Hardcore Chamber Music | Live Recording at Loft

tickets:
regular: 14,- €uro
students, disabled persons: 7,- €uro

doors: 7.30 pm CET
concert starts:
approx. 8.00 pm CET



Crashing beats, jazzy swing, inexhaustible imagination, and unheard-of tenderness: this is hardcore chamber music, radically free and improvised to the point. The fact that there is a certain nonchalance and no shortage of humor is due to the wealth of experience of the three protagonists, who no longer have anything to prove to anyone.
Varner is undoubtedly one of the very best in his field, not only in Germany; Hengst (known to Essen residents as the curator of the JOE Festival, among other things) is hard to beat in terms of power and ingenuity; and Töpp bundles his partners‘ ideas with almost compositional consistency. Clearly a masterful concert that will have you on the edge of your seat!...

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tickets:
regular: 14,- €uro
students, disabled persons: 7,- €uro

doors: 7.30 pm CET
concert starts:
approx. 8.00 pm CET



Crashing beats, jazzy swing, inexhaustible imagination, and unheard-of tenderness: this is hardcore chamber music, radically free and improvised to the point. The fact that there is a certain nonchalance and no shortage of humor is due to the wealth of experience of the three protagonists, who no longer have anything to prove to anyone.
Varner is undoubtedly one of the very best in his field, not only in Germany; Hengst (known to Essen residents as the curator of the JOE Festival, among other things) is hard to beat in terms of power and ingenuity; and Töpp bundles his partners‘ ideas with almost compositional consistency. Clearly a masterful concert that will have you on the edge of your seat!

“The finest tones from perfectly mastered instruments in beautiful harmony alternate with brutal acoustic storms and thunderous sounds. Yes, free improvisation can also be fun.”
Elmar Petzold, jazz-fun

“The sophisticated gestures of this freely improvised music confirm it as an artistic genre in which those who have already passed through other musical stages of existence are particularly convincing.”
Stefan Pieper, nrwjazz

“Guitar sounds from the underworld, quickly countered by rising trombone tones from an equally mysterious shadow world…”
Georges Tonla Briquet, jazzhalo, Brüssel

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