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4 250317 419613 LABEL: ARTICLE No.: MEDIUM: ARTIST: TITLE: jazzwerkstatt JAZZ Förderverein werkstatt Berlin-Brandenburg e.V. • Altvaterstr. 3 • 14129 Berlin Germany • fon: +49 (0)30 - 814 59 22 - 10 • fax: +49 (0)30 - 81 459 22 33 mail: [email protected] • www.records-cd.com • www.jazzwerkstatt.eu jazz The sounds rise up from silence, from a far away place, from a different time, until they land in the present where they begin to glow. Watching Julie Sassoon play, one has the impression that the piano will consume her completely. From hidden depths she unearths the sounds, one by one, she threads them into chains, bundles them up into sound clusters, and lets them slide gently back into silence. Often Julie Sassoon accompanies the lead notes of the piano with her voice, following them in a semitone interval. A faint shadow cast by the prevailing moment. A descending veil. Julie Sassoon listens to the probing questions of these dark intervals; she hears them begin to wail and strive for resolution. "Land Of Shadows" addresses her own experience. Repetitions lead her down into the realms of the unconscious and subconscious. Deeper and deeper, she meditates the world of sounds, layer by layer. She gives the sounds free rein. When roaming the colourful nuances of impressionism, indulging in minimalistic patterns and creating piano music that feels as natural as singing, she has a single goal: to tell a story, her own story. It was during a "jazzwerkstatt" concert in Berlin, Julie Sassoon says, that she spoke about her Jewish roots in public for the very first time. It was unplanned. She rose from the piano and began speaking and as she did it became clear to her that this is what her music is all about. Julie Sassoon was classically trained but gradually moved into freer realms, experimenting with jazz and improvisational music. Born and raised in Manchester, she studied classical music and art at the University of Lancaster and did post-graduate studies in jazz piano and Indian violin at Leeds College of Music. She had success in England with the trio "Azilut!" and several other bands, with an ensemble of six pianists performing works by contemporary composers, and also with solo recitals. In 2009, Julie Sassoon moved from London to Berlin – for her this was not an ordinary decision, it was a challenge. Each and every Jew in Berlin has a different story to tell. By striking the keys of the piano, she tells a part of her story and that of her ancestors. The Wertheimers, natives of the small village of Kippenheim in the Black Forest, fled to England in 1939, after Julie's grandfather was released from Dachau, where he had been deported in the wake of the November pogroms. Her grandmother's parents died in Auschwitz. When Julie was growing up, the burden of this past was still so overwhelming that the family was unable to talk about it. Germany was taboo. And still, when she was eighteen, Julie Sassoon traveled to Kippenheim, only to find coldness and a synagogue that was used as a storeroom. A few years later, Julie Sassoon visited Berlin for the first time, and fell in love with the city. She married a German and gave birth to a daughter. This background sheds light on what it might mean for Julie Sassoon to speak about her family history at a concert in Berlin. Her concert at the "Neue Synagoge" in Berlin was like delving into a continuum, re-enduring the past and cleansing it at the same time. That night, Julie Sassoon confides, she was playing with her grandmother in mind. Jewish life in Berlin can be an affirmation of religious and cultural identity without being rooted in faith. Moods and sensitivities are more complex than a color scale reflects. Yet there are still emotions that are easier to leave unexpressed. And there is a silence, too, that is best broken up by sounds. Sounds of reflection, sounds of lament and sounds of hope. When she walks through the city, echoes, shadows, doubts and questions are Julie Sassoon's companions. At the same time, while breathing deeply, she begins to free herself from them. When she wrote "New Life" she was pregnant with her daughter. Bert Noglik / Translation: Thomas Brückner/Miriamne Fields jazzwerkstatt jw 127 CD + DVD (NTSC) Julie Sassoon Land of Shadows CD: JUST SO WHAT THE CHURCH BELLS SAW... (PART 2) FORTY-FOUR LAND OF SHADOWS SHIFTING NEW LIFE Bonus DVD: WHAT THE CHURCH BELLS SAW... JULIE SASSOON (piano)
