Trickster Orchestra

Jazzfest Berlin 2021: Scenes of Now

The Berlin ensemble led by Iranian-German singer and composer Cymin Samawatie and Indian drummer Ketan Bhatti have engaged with shifting strains of mimicry, gamely exploiting its international make-up to blur and challenge colonialist assumptions of culture. For this year’s Jazzfest Berlin, the ensemble premieres a new audio-visual work.

Jazzfest Berlin 2021: Scenes of Now

After a digital New York-Berlin edition in the first year of the pandemic, Jazzfest Berlin 2021 traces the paths of improvised music to three more cultural hubs: Cairo, São Paulo and Johannesburg. Together with local partners, the festival team has developed a diverse programme of partly pre-produced, partly live concert formats that showcase the musicality, innovative power and affinity with interdisciplinary experimentation of the respective creative music scenes as well as the specific places they occupy in between a global jazz canon and their own region’s rich musical heritage.

Friday, November 5
Kuppelhalle
Start: 8 pm
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