Imaginative compositions and covers by the Berlin-based trio of Ronny Graupe & Kit Downes with the German Jazz Award winner singer Lucia Cadotsch.

Lucia Cadotsch, Ronny Graupe and Kit Downes' trio, Szelest, whose transparent, understated music captures the atmosphere of Cadotsch's Speak Low trio, but also bears the imprint of contemporary jazz. After the highly successful collaboration between Cadotsch and Graupe (Yellow Bird) and the joint band of Cadotsch and Downes (Aki), this is the first time that all three have played together.
Lucia Cadotsch, Ronny Graupe and Kit Downes' song-centric debut album features covers and original compositions, with a transparent, understated sound shaped by the mood of Cadotsch's Speak Low trio on one side and the world of contemporary jazz on the other. The members of the trio have worked together in bands with a variety of approaches before, and this time they have again chosen a different perspective: Graupe's arrangements were made without listening to existing versions of the songs, with completely new harmonies and instrumentation, and then Cadotsch wrote mostly meditative poetic lyrics to them.
Szelest's arrangements are as much original compositions as their own songs are standards - the most compelling evidence that Cadotsch, Graupe and Downes have shaped the material to their own image to an extremely high standard.
Lucia Cadotsch, winner of the Echo Prize in 2017 and the Deutscher Jazzpreis in 2021, is best known for her trio Speak Low, with which she has performed both covers and original compositions, and which has proved to be a defining precursor not only to her career as a singer but also to the atmosphere of Szelest. Together with guitarist Ronny Graupe, they played in the band Yellow Bird, which mixed indie and country folk with avant-garde, and formed a duo during the epidemic. This project soon invited the busy pianist Kit Downes, who had been a keen follower of Graupe's projects since the Hyperactive Kid and Cadotsch's partner in the band Aki, among others.

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Track Listing

• Some Other Time
• Newfoundland Tristesse
• Once Upon a Summertime
• At A 2nd Glance
• Stardust
• Szelest
• Sublimity
• Vorbei
• I Surrender Dear

Additional Details

Label: BMC Records

Genre: Jazz

Run Time: 42:05 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 04/11/25

UPC: 5998309303241