Rain, Flowers and New Beginnings Maik Krahl

• 1 Blue Dots Descending 08:06
• 2 One Way Dialog 07:10
• 3 Winter / Botanical Interlude 06:02
• 4 Happy Silly Season 08:16
• 5 Red Wine and Colorful Glasses 01:59
• 6 Breathe / Sad Song 07:57
• 7 No Pace, No Race 06:11
• 8 Rain, Flowers and New Beginnings 03:18
• 9 The Journey of Serenity 07:23
• Total Runtime 56:22

Info for Rain, Flowers and New Beginnings

With Rain, Flowers and New Beginnings, trumpeter, composer and bandleader Maik Krahl presents a deeply personal and beautifully balanced album about growth, change and resilience. Inspired by the idea that no flower blooms without rain, the music reflects the quiet strength that can emerge from difficult seasons, transforming experience into sound with warmth, clarity and lyrical depth.

Krahl’s trumpet playing is marked by a rich, flexible tone, elegant phrasing and a calm emotional intensity. Across the album, he moves through spacious, melodic landscapes, playful rhythmic passages and moments of reflective stillness, always maintaining a sense of openness and natural flow. His compositions are adventurous yet grounded, shaped by contrast, silence and release.

The album features an exceptional ensemble: Constantin Krahmer on piano, Jakob Kühnemann on bass, Fabian Rösch on drums and glockenspiel, and Tamara Lukasheva on vocals. Together, they bring Krahl’s music to life with sensitivity, imagination and a strong collective voice.

From the opening “Blue Dots Descending” to the closing “The Journey of Serenity,” Rain, Flowers and New Beginnings unfolds like a musical meditation on renewal. It is an album about what is endured, what is absorbed, and what eventually blossoms.

"oulful, emotional, effortlessly flowing modern jazz pieces - timelessly beautiful and elegant." (Virgin jazz face)

Maik Krahl, trumpet
Constantin Krahmer, piano
Tamara Lukasheva, vocals
Jakob Kühnemann, double bass
Fabian Rösch, drums

Maik Krahl
completed his jazz studies at Carl Maria von Weber Hochschule für Musik Dresden and also studied the Master of Music Jazz Improvising Artist at Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen. His most influencing teachers were Till Brönner, Malte Burba and the American jazz trumpet player Ryan Carniaux.

His first album Decidophobia was released in 2018 with Double Moon / Challenge Records International. His second album Fraction featuring Seamus Blake was released two years later in May 2020 with Challenge Records International. With his own quartet, Krahl plays numerous concerts in all important jazz clubs all over Germany as well as at festivals such as International Jazz Week Burghausen, JazzBaltica, Hildener Jazztage, Trave-Jazz Festival, Jazzfest Bingen or Birdland Radio Jazz Festival. His third album In-Between Flow was released in September 2022 and features world famous guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel. Maik Krahls new album The Magic of Consistency will be released in November 2024 and features Seamus Blake on Saxophone. Besides working as a band leader Krahl is a steady part of the Cologne based Subway Jazz Orchestra. With this big band he recorded five albums: Primal Scream (2015), State of Mind (2016), Richbeck Suite (2018), Still Screaming (2020) and You are the Universe (2023). Krahl joined the WDR Big Band as a guest musician in productions and concerts. Furthermore, he won the HI Five Music Award in 2023 and is a three-time scholarship winner of the Werner Richard - Dr. Carl Dörken Stiftung – most recently with his quartet.

Concerts brought him to Greece, Guinea-Bissau, Canada, Croatia, Lithuania, Serbia, Senegal, and the US. Traveling the world allowed him to work with musicians like John Clayton, Kurt Elling, Maria Schneider, Benny Green, Jeff Hamilton, Ingrid Jensen, John Ruocco, and Jiggs Whigham.

Furthermore, Maik Krahl teaches jazz trumpeters as well as ensembles and leads the department of brass instruments at Offene Jazz Haus Schule in Cologne.

Maik Krahl represents his generation’s current top of the German jazz trumpeter. His musical statements enrich me and let me look forward into a future of a whole genre, which will always exist. Big compliment! - Till Brönner

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