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muzycy:
Matthias Meyer - Drums
Jakob Reisener - Piano
Efim Braylovskiy - Saxophone
Finn Vidal - Tenor Saxophone
Morten Larsen - Double bass

Editor's Info
Niemandsland (trans: “No man's land") is not just the title of this album. Matthias Meyer also named his band as such: Matthias Meyer's Niemandsland. The term clearly has a deeper meaning for the drummer, composer, and bandleader from Berlin. It has become a key word for his musical self-discovery.
This goes back to the early corona period with its restrictions, which also and to a particularly large extent affected many creative artists. Shortly before the pandemic, Matthias Meyer had moved from Hanover to Berlin to complete the next stages of his development in the vicinity of the renowned Jazz Institute Berlin. Within a few months, he found himself in a kind of no man's land, a seemingly unreal stage of forced standstill and isolation, somewhere between emptiness and hope. It was an experience with a cathartic effect. He laid the foundation for his further creative path in that phase, in esthetic terms as well as with a view to the self-confidence to pursue his emerging musical vision.
"Niemandsland" is Matthias Meyer's first own album. The international quintet (Larsen is Danish and Braylovskiy Russian) is his first own group. This seems amazing given the maturity of the compositions and arrangements, the density of the interplay as well as the collective spirit and individual class. One reason is certainly the freshly won, purposefully implemented artistic self-image of the bandleader. The close connection between the band members is just as important. The five found each other in the Jazz Institute, played in different constellations and finally worked out Meyer's pieces together until they were recorded.
The drummer made the decision early and very consciously for the instrumentation with two saxophones. Like so much of his work, this also has very personal reasons from his background. Meyer's first instrument was the saxophone, and he still owns a tenor saxophone. "Even after I had been a drummer for a long tim.......
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