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Released: Jan 1, 2010
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  • Genre: Experimental / Melodramatic Popular Song / Nu-Jazz

    Location Köln/Luxembourg, Please select your region., Lu

    Profile Views: 29965

    Last Login: 5/18/2013

    Member Since 5/17/2008

    Record Label Unsigned

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    ..KALIMA.. is a trio project featuring original compositions as well as some re(de)fined standards. Inspired by modern jazz, improvisation and imaginary folklore three lady musicians are sharing a common taste regarding the character and individuality of their music... In the attractive trio set-up of vocals, piano and winds they have found an excellent way of exploring their instruments’ colors of sound and expression with both vivacity and charm..... .."This charming trio will not fail to surprise by the audacity of approaching an uninhibited and intimate jazz, some will call chamber jazz. In reality a subtle mixture of different inspirations borrowed as well from modern jazz as from tradition to deliver songs that climb up into space, into warm and clear sonorities.”.. (Excerpt from the Jazz Festival d'Avignon programme).... KALIMA have received the ..Prix du Public/Audience Choice Award at the Jazz Tremplin d'Avignon 2009....... ....„Kal“...., means „time“ in Sanskrit. Kalima, Indian goddess of transformation, destruction and composition, power, rage, the freed soul and the good vibrations..... In Africa it is the name of a game similar to scrabble ….. Three women playing music … here we go .... ..Sascha Ley.., vocalist and actress, carries out elegant side trips into world music, free improvisation, cabaret songs and experimental vocal techniques with an expanded creative horizon and ease, moving through different styles and influences..... ..Laia Genc.. shows a very individual and powerful touch. Her sensibility for sound and melodic colours has been shaped at the Jazzhochschule Cologne by Hubert Nuss and John Taylor who have also encouraged her in developing her personal musical style far-off the mainstream..... ..Anne Kaftan.., a former student of Charlie Mariano, has an appealing approach to music, moving from classical to jazz, world music and experimental pop. She composes for theatre productions, film scores and radio plays and performs with her various ensembles..... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .... .... .. .... .... .. .. .. .. .. ................

  • Members

    ........Sascha Ley - voice.. Laia Genc - piano.. Anne Kaftan - soprano saxophone, bass clarinet

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    ..Finest chamber jazz..... (Generalanzeiger Bonn).... ..Everything else but conventional or old-established... (D'Land).... ..A kaleidoscope of syllables with the wanderlust effect. Elegant and velvety vocal jazz, sometimes unrestrainedly playful, sometimes elaborately constructed acrobatics, enriched by softness and the ethnical compound... (Journal) .... ..Four stars jazz curry (…) The three ladies are astonishing. With own compositions as well as transformed classical tunes and standards interpreted with stylistic certainty. The relatively young group presents itself as harmonic, balanced and tuned. (…) In their own compositions elements of oriental, indian and balkan music blend with the sound of modern and free jazz. The language is the esperanto of jazz : virtous vocal acrobaties and playful onomatopoeia. (…) Sascha Ley herself describes the project KALIMA as � backpack jazz �. They have deserved flying first class with it... (Luxemburger Wort).... www.myspace.com/saschaley.. www.myspace.com/laiagenc.. www.myspace.com/annekaftan <script src="http://connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1"></script><fb:like-box href="http://www.facebook.com/platform" width="292" show_faces="true" stream="true" header="true"></fb:like-box>

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