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Rhythm Riot

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Christian Pabst

Label: JazzSick Records
Released: 2025
Duration: 00:37:49
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Incoming Signal; Mount Rakan; 24-7; Sky; Kimnara; Enigma; Encore.

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Album Description

With Rhythm Riot, the Italian-based German pianist and composer Christian Pabst presents his latest and now sixth album.  Recorded at the Loft in Cologne, the work radiates a powerful kinetic energy that is carried by the telepathic interplay and unique melodic sound language of this top-class European piano trio.  During the creation of the album, Pabst repeatedly confronted himself with the question of what music can mean in a world that is constantly on fire and full of conflict. He was guided and inspired by a quote from Leonard Bernstein: “This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before”.   And so Pabst's new compositions celebrate a very personal Rhythm Riot: a rhythmic protest that consciously sees music and creativity as a powerful antithesis to the dark and destructive tendencies of our society. He is supported in this by his two long-time companions and veterans of the European jazz scene. The JazzEcho award winner André Nendza on double bass and Erik Kooger, one of the most sought-after drummers in the Netherlands, complete the perfectly coordinated trio. The international press describes the music of the Christian Pabst Trio as a “devotion to the beauty of music” (All About Jazz USA). The German magazine Jazzthing praises the ensemble's innovative playing style and says: “The resulting sound world has only marginally something to do with the traditional piano trio rules and parameters of classic jazz.” Following the success of Balbec, the pianist and his comrades-in-arms are consistently sticking to their artistic path. With Rhythm Riot, they are giving the audience a new exciting chapter in their ever-evolving musical narrative.