tickets:
regular: 12,- €uro
students, disabled persons: 6,- €uro
doors: 8.00 pm CEST
concert starts:
approx. 8.30 pm CEST
„Compositional order and letting go intertwine beautifully here. In the process, an overall narrative emerges in which five individuals pulsate like a small superorganism, pausing, grappling and sweeping along from the start.“
Jazzpodium 3/4-2022
„Adventurous and rhythmically intricate acoustic jazz. Amazingly mature.“
WDR 3
„A courageous and conceptually well-executed album“
Jazzthetik 1/2-2022...
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tickets:
regular: 12,- €uro
students, disabled persons: 6,- €uro
doors: 8.00 pm CEST
concert starts:
approx. 8.30 pm CEST
„Compositional order and letting go intertwine beautifully here. In the process, an overall narrative emerges in which five individuals pulsate like a small superorganism, pausing, grappling and sweeping along from the start.“
Jazzpodium 3/4-2022
„Adventurous and rhythmically intricate acoustic jazz. Amazingly mature.“
WDR 3
„A courageous and conceptually well-executed album“
Jazzthetik 1/2-2022
Felix Henkelhausen, born in Oldenburg in 1995, received classical piano and cello lessons before his interest in the double bass was awakened. At the age of 16, he began his junior studies at the HfK Bremen with Prof. Detlev Beier. In 2014, he followed this with studies at the Jazz Institute Berlin with Prof. Greg Cohen and Marc Muellbauer, which he successfully completed in 2019. Despite his young age, Henkelhausen has already played with nationally and internationally known artists such as Andrea Parkins, Dave Liebmann, Eric McPherson, Gebhard Ullmann, Hubert Nuss, Jim Black, Jochen Rueckert, Kathrin Pechlof, Lotte Anker, Marc Copland, Nate Wooley, Oli Steidle, Pablo Held, Peter Schlamp, Philipp Gropper’s Philm, Toby Delius and many others.
Henkelhausen is part of numerous bands including Liun and the Science Fiction Orchestra, Lorenz Kellhuber Trio, Stefan Schultze Large, Jim and the Shrimps, Bram de Looze Trio feat. Eric McPherson, Nate Wooley’s Knknighgh and Tau5. In February 2023, he was nominated for the German Jazz Award in the bass category (winners* announced at the end of April 2023).
https://www.felix.henkelhausen.net/
The idea of forming a quintet has been on Henkelhausen’s mind since 2016, when he began writing pieces for a five-piece ensemble on the occasion of a concert. The compositions now included on the album thus reflect the musical and compositional development that Henkelhausen has undergone since then, but at the same time also allow a glimpse into the future.
With Misanthropic Tendencies, Felix’s debut album as a bandleader and composer was released in November 2021.
Henkelhausen does not put himself in the foreground on this album, he is much more concerned with creating a musical shape, a body of sound that cannot be pinned down to an individual, but only comes about through the constellation of the five protagonists.
The album title aims at an offended relationship to humanity, at the cruelties that this species is capable of committing. At the same time, however, Henkelhausen is also concerned with the love of people and the potential of the creative power of each individual, as well as the potential for a better society and a non-violent, loving coexistence. He seeks to convey this ambivalence in his pieces and to make it clear through the mixture of melodicism and rhythmic as well as harmonic rawness. Thus, a melancholic undertone runs through his pieces, a kind of veil or shadow that lies on or under the beauty of the music.
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