MATTI KLEIN SOUL TRIO „BOUNCIN’ IN BUBBLEVERSE“

In the organizer's words:

Matti Klein - Wurlitzer Electric Piano / Fender Rhodes | Lars Zander - Bass Clarinet / Tenor Sax | Andrè Seidel - drums


We all live in our own bubble, they say. Due to the power of social media and algorithms, we are trapped in a world where we only ever want to hear the same things. But is that really true?
Matti Klein and his soul trio prove it with their third album Bouncin' In Bubbleverse: It can be incredible fun to juggle with a wide variety of bubbles from the fields of jazz, funk, hip-hop or space rock, to explore their boundaries and make them burst with relish in a dazzling way. To open up the view to something new.
The unorthodox is a specialty of the trio anyway. The
trio has a unique sound that is created from the warm sounds of Klein's Wurlitzer electric piano, the deep foundation of a rare 1973 Rhodes bass and the expressive playing of saxophonist and bass clarinettist Lars Dieterich, which is rich in effects. Combined with the rhythmically highly flexible drums of André Seidel, the result is "a new, seething variation on the popular organ trio format", as the British magazine Jazzwise once put it.
"As a musician, you're constantly on the road in all kinds of bubbles," bandleader Klein explains the album title, "sometimes you're at a big festival, then again in a small jazz club. And we're constantly bouncing around and immersing ourselves in a new universe again and again." The man knows what he's talking about. After all, the vintage keyboard master, born in Berlin in 1984, is something like Germany's hardest traveling man in the name of groove.
As part of the successful jazz-funk formation Mo' Blow and as musical director of Brazilian soul-pop legend Ed Motta, Klein has performed on the stages of the most important jazz clubs in New York, Tokyo, London and Paris. And his soul trio, founded in 2017 together with Dieterich and Mo'Blow colleague Seidel, can now look back on over 300 concerts all over the world - with performances and tours in South Africa, Malaysia, Bahrain, Finland and the UK, among others.
Bouncin' In Bubbleverse reflects these many years of experience in a very special way. All of the pieces written by the bandleader have a kind of encore that takes up elements of the song that has just been completed, but interprets them much more freely and sometimes in a completely different way. Klein has christened these reflections "Echos", which lend a further nuance of meaning to the album's filter bubble theme: When you loosen up and change your point of view, you suddenly see the same thing with completely different eyes.
"This has developed in our concerts," says Klein, "the song is actually over, but someone just carries on and draws the others into a jam. I like this spontaneity. Because you break through what you normally do and take a different look at it. That's what I wanted for the album too." In other words: on Bouncin' In Bubbleverse, the echoes developed together in the spirit of a collective solo continue the stories formulated in the reference piece or transfer them into other dimensions.
For example, the delicately dreamy summer romance ballad "A Summer Fairytale" is given a fiery Latin happy ending. The "New Frontiers", which mediates between hip-hop aesthetics, yacht-pop sunshine and metrically upside-down retro soul jazz, is transformed into a psychedelic polyrhythmic anthem. The rocking, propulsive "Left Lane Larry", inspired by left-hand traffic on the British Isles, returns as soulful blues. "Capetown After Dark", on the other hand, which also deals with the trio's formative tour experiences with its bittersweet energy, takes on a deeper, spiritual note in its echoing reverberations.
In any case, the first album created in Klein's own studio in Prenzlauer Berg shows how much the trio has grown together and matured in recent years. Songs such as the almost chanson-like "End of Sight", which Klein wrote on the Azorean island of Graciosa, reveal an immense inner calm and the knowledge that one can rely on the other.
The trio has also perfected another of its unmistakable trademarks - the use of wild, odd time signatures. None of the compositions on Bouncin' In Bubbleverse are in conventional 4/4 time. You don't hold it against the band. Quite the opposite: you dance to it. "Odd times to party", as the album's opening track is so beautifully ambiguous. "That's what the album says," explains Matti Klein, "we may be living in challenging and strange times - but we're making the best of it!"

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