With her 14th CD "Der Baum vor meinem Fenster" ("The tree outside my window"), Susan Weinert presents us with a farewell gift, because on March 2nd, 2020 the sympathetic guitarist & composer passed away, who for decades tirelessly honed her own sound cosmos, constantly evolved and was always looking for new challenges. In over 3000 concerts all over the world she presented her music to a constantly growing fan base.

How we define the age we live in depends entirely on the frame we choose to view it through. On one timescale we’re just getting settled into the 21st century; zoom out and we’re deeply entrenched in the Anthropocene. We might be waking to the dawn of an enlightened, interconnected new era or teetering on the brink of a sixth mass extinction.

18 Monologues élastiques was recorded by Martin Ruch at the Funkhaus on Nalepastrasse in Berlin, Germany in 2013. Located in an industrial area of the capital, the mysterious colossal DDR structure looks more like an abandoned cold-war nuclear facility than an actual radio station. Time there seems to have stopped, back before the Berlin Wall came down.

Skip Records celebrates with the Concert: 20 years Skip Records. Skip Records celebrates its 20th anniversary with a special concert - the Concert: 20 years Skip Records.

„Caramel“ combines the freedom of improvisation with the structural clarity and discipline of classical music, the intensity and emotion of oriental music with the understanding of minimalism and space of Scandinavian music and much, much more.

The program "Opera. Jazz. Blues" includes rousing and lyric jazz improvisations, unexpected arrangements and fantasias on the pieces of classical, jazz and popular music composers. The genre of crossover is a synthesis of different music genres and styles, a fashionable but often risky device. It is only justified when top class musicians possessing a high taste and artistic convincingness venture to experiment in the area. This album is exactly the case. The musicians came up with an idea of carrying out a jazz/classical experiment a few years ago, but it had to wait to be realized.

Chansons and Broadway classics as well as tangos, waltzes and hits are interpreted. The wonderful voice of the singer Larissa Frank is underpinned by grooving double bass sounds played by Peter Wallner, and Tim Gabel’s danceable guitar rhythms peppered with virtuoso solo interludes.