Jazz Articles about Rebekka Ziegler

About Rebekka Ziegler

Album Review

On Aura, the first album by self-styled neo a capella quartet Of Cabbages and Kings, we find ourselves dancing on razor-edged arrangements of popular songs, settings of Shakespeare and Brecht, and originals besides. The vocalists are Veronika Morscher, Sabeth Pérez, Rebekka Ziegler, and Laura Totenhagen. The many shades of meaning in their music outnumber even the letters of their names, each a doorway opening to another. Among them, Ziegler's voice as both composer and performer is especially broad. This is ...

Album Review

Rebekka Ziegler: Salomea

by Tyran Grillo
March 23, 2020

Salomea is a genre-hopping group led by Cologne-based vocalist Rebekka Salomea Ziegler, and in this self-titled debut it reveals as much about what influences and inspires its members as about the newness those musicians can fashion from socio-cultural building blocks. Remarkable for such a song-focused project is how much each member stands out in relief. From the opening skitter of “Magnolia Tree," for instance, we recognize the ability of drummer Leif Berger to transport the listener into a sound-world all ...