Concert
A jazz concert with German musician Kira Linn and her band Linntet

“Illusion” - Kira Linn’s Linntet Southeast Asia Tour 2023

Wed, 17.05.2023
7:30 PM DCINE Cinemas (Ho Chi Minh City)

From 14.05 until 26.05 Kira Linn – a German baritone saxophonist – and her band Linntett will have a tour around 4 Southeast Asian countries including Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia. In Ho Chi Minh City, there will be a unique concert at Ben Thanh Teahouse on 17.05.2023 at 19:30, introducing to jazz lovers, in particular, and music lovers, in general, the musical personality of the young female artist, who has now released 3 albums. In her first Asian tour, Kira Linn will perform saxophone baritone with Nino Wenger (saxophone alto, flute), Freek Mulder (electric bass), Johannes Koch (drums).

Illusion, a new album released in early April, reflects Linn's emotional states and reflections emerging from solitude, silence, uncertainty in the midst of a pandemic. It was a period when she learned to slow down, querying core concepts (anger, despair, diversity, and freedom) while experimenting with new things not only in her thinking but also in her songwriting. The cover of the Illusion disc has a glimpse of sadness in blue, but still does not lose hope in the green light that surrounds Kira Linn gracefully in the center. Kira Linn was among the artists selected for Whirlwind Recordings' one-year program supporting emerging female talent called Step Forward, Reach Back.

The album also marked Linn's first vocal contribution to jazz compositions in neo-soul and electronic colors (such as the 8-bit electronic synth sound in two inversely parallel compositions Numb_ers and Dumb_ness), indie and pop. The song Rage expresses the anger of freedom being taken away, through solos that seem to rush out of this very mystery; We also encounter the emotional twists in Women to Sky, arguably the most important work ever written, as if to capture the unpredictable, claustrophobic feeling of injustice suffered by women. The single That Thing in Illusion is like a quest for something that is suddenly lost: the enthusiasm, the sparkle in the bottom of the eyes, the suddenness of creativity.
The famous jazz artist Jorge Rossy, who featured on Kira Linn's second album, said about Kira Linn: "She was a talented baritone saxophonist. She deeply explores the language of jazz in her compositions, while forming a deeply personal musical identity."

About Kira Linn
Kira Linn was born in 1993, has been playing saxophone baritone since 2008, while still in high school and participating in numerous tours, performances and competitions. After graduating from high school, Kira studied jazz saxophone and pedagogy at the Nuremberg University of Music. In 2016, Kira Linn formed the Linntett Band, which is named after her, composing and mixing, and to date has given more than 40 concerts in major music cities such as Jazzclub Unterfahrt in Munich, Jazzrally in Düsseldorf, Burghausen. With Christopher Kunz (sax tenor/soprano); Nino Wenger (sax alto/flute alto/flute); Lukas Großmann (piano, Rhodes piano, synth); Lukas Keller (electric bass) and Johannes Koch (drums), she has released 3 albums Nature (2017, Double Moon Records); A Traveller's Tale (2020, Laika Records); Illusion (2023, Whirlwind Recordings). Kira Linn has also collaborated with many other big names in the contemporary European jazz world such as Randy Brecker, Domenic Landolf, a permanent member of the Pascal Klewer Big Band, Francesca Gaza's "Kügelförmigkeit" Ensemble. From 2018 to 2020, she attended graduate school at the Jazzcampus in Basel, Switzerland, under Guillermo Klein, Domenic Landoff (also a teacher) and Mark Turner, and was a member of the National Youth Jazz Orchestra (Bundesjazzorchester) under the command of Niels Klein and Jiggs Wigham. In November 2018, the orchestra performed with Randy Brecker at the prestigious Elbiphilharmonie and subsequently embarked on tours in Tel Aviv, Berlin, New York, Rochester and Chicago to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus.