Silke Eberhard belongs to a new generation of Berlin-based Jazz musicians, who are attempting to form an idiom between reflection and change.

The Berlin-based saxophonist and clarinetist, Silke Eberhard doesn't trivialize Jazz into a style that one has to justify, but despite critical cries, turns it into a hallmark.

The title 'mohnmarzipan' (poppy marzipan) can, at first, be misleading for the listener. It suggest Gemütlichkeit, snuggling and a bit of homely nostalgia. The music of the CD, however, seems to stand for just the opposite. Silke Eberhard sees her Jazz as a means of transporting contrasts. 'That's just the way life is,' is her passionate angle. 'I can't just go on making beautiful music, when the world is so full of dirt. On the other hand, it is in this dirt that you can find unending poetic, joyful moments.' On her record, Silke Eberhard tells us the exciting story of fundamental human conflicts, of holding on and letting go. She takes the transformation of the principles of controlled of compositional givens and the abrupt drifting away in collective and individual openness to extremes. At a time when the search for common middle ground has become intellectual consensus, she dares to take her narrative proclivity beyond the limits. She is too humble to call Ornette Coleman one of her main influences. Nonetheless, she internalizes in her music the harmonolodic emergence of personal idioms into a complex form of expression.
Pianist Niko Meinhold and drummer Sebastian Merk provide the urban base, while pianist Jan Roder and the band leader embody more the jazzy stability of the group. Silke Eberhard herself happily provides the band with her own contradiction between luster and dust.
Silke Eberhard belongs to a new generation of Berlin-based Jazz musicians, who are attempting to form an idiom between reflection and change. Jazz made in Europe, which allows them to measure themselves against their American counterparts, but also allows them to stand with both legs in the Old World.

Track Listing

• Die Rufnummer
• Once Empanadas
• Rundo
• No. 4
• Himno
• Vibes
• Kleiner Marsch No. 2
• Mohnmarzipan
• Guadalupe
• Monika Nord
• Mangua
• No Más

Additional Details

Label: INTUITION

Genre: Jazz

Language: English

Run Time: 63:44 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 09/26/25

UPC: 750447339323