tickets:
regular: 14,- €uro
students, disabled persons: 7,- €uro
doors: 8.00 pm CEST
concert starts:
approx. 8.30 pm CEST
Sounds like this:
https://youtu.be/OhrVXKIevec
After the highly acclaimed debut – CD Polyjazz, the TransEuropeExpress has begun its long project on the edges, which embarks on musical journeys to the edges of Europe and beyond. on the edges 1 – Maghreb Express is a collaboration with Moroccan musician and singer Majid Bekkas, which was presented in 2022 with the album of the same name.
Hans Lüdemann and Majid Bekkas developed the musical concept together, combining elements and traces of North African Gnawa music with multi-layered timbres. Majid Bekkas has contributed his own compositional ideas and is the soloist in Hans Lüdemann’s title piece, a concerto for the lutes oud and guembri played by him with the ensemble. The unusual amalgam of this music appeared to critics as „a shimmering mosaic with many very beautiful and surprising moments“ (Jazz Magazine/F) or „One of the most spectacular recordings of the year“ (Josef Engels/Jazz Thing). One of the albums of the year 2022 was chosen on the edges 1 by sk jazz....
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tickets:
regular: 14,- €uro
students, disabled persons: 7,- €uro
doors: 8.00 pm CEST
concert starts:
approx. 8.30 pm CEST
Sounds like this:
https://youtu.be/OhrVXKIevec
After the highly acclaimed debut – CD Polyjazz, the TransEuropeExpress has begun its long project on the edges, which embarks on musical journeys to the edges of Europe and beyond. on the edges 1 – Maghreb Express is a collaboration with Moroccan musician and singer Majid Bekkas, which was presented in 2022 with the album of the same name.
Hans Lüdemann and Majid Bekkas developed the musical concept together, combining elements and traces of North African Gnawa music with multi-layered timbres. Majid Bekkas has contributed his own compositional ideas and is the soloist in Hans Lüdemann’s title piece, a concerto for the lutes oud and guembri played by him with the ensemble. The unusual amalgam of this music appeared to critics as „a shimmering mosaic with many very beautiful and surprising moments“ (Jazz Magazine/F) or „One of the most spectacular recordings of the year“ (Josef Engels/Jazz Thing). One of the albums of the year 2022 was chosen on the edges 1 by sk jazz.
In autumn 2023 on the edges 1 will be presented live in concert, in November on the edges 2 & 3, the continuation of the series, will be released by BMC records.
The TransEuropeExpress is rolling: 2018 saw the release of the octet’s first CD, entitled „PolyJazz“. It was hailed by the press as a „grandiose masterpiece“ (Fono-Forum) and was nominated for the German Record Critics‘ Prize. But the ensemble is also an experience live – Bruno Pfeiffer spoke of „superlative enthusiasm“ in the French „Liberation“ on the occasion of the concert at the Jazzdor Festival Berlin. Formed in the TransEuropeExpress are eight top-class German and French musicians who together cross musical and human borders.
Side by side, established greats like French trombonist Yves Robert work with creative musicians of the younger generation like German guitarist Ronny Graupe and saxophonist Alexandra Grimal. In the frontline are saxophonist Silke Eberhard and violinist Regis Huby. An energetic rhythmic base is provided by the trio ROOMS with Sebastien Boisseau, Dejan Terzic and the artistic director of the band, Hans Lüdemann, pianist and ECHO Jazz Award winner 2013. Guitarist Kalle Kalima has nicely filled in for Ronny Graupe more often, including on the CD recording of „Polyjazz“.
TransEuropeExpress is not a classical jazz band, but an unconventional formation that opens up maximum creative scope and for which there are no limits. The mission of this ensemble is to go on a journey, to connect music, people, stations and places with their music, and to express impressions and emotions in musical communication. It establishes new European connections and, starting from the Franco-German axis, takes us on a rapid journey to unknown destinations.
The works composed by the musicians especially for T.E.E., half of which are compositions by Hans Lüdemann, and the jointly created improvisations are characterized by a stylistic openness that integrates elements of rock, minimal, new music, electronics, microtonality and free improvisation. The result is a multicolored, energetic, contrasting music that is both tonally beautiful and dirty, and necessarily contemporary – a „polyjazz“ in which European polyphony and dynamic polyrhythms combine with microtonality and electronic sounds, and which departs from postmodernism in jazz. Due to the individual expressiveness and compositional handwriting of the musicians, diversity does not become arbitrariness.
It is bundled in an ensemble sound that brings the individual voices together to form a colorful but amazingly homogeneous whole. Characteristic for the T.E.E. are the contrasts and connections between the more structural „German“ parts and the colorful and playful „French“ flair in the band. In September/October 2013 the „T.E.E. Ensemble“, was launched with premieres in Paris and Cologne, in 2014 it had a celebrated performance at the Jazzdor – Festival Berlin, documented by Deutschlandradio. In 2015, the T.E.E. was a guest in Strasbourg/Offenburg and Budapest and recorded the first CD studio production. With the CD debut and a series of concerts, the TransEuropeExpress presented itself in 2018 as a unique collective of individual creative voices and with its own musical program, and was also a guest at festivals and concert halls with „Polyjazz. „In 2019, the ensemble has begun the long-term project „on the edges,“ which undertakes musical journeys to the edges of Europe in several stages with guest musicians and composers. The literary model for this is Navid Kermani’s travels „Along the Trenches.“ The first edition in 2019 was called „on the edges 1 – Maghreb Express“ with guest Majid Bekkas and in 2020 followed „on the edges 2 – Polar Express“ with guests Kalle Kalima and Sophia Jernberg. In 2022 the project „on the edges 3 – Roman Express“ was realized in Rome, as a cooperation of Villa Massimo and „Musica per Roma“ with Rita Marcotulli and Luciano Biondini.
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