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And Then She Wrote - Poetry Goes Jazz

Sonja Indin

And Then She Wrote - Poetry Goes Jazz

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Format: CD
Label: TCB The Montreux Jazz Label
UPC: 0725095375023
Catnr: TCB 37502
Release date: 10 March 2023
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TCB The Montreux Jazz Label
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0725095375023
Catalogue number
TCB 37502
Release date
10 March 2023

"We hear solid playing that colors within the lines."

Jazzenzo, 13-3-2023
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There’s the title cut: or rather, the George Shearing instrumental to which Indin has set her own lyrics, and whose title—“And then I wrote”—she (re)makes her own, in tribute to the female poets she has mobilised for her project. Indin’s feisty words against Shearing’s cool vibe create a productive tension, as the female practitioner of a male- dominated craft takes over the “master’s tools”, not so much to dismantle his house as to rebuild it, driven both by her need for liberation —“Speak your mind, pronounce it”—and by her desire for a revivification of a revered tradition—“I first heard this song / I had to hum along, / N’ then I wrote these lines / Substantial words that rhyme.” Rather than being cowed by her great predecessors, or crushed by the continuing injustices of her age (“Bewildered as I am / In these modern times”), Indin resolves to make her mark, on the musical world and in her life as a woman and mother. Because, as she writes, “Who gives in speechless? / Careless? Wordless?” Well, not Sonja Indin, that’s for sure.

„These texts have the power to see through one of the central dilemmas of human life: how to reconcile artistic production with biological reproduction. „Care work“ traditionally provided by women, has just as traditionally been discounted as „real„ labour (i.e. deserving of remuneration) by society at large. Here is Indin at work, as a singer, composer and author: in „Mom’s Care“ Sonja Indin pens an anthem of maternal solidarity. „

The fact that “care work”, traditionally provided by women, has just as traditionally been discounted as “real” labour (i.e. deserving of remuneration) by society at large. Here is Indin at work, as a singer, composer, and author: in “Mom’s Care”, she pens an anthem of maternal solidarity— Mothers of the Earth, unite!—while in “It all seems like nothing at all” she ventriloquises the voice of misogynistic disdain for care work, but in a groove so nervy that it serves as an implicit riposte to that disdain.

„There are also hymns to female empowerment beyond the function of motherhood, like „Femme phénoménale“, Indin’s remarkable French rewriting of a celebrated, sensuous poem by Maya Angelou.

And in “Expecting you – Accepting you”, written for her still unborn child, Indin conflates the roles of mother and artist in one warm embrace: “I wrote a song about accepting you / No matter what you’ll do.” Rafaël Newman, October 2022
Hier ist ein Ratschlag von einem Dichter zum anderen, ein passender Epigraph für dieses Album mit Zitaten und Hommagen: "Rezitiere deine Zeilen laut, riet Ronsard, / Oder, noch besser, singe sie." Die Aufforderung stammt aus einem Gedicht des verstorbenen australischen Schriftstellers Clive James, in dem er sich auf Pierre de Ronsard, seinen französischen Vorgänger aus der Renaissance, beruft, um die Wiedervereinigung der zeitgenössischen Poesie mit dem alten Geist von Live-Performance und Gesang zu fördern. Mit anderen Worten, so James, müssen Dichter wieder zu Performern werden, vor allem in einer hochgradig kommerzialisierten Welt, in der ihre Kunst immer weniger geschätzt wird, weil sie immer weniger anfällig für Kommerzialisierung ist. In der Tat, so James, müssen die Dichter durch Ronsard zu Sängern werden. Wieder. Wie sie es einst waren.

Bei ihrer Wiederbelebung der Poesie durch die Musik und ihrer Erneuerung der Jazzmusik durch einen Hauch von Poesie folgt Sonja Indin implizit dem Rat von Clive James oder besser gesagt von Pierre de Ronsard: aber sie tut dies natürlich mit einem ausschließlich weiblichen Team von Ahnen und Kolleginnen, in einer ausdrücklich feministischen Geste. Und trotz des anerkannten Einflusses internationaler und lokaler feministischer Koryphäen wie Rachel Cusk und Franziska Schutzbach auf ihr Handwerk bewahrt Indin die entscheidenden politischen Lektionen der poetischen Texte, die sie singt - über Mutterschaft, Pflegearbeit und das Frausein in einer immer noch patriarchalischen Kultur - vor feierlicher, akademischer Versteinerung, indem sie ihre Texte in erster Linie als Gedichte und nicht als Lehrsätze ehrt.

