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Format Details: LTD Red Vinyl Gatefold
Description
Maria Reich is one of the most versatile talents on the German music scene: as a violinist, composer, singer, and improviser, she combines compositional precision with improvisational openness - The German-Canadian musician studied cultural studies, jazz, and cultural management, and creates cross-genre projects of great social relevance - For her work, she was nominated, among other honors, for the Busoni Composition Prize from the Berlin Academy of Arts in 2024 and for the German Jazz Prize in the "Strings" category in 2026.
On her first vinyl release, Maria Reich brings together two ensembles - her band featuring Bernhard and Peter Meyer as well as Max Santner, and her own string quartet. The album blends influences from jazz, indie-folk, chamber pop, and avant-garde into a distinctive sonic language and explores the personal and societal dimensions of care work. As journalist Kamilla Kaiser (Radio Berlin-Brandenburg) emphasizes, it is "an album that powerfully conveys the complexity of care work, names things without being overly intellectual [...] and lingers in the mind long after listening."
In addition to projects such as the Reich / Baumgartner / Pringle trio and her internationally acclaimed solo album *Interdependenzen* (Relative Pitch Records, New York), Maria Reich has also established herself as a defining voice in the international improvisation scene through collaborations with renowned colleagues such as Petter Eldh, Nick Dunston, and Julia Hulsmann.
Tracklisting
Maria Reich
Firehorse
Various Artists
Climax Blues Band
Chalice
Broselmaschine
Wolfsmond
Threshold
Neal Richardson
Sun Ra Arkestra
Ruphus
Maria Reich
Archie Shepp
Charlie Haden, Paul Motian & Geri Allen
The Art Ensemble Of Chicago
Antoine Karacostas
