Jazzexzess returns to House of Music in Friedrichshain in next moth for another first class double bill featuring Biłat – Kouate and Magnetic Ghost Orchestra.
Outside, the days are getting colder and shorter – but this October, we’ll warm you up with a particularly fiery line-up! Get ready for magical sound journeys, pulsating grooves, and musical adventures that will move both heart and senses. Two evenings full of surprises, intensity, and sheer joy of playing – the perfect way to escape the autumn blues and let music in all its facets sweep you away.
jazzexzess presents an extraordinary duo: Julia Biłat on cello & Dudù Kouate on drums. Berlin-based cellist, improviser, and composer Julia Biłat bridges classical music, jazz, performance, and free improvisation. Her cello becomes a resonating body for voice, movement, and space – at times delicate and fragile, at times powerful and eruptive. Now a Berliner by choice, Dudù Kouate draws from the soundscapes of West African traditions. With drums, idiophones, and instruments made from recycled materials, he unfolds multifaceted rhythms and stories that weave together nature, culture, and his roots. Not a concert in the classical sense – but a journey that sets both body and senses in motion.
What does it sound like when jazz collides with opera, Bernstein flirts with post-punk, and Duke Ellington shakes hands with Kraftwerk? When saxophone clusters, big-band grooves, and sparks of electronics intertwine into music that is as playful as it is profound? The new album by Moritz Sembritzki and his 17-piece Magnetic Ghost Orchestra is an invitation to wonder – and now finally to be experienced live! Holding on to Wonder tells the story of two artists, Pen and Bee, who engage in a musical dialogue about inspiration, doubt, friendship, and the act of creating new ideas. Under Sembritzki’s direction, the orchestra opens up a sonic universe that moves between intimacy and exuberance, structure and improvisation, lightness and intensity – as multifaceted as the artistic life itself: full of humor, drama, melancholy, and an overwhelming sense of beauty.
