In dialog. Meeting of the experimental and young Polish and German music scene. Second concert tour through the "Lost Places" at 17:00.

Anyone familiar with the music of pianist and producer Philipp Rumsch, who trained in Leipzig with Michael Wollny, will already have the resonances between the precisely gliding and floating sounds and the Altes Stadtbad in their ears: Here, a musician encounters a space that seems made for him. Moreover, a setting that leaves it up to the visitors themselves to decide how close or far they want to approach the music that haunts the old baths. A hardly programmable and experimental arrangement in motion, for which a constellation was found around Rumsch, which knows how to play the potential of this experiment: The Irish Neasa Ní Bhriain, who lives and creates in Weimar, on the viola, who was trained in Rostock and Leipzig, next to Albert Karch on the drums and Kuba Wójcik on the guitar. Two young musicians who are well known in the Polish jazz scene, but still far too little known in Germany, despite their relative proximity.

How does this encounter come about? There are certainly many (good) reasons for this: One is definitely that Philipp Rumsch not only stands with half a foot on Icelandic soil - which you can definitely hear in his music, since some of his pieces, not least on the "M: Of Anxiety X Discernment" released in 2020, bear the signature of Icelandic sound architecture - but is also well connected in the Polish music world. And since jazz very rarely follows the register of the monologue, this encounter is not only about a musically outstanding lineup, but also about the dialogue between the (young) Polish and German jazz scenes. A request of the Leipzig Jazz Days that seems all the more urgent when one considers the current developments in the neighboring country. Celestially Light is originally a playing instruction by the pianist Tōru Takemitsu, but here it is also a two-word instruction for an evening: lifting and depressing, light as a feather in walking on Moorish patterns, empty cymbals and cold saunas. 

A wandering concert, a wandering title, which appears again and again in the environment of Rumsch, Karch and Wójcik: As inspiration and manifesto. As a declaration of love of a specific sound that becomes a way of existence. On this evening encircled and accompanied by the virtuoso on the viola, Neasa Ní Bhriain, who thus plays her first notes into this magical realm to make it shine even more splendidly. 

Concert tour through the "Lost Places" at the Altes Stadtbad with: Karch | Ní Bhriain | Rumsch | Wójcik "Celestially Light I" and Hausmann/Paas/Wodni "(SK)IN - SIDE - OUT" and Sonia Loenne "Moving In".