Evelyn Kryger - III (2024) [Official Digital Download]

Less is usually more, but not always. On their new album "III", the quartet Evelyn Kryger brilliantly demonstrates that you can put everything you've got into a project and end up with even more than you thought. Without having planned it this way, saxophonist Christoph "Cito" Kaling, keyboarder Arne Dreske, bassist Jonas Holland-Moritz and drummer Hannes Dunker have succeeded in creating a monumental oeuvre with "III", which bears the traits of a concept album.

+In contrast to all the band's previous albums, this time instead of a fixed line-up for all the songs, they relied on a variable group of guests who provided individual timbres and shades, moments of tension or changes of direction in the various songs. Guitarist Omar Gudjonsson from the Icelandic post-rock band ADHD, Brazilian rapper Laíz, trumpeter Tom Trabandt, saxophonist Richard Häckel, violinist Roland Satterwhite and Venezuelan percussionist Nené Vásquez enrich the band's spectrum in different songs with their respective idioms. In this way, Evelyn Kryger creates a wide dramaturgical arc of tension from jazz and prog rock, soundtrack-like passages, pop borrowings, Latin grooves, folkloristic colorations to the precision and density of classical music and the detached openness of jam rock.
Evelyn Kryger consciously works with contrasts. Similar to the best moments of Return To Forever, the Pat Metheny Group, Nils Petter Molvaer or ADHD, all these influences and backgrounds flow together to form a harmonious whole that no longer needs to be categorized. Because one thing is clear from the very first note and continues to the last bar: this is always and exclusively a statement by Evelyn Kryger.

TRACKLIST

1 Epi
2 Tja
3 Instinto
4 Spirit
5 Weiter
6 Yemen
7 Motel
8 Jaz
9 Socarabica
10 Rise



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