Maelstrom Ulrike Haage

• 1 Harugasumi 06:40
• 2 Valzer Con Calore 07:25
• 3 Steps 06:56
• 4 Maelstrom 08:22
• 5 Umbra 09:35
• 6 Interlunium 03:45
• 7 Asa Nisi Masa 13:41
• 8 Over the Mountain's Silence 08:19
• Total Runtime 01:04:43

Info for Maelstrom

A great recording space, good microphones, an amazing grand piano and a passionate team. No digital additions needed. Just natural ingredients without preservatives. Deep excavations into pure sound; this is how the story of a new piano album starts. We are recording in the UFO Sound Studios, Berlin. Because of many years of personal friendship, Bechstein provides again the C. Bechstein D 282 concert grand piano for our recordings.

The compositions are recorded with the participation of my great musician friends: Almut Lustig & Brigitte Haas, Classical Percussion; Uwe Steinmetz, Saxophone; Eric Schaefer, Percussion; Tim Lorenz, Drums; Masami Sato, vocals; Christian Meyer, additional electronics; Avishai Chameides, Viola. The technical crew: Philipp Fiedler, engineer and Dian Zagorchinov, filmer. Our additional engineers from the UFO Sound Studios are Fabian Knof, Simon Winkler and Philipp Zumpe. And Kaleigh, the studio dog, should not be forgotten.

Ulrike Haage, grand piano, celeste, kalimba, electronics
Almut Lustig, percussion
Brigitte Haas, percussion
Christian Meyer, electronics
Tim Lorenz, drums
Avishai Chameides, viola
Uwe Steinmetz, saxophone

Ulrike Haage
The composer, pianist, sound artist and radio drama author Ulrike Haage is one of the most multifaceted artists in Germany today. She once starred on the piano with all-women big-band Reichlich Weiblich, and went on to join up with Katharina Franck as the core of the highly acclaimed Rainbirds.

She collaborated on genre-crossing and experimental projects with musicians like Alfred Harth, FM Einheit, Phil Minton and contributed to theatre productions in Zürich, Düsseldorf, Hamburg and Berlin. Since 2006 she works regularly with the drummer Eric Schaefer.Ulrike Haage composes and directs contemporary works for films and radio, mostly published with the audiobook label Sans Soleil and the record label Blue Pearls Music. Since 2004 she releases highly respected Solo CDs. Following Sélavy (2004) and Weisses Land (2006), she has released her third solo album (2011) entitled In:finitum. The forth solo album Maelstrom will be released in 2015. Awards + Prizes: In 2003, Haage received the German Jazz Award (Albert-Mangelsdorff-Preis) for her outstanding and versatile life work to date – especially for her musical projects at the interface of pop, art and avant-garde. In 2010 the documentary film Zwiebelfische won the North German Film Award and the special prize for Haage’s soundtrack. Her music for the film Meret Oppenheim – eine Surrealistin auf eigenen Wegen received the Documentary Filmscore Prize 2014.

“Every single tone and sound possesses meaning, every moment of suspension integrates into the structure, every song is a piece of art. What has never been heard departs on a tone & returns on a sound wave, measured in time immemorial and doubled in mirrors. Ulrike Haage brings to light hidden sounds – in the moment and for all eternity.”(Klaus Hübner)

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