THIS LIVESTREAM STARTS AT 8.45pm CEST (UTC/GMT +2h)
THIS MEANS 2.45pm IN NEW YORK CITY
THIS MEANS 11.45am IN LOS ANGELES
You can watch this livestream for free on YouTube, we are of course very happy if you pay Maik Krahl an „entry“ to this concert, details can be found shortly prior to the start of the concert here.
Fraction, that sounds small, almost incomplete. That the whole thing is always more than the sum of its parts is demonstrated by jazz trumpeter Maik Krahl with his second album Fraction, which will be released by Challenge Records International in May 2020....
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THIS LIVESTREAM STARTS AT 8.45pm CEST (UTC/GMT +2h)
THIS MEANS 2.45pm IN NEW YORK CITY
THIS MEANS 11.45am IN LOS ANGELES
You can watch this livestream for free on YouTube, we are of course very happy if you pay Maik Krahl an „entry“ to this concert, details can be found shortly prior to the start of the concert here.
Fraction, that sounds small, almost incomplete. That the whole thing is always more than the sum of its parts is demonstrated by jazz trumpeter Maik Krahl with his second album Fraction, which will be released by Challenge Records International in May 2020.
After his celebrated debut Decidophobia, for which Maik Krahl has toured throughout Germany with his quartet and at many renowned jazz festivals, Maik Krahl and Fraction deliver an earthy, sometimes floating, light album that fans of experimental jazz sounds and fans of traditional jazz Styles picked up equally.
Or, to put it in the words of his former professor Till Brönner: “It is great fun to listen to Maik Krahl and his artist colleagues on Fraction! The love of virtuosity and sound can be found in each of the compositions banned here at a level that simply has to inspire! My sincere respect for this album!“
Maik Krahl, born 1991, knows how to take the listener on the journey of the record. Its characteristic, soft sound – reminiscent of great role models like Chet Baker – shifts from soft sounds to exciting sound gadgets with delay and distortion. But Krahl never loses the sense of musicality and melodies. The record deliberately comes to rest and breathe between exciting solo passages.
Together with Constantin Krahmer (p / rhod), Oliver Lutz (db) and Leif Berger (dr), Maik Krahl creates a cozy, warm sound and an atmosphere that triggers different imagery for the listener depending on the piece. When the opening and Tangent to Tango start soft and accessible (by the way also perfect warm-up pieces for „jazz beginners“), Big Adventures of a Tiny Creature picks up soulful groove elements that put you in the New York jazz basement and you almost wait for Donald Fagon and Walter Becker from Steely Dan to start in the next bar. It should be particularly emphasized that Maik Krahl was able to win the celebrated star Seamus Blake (sax) for his album as a guest. On the same song, Krahl delivers a wonderful Call & Response exchange with Seamus Blake, which culminates in a series of first-class solos – incredibly well-versed, with a pleasant nonchalance. Just as you would expect from the big boys in jazz.
In the piece At First Sight, Maik Krahl’s enthusiasm for experimentation, which we already know from his previous album, flashes through: provided with distortion, the trumpet, which is just as soft, sounds almost like a strained electric guitar. The sound makes one sit up and be curious, but here too Maik Krahl always chooses the melody.
Fraction is an album full of finds that are small pearls in themselves, but are a great treasure in the context of the album. More than just a fragment.
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