Soundbridges | Vandermark · Muche · Lehn · Blume | Live Recording at Loft

tickets:
regular: 12,- €uro
students, disabled persons: 6,- €uro

doors: 8.00 pm CET
concert starts:
approx. 8.30 pm CET

It is thanks to the initiative of drummer Martin Blume that the U.S.-German quartet SOUNDBRIDGES was founded in 2021, in which he is joined by saxophonist Ken Vandermark, trombonist Matthias Muche and synthesizer player Thomas Lehn.

The premiere concert took place on September 10th in Dortmund at the Visual Sound Outdoor Festival, followed by performances at the Ruhr Jazz Festival and the Peitz Festival, organized by the jazzwerkstatt label, which released the quartet’s first CD in September 2022. This was very positively received by the press, including:...

read more

tickets:
regular: 12,- €uro
students, disabled persons: 6,- €uro

doors: 8.00 pm CET
concert starts:
approx. 8.30 pm CET

It is thanks to the initiative of drummer Martin Blume that the U.S.-German quartet SOUNDBRIDGES was founded in 2021, in which he is joined by saxophonist Ken Vandermark, trombonist Matthias Muche and synthesizer player Thomas Lehn.

The premiere concert took place on September 10th in Dortmund at the Visual Sound Outdoor Festival, followed by performances at the Ruhr Jazz Festival and the Peitz Festival, organized by the jazzwerkstatt label, which released the quartet’s first CD in September 2022. This was very positively received by the press, including:
„Soundbridges offers a lot: dynamics, wild free jazz, contemplative phases, sound excursions. Everything flows homogeneously into each other, as if there were no dividing lines. Through sound bridges, in the most beautiful sense of the word.“ (Martin Schray, The Free Jazz Collective)

„The unique instrumentation without bass opens up new sonic and rhythmic possibilities for this energetic quartet. … Lehn and Blume suggest multilayered, highly nuanced rhythmic patterns that lead Vandermark and Muche to explore their extended breathing techniques. … The title of the final, short piece, „Overlapping Edges,“ nicely tells how the sharp, idiosyncratic edges of this quartet build strong and massive bridges. I await the next piece from this great quartet.“ (Eyal Hareuveni, salt peanuts)

show less