Part of the great multicultural mix specific to the young Berlin scene, both in terms of its cosmopolitan composition and multiple references, the KUU! quartet invents an explosive and provocative post-modern musical universe. It combines into little mutant songs marked by a form of punk irreverence, aggressive sounds, rhythms borrowed from electro dance, radical improvisations from free jazz and a baroque theatricality inherited from Dadaist cabaret. Fronted by the lyrical, ultra-sensory voice of singer and actress Jelena Kuljić, the music of KUU! —  both nurtured by the subtly intertwined guitars of Frank Möbus and Kalle Kalima and driven by the as sophisticated as they are primitive drums of Christian Lillinger — is that kind of experience from which one does not come out intact.

Since his emergence at the beginning of the 1990s, Marc Ducret is unquestionably the French musician to have pushed his personal revolution the furthest, by making his mutant music an exciting work in progress where the main aesthetic challenges of contemporary jazz are embodied each time in new forms. A virtuoso guitarist but above all a major composer borrowing as much from jazz as from rock and contemporary music, Ducret now offers with Lady M, a ‘chamber opera’ for soprano, countertenor and small "jazz" orchestra which can be considered as a synthesis of his poetics. With this score, as refined and cerebral as it is deeply sensual, based on the tension between the circulation of energies and formal mastership, he immerses the listener into the depths of the poisonous psyche of a monster, and bewitches us.

In partnership with Musica
Jazzpassage : Franco-German evenings programmed in partnership with the Kulturbüro of Offenburg / With the support of AJC