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Alec Goldfarb, Robert Landfermann, Florian Herzog, Jonas Burgwinkel, LOFT
Photo: A. Goldfarb © Juliet Cangelosi ; R. Landfermann & F. Herzog © Gerhard Richter ; J. Burgwinkel © Ingo Baron

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Alec Goldfarb Quartet

Alec Goldfarb - Gitarre Robert Landfermann - Bass Florian Herzog - Bass Jonas Burgwinkel - Schlagzeug

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Der in Brooklyn lebende Gitarrist und Komponist Alec Goldfarb wird gemeinsam mit einer Kölner All-Star-Besetzung eine neue Suite eigener Stücke präsentieren.

Alec Goldfarb ist ein in Brooklyn ansässiger Gitarrist, Komponist und Musiker der klassischen  hindustanischen Musik, der dafür bekannt ist, Jazz, Neue Musik und klassische indische Traditionen miteinander zu verbinden. Als preisgekrönter Komponist des DownBeat Magazine wird seine Musik als „voller genialer Gegenüberstellungen“ (The Wire) beschrieben; sie entschlüsselt verborgene Berührungspunkte zwischen unterschiedlichen Klangkulturen und offenbart die komplexen Verflechtungen von Traditionen im Laufe der Zeit. Als Vertreter der Senia-Maihar-Gharana spielt er weltweit klassische hindustanische Musik und bedient sich dabei einer einzigartigen Gitarrentechnik, die vom Sarod und der Sitar inspiriert ist. Alec hat Werke namhafter Komponisten uraufgeführt und ist an bedeutenden Veranstaltungsorten aufgetreten, darunter Roulette Intermedium, NESCO Center, Skanu Mezs, India Habitat Centre, The Jazz Gallery, Bangalore International Center und die Asia Society NYC. Er trat gemeinsam mit Anthony Braxton und dem Creative Music Orchestra in Darmstadt, dem JACK Quartet, John Wetton (King Crimson), Steve Lehman, Patrick Bartley Jr., Immanuel Wilkins und Eric Wubbels auf. Zu seinen jüngsten Projekten zählen sein gefeiertes Album Fire Lapping at the Creek, die alternativ-historische Barocksuite The Tree of Heaven, Werke für Gamelan und gemischte Ensembles sowie Tourneen durch Asien, Nordafrika, Europa und die USA.

https://www.alecgoldfarb.com/

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Alec Goldfarb - guitar Robert Landfermann - contrabass Florian Herzog - contrabass Jonas Burgwinkel - drums

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Brooklyn based guitarist and composer Alec Goldfarb brings a new suite of pieces to the LOFT, alongside a Köln-based all-star group.

Alec Goldfarb is a Brooklyn-based guitarist, composer, and Hindustani classical musician known for blending jazz, new music, and Indian classical traditions. A DownBeat Magazine award-winning composer, his music is described as "full of ingenious juxtapositions" (The Wire), and unravels hidden meeting points between disparate sound cultures, revealing the intricate movement of traditions across time. An exponent of the Senia-Maihar Gharana, he performs Hindustani classical music globally using a unique guitar technique inspired by the sarod and sitar. Alec has premiered works by prominent composers and performed at major venues including Roulette Intermedium, NESCO Center, Skanu Mezs, India Habitat Centre, The Jazz Gallery, Bangalore International Center, and the Asia Society NYC. He has performed with Anthony Braxton and the Creative Music Orchestra at Darmstadt, JACK Quartet, John Wetton (King Crimson), Steve Lehman, Patrick Bartley Jr., Immanuel Wilkins, and Eric Wubbels. Recent projects include his acclaimed album Fire Lapping at the Creek, alt-historical baroque suite The Tree of Heaven, works for Gamelan and mixed ensemble, and tours across Asia, North Africa, Europe, and the U.S.

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LOFT

The LOFT in Cologne's Ehrenfeld district is exactly what its name suggests: a spacious loft on the top floor of a former perfume factory. Since 1989 it has been home to the city's musical avant-garde as well as a scene hub and a jazz laboratory for students.

Over those decades it has grown into a respected stage for improvised music, contemporary music, and jazz, with a reputation reaching well beyond Germany. Most of the Cologne jazz musicians who have made their mark nationally and internationally in the past thirty years took their first career steps here, among them Nils Wogram, Hayden Chisholm, Angelika Niescier, Frank Gratkowski, Robert Landfermann, Pablo Held, and Sebastian Sternal.

The Cologne Triennale, WDR, and Deutschlandfunk stage concerts and recordings at the LOFT, and the venue has been invited to the Moers Festival five times. Its own label, 2ndFloor, releases selected recordings, and more than 1,000 live and studio productions made in the LOFT studio have appeared on other labels. Supported by the association 2ndFloor e. V. and the collective jungesloft, it presents over 200 events a year.

Top-tier instruments – including a Steinway D grand, one of the finest concert pianos in any German jazz club – a professional recording studio with award-winning engineers, and the room's distinctive atmosphere have drawn many prominent guests, from Lee Konitz, Steve Lacy, and Peter Brötzmann to Kurt Rosenwinkel, Marilyn Crispell, and Jim Black. Still, the programming focus remains on supporting Cologne's own musicians.

Since 2009 the LOFT has received the NRW venue programming award every year, an honor that specifically recognizes work with emerging regional artists. In 2016 the British Guardian named it one of the ten best jazz clubs in Europe, and at the German Jazz Prize it was voted "Club/Venue of the Year" in 2021 and again in 2023 — a category decided not by the expert jury but directly by the more than 1,300 members of the German Jazz Union.

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