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LABEL: ARTICLE No.: MEDIUM:
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Förderverein werkstatt Berlin-Brandenburg e.V. • Altvaterstr. 3 • 14129 Berlin Germany • fon: +49 (0)30 - 814 59 22 - 10 • fax: +49 (0)30 - 81 459 22 33mail: [email protected] • www.records-cd.com • www.jazzwerkstatt.eu
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The sounds rise up from silence, from a far away place, from a different time, until they land in the present where they begin to glow. Watching Julie Sassoon play, one has the impression that the piano will consume her completely. From hidden depths she unearths the sounds, one by one, she threads them into chains, bundles them up into sound clusters, and lets them slide gently back into silence.Often Julie Sassoon accompanies the lead notes of the piano with her voice, following them in a semitone interval. A faint shadow cast by the prevailing moment. A descending veil. Julie Sassoon listens to the probing questions of these dark intervals; she hears them begin to wail and strive for resolution. "Land Of Shadows" addresses her own experience. Repetitions lead her down into the realms of the unconscious and subconscious. Deeper and deeper, she meditates the world of sounds, layer by layer. She gives the sounds free rein. When roaming the colourful nuances of impressionism, indulging in minimalistic patterns and creating piano music that feels as natural as singing, she has a single goal: to tell a story, her own story.It was during a "jazzwerkstatt" concert in Berlin, Julie Sassoon says, that she spoke about her Jewish roots in public for the very first time. It was unplanned. She rose from the piano and began speaking and as she did it became clear to her that this is what her music is all about. Julie Sassoon was classically trained but gradually moved into freer realms, experimenting with jazz and improvisational music. Born and raised in Manchester, she studied classical music and art at the University of Lancaster and did post-graduate studies in jazz piano and Indian violin at Leeds College of Music. She had success in England with the trio "Azilut!" and several other bands, with an ensemble of six pianists performing works by contemporary composers, and also with solo recitals. In 2009, Julie Sassoon moved from London to Berlin – for her this was not an ordinary decision, it was a challenge. Each and every Jew in Berlin has a different story to tell. By striking the keys of the piano, she tells a part of her story and that of her ancestors. The Wertheimers, natives of the small village of Kippenheim in the Black Forest, fled to England in 1939, after Julie's grandfather was released from Dachau, where he had been deported in the wake of the November pogroms. Her grandmother's parents died in Auschwitz. When Julie was growing up, the burden of this past was still so overwhelming that the family was unable to talk about it. Germany was taboo. And still, when she was eighteen, Julie Sassoon traveled to Kippenheim, only to find coldness and a synagogue that was used as a storeroom. A few years later, Julie Sassoon visited Berlin for the first time, and fell in love with the city. She married a German and gave birth to a daughter.This background sheds light on what it might mean for Julie Sassoon to speak about her family history at a concert in Berlin. Her concert at the "Neue Synagoge" in Berlin was like delving into a continuum, re-enduring the past and cleansing it at the same time. That night, Julie Sassoon confides, she was playing with her grandmother in mind. Jewish life in Berlin can be an affirmation of religious and cultural identity without being rooted in faith. Moods and sensitivities are more complex than a color scale reflects. Yet there are still emotions that are easier to leave unexpressed. And there is a silence, too, that is best broken up by sounds. Sounds of reflection, sounds of lament and sounds of hope. When she walks through the city, echoes, shadows, doubts and questions are Julie Sassoon's companions. At the same time, while breathing deeply, she begins to free herself from them. When she wrote "New Life" she was pregnant with her daughter.
Bert Noglik / Translation: Thomas Brückner/Miriamne Fields
jazzwerkstattjw 127CD + DVD (NTSC)
Julie SassoonLand of Shadows
CD:JUST SO WHAT THE CHURCH BELLS SAW... (PART 2) FORTY-FOUR LAND OF SHADOWS SHIFTING NEW LIFE
Bonus DVD:WHAT THE CHURCH BELLS SAW...
JULIE SASSOON (piano)
