Manafonistas

 

was man so das Jahr lang macht und nicht unbedingt immer so merkt … 

this version is a first approach, certain things will be complemented … 

es ist jahresendend, jahresendlich mit Schneeflocken, die nicht so schnell schmelzen  

and a few categories are even waiting still for being filled … 

alles eben vielfältig und um viele Ecken spannende Musik von vielen Generationen 

 

 

 

 

PUBLICATIONS/EXPOSITIONS 

more pictures in extra post 

 

	2023
	April	DrawNotes (box+booklet)
	August	Leporello Mishiyo Yagi  Leporello Synesthetic 4  Exposition at Buchbinderei Fuchs, Saalfelden
	September	Leporello Sun-Mi Hong
	October	Albumcover MIA DYBERG „Timestretch“	Clean Feed (Lisbon)
	November	Albumcover VOSTOK „Remote Islands“	Relative Pitch Records (New York)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

	2024
	February	Exposition at domicil, Dortmund
	March	Exposition at Villa Waldberta, Feldafing

 

 

FESTIVALS 2023

 

	2023	what/where	…….highlights……
	March	Klaeng Festival Köln   Footprints (conference) BIMhuis  Amsterdam	Elisabeth Coudoux (vcl) /Marlies Debacker/Robert  Landfermann/Kathrin Pechlof   Fuensanta Ensamble  Grande (Fuensanta Mendez (b, voc), Marta Arpini (voc,  synth), Sanem Kalfa (voc), Liva Dumpe (voc), Laura Polence  (voc), Alistair Payne (tr), José Soares (sax), Sun-Mi Hong  (dr), Louis Cole (dr)  Teis Semey Quintet
	April	Jazzahead! Bremen	Ava Trio  |  Kirke Karja/Etienne Renard/Ludwig Wandinger | No Sax No Clar  |  Daniel Erdmann’s Thérapie de Couple  |  Schntzl
	May	Magnet Festival Wiesbaden  Music Meeting Nijmegen	Trio North (Mette Rasmussen (sax), Ingebrigt Håker Flaten  (b), Olaf Moses Olsen, dr) | Kirke Karja | Marlies Debacker  Emine Bostanci Dareyn Quartet | Gyedu-Blay Ambolley & His  Secondi Band |  Linda Frederiksson Juniper
	June	Jazzdor Berlin  InJazz Festival Rotterdam/Amsterdam  Northsea Roundtown Festival  Rotterdam	Naïssam Jalal Healing Rituals w/Clément Petit (vcl), Claude  Tchamitchian (b), Zaza Desiderio (dr)  Aki Takase/Louis Sclavis/Vincent Courtois  Invisible Columns (Sanem Kalfa w/Jan Bang, Ambrose  Akinmusire, Kit Downes) – Televizyon (more see in article in  15 concerts of a residency, link in comment)
	August	A L’Arme Festival Berlin  Saalfelden Jazzfestival*	Victoria Chen as part of Lukas König’s 1Above Minus    Underground | Veslemøy Narvesen Trio Holistic w/Ketija  Ringa (fl), Kit Downes (org)) No  Plexus „Rite of Passage“ =  Brechtje van Dijk, Allison Wright)
	September	Punkt Festival Kristiansand     Gaudeamus Festival, Utrecht	Last Two Inches of Sky  |  Live Remix of Lutoslawski 4 +  Henriksen/Bang/Honoré by Hamid Drake/Even Sigurdsen  Røstad  |  Live Remix of. Benedicte Maurseth „Hárr“ by Nour  Sokhon   Nour Darwish & Nour Sokhon Healing Voices
	Oktober	Enjoy Jazz Festival*  Heidelberg/Mannheim/Ludwigshafen   Jazz Festival Skopje*	Nils Petter Molvaer KHMER 25 | Marginal Consort |  Sylvie Courvoisier/Mary Halvorson Duo | Roberto Ottaviano  Eternal Love (Marco Colonna (cl), Giorgio Pacorig (p),  Giovanni Maier (b), Zeno de Rossi (dr)
	November	Jazzfest Berlin*  Jazztopad Wrocław*	Apparition   |    Marlies Debacker solo   | Clay Kin  Henry Threadgill/Silke Eberhard Ensemble    Eve Risser’s Red Desert Orchestra „Eurythmia“  Ava Mendoza solo   |  KRY
	December	Interplanetary Night BIMhuis/SITP  Amsterdam	Duo Harmen Fraanje/Sanem Kalfa

    * indicates that I have seen only a part of the concerts. So, it’s my choice from THAT part of the concerts. 

