Elsa! – Jump! Album Release

In the organizer's words:

ELSA pleads for uncompromising courage on her new album. JUMP! - over your own shadow, into cold water, up high, down deep. The only thing that stands between us and life is our own fear - and we must not feed it by giving in to it. The band takes this to heart: "All you gotta do is jump into the ocean of your fear", as if it were the easiest thing in the world. Courage, fear, longing and chaos; wildness is followed by immeasurable tenderness. You want to lie down in her music; lifted, comforted and caressed. Like under water, for a few breaths.

ELSA - that's the four-piece band around singer Elsa Steixner. Founded while studying music in Vienna and the Netherlands, the band has been active internationally since 2023 and has already wowed audiences at renowned venues such as the Vienna Konzerthaus and the Musis Stadstheater Arnhem with their debut album A Day On Solid Ground (2023). With their second album JUMP! the band explores a new world of sound. Influenced by the urgency of artists such as Nina Simone and Abdullah Ibrahim, as well as the compositional diversity and sophistication of songwriters such as Paul Simon and Joni Mitchell, a foundation of soul, folk, jazz and RnB emerges from which the idiosyncratic, always inviting compositions of the band ELSA develop. This embracing of tradition, combined with a curious and attentive view of the present, lends the music a timelessness without diminishing its topicality.

"ELSA easily takes you by the hand through a multitude of emotions, from sorrow to exuberant joy, spanning a spectrum from introspection to wandering curiosity." - Michiel Braam (Head of ArtEZ Conservatory Arnhem, Pianist & Composer)

The band is a winner of the Jazz@Undesigned competition of the Werner Richard - Dr. Carl Dörren Foundation

Price information:

Reduction 50%, U20 free