Marie Krüttli_piano, composition
Lukas Traxel_upright bass
Gautier Garrigue_drums
NEW ALBUM: SCORIA, INTAKT RECORDS, OKTOBER 2024
On her new album Scoria (named after the lava rock), which will be released by Intakt in October, Marie Kruttli and her trio create a musical landscape that evokes vivid, cinematic images and leads the listener through different sonic worlds. Kruttli’s compositions move seamlessly between contrasting textures. Sometimes they are flowing and calm like water, sometimes dry and barren like the desert. At other times the pieces build up into huge, cathedral-like structures, only to plunge back into introspective depths shortly afterwards. Inspired by love, time and nature, Marie’s pieces mix dreamlike passages with earthy rhythms. The album Scoria embodies this duality – fiery and resilient, but also capable of absorbing life-giving water. “And in creating the feel of a live loop Krüttli’s trio is fulfilling a mission to make music that skillfully straddles many borders on the way to destinations unknown. Scoria is an album created with ist own sense of time, to be heard many times over“, writes Kevin Le Gendre in the liner notes.
Marie Kruttli is a Swiss pianist, composer, producer who lives in Berlin. She was born in a village in Switzerland, in a family of musicians and started playing the piano at the age of 6. She first learned classical music and then switched to jazz (obtaining later on a bachelor and master at HEMU Lausanne and HSLU Luzern academies). Marie received numerous prizes for her performance and composition work. The band that she has performed the most with so far is her trio (now with bassist Lukas Traxel and drummer Gautier Garrigue) but the artist is working also on a project called Dragon Life which was born from her producing work. It is a band that has two different constellations (duo and sextet) where she also uses her voice and synthesisers.
Swiss bassist Lukas Traxel played with big players like Colin Vallon, Elina Duni, Lionel Loueke,
Kurt Rosenwinkel and many more…
French drummer Gautier Garrigue played with big players like Henri Texier, Seamus Blake, Uri
Caine…He also was elected numerous times as “drummer of the year” in France.
Fotos (Palma Fiacco), Please double click to get the large version.