 

 

 

STRONG (NEW) VOICES at the moment 

 

Marta Warelis | Kirke Karja | Camila Nebbia | Sofia Borges| Giuseppe Doronzo 

Victoria Shen 

 

 

 

Sanem Kalfa | Sun-Mi Hong | Ketija Ringa | Veslemøy Narvesen 

Antonin-Tri Hoang | Eve Risser 

 

 

 

Mette Rasmussen| Petter Eldh | Lukas König | Mona Matbou Riahi | Rojin Sharafi 

Taiko Saito 

 

 

 

Sunny Kim | Aviva Endean | Peter Knight | Even Sigurdsen Røstad | Mabe Fratti 

 

 

 

 

 
 
 

Looking back on this year this album is clearly my favourite. I followed Sylvie Courvoisier from the beginnings of her musical career through many years and musical constellations. She is maybe the musician i wrote about most. I should collect and review my texts one of these days. This new album is again a big leap in her development. At this moment she already has formed another new group, called POPPY SEEDS, that is as bold as CHIMAERA. It comprises Patricia Brennan (vibraphone), Thomas Morgan (bass) and Dan Weiss (drums). 

 

 

The richness, clarity and depth of the music of this album offers a secret and at the same time evident impact. It owns an astounding deep calmness going together with a high level of inner rhythmic agility in its yearning melos.

 

It has a transitional quality beyond icon and fresco, hovering between the echoes of the shimmering of the winding road of a lived past and the emergence of the whispering of imagined peaceful horizons.

 
 
 

 

in Bälde

 

 
 

 

THE VERY VERY SAKINA ABDOU
of R e d D e s e r t O r c h e s t r a

 

 

 

Jazzfest 2023 Berlin had such a rich and wide variety of memorable
deep moments different for every visitor* …

 

©️FoBo_

 

THE VERY VERY LOU ZON
aka Louise Boer
of C L A Y K I N

 

 

 

Jazzfest 2023 Berlin had such a rich and wide variety of memorable
deep moments different for every visitor*

 

©️FoBo_

 

Es gab viele besondere Momente und Stimmungen während des diesjährigen Jazzfestes in Berlin. Hier ist es ein besonderer Henry Threadgill Moment

 
 

 
 

HENRY THREADGILL komponierte ein Auftragswerk getitelt „Simply Existing Surface“ für eine gemeinschaftliche Aufführung durch seine Gruppe ZOOID und die Berliner Gruppe POTSA LOTSA XL von SILKE EBERHARD komponierte. So etwas fällt ja nicht aus der Luft, sondern ist das Ergebnis jahrelanger Vorarbeit. Mehr dazu folgt.

Gefragt, ob die Kreativität im Alter schwände, antwortete Threadgill, dass er das schon merken werde, wenn er alt sei.

 

Eins der vielen Bilder vom diesjährigen Jazzfest Berlin / One of the many pictures of this year’s Berlin Jazzfest edition

 
 

 
 

PAAL NILSSEN-LOVE in Interaktion mit einer Gruppe Berliner Jugendlichen im Musikcamp des Festivals / Paal Nilssen-Love in interaction with a group adolescents during the music camp of the festival

 
PAAL NILSSEN-LOVE hat mit seiner Gruppe CIRCUS auf dem Festival ein donnerendes Konzert gegeben. Paal Nilssen-Love gave a thundering concert with his group CIRCUS.More about it later.

 

Eins der vielen Bilder vom diesjährigen Jazzfest Berlin / One of the many pictures of this year’s Berlin Jazzfest edition

 
 

 
 

AKI TAKASE in Interaktion mit einer Gruppe Berliner Jugendlichen, die am Musikcamp des Festivals teilgenommen haben / Aki Takase in interaction with a group adolescents that participated in music camp of the festival

 
AKI TAKASE hat zusammen mit ihrem Lebenspartner ALEXANDER VON SCHLIPPENBACH ein eindrucksvolles Duo-Konzert gespielt. Dazu später mehr / AKI TAKASE played in a duo with her husband ALEXANDER VON SCHLIPPENBACH an impressive duo concert. More about it later.

 

 
 

Pianist Kateryna Ziabliuk, presently working in Krakow, and vocalist Natalia Kordiak from Warsaw form the duo TANOK. Tonite they play the club in Kyiv where Kateryna originally is coming from.

 

Both are exciting musicians you might know more about. Kateryna Ziabliuk performed last year twice at Jazzfest Berlin.