A joint performance at the Moers Festival 2022 - the first
time this band, which I put together for ANNEX at the
Moers Festival, played together and it was just great!
After the performance, spectators came: "This was very
much in the spirit of the tradition of Moers - international
and music of the free jazz scene." In the quintet I played
with John Dikeman - sax, Reza Askari - bass, Shoji Hano -
drums, Willi Kellers - drums - a dynamic, intercultural
musical mixture - the most different musicians meet to
improvise together - and it worked!
Since the festival, this music continues to ring in all our ears.
So much energy, so much flow, so many acoustic,
spontaneous encounters and so much warmth we have all
rarely experienced. It is clear to us that this quintet must
continue to perform, must reach as many people as possible
and shake them awake, should radiate intensity and fullness.
There is much more to it, the sounds in Moers are just the
beginning, here it already showed how wild and fearless and
at the same time how sensitive and economical this music is.
These sounds must simply continue to resound!
In this quintet excellent musicans meet, who all play with the
belly and little with the head. Here different cultures, schools
and generations meet and develop something new together. Trend-setting and representative for a developing cultural
life in Germany - melting pot! An intergenerational, intercultural, musical dialogue and yet at the beginning and at the
end there is improvisation.