a radio-like feed machine, transforming, transforming and doubling the original voices, in some cases, and thus ensuring that the listeners are confronted with a choir of narrators.
With STIMMEN, the Eva Klesse Quartet ventures into new, unusual territory and opens up new levels of meaning through the addition of language and text. While the musicians were already known as excellent storytellers, this quality is now further enhanced by the dramaturgical treatment of the material in STIMMEN.
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