This Every Place Fabian Dudek

• 1 Ice House Celebration 09:31
• 2 Beach 06:26
• 3 Where Thoughts Provoke 17:41
• 4 Streetlight Dawn 09:10
• Total Runtime 42:48

Info for This Every Place

Fabian Dudek has been releasing a new album every year since 2022 and each one seems to surpass its predecessor a little. His quartet's second production, Isolated Flowers, was nominated for the German Record Critics' Award, with the Horst and Gretl Will Foundation jury praising, among other things, the “captivating blend of [...] instrumental virtuosity and ambiguous, idiosyncratic sound design”. In 2023, Dudek presented the multi-layered album Protecting A Picture That's Fading with the sextet La Campagne, whose ‘density of events in gravitational compositions’ (FAZ) earned him a nomination for the German Jazz Award. Last year, the quartet production Distant Skies, We Dream was again celebrated by the press and public. The Badische Zeitung was enthusiastic about the ‘secure balance between formal rigour and unrestrained playing’, NRW Jazz heard ‘breathtaking music with crooked metres, played against traditional norms’ and summed up: ‘an expressive, dense, almost unlimited, contemporary jazz in a class of its own.’

The new album This Every Place also reinforces the impression that Fabian Dudek seems to have an inexhaustible wealth of ideas at his disposal. At the same time, his individual sound (both as an instrumentalist and as a composer) is becoming more and more concrete, his creative drive more far-reaching. For the first time, the bandleader has added an internationally renowned personality to his quartet, namely saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock. ‘After three quartet albums, I felt it was a logical and exciting step to add someone else,’ explains Dudek. ‘Laubrock was the first and only person I asked because she has been inspiring me for a while now, both in the way she plays and in what she composes.’ Apparently the interest is mutual, as the joint project is set to continue. But that's just in passing.

‘I had sent her my compositions for a complete concert programme and when she came to Germany, she was very well prepared,’ recalls Dudek. Two days of rehearsals were followed by two concerts, in Rüsselsheim and in Cologne's Stadtgarten. The latter was recorded and there was time for further recordings the next day. ‘We were lucky enough to be able to leave our live set-up in the hall and simply continue playing the next day, again under live conditions, but without an audience.’ From the recordings, Dudek selected four pieces of seven to eighteen minutes in length, which offer an intense, at times energetic and condensed, then again transparent essence of the recordings.

Fabian Dudek, alto-saxophone, flute, compositions
Ingrid Laubrock, soprano- & tenor-saxophone
Felix Hauptmann, piano, synthesizer
David Helm, bass
Fabian Arends, drums

Fabian Dudek
is a German saxophonist and composer. He is currently working on composing idiosyncratic musical forms that deal with rhythm, harmony and structures within the music. These are mixtures of conventional and avant-garde notation and are regularly revised and updated. They focus on the exchange of intellect and emotion.

Dudek’s creative process is strongly influenced by everyday life. Experiences, persons, objects, states, the good, the bad. A majority of the events, visuals, sounds, experiences of everyday go unnoticed. Things that seem normal​ can, under a magnifying glass, unfold differently, perhaps with beauty, perhaps with uniqueness.

In the past Fabian Dudek played at national and international festivals and locations such as Deutsches Jazzfestival Frankfurt, Cologne Jazzweek, Südtirol Jazzfestival, Tampere Jazz Happening, Serious Series, Moers Festival, Avignon Jazz Festival, Jazzfest Bonn, Winterjazz Köln, Klaeng Festival, c/o Pop Festival, Acht Brücken Festival, Klaipeda Jazz Festival, Kölner Philharmonie, Konzerthaus Berlin, Bimhuis, Porgy & Bess, Loft, Jazz-Fabrik Rüsselsheim …

Fabian Dudek played concerts in France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, the Netherlands, Lithuania, Ecuador and India.

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