Patricia Brennan (49. Leipziger Jazztage)

Between yesterday and tomorrow: "Futuristic folklorism" from Downtown.

Double concert with SHABAKA & Nduduzo Makhathini.

The title came as little surprise. Her last album was praised from all sides and Patricia Brennan was subsequently named "Vibraphonist of the Year" by Downbeat Magazine. On "Breaking Stretch", the musician brought together a septet of gifted improvisation artists. However, Brennan herself is also a child of the conservatory. She describes her way of making music as "very mathematical". The result is a synthesis of the arts that, based on her compositions, is constantly probing and searching.

Brennan will be performing solo at the Schaubühne Lindenfels, while the percussionist will be traveling from her adopted home of New York for the Leipzig Jazz Days. Growing up between her mother's Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin albums and her father's salsa records, she came into contact with various musical traditions at an early age. In her home in Veracruz, Mexico, she developed son jarocho: a regional folk music with many stringed instruments that draws on indigenous practices, Spanish baroque and West African styles.

At the same time, her marimba and vibraphone playing has something otherworldly, extraterrestrial about it. She extends the organic materiality of her instruments electronically in many places. The result has been aptly described in the past as "folkloristic futurism". And so influences from various directions shine through in Brennan's work time and again, whether as a reference in the title of her solo debut "Maquishti" or in her musical signature.

Followed by: SHABAKA & Nduduzo Makhathini