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DREAM The New Jazz Album by Line Kruse

LINE KRUSE

Danish violinist and composer, Line Kruse lives in Paris, France, but she’s got the whole world for her playground. Singled out for outstanding performances world-wide with the ground-breaking electronica Tango group Gotan Project, Line has also forged an exceptional path all her own.

DREAM is Line Kruse’s second album. of original works. The music, performed with heart, vitality and virtuosity, focuses more on content than on genre. Evolving within a modern jazz setting, and with just the right dose of electronica, DREAM is a refreshing new sound in jazz, bursting with creative energy.

All Photos: Stephen Freiheit

 

Many things draw our attention to Line, but none so remarkable as to see her perform live on stage, that is when one realizes the shocking magnitude of her musical talent."

Patrick Dréhan, Director Festival de la Côte d'Opale, France

Watch the New Film presentation of Dream by Line Kruse


This film, directed by Philippe Rouget was produced by Nectar Prose in conjunction with Taklit, and with the generous support of Stunt Records and Kundstfonden.

Watch the film in Danish here  

If you have difficulties seeing this film visit Line Kruse Official Myspace

Listen to excerpts from the album DREAM:

Penguin Parade / Dream / My House / Line’s Lines / Versailles / Milonga Surprise / Warm Waves (Dance of the Cephalopods) / Mozart’s Moment / Piensa en Mi.

After graduating from the Royal Danish Conservatory in Copenhagen, Line Kruse head out for the City of Lights. With a taste for the unusual and a childhood penchant for Jazz, she quickly integrated the Paris Latino community.

That’s when Line hooked up with top avant-gard Cuban and Argentinean musicians with whom she developed her distinct sound and continues working today. Those experiences opened doors to the vast, multi-cultural Parisian scene.

Line inevitably caught the eye of today’s million-selling Gotan Project. She’s been sharing the international lime-light with this recording phenomenon for the past eight years. Gotan’s mix of Tango and electronic beats first became a huge hit attracting the attention of the most in vogue DJs at the time and later, through the group’s stupefying performances around the world. By the way, Line’s stunning arrangement of Piensa en mi on the album Dream, features the voice of Gotan’s Veronika Silva, in duo with Cuban singer Joel Hierrezuelo.

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DOCUMENTS FOR THE PRESS, RADIOs & CONCERT PROGRAMMERS

Journalists and concert programmers will find presskits, photos for Line Kruse in the space below.
Right click on any document to download it.

To receive a complimentary copy of the album Dream please write to nicolas@taklit.net and indicate your
name, mailing address and your company name.

Download the press releases:  
•  GB | FR | DK

2010 CONCERT PERFORMANCES
  • 4/18 Dexter Club Odense Danemark
  • 4/19 Holbaek Jazz Club Danemark
  • 4/20 JazzHouse Copenhagen
  • 4/10 Le Chat Noir Geneva w/M. Garay
  • 4/12 Festival Jazz Cully Chat Noir-Geneva
  • 3/19 Lavoir Théatre Epinal, France
  • 5/23 FNAC FORUM MONTPARNASSE, Paris
  • 5/21-22 SATELLITE Villerest-Roanne
  • 5/25 TROIS BAUDETS, Paris
  • 6/6 L’Ermitage w/ Tierra del Fuego, Paris
  • 6/17 FESTIVAL DE SAINT DENIS
  • 6/19 SABOR A SON, Paris
  • 6/27 JAZZ A MAISON LAFITTE w/Minino Garay
  • 7/9 FESTIVAL COTE D'OPALE w/Minino Garay

Download press reviews:
• JazzMag   GB | FR | DK
• JazzNYT   GB | DK | FR
• Politiken   GB | DK | FR
• JV             GB | DK | FR

Download press photos:


 
 

Booking Management: Nectar Prose 
Production : Stunt Records    Distribution: Integral

 
 

DREAM features more than a handful of talented international artists:

Line Kruse - violin - strings, keyboards / Nicola Andrioli, Edsel Gomez - piano / Ira Coleman, Fabrizio Fenoglietto, Felipe Cabrera - bass / Françis Arnaud, Laurent Robin, - Minino Garay, drums / Dj Smadj - programming / Veronika Silva, Joel Hierrezuelo - vocals / Paolo Russo, bandoneon / Aude Brasseur - cello 

WARM WAVES by Line Kruse (Taklit)

Line Kruse poster

Despite her frosty northern origins, Line Kruse has got a penchant for the sun... and you feel that in her first album Warm Waves. Refreshing instrumental jazz,  woven together with Afro-Cuban rhythm, modern Latin sound and memorable melodies.

