Das Kondensat

In the organizer's words:

ISLAND
The condensate
INSEL Jazz
Sunday / May 31, 2026 / 6 pm (Admission: 5:30 pm)
Admission: 18/8 (VVK incl. fees) and 20/10 (B.O.)
Free admission for visitors under the age of 21. If you are interested, please send us a short message to post@insel.news.

Gebhard Ullmann // soprano / tenor saxes / looper / sampler
Oliver Potratz // electric basses / analog effects
Eric Schaefer // drums / modular synthesizer

This very special band arranges elements of various musical styles into something completely new. They do this with fun, intellect and seemingly unlimited possibilities, including electronic means as equal elements. When one material merges into another, a condensate can be created. This one takes us back to the future, gets our heads and legs moving.
Together with the digital instruments, other pieces of the puzzle in this band organism come into play. The trio now plays at a level where you can intuitively rely on each other. They wander through the territory they've carved out together both confidently and spontaneously. One could compare the new musical territory of "Das Kondensat" with that of Krautrock at the end of the sixties. But that would only apply to one aspect of this band, which integrates dub, ambient, microtonal, free jazz, new music and much more, because the sum of their parts adds up to more than the individual parts. This is music in tune with the times, music that wants more and invites you into the open.

"Das Kondensat is one of the most exciting trio formations to be experienced at the moment." (Angela Ballhorn in Jazz'n'more)

Sven Thielmann in Fono Forum: "The live man-machine interaction, which has been known as 'Das Kondensat' since their grandiose first album of the same name, is highly emotional, overwhelming artistry par excellence. Dynamically fast-paced, electronic gimmicks combine homogeneously with crazy drum'n bass structures, over which the fabulously roughened blower literally flies."

Concerto from Austria: "It throbs and pulsates, it screams and whispers, it bangs in the pit of your stomach and immediately becomes lyrically tender." (5 stars)

Stereoplay: "If free jazz needed a new definition in the sense of its inventor Ornette Coleman, 'Das Kondensat' would have it ready."

An INSEL event.

Price information:

Admission: 18/8 (VVK incl. fees) and 20/10 (B.O.)