Cologne Jazzweek: Annie Bloch – I Depend

In the organizer's words:

The first instrument Annie Bloch played as a child was the church organ in her home town of Diepholz. Perhaps it was this instrument that later allowed her to write such hybrid and equally powerful and fragile music as a composer, because a church organ with its various trades also has a variety of timbres that can be alienated and manipulated accordingly. As a singer-songwriter, Bloch, who now lives in Cologne, writes aesthetically and stylistically wide-ranging pieces that enjoy the singability of folklore just as much as the artificial chords of jazz, the raw power of indie rock or the ritual rhythms of spiritual music. I DEPEND is an example of this. The songs are sometimes rhythmically fanned out, sometimes melodically leading, then again only perceptible as small pieces of a puzzle - and Bloch's tentet is neither an orchestra nor a big band or a large pop band.

Akiko Ahrendt - viol
Annie Bloch - voc/gtr/comp
Leonhard Huhn - cl
Jan Philipp - dr
Dario Rosenberger - horn
Carlo Tiedge - gtr
Malte Viebahn - b
Luis Weiß - flg
Moritz Wesp - trb
Emily Wittbrodt - cel

Double concert with Laura Jurd.

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