(Photos: J. Rees)



Gilad Hekselman Quartet, Guitarist & Composer

Visit Gilad's website

Listen to excerpts from HEARTS WIDE OPEN
a new album from Gilad Hekselman (release February 2011)

 Gilad HEKSELMAN - Guitar, Mark TURNER - Tenor Sax,
Joe MARTIN – Bass, Marcus GILMORE – Drums

"The feeling in a small club quickly grows intense when GILAD HEKSELMAN, an Israeli jazz guitarist in his mid-20s, steps up to improvise. Since arriving in New York five years ago, Mr. Hekselman has set himself roughly up in the line of Pat Metheny and Kurt Rosenwinkel, with a warm and clean guitar tone, clear articulation, crazily extended improvisational ideas, speed when he needs it, an advanced understanding of harmony, and the flexibility to go wherever his bands want..."

Ben Ratliff, NEW YORK TIMES 12/2009

 


 

“Gilad is a great guitarist with a new voice in the world of jazz music, not just jazz guitar. He has fluidity, intensity, and a lyrical quality as an improviser and composer. He plays from the heart, and that is so important.” Lionel Loueke 2010

 

Tours & Concerts

Paris - 20 July 2010
Duke des Lombards
Jazz Masters

New York - 9 June 2010
Jazz Standard à 19:30
avec
Gilad HEKSELMAN (g)
Mark TURNER (sax)
Matt PENMAN (b)
Marcus GILMORE (dr)

Germany  27-29 May
* 5/27 Jazzclub-Karlsruhe
* 5/28 BIX-Stuttgart
* 5/29 Palatia Jazz Festival

Greece April 19 - 27, 2010

Jazz à Montreux - Gilad Hekselman

 

DOCUMENTS FOR FESTIVAL, CONCERT PROGRAMMERS & JOURNALISTS

Press kit English
Press excerpts English
Technical Rider

Photos / CD covers

Listen to excerpts from the album Splitlife

Recorded live at Fat Cat à New York with Gilad Hekselman (guitar), Joe Martin (double bass), Ari Hoenig (drums)
Purim  |  Hello Who Is It ?  |  My Ideal (Robin/Whiting)  | I Fall in Love Too Easily (Styne/Cahn) |  Suite For Sweets  | When Will the Blues Leave (Coleman)  | The Summer of Laughs and Tears  | Breathless | I Should Care (Cahn)  |  My Second Childhood (Caspi)

 Listen to excerpts from the album Words Unspoken

Ga'agua | New York Angels | April In Paris | Words Unspoken | Countdown | Someone to Watch Over Me | Yo Mama's Blues | Time After Time | How Long Has This Been Going On | Will The Song Ever End?

 



Kicca & Intrigo, Boogaloo & Pop Rock

Intrigo

Kicca and Oscar's natural curiousity and insatiable drive to produce led to the formation of the trio Intrigo in 2003 with Italian drummer Paolo Mappa. Bursting with jazz passion, boogaloo and the energy of 60's soul, their first self-producted album Bollente released in 2004, was followed by performances throughout Italy, France and Belgium.

Kicca Andriollo (vocals and compositions), and Oscar Marchioni (Hammond organ) have since made their home in Paris and where the influence of so many cultures has brought them new opportunities to explore other musical traditions and new languages. That is why Intrigo is today made up of a variety of top names in the business from guitarists like Hervé Sambe and percussionists and drummers like the flamboyant Edmundo Carniero to great jazz artists like Blue Lou Marini, Francesco Bearzatti, Salah Khaili and many others.

In June 2009 Intrigo  released its second album under the label ADN Music distributed by Universal Music France. This album captures the originality, spontaneity and exhuberance of Intrigo, with its gorgeous melodic curves, devilish groove...

Download the albums from Itunes


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