jazzexzess w/ BIŁAT – KOUATE + MAGNETIC GHOST ORCHESTRA (album launch)

BIŁAT – KOUATE

jazzexzess presents an extraordinary duo: Julia Biłat on cello & Dudù Kouate on drums. Berlin-based cellist, improviser, and composer Julia Biłat bridges classical music, jazz, performance, and free improvisation. Her cello becomes a resonating body for voice, movement, and space – at times delicate and fragile, at times powerful and eruptive.

Now a Berliner by choice, Dudù Kouate draws from the soundscapes of West African traditions. With drums, idiophones, and instruments made from recycled materials, he unfolds multifaceted rhythms and stories that weave together nature, culture, and his roots.Not a concert in the classical sense – but a journey that sets both body and senses in motion. 

• Julia Biłat – cello 
  
• Dudù Kouate – percussion  
  

MAGNETIC GHOST ORCHESTRA (album launch) 


What does it sound like when jazz collides with opera, Bernstein flirts with post-punk, and Duke Ellington shakes hands with Kraftwerk? When saxophone clusters, big-band grooves, and sparks of electronics intertwine into music that is as playful as it is profound?The new album by Moritz Sembritzki and his 17-piece Magnetic Ghost Orchestra is an invitation to wonder – and now finally to be experienced live!

Holding on to Wonder tells the story of two artists, Pen and Bee, who engage in a musical dialogue about inspiration, doubt, friendship, and the act of creating new ideas. Under Sembritzki’s direction, the orchestra opens up a sonic universe that moves between intimacy and exuberance, structure and improvisation, lightness and intensity – as multifaceted as the artistic life itself: full of humor, drama, melancholy, and an overwhelming sense of beauty. 


Line up:

• Sonja Horlacher – flute 
  
• Leonie Freudenberger – alto saxophone/clarinet 
  
• Bastian Duncker – alto saxophone/baritone saxophone/clarinet
  
• Markus Ehrlich – tenor saxophone/clarinet
  
• Hannes Daerr – tenor saxophone/clarinet 
  
• Dmytro Bondarev – trumpet
  
• Johannes Böhmer – trumpet 
  
• Nils Marquardt – trombone
  
• Marleen Dahms – trombone 
  
• Matthew Bookert – tuba 
  
• Friede Merz – vocals 
  
• Jessica Struch – vocals 
  
• Moritz Sembritzki – guitar 
  
• Willi Sieger – synths 
  
• Bernhard Meyer – bass 
  
• Max Santner – drums 
  
• Julius Kraft – percussion 
  

Doors: 19:30h
Start: 20:00h