Crossings#6: Immerweiter & Johannes Haase

In the organizer's words:

In November, Julius Windisch's band Immerweiter and the Bremen musician Johannes Haase meet in the concert series Crossings. We invite you to spend time together with music, so that our paths may also cross.

Julius Windisch - immerweiter

"This band pursues the idea of utopia" (Julius Windisch)

Standing still has never been an option for the Berlin bandleader, composer and jazz pianist Julius Windisch: "For me, the process of making music should always go on and never stand still."

Both the album title and the name of the band are programmatic: Immerweiter is driven by a strong community ethos that impresses with virtuosity, intensity and complexity on the current album "In its own pace" and live. All musicians in the ensemble are committed to an organic growth process, fair feedback rules and a constructive approach to their own strengths and weaknesses. The effort demanded by Windisch's varied and difficult-to-play repertoire - and the mutual unconditional trust in each other - lead to creative flights of fancy in which the focus is not on any one individual, but on the overall sound.

Immerweiter can also be understood as facing the critical process of self-reflection "ever further", so that self-knowledge and inner growth become possible.

Pascal Klewer - trumpet
Sofia Eftychidou - bass
Marius Wankel - drums
Julius Windisch - piano, synth, composition

https://juliuswindisch.com/immerweiter-1

Johannes Haase - ...of clouds

Johannes Haase - violin, Moog Taurus, electronics

Carried by Moog Taurus and heavy delay effects, Johannes Haase is on the move in more or less thick clouds of sound. Using unconventional playing techniques, he creates sounds that can no longer be assigned to the violin and reflect journeys to faraway places.

https://johanneshaase.com/