Kathrin Pechlof Trio - Toward the Unknown (PIROUET RECORDS 2018)

The harp has never had a major role in jazz, but then again, harpist Kathrin Pechlof’s music encompasses more than jazz. Her success in both traditional and contemporary classical music, her venture into a jazzy version of Bavarian folk music and the Avant-pop of Cosmic Groove Orchestra led to her consequent turn towards contemporary jazz and work with such players as Pablo Held, Niels Klein, and Sebastian Gille. Such a background lends a depth and breadth to Pechlof’s play that places her in the forefront of the new generation of innovative musicians. Pechlof’s trio of like-minded musicians alto saxophonist/composer Christian Weidner and bassist Robert Landfermann has been testing musical borders for some seven years. Jazzthing depicted their first PIROUET album, Imaginarium, as “chamber music worlds of quiet beauty and understated elegance”. On their new PIROUET CD, the three guide the listener towards the beauty and challenge of the unexpected.

Silence Is A Looking Bird

Fuge

Elegie

Feldfolge

Thema und Variation

Earth

Toward The Unknown

Versuch

Made Up Animals

Kathrin Pechlof - harp

Robert Landfermann - double bass

Christian Weidner - alto sax

Mock Grandeur - 2 (WIDE EAR RECORDS 2017)

The Quartet Mock Grandeur with Benjamin Weidekamp and Christian Weidner on alto sax and Tobias Backhaus on drums plays sort of a conceptual music, with different combinations of the quartet but also some tunes featuring the whole group. An engaging music, soaked with Berlin Jazz Style attitude. READ MORE...

1. TS 02:07

2. #4 03:47

3. #21 03:19

4. BS 02:04

5. BCS 03:07

6. #17 02:14

7. CB 02:02

8. TC 02:20

9. CS 02:10

10. S 01:03

11. BC 02:09

12. STC 03:02

13. B 01:11

14. BCST 04:04

15. #20 03:26

16. #2 02:49

17. T 01:04

18. CBT 03:09

19. BST 03:05

20. C 00:51

21. #6 01:48

22. TSCB 02:04

23. #21-1 01:11

24. #7 01:08

25. BT 04:09

Sascha Henkel guitar/composition

Benjamin Weidekamp alto

Christian Weidner alto

Tobias Backhaus drums

Christian Weidner - Every Hour of the Light and Dark (2016) PIROUET RECORDS

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Christian Weidner - Every Hour of the Light and Dark (2016)

An elastic push-pull between the melodic and the atonal, between pulse and space pervade, with Christian Weidner and friends exploring the shades and tones in Every Hour of the Light and Dark. There's a continuity to the compositions, as the musicians gaze inwards, sensitive, self-critical. With directness and depth, they uncover the miracle of the moment.

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