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AXIS MUNDI - Ley, Payfert, Öztürk, Boffo (own edition yela music 2024)
Another great cd from the brilliant vocalist Sascha Ley and her wonderful musician collaborators.
Shelley Hirsch, NY
Axis Mundi is more than a mere musical reflection. Whether progressive or experimental, cosmic or Avant-Garde Jazz, this music mingles with Sascha Ley’s vocal performance, at times both sensual and raw, pure and alluring. It is not an easy trip, but the reward is all the more beautiful. Jacques Prouvost, BE
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(coming up 2024)
AXIS MUNDI - Ley, Payfert, Öztürk, Boffo (own edition yela music 2024)
Another great cd from the brilliant vocalist Sascha Ley and her wonderful musician collaborators.
Shelley Hirsch, NY
Axis Mundi is more than a mere musical reflection. Whether progressive or experimental, cosmic or Avant-Garde Jazz, this music mingles with Sascha Ley’s vocal performance, at times both sensual and raw, pure and alluring. It is not an easy trip, but the reward is all the more beautiful. Jacques Prouvost, BE
THE LAUGHTER OF THE RED MOON - Georg Ruby & Sascha Ley (JHM 2023)
Jazzalbum of the week! Radio NDR 10-11/23
An album not only for friends of vocal experiments. A piano and a voice, and the sounds, structures and ideas are enough for more than one record. Great music, we are thrilled! Jacek Brun, Jazz-Fun 10/23
A vocal acrobat, if the term didn't have something gimmicky about it; vocalist might be a better description.
Thomas Bugert JAZZTHETIK 11-12/23
With bold new interpretations of Knef's chansons and lyrics, this homage is highly recommended to lovers of contemporary, barrier-free jazz. In addition to unorthodox, almost feverish whirling over the piano keys, Ruby also scores as a reciter (Knef's "Die Herren dieser Welt") and as a surprisingly fresh and groovy (spoken) singer. Ley and Ruby's squeaky-footed scat duet "Ich hab noch einen Koffer in Berlin" is one of the cheerful highlights of this multi-faceted, dramaturgically harmonious tête-à-tête. Beyond the relaxed togetherness, its strongest asset is Ley's extraordinary virtuoso vocal artistry: she has more to offer than just spectacular indigenous singing techniques and gets to the heart of the expression, whether singing parody or speaking forcefully - and in explosive improvisation anyway. Even wistful schlager dreams don't slip into sticky pathos. Magnificent. Stefan Urmacher - Saarbrücker Zeitung - 18.11. 2023SAARBRÜCKEN (uhr)
"IN BETWEEN" - Solo album JazzHausMusik JHM Oct, 2022 - first reviews
A truly impressive voice. A remarkable CD. Michael van Gee, Radio Dreyeckland 12/22
Singing "Lush Life" stripped to the bone like this is something you first have to dare to do. Sascha Ley, singer and performance artist from Luxembourg, dares and wins all along the line. Later Ley will set to music - "Love In Outer Space" by Sun Ra, - besides the Strayhorn it is the only foreign material - far from the unpredictability of the Archestra, but still endowed with its mental states. Ley tries things out, communicating nonverbally, layering different soundtracks of her voice. It occasionally reminds of the Vocal Summit band of the seventies, which, except for Bobby McFerrin, consisted of all women, but at times also of the exploratory urge of a Laurie Anderson, although Ley has no amplified violin at hand, but "only" micro synth & gadgets. She creates a world with its own parameters, based primarily on reduction and pure accuracy of expression. "In Between" : One indeed lands in an in-between realm. It is an exciting place. Susanne Müller, Jazz Podium DE 12/22 | 1/23
A singular artist. "In Between" is a whole work, a choreography, almost a conductor's score, of an incredible intensity, with different and very rich atmospheres. Her art is impressive. A singer who bewitches you. A voice that fills the space. One is well there. Alain Duret, Gérard Dugelay, Radio RCF FR 11/22 (listen to the show in French)
The singer has a sense of nuance and narration. She masters her effects. Sascha unsettles and amazes us. The whole concert (like the record) is a journey, an experience and a reflection on life, society, the place of women, and memories. It's class. It is very personal and quite unique. It's a concert (a performance) to be experienced. Jacques Prouvost Jazzques 11/22
Dazzlingly, the singer, musician and actress Sascha Ley [...] impressed with her singing and vocal artistry... masters the throat singing technique of the Inuit, sometimes reminding of the African world music of "Zap Mama" and in her free spirit of the great old Meredith Monk. But her titles never seem epigonal, she always transforms the material into something of her own. Silvia Buss, Saarbrücker Zeitung 10/22
The experimental album is tailor-made for the stage. Sascha Ley plays her voice like a violin. She cradles her invisible instrument. [..] Sascha Ley makes easily accessible what is not easily accessible. Mixing frankly crazy bravura pieces and warmer songs, In Betweendefinitely hits the bull's eye. 10/22 Kévin Kroczek, D’Land LU
She explores what can be done with the voice - and that's a lot! She improvises, shouts, trills, growls, pants and sings, holds a dialogue with herself, explores different resonances. She's also a great storyteller [..] MELODIVA 10/22
With her musical concept, Sascha Ley seems to me to be a personality who stands somewhat apart from the so-called jazz scene and is very interesting not only for that reason. Jazz-Fun Magazine 10/22
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