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Album-Release:
2023

HRA-Release:
03.12.2024

Label: Heartcore Records

Genre: Jazz

Subgenre: Vocal

Artist: Lucia Cadotsch

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  • 1 I WON'T 02:00
  • 2 BITTER LONG LYING LEISURE (feat. Kurt Rosenwinkel) 05:54
  • 3 BROTHER II 04:41
  • 4 SECEDAS 04:14
  • 5 NO APOLOGY 01:41
  • 6 MEDUSA'S CHAMPAGNE (feat. Kurt Rosenwinkel) 04:29
  • 7 BALLAD OF THE DROWNED GIRL 03:05
  • 8 O ONE 03:29
  • 9 LILY OF THE NILE 03:51
  • 10 NAKED AND NUMB 03:13
  • Total Runtime 36:37

Info for AKI



„When Lucia asked me to play on a few songs of her album I said yes right away, her trio is fresh and powerful, her writing is capturing unique feelings and her voice is mesmerizing.“ (Kurt Rosenwinkel)

Lucia Cadotsch’s newest musical guise is AKI, a quartet of some of the most brilliant and distinctive voices working in contemporary jazz. Kit Downes (piano/organ), Phil Donkin (bass), James Maddren (drums), and guest Kurt Rosenwinkel (guitar) collaborate with Cadotsch to create an affecting debut album, full of robust musicianship and emotive compositions anchored by the Cadotsch’s somnambulant lyrical explorations.

Kit Downes is a close collaborator with Cadotsch who co-wrote most of the songs on the album. He has played with artists as diverse as Bill Frisell and Squarepusher and leads his own acclaimed projects. His thrilling virtuosity on “I Won’t”, biting dissonance on “Secedas”, and lyrical support for the vocal melody on “Lily of the Nile” showcase his sensitive and unique voice on the keys. Bassist Phil Donkin has worked with John Abercrombie, Mark Turner, and Kurt Rosenwinkel. Donkin also wrote “Naked and Numb”, a beautifully jagged piece with fragmented intervallic leaps. Drummer James Maddren is a first-call UK drummer, playing with Norma Winstone and Jacob Collier, and has been a close collaborator with Downes for decades. The rhythm section provides an engaging counterpoint to Cadotsch’s vocals on “Ballad of the Drowned Girl”, and finds a deep unrelenting groove on “No Apology”. AKI’s collective compositional process allows them to reimagine and reinterpret each other’s pieces through their own musical lenses, allowing for space for everyone to shine equally.

Lyrically, Cadotsch celebrates the perspectives of female protagonists all over the album, reflecting on her own experiences as a bandleader in a rather male-dominated, normative music environment. Album opener “I Won’t” is a series of boundary-setting proclamations that Cadotsch sings with her trademark frank clarity. In “Ballad of the Drowned Girl”, Cadotsch’s phrasing reanimates the visceral Brecht/Weill murder ballad of revolutionary socialist and anti-war activist Rosa Luxemburg into a touching, matter-of-fact memorial. On “Medusa’s Champagne” she transforms the terrifying mythological figure of Medusa into a creature of sensuality.

It has been a longtime musical dream for Cadotsch to work with Kurt Rosenwinkel, who provides guest performances on “Bitter Long Lying Leisure” and “Medusa’s Champagne”. There’s a moment on “Medusa’s Champagne” where Rosenwinkel’s solo sits under Cadotsch’s voice and quotes her chorus melody. It’s a subtle moment that quietly validates Cadotsch’s long musical journey. She has worked tirelessly and uncompromisingly on her sound, and like Rosenwinkel, we’re behind her, and we’re listening.

„Strength, tension, and fortitude. The ease Lucia Cadotsch conveys with every note is hypnotizing.“ - DOWNBEAT USA

“Cadotsch makes a song resonate like crazy.” - Best Jazz on Bandcamp June 2023

„Lucia Cadotsch’s singing offers and honest eye-to-eye conversation.“ - JazzJournal UK

“AKI is haunting and infectiously-inventive from beginning to end.” - Twisted Soul Music UK

„…überhaupt erklingt hier endlich mal wieder richtig wichtige Musik.“ - Andreas Müller, Moderator, Tagesspiegel

“Lucia’s writing is capturing unique feelings and her voice is mesmerizing.“ - Kurt Rosenwinkel

Lucia Cadotsch, vocals
Kit Downes, piano, organ
Phil Donkin, bass
James Maddren, drums
Kurt Rosenwinkel, guitar (tracks 2, 6)


Lucia Cadotsch
Geboren in Zürich, Schweiz. Neben ihren Bands LUCIA CADOTSCH SPEAK LOW, SCHNEEWEISS + ROSENROT, LIUN & THE SCIENCE FICTION BAND und YELLOW BIRD, ist sie auch als Solokünstlerin unter dem Namen LIUN aktiv.

Nach langjähriger Gesangs- und klassischer Klavierausbildung studierte Lucia Cadotsch Jazzgesang an der Universität der Künste Berlin und am Rytmisk Musik Konservatorium in Kopenhagen. Schön früh fing sie an nach ihrem eigenen Gesangs- und Musikstil zu suchen. Ihre Idee war, mit der Stimme wie mit einem Instrument umzugehen und auch musikalisch wie eine Instrumentalistin zu denken. So entwickelte sie einen unverwechselbaren Ausdruck.

2006 gründete Lucia Cadotsch die Band SCHNEEWEISS + ROSENROT, mit der sie Europaweit über hundert Konzerte auf grossen Festivals und Clubs spielte und drei Alben veröffentlichte: Salt crusted dreams (2009), Pretty Frank (2011), Pool (2012). Fast zehn Jahre lang feilten die vier Bandmitglieder in kollektiver Kooperation an ihrer Musik, die frei sein sollte von „festgefahrenen Ideen, was Jazz sein soll oder nicht sein soll.“ Das gefiel T.C. Boyle: „I like what you’re doing, like the disjointed rhythms and the Bjorkish vocals. Congratulations.“ Und DIE ZEIT schrieb „Schneeweiss + Rosenrot war ein Ereignis im Deutschen Jazz.“

2012 gewann SCHNEEWEISS + ROSENROT mit dem „Neuen Deutschen Jazzpreis“ die höchstdotierte und wichtigste nationale Auszeichnung im Jazz.

2015 gründete sie das Trio LUCIA CADOTSCH SPEAK LOW mit Petter Eldh und Otis Sandsjö und veröffentlichte mit der Country-Jazz-Bluegrass Band YELLOW BIRD das Album „SING“ (enja).

In Kollaboration mit Wanja Slavin schreibt und produziert sie neue Songs für LIUN & THE SCIENCE FICTION BAND, die im September 2015 ihre Premiere auf der Konzertreihe Serious Series in Berlin feierte und im Dezember eine EP aufnehmen wird.

Neben ihren eigenen Bands ist Lucia Cadotsch mit Hayden Chisholm und dem Lucerne Jazz Orchestra, Rainer Böhm, Don Philippe (Freundeskreis), Dan Freeman, der Künstlerin Paul Polaris, Kathrin Pechlow, Christian Weidner, Johannes Lauer, Georg Graewe Orchestra, SUPER 700 CHOR, LE VERY (ehem. Nias) zu hören.

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