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Photo – Dovile Sermokas
Music of the 21st century, firmly rooted in musical history, but with new glimpses into its future.
No, this is not music you let play in the background at dinner with the family. Nor is it intended to be.
Claus Volke, hören und fühlen
It’s a very wide field that you encompass, from very clear song-structures to total freedom, openness, in which nobody knows from the beginning where it will lead, but in the end you come together
Ulf Drechsel, rbbKultur
Trailer – Plastic from how it will be after (2022)
USINE
USINE brings together 4 berlin based soloists into a disruptive, dark and energetic body. Improvisations are collaboratively reworked into pieces which form the basis of song structures and worlds from which they spring forth. USINE commissions new texts from writers worldwide and presents original anti-conservative rants with punk energy, with a freedom and relentlessness at the forefront of their sound. They released their second album how it will be after on KLAENG Records in December 2022.
This is avant-garde music with a wide expressive range. Highly energetic, eruptive outbursts, wide expanses, quiet moments – everything is represented.
Robert Tendl – Kleine Zeitung
visceral and cutting
Henning Bolte – Jazz Halo
Media
Concerts
18.08.2022. – Jazzfestival Saalfelden
12.12.2022. – Open Music, Graz
13.12.2022. – Jazz+ – Seidlvilla, Munich
14.12.2022. – LOFT, Cologne
Online / Live Videos
rbbKultur / Jazz thing Live Radio Broadcast at A Trane, Berlin
Music video by berta.berlin
Reviews
Deutschlandfunk Kultur radio feature (DE)
hören und fühlen (DE)
BBC Radio 3 radio-feature (EN)
TDE Promotions (EN)
Like Hi-Fi (DE)
LongPlay (PL)
Press
“James Banner’s USINE is 45 minutes of unobvious and unpredictable music, created thanks to artists connected by an invisible but at the same time noticeable thread of unbounded agreement”
Robert Ratajczak [LongPlay]
“Musically it’s a very wide field that you encompass… from very clear song-structures to total freedom, openness, in which nobody knows from the beginning where it will lead, but in the end you come together…”
Ulf Drechsel, rbbKultur
“If you can throw past preferences overboard, USINE rewards you with a unique sound experience”
LikeHiFi Magazine
“driving music… great interplay”
BBC Radio 3
“intense and dramatic…gentle and beautiful… an album characteristic of today’s contemporary jazz with the mixture of structure and freedom, full of drama and strong soloing…” –
Tony Dudley-Evans, Jazzlines/Cheltenham Jazz Festival, Europe Jazz Network/Jazz Promotion Network
James Banner 