LOFT
Lisa Kühnemann: Schiefsinn | Album Release-Konzert
Lisa Kühnemann - Gesang Philipp Brämswig - Gitarre Jakob Kühnemann - Bass Tim Dudek - Schlagzeug
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Poetische Bilder, dunkle Vorahnungen und berührende Gedichte: Mit ihrem Album Schiefsinn präsentiert die Kölner Sängerin und Komponistin Lisa Kühnemann eine Sammlung persönlicher Songs zwischen Jazz und Pop, die gleichermaßen nach innen wie nach außen blicken. Kühnemanns Stimme bewegt sich irgendwo zwischen der Leichtigkeit von Minnie Riperton und der erzählerischen Intimität von Joni Mitchell. Sie singt mit Klarheit und Präsenz und besticht durch eine mühelose Höhe, deren Zartheit gleichzeitig kraftvoll wirkt. Während sie die Geschmeidigkeit ihrer Stimme auskostet, bleibt der Ausdruck stets direkt und authentisch. Gemeinsam mit Musikern aus dem Kölner Musikbiotop entsteht so ein lebendiger Bandsound, der zwischen Intimität und Energie pendelt und mit Verschrobenheit dem leichten Hang zum Schiefsinn treu bleibt.
Mit dem wuchtigen und zugleich beweglichen Klang der Band – bestehend aus Jakob Kühnemann, Philipp Brämswig, Tim Dudek und dem zwischen Portugal und Köln pendelnden Simon Seidl – entfaltet sich eine Platte, die verspielt mit Effekten jongliert und zugleich durch ihre Ehrlichkeit, Eleganz und emotionale Offenheit überzeugt. Zwischen improvisatorischen Momenten, poetischen Texten und klaren Songstrukturen entsteht eine Musik, die sich nicht eindeutig einordnen lässt und gerade darin ihren Reiz entfaltet.
Lisa Kühnemann studierte Jazz- und Popgesang an der Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln. Ihre musikalische Laufbahn führte sie durch verschiedene Ensembleprojekte und internationale Begegnungen mit Rhiannon, Theo Bleckmann und Martin Fondse, die ihren offenen musikalischen Ansatz bis heute prägen.
Lisa Kühnemann - vocals Philipp Brämswig - guitar Jakob Kühnemann - bass Tim Dudek - drums.
Poetic imagery, dark forebodings, and moving poems: With her album Schiefsinn, Cologne-based singer and composer Lisa Kühnemann presents a collection of personal songs that blend jazz and pop, looking both inward and outward. Kühnemann’s voice lies somewhere between the lightness of Minnie Riperton and the narrative intimacy of Joni Mitchell. She sings with clarity and presence, captivating listeners with effortless high notes whose delicacy is simultaneously powerful. While she savors the suppleness of her voice, her expression remains consistently direct and authentic. Together with musicians from the Cologne music scene, she creates a vibrant band sound that oscillates between intimacy and energy, remaining true to a slight penchant for eccentricity with a touch of quirkiness.
With the band’s powerful yet agile sound—comprising Jakob Kühnemann, Philipp Brämswig, Tim Dudek, and Simon Seidl, who divides his time between Portugal and Cologne—an album unfolds that playfully juggles effects while simultaneously winning listeners over with its honesty, elegance, and emotional openness. Amid improvisational moments, poetic lyrics, and clear song structures, a sound emerges that defies easy categorization—and it is precisely this quality that makes it so compelling.
Lisa Kühnemann studied jazz and pop vocals at the Cologne University of Music and Dance. Her musical career has taken her through various ensemble projects and international collaborations with Rhiannon, Theo Bleckmann, and Martin Fondse, which continue to shape her open-minded musical approach to this day.
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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Ein gemeinsamer Klang: Yaniel Matos & Radek Stawarz
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Georg Graewe@70 - fifty years on record / day 01
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Georg Graewe@70 – fifty years on record / day 02
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Bode · Zitt · Landfermann · Berger
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LAUGHING AT MAN KIND | live recording
Lisa Tracy Michalik - Sprache, Text, Nancy Meier - Altflöte, Bassflöte, Maxine Troglauer - Bassposaune, John Eckhardt - Bass, Liam Byrne - Viola da gamba, Tilo Weber - Schlagzeug, Komposition
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RENNER – Never Ending Story | live recording
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Bishop/Müller/Muche/Block – Celebrate the Trombone! | live recording
Jeb Bishop - Posaune, Matthias Müller - Posaune, Matthias Muche - Posaune, Olivia Block - Elektronik, Tasten, Stimme
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Rupert Gillett Trio | Album-Release & live recording
Rupert Gillett - E-Cello & Gesang, Valerie Rathmann - Bass & Gesang, Tim Schmiedner - Schlagzeug & Percussion