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01. Driplines 06:04
02. Glimmung 06:40
03. Zuflucht für die ewig Suchenden 09:27
04. You Don’t Dave to Leave – Yet 07:53
05. It’s Already Out There 05:56
06. When Shadows Become Real 07:42
07. Bedeutungsknoten 13:35
08. There Is Silence and the Room Is not Filled with Stones That I Have Chieseled 09:19
Total time: 39.48
Video
Credits
Recorded by Tobias Ober at Bonello Studios Berlin on October 11th and 12th 2023
Mixed by Nico Teichmann
Mastered by Christoph Stickel
Artwork “Notre Dame” by Christoph Kühl
Layout by Sanja Star
Produced by Flut
with the support of Initiative Musik with funds from Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media
Published by Aut Records
Description
The reduced trio of saxophone, bass, and drums has played a central role in the development of the New Thing in jazz over the past sixty years. From Albert Ayler to Lee Konitz, from Peter Brötzmann to Joe Lovano. The list could go on and on. Nothing in this development comes out of nowhere and the evocative music of the trio Flut is certainly aware of its ancestors. Nevertheless, it is unique in its gesture, vitality, freshness, and improvisational approach.
Rather than leading the listener into a museum, Christopher Kunz, Isabel Rößler and Samuel Hall create their music out of the present. The music is contemporary at its core and demonstrates the vitality of improvisational processes. It draws you into the experience of live music as a creative collaboration. It emerges in and from the moment as a communicative, democratic process that is different and fresh with every performance.
Because Christopher Kunz and Isabel Rößler have been working together for nine years, their focus, intuition, and creative drive have developed to such a degree that their rhapsodic forms have a fascinatingly coherent quality – more a process than a state. It is the path rather than the goal. The thing is changeable, but not arbitrary. It’s not about power play and it’s certainly not about the much-quoted German term “Kaputspielen” (to destroy outdated form of music). Breaking with conventions belongs to a different time. Only in very few, ideal cases does this music become constructive – a profound statement of the next generation that doesn’t want to copy, but instead continues to write history.
Flut is one such ideal case – they display a unifying and inviting enthusiasm, something sorely lacking in our current age of isolation and mental fragmentation. The skills of saxophonist Christopher Kunz seem unlimited, but it’s not about showing them off. Rather, it is about allowing them to casually engage in the larger discourse. This music invites you to marvel, to join in, to enjoy the details, to enter into a microcosm that grows with every encounter. It does not lose itself in escapism, instead, it is beautiful and ever more beautiful. It is an invitation to discovery.
Liner notes by Ulrich Steinmetzger
