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Christian Marien

Christian Marien (* 1975, Münster, Germany) studied music in Amsterdam and Berlin where he has resided since 2000. He is an active member of the Berlin jazz and improvised music scene, co-leading collaborative projects including Superimpose (Matthias Müller), I Am Three (Silke Eberhard, Nikolaus Neuser), Insomnia Brass Band (Almut Schlichting, Anke Lucks) and C’mon C’mon (Jasper Stadhouders). In 2022 he starts the „Christian Marien Quartett” (Tobias Delius, Jasper Stadhouders, Antonio Borghini), the first ensemble under his name. Christian recently worked on solo ideas, in 2022 his first Solo CD was released on „MarMade Records” a new label founded by Christian

Brilliant Corners 2026

by Ian Patterson
March 23, 2026

Brilliant Corners 2026Black Box/Various VenuesBelfast, N. IrelandFebruary 27-March 7, 2026 Few events signpost the time of year quite like a city's flagship contemporary music festival. For one week every March, as winter gradually recedes, Belfast's aptly named Brilliant Corners illuminates jazz--and jazz-adjacent music--in many of its myriad forms. Inevitably, some of the more outré ...

Beyond the Fingertips

By Christian Marien

Label: MarMade Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: (Side 1): Love All. Play!; Martha; Blues in Aspik; Cordinale; (Side 2): Nantucket Nostalgia; For Toby; Look Left, Look Right; No Place for Illusions.

Christian Marien Quartett: Beyond the Fingertips

by Troy Dostert
December 8, 2025

For the follow-up to its 2024 release, How Long is Now (MarMade Records), the Christian Marien Quartett has chosen an adventurous approach in keeping with the leader's anything-goes aesthetic: a direct-to-disc recording process, done in one take directly to lacquer. With the spirit of risk and experimentation the maverick drummer has always brought to his ensembles, ...

In Other Words

By Nikolaus Neuser

Label: Leo Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Übersprungshandlung; Cordinale; Birthday Song; Blues in Aspik; Wait a Second; Fast Slow; Mau Mau; Kellerballade; Pleitereiher; Pattersson Blues; Poem for Valentin.

How Long Is Now

By Christian Marien

Label: MarMade Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: 40 Love/Goldrausch; The Lobster; Lilly/Doppelhertz; The Landing; Phantome/Pouwl; 28-4/Pattersson Blues; Deésse.

I Am Three: In Other Words

by Troy Dostert
May 11, 2024

Adventurous listeners who have been following the separate journeys of saxophonist Silke Eberhard, trumpeter Nikolaus Neuser and drummer Christian Marien have reason to rejoice whenever their paths converge, as they do once again in their trio I Am Three. Originally conceived as a Charles Mingus tribute project on its debut, Mingus, Mingus, Mingus (Leo Records, 2016), ...

Christian Marien Quartett: How Long Is Now

by Troy Dostert
April 23, 2024

Drummer Christian Marien represents the kind of omnivorous musical sensibility that is so valuable in an age in which conventional musical categories seem increasingly irrelevant. His undeniable reverence for the jazz tradition is evident through his work with I Am Three, in which he has teamed with saxophonist Silke Eberhard and trumpeter Nikolaus Neuser to offer ...

Derek Plays Eric - A Suite Of Soaps

By Andreas Willers

Label: Jazzwerkstatt
Released: 2023
Track listing: Tuesday Ends Saturday (Paul Motion), A Suite Of Soaps Part 1 - 7 (Andreas Willers), Cogs In Cogs (Shulman, Minnear), Space Captain (M. Moore), May Dance (Dave Holland), I Want You (She's So Heavy) (Lennon/McCartney)

Formation < Deviation

By Matthias Mueller

Label: Relative Pitch Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: The Inevitability Of Truth And Mistake; Illusion Of Innocence.