Listening habits? This jazz-punk revolt turns them upside down!
Double concert with Agua Dulce.

Jazz is sometimes an awkward term. It is often used to describe music that does not fit into the other typical genres: rock, pop and so on. On the other hand, the rule of thumb can be applied that music is good when it rebels against boundaries and habits of any kind and settles in the new in-between.

The London duo Witch 'n' Monk have also settled somewhere in this region, in order to make lines of conflict audible and overcome them in a revolting way. Mauricio Velasierra, Colombian, brings together traditional Latin American flutes with the "jazz-punk guitar/bass hybrid" and experimental vocals of the British Heidi Heidelberg. Both are located at the intersection and friction points of punk, prog rock and jazz; resistant and sensitive attitudes, femininity and masculinity overlap and bite each other phenomenally to create a synaesthetic experience - because the duo, which has been together for eleven years, has already collaborated with fragrance and visual artists in the past.

It comes as no surprise that Velasierra and Heidelberg released their last album on John Zorn's avant-garde label Tzadik - after all, they were able to let off steam experimentally there and live up to their name with shamanic, evocative loops. Their most recently released single "Outfox" and the accompanying video are also psychedelic treats for the ears and eyes that come ironically close to the brain-rot genre - and only increase the anticipation of their performance at the Jazztage all the more.

Previously: Agua Dulce