Jazzclub Live: Lucia Cadotsch »LIUN«

The problem with musical categorizations has always been that they can only crystallize ex-post-facto, i.e. after the emergence of a new phenomenon. In this respect, they always lag a little behind the reality they are trying to capture.

This is also the case with the LIUN project led by Berlin-based musician Lucia Cadotsch. "Does it make you love your life?" is the title of her new album, recorded with Wanja Slavin, which seems to play a trick on all existing genre terms.

Cadotsch's luck is that she doesn't have to worry about that. Instead, she creates a musical reality that for a fleeting moment remains free of attributions and thus has room to breathe. She knows how to use this freedom - and combines apparent contrasts between euphoria and melancholy, polyrhythms and pop catchiness to create a consistently independent sound.

Cadotsch has been one of the most innovative musicians on the international jazz scene for many years. With the two multi-instrumentalists Lucy Liebe and Eva Swiderski as well as Fabian Rösch on drums, she has now put together a gifted live line-up for LIUN. With its polyphonic vocals, hypnotic synthesizers and intimate acoustics, the quartet reminds us of what music can be capable of when it leaves familiar paths in favour of its own radical visions.