LUCIA CADOTSCH voice
OTIS SANDSJÖ tenorsaxophone
PETTER ELDH double bass
IT WAS A DIFFERENT WORLD BACK THEN.
THERE WAS A TIME
BEFORE YOU COULD AMPLIFY SOUND WITH ELECTRICITY,
BEFORE YOU COULD ACCUMULATE SOUND IN PLASTIC
AND BRING IT FROM ONE CORNER OF TELLUS TO ANOTHER.
THIS IS THE REMIX. KEEPING IT SIMPLE AND RAW.
THREE VOICES STUBBORNLY CREATING THE CORE OF ALL MUSIC; RHYTHM!
CANDLES STILL FLICKER, THE FREQUENCIES OF YESTERDAY STILL RESONATE.
THIS IS ACOUSTIC RETRO-FUTURISM.
all arrangements by Lucia Cadotsch, Otis Sandsjö, Petter Eldh
recorded by Klaus Scheuermann at Rec Publica, Lubrza, Poland, August 17th-19th 2015
mixed and mastered by Klaus Scheuermann at 4Ohm Music, Berlin
photos by Michael Jungblut
design by Manon Kahle
Special thanks to:
Billie Holiday, Nina Simone, Eugenia Visconti, Klaus Scheuermann, Manon Kahle, Francesco Wilking, Michael Jungblut, Elke Graalfs, Michal Wasyl, all the crowdfunding supporters, Werner Aldinger, Luciano Hoch and everyone from Handshake Booking, Birgit Peter, Sven-Erik Stephan, Andrea Cadotsch, Camilla Barratt-Due, Christine Cadotsch, Elena Nancu, Fabian Gisler, Hayden Chisholm, Ibadet Ramadani, Jazzkollektiv Berlin, Jan Schacht, Johanna Borchert, Kathrin Pechlof, Lucy Railton, Marc Lohr, Martin Gallop, Naima Husseini, Nandini Oehlmann, Olivia Stutz, Penelope´s Sphere, Philipp Gropper, Rosalind Goldberg, Silvio Cadotsch, Stefan Rusconi, Uli Kempendorff and Wanja Slavin for your inspiration and support to create this album.
C&P 2016 yellowbird records, werner aldinger
Anglerstr. 25, D – 80339 Munich, Germany
LC 18386 Yeb-7761 1 Made in EU
www.luciacadotsch.com
released February 26, 2016
"Remember the name Lucia Cadotsch – you’re going to be hearing a lot of it. Cadotsch is a young, Zurich-born vocalist who possesses a classical clarity, a folk singer’s simplicity, and an appetite for performing very famous songs (Moon River, Don’t Explain, Strange Fruit) in the company of two edgy free-jazz instrumentalists, who flank her sedate progress with split-note sax sounds and spiky basslines and percussive strumming. That might sound like a merciless deconstruction of fine songs, but in this compelling trio’s hands the process is remarkably melodious and illuminating. Speak Low is delivered with phlegmatic gentleness as saxophonist Otis Sandsjö’s looping ostinato gets increasingly windy and raw, and Strange Fruit is stalked by multiphonic sax growls and swiped, twanging bass chords. Cadotsch is as light-stepping and dolefully swinging as Madeleine Peyroux on Some Other Spring; low-key on Moon River, as if the very thought of the rainbow’s end is wearisome. It’s all eerily beautiful.“
THE GUARDIAN
“I haven’t heard anything this impressive in a while."
Volker Doberstein, JAZZPODIUM, 3/16
«Hier singen die Liebe und der Schmerz, sie klingen wahr und man glaubt ihnen, dass sie sich behaupten können im Gerumpel unserer Zeit.»
Francesco Wilking
„Grosses Wagnis. Echtes Erstaunen stellt sich beim Musikgenuss selten genug ein. Umso nachhaltiger beeindruckt das Berliner Trio von Lucia Cadotsch mit dem Debütalbum „Speak Low“: hier erklingt schlicht ein musikalisches Wunder, das bei jedem Hören erneut beglückt und fassungslos macht.(…) Lucia Cadotsch hätte den Sängerinnen Billie Holiday und Nina Simone kein größeres Kompliment machen können, als deren Standards im Trio neu zu erfinden. Ein seltener Glücksfall.“
Franziska Buhre, TIP Berlin, 7.4.2016