‘Modul Eins’ (Release Date: 4th December 2024) is the first single announcing the upcoming album “Module” by free-spirited Munich-based acoustic trio Prepared, to be released on 17th of January 2025. The project features prepared piano, bass clarinet and drums in a chamber music line-up that’s captivating, hypnotic, and highly energetic.
Prepared – a free-spirited Munich-based trio instinctively awakens dance impulses and guides the listener into a trance-like sound space. A pianist who hammers, taps and plucks incessantly on the grand piano. A clarinetist who plays more bass than clarinet in the depths of his bass clarinet. And a drummer who, like a good record, goes on and on, constantly spinning the grooves in circles.
Three Munich jazz musicians, united in their contrasts. Where one plays Argentinian tango with Quadro Nuevo, the other plays “folklore-free folk music” with Dreiviertelblut and the third plays German hip-hop with Moop Mama, in their new project Prepared they merge cyclical motifs and cleverly layered patterns in minimalist yet highly virtuoso compositions creating a mesmerizing Gesamtkunstwerk.
It’s as if Steve Reich, Jonny Greenwood, Nik Bärtsch, and Dawn of Midi had been thrown into a pot.
Chris Gall • prepared piano
Flo Riedl • bass clarinet
Christoph Holzhauser • drums
