Annual Kolkata Jazz Fest 2024

Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Kolkata joins hands with the Littlei Media for Annual Kolkata Jazz Fest 2024 to present MALSTROM.

The Kolkata Jazzfest, which started in 1978, has been organized in Kolkata on an annual basis since 2002 at the Dalhousie Institute making it the longest running Jazz Festival in India. Over the past years the festival has hosted musicians from over 30 different countries and continues to be the only Jazz Festival in Eastern India.

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MALSTROM – Friday, 13 December 2024, 9:00 pm

It is a musical powerhouse from Germany and Switzerland - with a magnificent beard. Malstrom uses sounds and influences from progressive rock, nu metal and electronic music. Thanks to an improvisational philosophy and complex compositions, the trio gives them a completely new guise. The band's sound is a mixture of jazz, free improvisation and rock elements from the 90s. The lack of a bass instrument means that the band members are never at rest. The full, sometimes brute sound facade is produced by the 8-string electric guitar, merciless grooves and ostinatos as well as saxophone. The Malstrom devours everything in its reach, be it light, sound or matter. It sucks everything into its vortex, drawing it deeper and deeper into the very center of the Malstrom. But what do you find at the core, at the very bottom of the swirl? The eye of the storm? A void, sheer nothingness? Is it a place of calmness that contrasts the furious edges? Does the Malstrom ever end? And most importantly: Are you ready to find out?

Florian Walter – Saxophone
Axel Zajac – Guitar
Jo Beyer – Drums