Artist(s)

Sonja Indin (vocals)

Sonja Indin (*1980) has invented melodies and sung in made up languages ever since she can remember. At the age of 14, she started playing the guitar, and moved on to classical singing in college. She continued her musical passion and decided to study Jazz singing with Marianne Racine in Zurich. She also spent one semester at the Music Academy in Basel with Lisette Spinnler, and participated in the Erasmus program in Cardiff, Wales, with Nia Lynn. Master classes in London with Anita Wardell and Quincy Jones, as well as workshops with Jay Clayton and Sheila Jordan gave her essential musical inspirations. In 2010 she graduated with a master’s degree. Sonja Indin is an active musician and composer with a...
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Sonja Indin (*1980) has invented melodies and sung in made up languages ever since she can remember. At the age of 14, she started playing the guitar, and moved on to classical singing in college. She continued her musical passion and decided to study Jazz singing with Marianne Racine in Zurich. She also spent one semester at the Music Academy in Basel with Lisette Spinnler, and participated in the Erasmus program in Cardiff, Wales, with Nia Lynn. Master classes in London with Anita Wardell and Quincy Jones, as well as workshops with Jay Clayton and Sheila Jordan gave her essential musical inspirations. In 2010 she graduated with a master’s degree. Sonja Indin is an active musician and composer with a wide repertoire and sings in English, French and German. Her debut album „Do you know me?“ was released in 2011 (Brambus). In 2015, her second album „Augen in der Grossstadt“ – a tribute to Tucholsky – followed. Sonja Indin is the mother of two children and teaches at Musikschule Konservatorium Zurich.

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Peter Preibisch (drums)

Peter Preibisch (* 1965 / Drums, Bandleader): Swiss born drummer Peter Preibisch is a graduate of the Berklee College of Music in Boston and the Manhattan School of Music in New York. Having spent seven years in the USA, he got to play with guitar wizard Kurt Rosenwinkel, saxophonist Seamus Blake, trumpeter Roy Hargrove, bassist Harvie Swartz among many others. After his return to Switzerland, Preibisch enjoys being a sought after sideman in a variety of projects, known for his skills as tasteful drummer and a creative composer, from Big Band to Trio. In 2008, Peter Preibisch started his most personal and ambitious project: „Peter's Playstation“. First being a quartet, it has by now grown into a sextet, where Peter...
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Peter Preibisch (* 1965 / Drums, Bandleader): Swiss born drummer Peter Preibisch is a graduate of the Berklee College of Music in Boston and the Manhattan School of Music in New York. Having spent seven years in the USA, he got to play with guitar wizard Kurt Rosenwinkel, saxophonist Seamus Blake, trumpeter Roy Hargrove, bassist Harvie Swartz among many others. After his return to Switzerland, Preibisch enjoys being a sought after sideman in a variety of projects, known for his skills as tasteful drummer and a creative composer, from Big Band to Trio. In 2008, Peter Preibisch started his most personal and ambitious project: „Peter's Playstation“. First being a quartet, it has by now grown into a sextet, where Peter is responsible as a bandleader, composer, arranger and drummer. After OFF-JAZZ and UNDERWATER, SNOWLAND is „Peter's Playstation's“ third recording for the TCB-The Montreux Jazz Label (TCB 01312).

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Roman Tulei (piano)

Victoria Mozalevskaya (tenor saxophone)

Composer(s)

Ralph Towner

He launched his jazz career as a Bill Evans-inspired pianist, then travelled to Vienna to study classical guitar with Karl Scheit, the renowned Austrian guitarist, lutenist and teacher. In New York City in the late 1960s, he freelanced on both piano and guitar, before co-founding the band Oregon in 1970, with Collin Walcott, Glenn Moore and Paul McCandless – all of whom would appear on his ECM debut, Trios/Solos, in 1972. Towner’s recordings for ECM have included solo albums, duo projects (with John Abercrombie, Gary Peacock, Gary Burton and Paolo Fresu), bands under his direction (including Solstice with Jan Garbarek, Eberhard Weber, Jon Christensen) and discs with Oregon. Towner has also contributed to outstanding albums by Keith Jarrett (In The...
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He launched his jazz career as a Bill Evans-inspired pianist, then travelled to Vienna to study classical guitar with Karl Scheit, the renowned Austrian guitarist, lutenist and teacher. In New York City in the late 1960s, he freelanced on both piano and guitar, before co-founding the band Oregon in 1970, with Collin Walcott, Glenn Moore and Paul McCandless – all of whom would appear on his ECM debut, Trios/Solos, in 1972. Towner’s recordings for ECM have included solo albums, duo projects (with John Abercrombie, Gary Peacock, Gary Burton and Paolo Fresu), bands under his direction (including Solstice with Jan Garbarek, Eberhard Weber, Jon Christensen) and discs with Oregon. Towner has also contributed to outstanding albums by Keith Jarrett (In The Light), Jan Garbarek (Dis), Kenny Wheeler(Deer Wan) and Egberto Gismonti (Sol do Meio Dia).

