STATES OF PLAY

Deutscher Jazzpreis 2022 Lotte Anker (DK) – Sax / Reeds Dodo Kis (Ungarn/ NL) – Flöten / Recorder Valentin Garvie – Trumpet, Piccolo Trumpet, Zink Johannes Schwarz – Fagott Kathrin Pechlov – Harfe Philip Zoubek – Prepared Piano, Moog Florian Zwissler – Synth Christian Lorenzen – (Modular) Synth, Keys Enyalios Papadopoulous (ZYP) – Percussion Shiau-Shiuan Hung (Taiwan) – Percussion Thomas Sauerborn – Drums, Vibraphon Christian Ramond – Double bass Sebastian Gramss – Double bass / Composition https://sebastiangramss.de/statesofplay/ https://statesofplay.bandcamp.com/ A contemporary, melodic aesthetic with vital roots in jazz – a concept in which composition, team play and open spaces create an ultracreative balance. With STATES OF PLAY, Sebastian Gramss has been pursuing the idea of radical sound morphing as an essential and style-forming component of the ensemble: Various concrete musical situations - “States” (= sound states) are modified and de-constructed … abstracted and transformed …. and then put together into completely new concrete sound images: “Starting from known, familiar tonal starting points, we move towards an aesthetic expansion and transformation of sound situations – the result is an unheard music flow with fine-tuned emotional and intellectual balance …”