Manuel Klotz: Saxophone, Voice, Drums. Electronics
Karla Wenzel: Bass, Synthesizer, Voice, Dictaphone
Tobias Vethake: Electric Cello, Drums, Effects
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„Burst“ is he first musical collaboration of Manuel Klotz, Karla Wenzel and Tobias Vethake.
Klotz, Wenzel & Vethake ignite an extreme openness and courage in their improvisations, free from every restrictions or codes. It is about communication and reflexion, about creating a most honest and unified voice. And although it is necessary in our algorithmic times to label music with styles and genres, which in this case would maybe be Noise, Drone, Off Contemporary and Free Jazz, the work of Manuel Klotz, Karla Wenzel & Tobias Vethake can be best described.
Their creative connection leads back to 2017, when Klotz did release the debut of Slutty Clowns, a project of Wenzel and Vethake, on his label Loft Editions. Later on Vethake and Klotz collaborated on the Dialog album by Sicker Man aka. Tobias Vethake and also released two tapes as Manuel Klotz & Sicker Man.
Throughout the years all three have discovered their similar passion for music by Ornette Coleman, Caspar Brötzmann and Cecil Taylor. In 2022 the idea came up, to create something with a similar attitude, but different means and structures.
"Value judgements are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness." (John Cage)
"I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions." (Zora Neale Hurston)
"It was when i found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something." (Ornette Coleman)
Manuel Klotz lives and works in Berlin. After studying sound and photo art in Braunschweig (with Dörte Eißfeld and Ulrich Eller), the musician and artist ended up in Berlin. In addition to his photographic work, he publishes under various synonyms and in different constellations in the the experimental music scene. He has been running a small cassette label for almost 5 years and performs regulary. His sound design focus lies bewteen improvised noise / drone surfaces and free jazz collages. Saxophone, synthesizer, voice, no-input mixer, field recording and electronic effects.
Karla Wenzel is a singer and autodidactic player of lost and found instruments and toys. After being the singer of the legendary Berlin off-swing band Bohemian Crystal and working as a touring and studio musician for international artists, she started recording and releasing her own material, combining classical songwriting and hypnagogic pop with soundscapes and field recordings. She has been writing and producing music for film, art performances and live radio plays as well as being part of various bands and musical projects of her own.
Tobias Vethake’s main instrument and focal point of his artistic creation is the electric cello, which he processes and modulates to transfer his artistic visions into reality. Since 2004 he has been composing music for film, theatre, radio plays, installations and performance art and releasing numerous albums of his various musical projects on his own label blankrecords. He has been collaborating with international artists and ensembles, as well as pursuing his own sonic explorations by experimenting with alternative performance spaces and different approaches to performance practice itself.
