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Coming up: release of Fasil on ECM

Following the October 2008 release of our Julia Hülsmann Trio CD "The End of a Summer" on ECM we are now happy to announce the release of "Fasil", the second recording of the trio for ECM, this time in collaboration with guitarist Marc Sinan who commissioned a song suite from Julia inspried by the life of Aisha, youngest wife of Mohammed. Julia's compositions for classically trained Sinan as featured soloist and singer Yelena Kuljiç, accompannied by the trio and Lena Thies on viola are connected and also inspired by group improvisations based on koranic verses originally chanted by an imam from the home town of Sinan's mother in Turkey.

 

Marc Sinan/Julia Hülsmann: "Fasil"

release date 27.02.09 (ECM)

                                                                       

Marc Sinan: nylon string guitar
Yelena Kuljiç: voice
Julia Hülsman: piano
Lena Thies: viola
Marc Muellbauer: bass
Heinrich Köbberling: drums


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Press feedback - "The End of a Summer" - Julia Hülsmann Trio

Jazzmagazine, Disque d’émoi
Stereoplay, Jazz-CD des Monats

Listening to this purely instrumental album it is clear her love of well crafted verse spills into her music. Full of elegantly constructed melodies that seem natural extensions of the thematic material at hand, there is indeed a kind of musical poetry at work here which is absorbing as it is musically fulfilling.
Stuart Nicholson, Jazzwise

There’s a lot of brooding, featherlight touches and empty space, but Hülsmann has a magnetic, understated swing, too. Her longer improvisations manage to sound avant-boppish, even though they seem to develop by rippling outwards rather than advancing along a line. … Hülsmann is an interesting discovery with a subtle harmonic mind; Muellbauer and Köbberling are right on her wavelength.
John Fordham, The Guardian

 

There are a few things in the pipeline following the November 4th Berlin Jazzfest premiere of Julia Hülsmanns piece "Le Moustier" theme and variations for string quartet and piano trio, we will keep you posted.

Just out is "FAQ", the debut CD of the Dan-Robin Matthies Quartet featuring Ignaz Dinné, Tillman Person, and myself (out on phonector).

Coming up in May is the release of singer Esther Kaiser's new CD, which I'm very much looking forward to, not least as I wrote four string arrangements for the album, which I'm eager to hear. The Uli Kempendorrf Quartet has just released its debut CD out with it on Phonector featuring: Uli Kempendorff tenor sax and compositions, Ronny Graupe guitar, Marc Muellbauer bass, and Kay Lübke drums.

Last year also saw the recording of an ambitious sextet project by Victor Alcantara's Formaçion Alcantara , which we will release in June in Munich's Unterfahrt Jazzclub.

Shows

2009

last update: April 2009