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How Long Is Now

by Christian Marien Quartett

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The Lobster 04:30
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The Landing 09:15
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Deésse 05:47

about

„ ‘How long is now’ ...It’s a question and a statement in one. Like great improvising should be.
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By bringing together this astounding group of players, with their deeply playful characters and love of the sonorities and ecstasies of playing free – a very special music has been made.
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Playing with the elements of jazz in such a clear way, yet breaking them and having so much fun with them, catching the complexity and making it seem so natural; It’s like falling out of a plane and trying to dance at the same time.”

Clayton Thomas, Sydney, August 2023


Press quotes:

„This is a quartet that doesn’t just play together; they breathe together.”
Lynn René Bayley, The Art Music Lounge, 29.1.2024

„Musik, die einen so an das Jetzt fesselt, dass es einen alles andere und sogar die Zeit vergessen lässt. Ausgetüftelt und aufgekratzt und so kurios groovy wie Chaplins Brötchentanz...”
Rigobert Dittmann, Bad Alchemy 123, 2024

„It’s remarkable how these four manage to sound like one. It all sounds natural and easy, although they sometimes play highly complex music. ... Fifty minutes of excellent music, improvised music of the highest order. Get this one: there’s much to enjoy on this release.”
Mark Daelmans-Sikkel, Vital Weekly, Number 1429, Week 12, 2024

„Zo switcht het Christian Marien Quartett tussen abstractie en herkenbaarheid en dat maakt dit debuutalbum tot een fascinerend, avontuurlijk geheel.”
Herman te Loo, Jazzflits Nummer 415, 11 Maart 2024

„Das Christian Marien Quartett spielt mit Kompass, aber ohne Diktat.”
Robert Mießner, TAZ, 27. März 2024

credits

released April 7, 2024

Tobias Delius - tenor saxophone, clarinet
Jasper Stadhouders - guitar, mandolin
Antonio Borghini - double bass
Christian Marien - drums

MarMade Records 2024

MMR 002

LC 100432

GEMA

All compositions by Christian Marien

except 4 by Delius/Stadhouders/Borghini/Marien

Recorded by Tito Knapp on 25/26th April 2023 at Studio Zentri Fuge Berlin

Mixed and mastered at Control Room Berlin by Martin Ruch

Artwork & Graphic Design by Danny Gretscher

Photo: Oliver Potratz

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Christian Marien Berlin, Germany

„He is a jack-of-all-trades in many rhythmic alleys of the jazz district and its advanced, improvisation-savvy neighborhood. With a remarkable creative reservoir that also marks him out as one of the busiest players in Berlin’s improv scene, and with an equally remarkable international reach, he is batting his way through musical ground plans.“

Hannes Schweiger, freiStil No 104, Nov/Dec 2022
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