FR/SA - 13. / 14. März 2026 - FORUM Merzhausen
FR 13. März 2026 - 20 Uhr - KALI Trio (CH)
SA 14. März 2026 - 20 Uhr - Henry Spencer Quartett (UK)
Vorverkauf startet in Bälde.
Neues Album "The Playful Abstract" mit Höchstwertung in Schweizer Fachzeitschrift "Jazz 'N' More (Mai 2025) - Kritik siehe unten:
KALI Trio aren’t interested in genre. Nicolas Stocker (drums, electronics), Urs Müller (guitar) and Raphael Loher (piano, electronics) work in a world of contemporary music where ideas around minimal, ambient, jazz and electronic music are regarded as just variations of a common language. Whether working with composed or improvised material, the three musicians follow their intuition and draw on their deep and anti-ideological understanding of music history.
KALI Trio is a working band; one that works towards being a true musical and social organism. Their aim is to create a “sound cosmos”, where the sound of the whole overrides any individual musicianship. The musicians met in Lucerne. Initially, Raphael and Nicolas started as a duo. In 2015 Urs joined, to make the trio we know today.
Their third album, The Playful Abstract will celebrate their tenth anniversary as a band. Their second album, LOOM, was released in 2021 on Nik Bärtsch’s label Ronin Rhythm Records. LOOM won the album of the year from Radio 3FACH. KALI Trio won the ZKB Jazz Audience Award in 2017 and were awarded by the canton of Lucerne in 2018 and 2022 for their musical work. KALI Trio have performed at festivals like Jazz Festival Willisau, Cully Jazz, InJazz Rotterdam, Match & Fuse Festival, Suisse Diagonales Jazz, Schaffhauser Jazz Festival and Montreux Jazz Festival.
“Spencer sets the bar high…as if he's a singer-songwriter with a horn. Dazzling” - Henry Spencer legt die Messlatte hoch ....als wäre er ein Singer-Songwriter mit Horn. Blendend.
The Guardian ★★★★ & The Observer ★★★★
(Also printed in The Guardian and The Observer newspapers)
"Spectacular" - The Guardian
"The Defector is a masterpiece" - Jazz in Europe. Full review here.
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
"Henry Spencer has ploughed his own furrow, at once thoroughly connected with, and set apart from, the rest of the UK jazz scene.
It’s big music that demands a big setting - major festival stages and theatres beckon: this record has the ambition and the ability to deliver."
- Jazzwise Magazine ★★★★ Full review here.
★ ★ ★ ★ "Contender for Album of the Year."
- All About Jazz
"Sometimes these awards add extra pressure or, as is the case here, propel the musician to new heights. He climbs very close to the summit here with The Defector...The result, in a word, is intense." - All About Jazz ★★★★ Full review here.
Winner of Emerging Excellence Award (HMUK)
Winner of Best Newcomer Award at Marlborough Jazz Festival