In the last few years activities have included many concerts with Sardinian trumpeter Paolo Fresu, their album Chiaroscuro garnering much positive press along the way (“Lushly resonant guitar and stately trumpet, a masterful match of color and texture” – The Village Voice). Another important association is with the guitar trio with Austria’s Wolfgang Muthspiel and Kazakhstan-born Australian player Slava Grigoryan. “Three guitarists from three different continents with three very different disciplines unite for this breathtakingly beautiful trio outing,” wrote Down Beat of the album Travel Guide.

Meanwhile, solo guitar work continues. In November 2016 Ralph Towner headlined an ECM Weekend in Cork, Ireland. In February and March 2017 he is in on tour in the US.


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Sonja Indin (vocals)

Sonja Indin (*1980) has invented melodies and sung in made up languages ever since she can remember. At the age of 14, she started playing the guitar, and moved on to classical singing in college. She continued her musical passion and decided to study Jazz singing with Marianne Racine in Zurich. She also spent one semester at the Music Academy in Basel with Lisette Spinnler, and participated in the Erasmus program in Cardiff, Wales, with Nia Lynn. Master classes in London with Anita Wardell and Quincy Jones, as well as workshops with Jay Clayton and Sheila Jordan gave her essential musical inspirations. In 2010 she graduated with a master’s degree. Sonja Indin is an active musician and composer with a...
more
Sonja Indin (*1980) has invented melodies and sung in made up languages ever since she can remember. At the age of 14, she started playing the guitar, and moved on to classical singing in college. She continued her musical passion and decided to study Jazz singing with Marianne Racine in Zurich. She also spent one semester at the Music Academy in Basel with Lisette Spinnler, and participated in the Erasmus program in Cardiff, Wales, with Nia Lynn. Master classes in London with Anita Wardell and Quincy Jones, as well as workshops with Jay Clayton and Sheila Jordan gave her essential musical inspirations. In 2010 she graduated with a master’s degree. Sonja Indin is an active musician and composer with a wide repertoire and sings in English, French and German. Her debut album „Do you know me?“ was released in 2011 (Brambus). In 2015, her second album „Augen in der Grossstadt“ – a tribute to Tucholsky – followed. Sonja Indin is the mother of two children and teaches at Musikschule Konservatorium Zurich.

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Roman Tulei (piano)

Press

We hear solid playing that colors within the lines.
Jazzenzo, 13-3-2023

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01.
This Poem
05:02
(Sonja Indin, Elma Mitchell) Peter Preibisch, Fridolin Blumer, Roman Tulei, Sonja Indin
02.
Expecting You – Accepting You
03:33
(Sonja Indin) Sonja Indin, Roman Tulei, Fridolin Blumer, Peter Preibisch
03.
Mom’s Care (Mom’s Song)
04:21
(Sonja Indin, George Robert) Sonja Indin, Roman Tulei, Fridolin Blumer, Peter Preibisch
04.
It All Seems Like Nothing At All
04:45
(Sonja Indin) Sonja Indin, Roman Tulei, Fridolin Blumer, Peter Preibisch, Victoria Mozalevskaya
05.
Rainbow
05:17
(Sonja Indin, George Robert) Sonja Indin, Roman Tulei, Fridolin Blumer, Peter Preibisch
06.
Femme phénoménale
04:19
(Sonja Indin, Dr. Maya Angelou) Sonja Indin, Roman Tulei, Fridolin Blumer, Peter Preibisch, Victoria Mozalevskaya
07.
Inventory
03:56
(Sonja Indin, Dorothy Parker) Sonja Indin, Roman Tulei, Fridolin Blumer, Peter Preibisch
08.
And Then I Wrote
03:41
(Sonja Indin, George Shearing) Sonja Indin, Roman Tulei, Fridolin Blumer, Peter Preibisch
09.
Freedom (Welcome)
04:28
(Michaela Morgan, Roman Tulei) Sonja Indin, Roman Tulei, Fridolin Blumer, Peter Preibisch
10.
Sometimes It’s Hard Being A Mom
03:46
(Sonja Indin) Sonja Indin, Roman Tulei, Fridolin Blumer, Peter Preibisch, Victoria Mozalevskaya
11.
Friendship
03:31
(Sonja Indin, Elizabeth Jennings) Sonja Indin, Roman Tulei, Fridolin Blumer, Peter Preibisch
12.
Renewal
04:16
(Sonja Indin, Ralph Towner) Sonja Indin, Roman Tulei, Fridolin Blumer, Peter Preibisch
13.
Vers la fin de l’hiver (A Day In Paris)
04:18
(Sonja Indin, George Robert) Sonja Indin, Roman Tulei, Fridolin Blumer, Peter Preibisch
14.
Take Good Care – Heb Dier Sorg
04:13
(Sonja Indin) Sonja Indin, Roman Tulei, Fridolin Blumer, Peter Preibisch
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