Mount Meander

Confirming that jazz is an universal language, here is a trans-national quartet featuring musicians from Germany, Latvia and Poland, in the two last cases living in Copenhagen. If you don’t recognize the names of these four representatives of a new generation of European musicians, namely <a href="spotify:artist:6Stb1fDXYNMR64bKwOQTat" data-name="Kārlis Auziņš">Kārlis Auziņš</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:1Wx633L7ImDe2NdpVwHkOh" data-name="Lucas Leidinger">Lucas Leidinger</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:3Xpa64tjXZzmATjwSDRpZm" data-name="Tomo Jacobson">Tomo Jacobson</a>, and <a href="spotify:artist:6iPOrr4zuEqnbvfxvryiGZ" data-name="Thomas Sauerborn">Thomas Sauerborn</a>, certainly you’ll know some of those with whom they already established exciting partnerships: John Tchicai, Mat Maneri, Lotte Anker, Andrew D’Angelo, Adam Rudolph, Randy Peterson, Kresten Osgood, Sidsel Endresen and Frank Gratkowski. This gives you an idea of what to expect: music with an attitude, and the attitude is to function as one organism. Not a simple gathering of four individuals, but a complete being committed to intuitive and collective free improvisation. Does it mean this is non-idiomatic improvised music, to use the label invented by Derek Bailey? Not quite: the band Mount Meander uses musical idioms to tear down the borders between jazz, the avant-garde, world music, rock and pop, and precisely because this CD isn’t about genres. It’s all about unity, equality, trust and communication. Are you ready for them?