BIG BREEEZY & the TOXIC TWINZ

Fabian Dudek – electr/midisax Alexander Parzhuber – electr BIG BREEEZY – sample

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KROM is defined by a sense of personal and musical trust that has grown over the years, as the seven musicians from four countries play both as bandleaders and as sidemen in their projects. This fluid dynamic is no accident; rather, it is about inspiring and challenging one another. The members of KROM are Fabian Dudek (saxophone), Victor Fox (saxophone), Felix Hauptmann (piano), Kirke Karja (piano), Roger Kintopf (bass), Julia Sanjurjo (vocals), and Tizia Zimmermann (accordion). Victor Fox plays the tenor saxophone. He adopted his alias, Big Breezy, while practicing circular breathing nonstop. That became Big Breathing, and later Big Breezy. With this name, he can take on any role that suits him at the moment. With the Toxic Twinz—aka Fabian Dudek (alto saxophone) and Alex Parzhuber (electronics)—he now presents purely digital-electronic music. The three of them don’t know any boundaries. They’re all about trying things out and experimenting; the music can be loud, fast, beautiful, shrill, or quiet—sometimes it can even be all of those things at once.

This set is part of a triple concert: 7:00 p.m. Chaerin Im & Fabian Dudek; approx. 8:00 p.m. Julia Sanjurjo; approx. 9:00 p.m. Big Breeezy & the TOXIC TWINZ.

Separate tickets are available for this triple concert, which are valid only for this event. The Thursday day pass is also valid here, regardless of this.

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Venue:

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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