Kaiser Quartett

Nach zahlreichen nationalen und internationalen Album-Kollaborationen, mit u.a. Chilly Gonzales, Jarvis Cocker, Daniel Hope, Boy und Bosse, als auch mit der Zusammenarbeit mit Künstler:Innen wie Roosevelt, Leoniden, Die Sterne, Ry X, Anna Ternheim, Giant Rooks und Gregory Porter veröffentlicht das Hamburger Kaiser Quartett ihr 2. Album 'Empire' am 10.03.2023 via PIAS Recordings Germany.

Kaiser Quartett is a contemporary string quartet based in Hamburg / Germany. In 2011, the collaboration between the four musicians and Canadian Grammy Award winner Chilly Gonzales began. In 2015, their album "Chambers" was released and the subsequent tour led through the largest concert halls in Europe and Canada. They played further collaborations with Jarvis Cocker, Boy, Daniel Hope, Fred Wesley and Gregory Porter, as well as performances at the Edinburgh International Festival, the Montreux Jazz Festival, the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival (SHMF), the Wiener Festwochen, Rheingau Music Festival, JAZZMI Milano and Hamburg’s International Summer Festival Kampnagel - just to name a few.

Chilly Gonzales, Canadian pianist and entertainer, returns with his much anticipated follow-up to Solo Piano II: "Chambers".

It’s a delicate affair, a tender and heartfelt introspection carried on a looping drumbeat that sees Ternheim in a contemplative mood as she sings about the pain and memories that come with a lost friendship.

British violinist Daniel Hope’s new Deutsche Grammophon recording „For Seasons“, unites Vivaldi’s Four Seasons with a dozen pieces associated with the months of the year, from compositions by Rameau, Bach, Schumann and Tchaikovsky to recent works by Aphex Twin, Nils Frahm, Chilly Gonzales and Max Richter. Twelve visual artworks, specially selected to complement the music, are featured in the accompanying booklet.

Combination of all-time classical favorites in edgy interpretations and post classical pieces by leading composers, in brand new arrangements.

Combination of all-time classical favorites in edgy interpretations and post classical pieces by leading composers, in brand new arrangements
Following the successes of Richter's Vivaldi Recomposed, for the first time, Daniel has recorded the original Vivaldi Four Seasons!

Luxembourg has no longer been a tax haven for the nouveau rich or a dwarf state for quite some time. The President of the European Commission is currently from the Grand Duchy with its only 115, 000 citizens and also has one of the most vital jazz scenes in Europe. The multi-instrumentalist Pol Belardi plays a major role in this and also attracts international attention to the amazingly creative biotope that has developed there in the triangle between Germany, France and Belgium over the past 15 years. Belardi is representative of his fellow countrymen without any musical blinkers and his curious interest in all styles and influences, with which he was more or less predestined to see beyond his own horizon.