Lake Studios Berlin

ALBUM, the muse at work – Naïma/n ï m company

ALBUM, the muse at work with dancer Naïma Mazic, drummer, vibraphonist Evi Filippou and a record player, is based on nine of endless songs dedicated to romantic partners of jazzmusicians or written by female composers. Each a space of encounter in a different space, place and/or time: played, danced and/or listened to. Each a place informed by the figure of the muse, manipulating their position as a concept, questioning patriarchal utilization of reproductive and value generating labor. Are these tunes gifts or claiming of ownership? One can hear a history of displacement, of labor and fragmentation within the polyrhythmic black American music. How can we listen closer? ALBUM is also a record with nine love stories. On 23/06, Maeve, Hanna, Evi and Naïma are making and sharing a moving, sounding, feminine Album by co-musing with Carla Bley, Moki Cherry, Mary Lou Williams and more.

DUO – Marcela Giesche & Matilda Rolfsson

Matilda Rolfsson and Marcela Giesche first met in Berlin 2018, then in a trio together with Swedish pianist Sten Sandell) a- 45 min “carte- blanche” freely improvised meeting at Akademie der Kunst, a performance commissioned by Louis Rasting for the 50^th anniversary of the free jazz- label FMP (Free music production). In 2019 the duo performed for the first time as duo at Sound Dance Festival in Berlin. From 2020 the duo has continually been working together in Rolfson’s artistic research-project “In Motion, -Movements with Directions Within„.