One Must Have Chaos Inside To Give Birth To A Dancing Star
improvisations by Das Kapital.
released as vinyl and CD may 24th 2024
Das Kapital, the return. The German-Danish-French musical UFO with troublemaking tendencies that we have been listening to for quite a while now releases a new album that contrasts with previous productions. Much darker, to put it bluntly, like our times? Whatever the case, the intimate musical connection between the members of the trio is more than ever present, to magnifying their music in this (slightly sepulchral) aesthetic which smacks of unpredictability and darkness. Underground and organic, it stretches temporality by imposing often obsessive rhythms which are probably close to the chaos and gestation of the dancing star evoked in the title of the album. To get the answer, re-read “Thus spoke Zarathustra” or let yourself be immersed in this musical sum, very poetic, rich in lyricism that does not hide its flaws. This will do you the greatest good.
Yves Dorison culturejazz.fr OUI
Powerfully titled, it carries as its banner a phrase from Nietzsche: “You have to carry chaos within you to bring a dancing star into the world.” By referring to it, Das Kapital brings into being the thousand lights of spontaneous creation, an effervescence illuminated by the good genius of the moment. What springs from this dancing star comes from a studio where the trio locked themselves up, for five days, without any preparation, with no themes in their pockets or lying around in their heads. Primitive to a certain extent, as if on the edge of a new land, not yet explored, except that he has the long-tested science of instruments, the technique of collective playing for more than twenty years. They certainly improvise, but in an sideways language that recalls free jazz as much as post-bop without reheating the dishes. The exercise is akin to a conversation where musical ideas are exchanged, never falling sideways but continually bouncing back, metamorphosing into force by the elliptical art of Daniel Erdmann, the permanent invention of Edward Perraud, and Hasse Poulsen’s moving soberness. A passage of words illuminated by Maikol Seminatore, carver of spatial sounds, of magnifying focuses. Jazz is free but moves to the rhythm of strolls carried by gentle emotion, inner experience, that of the maturity of the wise man who looks at the sky with the eyes of first love.
Guy Darol – Jazz Magazine CHOC
It's the story of a German, a Frenchman and a Dane who borrowed the name from Karl Marx' unfinished masterpiece, less to proclaim the coming liberation of the human race - even if they would no doubt be up for it — only to keep the little anarchist flame of jazz alive. For more than twenty years, Daniel Erdmann (saxophone), Edward Perraud (drums) and Hasse Poulsen (guitar) have drawn up a half-fierce, half-farcical inventory of the old Europe, here revisiting the work of the Austrian composer Hanns Eisler (Eisler Explosion), there bringing together Charles Trenet, Maurice Ravel and Patrick Hernandez (Vive la France, Label Bleu). Although it still takes its title from Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra, this new album initially seems unrelated to the continent and its ghosts. Evoking a solitude tinged with melancholy or a fragile and all the more poetic serenity, the pieces, born through improvisation, refer above all to nature (The River, Earth, Climbing the Mountains...) and the essential necessities of light and breathing. Themes that the trio is however responsible for transforming, through music, into invigorating affirmations, indications of a health through which certain philosophers make an (eternal) return.
Louis-Julien Nicolaou -TELERAMA FFF
