Underwater Consciousness Karja Hauptmann Duo

• 1 Uncharted disagreements on points agreed 14:36
• 2 Slap me or we'll both drown; then we can hold hands on the surface 06:21
• 3 Sand heaves from the lacunae of our abyssal plain 08:32
• 4 In the trenches of tenebrosity we rediscover despair in pairs 04:42
• 5 Where there were two, is now one; it's just us now 03:39
• Total Runtime 37:50

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Underwater Consciousness verwischt die Grenzen zwischen freier Improvisation und unmittelbarer Komposition und fängt die Erkundung der texturellen Tiefe, der rhythmischen Komplexität und der überlagerten Zeitstrukturen durch das Duo in einem zarten, aber fesselnden Klavierdialog ein. Die Musik entspringt einer gemeinsamen rhythmischen Sensibilität und zieht den Hörer in eindringliche Hörlandschaften, die sowohl mit Notwendigkeit als auch mit Introspektion gefüllt sind.

Das Album wurde am 4. Januar 2024 im Kölner LOFT aufgenommen. Nach einem intensiven Probentag und der Erforschung neuer Texturen und musikalischer Ideen nahmen Kirke und Felix in nur einer Stunde die gesamte Musik des Albums auf. Jedes Stück entfaltet sich ganz natürlich, geprägt von ihrer improvisatorischen Konfabulation und intuitiven künstlerischen Verbindung, in der Humor und Verspieltheit präsent sind.

„Die Aufnahme zeigt Tiefe und Dringlichkeit – zwei Kernwerte unserer Arbeit“. (Felix Hauptmann)

Kirke Karja, Klavier
Felix Hauptmann, Klavier

Aufgenommen im: LOFT, Köln
Toningenieur: Stefan Deistler
Mix & Mastering: Christian Heck

Kirke Karja
(born 1989) has studied in Estonian Academy of Music classical piano, jazz music and she did her doctoral studies about composition techniques in contemporary jazz music. She is working as a composer, pianist, actor and is the chairman of the board at Estonian Jazz Federation.

Since 2016 Kirke has had around 150 concerts outside of Estonia, in last years also at the cutest European jazz festivals and venues: La Dynamo, Punkt @ Banlieues Bleues, Punkt @ Kristiansand, Nasjonal Jazzscene Victoria, Jazzfest Berlin, Donau115, 12points, Tampere Jazz Happening, Vossa Jazz, Jazzahead!, Jazzkaar, Raahe Jazz Festival, Sile Jazz, Parma Jazz, Jazz Jantar, Katowice JazzArt Festival, Sõru Jazz, Estonian Music Days, Jazz Middelheim, Luxembourg Jazz Rallye, Magnet Festival Wiesbaden, Jazz Forum St Etienne, Sõru Jazz, Jazzweek Cologne, Winterjazz Köln, Unterfahrt Munich, Loft Köln, Darmstadt Jazzforum, Südtirol Jazzfestival etc. Most of them are visited with trio Karja/Renard/Wandinger.

As a composer she has had commissions by European Broadcast Union Jazz Orchestra, Pärnu City Orchestra, Latvian Radio Bigband, Machine á trois (Luxembourg), Ludensemble etc.

Felix Hauptmann
born in 1993, is a jazz musician (piano, synthesizer, composition).

He has been studying at the Cologne University of Music and Dance since 2012. He works both as a soloist and in several ensembles. In 2009, he founded the HNK Trio with Conrad Noll and Fabian Künzer, with whom he won the Deutschlandfunk Studio Prize as part of the 2011 National Youth Jazz Festival and first place at the European Jazz Awards in Kaiserslautern. The trio has recorded two albums. He recorded the albums "Foliag" (2017) and "Yonic" (2019) with Laura Totenhagen's trio and quartet, respectively. He has also been a member of the quartets of Sabeth Pérez and Martin Gasser. He was part of the "Solomons" project with Lennart Allkemper and Konstantin Döben and the sextet of Peter Hedrich. In 2016/2017, he was a member of the German Federal Jazz Orchestra. Outside of ensembles, he has collaborated with a variety of musicians, including Gerd Dudek, Manfred Schoof, Jörg Achim Keller, and Reza Askari. In 2020, he released the album "Talk" with his own quartet, and in 2022 and 2023, he released two albums each with the collaborative jazz piano trio "Percussion."

He also won prizes for best soloist at the 2015 International Jazz Competition and the Horst and Gretl Will Scholarship for Jazz/Improvised Music in 2022.

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