Songs Against Loneliness Eva Klesse Quartett feat. Wolfgang Muthspiel

• 1Minor Is What I Feel07:02
• 2Glory Glory Misfits06:27
• 3Past, Tense06:16
• 4Achille Island04:46
• 5Der Eremit02:52
• 6U - O - I - A05:12
• 7Intermezzo for People Floating in Fear06:12
• 8Hearts on Hold05:21
• 9Lied01:38
• 10Du & Ich05:59
• 11Anthem (For the Anthemless)06:38
• 12Song for Dave04:40
• 13Sergio Stanco02:46
• Total Runtime01:05:49

Info for Songs Against Loneliness

After four albums, hundreds of concerts, thousands of tour kilometres halfway around the world and numerous awards (Echo Jazz, SWR Jazzpreis, etc.), the quartet is now releasing its fifth album: songs against loneliness. And once again proves its gift for musically telling stories that deal - not only, but also - with the realities and emotions of the pandemic last two years, with longing, hope, melancholy, but also with healing, resilience and strength.

On songs against loneliness, you can hear a special artistic maturity in the band, as the well-rehearsed ensemble gives each other space for different playing attitudes and individual shaping.

The music of the new album crystallises clear structures and forms, in which the musicians move freely in a dreamlike manner. The quartet demonstrates its aesthetic approach with particular sharpness: the translation of stories, images and feelings into songs without words. The interactive joy of playing is palpable, as is the intense and joyful interaction of the four musicians, which can be observed so well live.

"The Eva Klesse Quartet has achieved what others have spent an entire career searching for: an individual band sound." (BR)

"One can hardly get enough of the enchantingly detailed sound spinning of her quartet - a masterly performance" (Fono Forum)

"Thanks to many interesting melodies and harmonies, the jazz of the Eva Klesse Quartet is attractive to different listeners and yet far from mainstream. You have to manage that first." (FAZ)

Evgeny Ring, alto saxophone
Philip Frischkorn, piano
Marc Muellbauer, double bass
Eva Klesse, drums
Guest:
Wolfgang Muthspiel, guitar

Eva Klesse
born 1986 in Werl (NRW), began her percussion training at the age of eleven. She studied jazz percussion at the conservatories in Leipzig, Weimar and Paris, and graduated in 2013 with a double diploma (artistic/pedagogical) with distinction. From 2014 to 2016 she received a DAAD scholarship to study at New York University, which she completed with a Master of Music in 2016.

Eva is active as a percussionist and composer in numerous projects, currently including the Julia Hülsmann Octet, the Sarah Chaksad Large Ensemble, the Quartett Trillmann, the Jorinde Jelen Band and her own band, the Eva Klesse Quartet (with Evgeny Ring, Philip Frischkorn & Marc Muellbauer). She also plays with musicians such as Ethan Iverson, Marilyn Mazur, Wolfgang Muthspiel and Nils Landgren.

Concert tours have taken her to the USA, the Dominican Republic, Turkey, Switzerland, Argentina, Chile, Mexico, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Malaysia, Serbia, Belgium, France, the Czech Republic, Spain, Egypt and China.

In addition, Eva Klesse has performed on the stages of numerous renowned festivals in recent years, such as the Berlin Jazz Festival, Jazz Baltica, Elbjazz, the Leipzig and Dortmund Jazz Days, the Buenos Aires Jazz Festival, the Cairo Jazz Festival, the Münster Jazz Festival, the 12 Points Festival, as well as in numerous radio productions (NDR, WDR, BR, SR, SWR, Deutschlandfunk).

In October 2014, the debut album of the Eva Klesse Quartet - "Xenon" - was released on enja Records, which was awarded the Echo Jazz 2015 in the category "Newcomer of the Year". The second album "Obenland" was released in 2016, the third album "miniatures" in 2018, the fourth album "creatures & states" in 2020. The quartet's 5th and anniversary album "songs against loneliness" (featured guest: Wolfgang Muthspiel) will be released in October 2022.

Eva Klesse is a laureate of the Leipzig Jazz Young Talent Award of the Marion-Ermer-Foundation (2013), the Westfalen Jazz Award (2017) and the JTI Trier Jazz Award (2019), among others.

In 2021 Eva was nominated for the German Jazz Award in the category "Drums national" and received the SWR Jazz Award, the oldest and most traditional jazz award in Germany, in autumn 2021.

Since 2018, Eva Klesse has been teaching as a professor of jazz percussion at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media.

"Eva Klesse has been one of the young figureheads of German jazz for years now." (Süddeutsche Zeitung)

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