jazzXclamation | Kathrin Lemke

The current project of Berlin based band JazzXclamation is a cooperation with the exceptional saxophonist Matthias Schubert.

After having released their current CD “Odds And Ends” (Jazzwerkstatt) in 2008, the band recorded their newest cd “You Own The City?!” at the former GDR broadcasting centre on Nalepastraße in Berlin-Oberschöneweide last summer.

JazzXclamation, the 1998 founded quartet around saxophonist Kathrin Lemke, “maneuvers with energy and humor past the clichés of the avant-garde, while at the same time bringing together psychedelic moments of intensity and sophisticated, arranged reduction. This music has breathed the air of the sixties, but counters it with the ironic, laid-back breath of the present. Clever.”

“ Free of blinders, the band mediates between the free jazz of the sixties, the avant-garde of the eighties and contemporary lounge jazz. Music that never stops and one of the few jazz albums that adequately translates the streets of Berlin into sound.”

“That’s what jazz could sound like that is made for the present: sometimes rough like a heavy metal riff, sometimes sweet and pretty like a pop ballad. The quartet around saxophonist Kathrin Lemke can play all of these sounds. Flickering sound-creations emerge. They could also provide the soundtrack to a thriller, since they emerge in such an exciting and suspense-filled way in songs with titles like “Kaputter Walzer” or “Liberation-Song of a Brave Woman,” only to dissolve in the wild-hammering and bright peeping of collective noise. That is sophisticated, precisely in its childlike gesture of destruction.”

(Stereoplay/TIP/Tagesspiegel)

Music:

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CDs:

“You Own The City?!” (2010 by konnex records)