Plateaux Clara Haberkamp Trio

• 1 Cycle 04:47
• 2 Fantasmes 05:47
• 3 Plateaux 02:46
• 4 On a Park Bench 02:39
• 5 Ich bin von Kopf bis Fuss auf Liebe eingestellt 03:56
• 6 Enfold Me like a Poem 05:20
• 7 Counter-Curse 03:37
• 8 If You could read My Mind 04:00
• 9 Collage 04:29
• 10 Danny Boy 03:53
• Total Runtime 41:14

Info for Plateaux

The album title "Plateaux" comes from a 1980 book whose authors found every way they could to observe and encourage the dismantling of traditional power structures and hierarchies: "Mille Plateaux" by philosopher Gilles Deleuze and psychoanalyst Félix Guattari, both of whom died in the 1990s. The world has moved on since those days, and to witness Haberkamp at the helm of her trio is to understand that there are many better ways to invent and to communicate.

The music of "Plateaux" has everything from the knottiest of counterpoint ("Collage"), achingly intense lyricism ("Enfold Me like a Poem"), the quiet and reflective ("On a Park Bench"), idealised dreamscape ("Fantasmes") to moments when she brings the music back to simple, heartfelt forms of expression which cannot fail to reach every heart ("If You could read My Mind"). And there can be very few singer/pianists since Shirley Horn who have reached the degree of interdependence of piano and voice that Haberkamp brings to her hauntingly reharmonized "Danny Boy", a welcome return to singing for just one track on the album.

"I have changed," says Clara Haberkamp My role models these days are women, in music and elsewhere, who combine strength and self-determination with compassion and receptiveness." These reflections don't just feed into her own continuing development and her rising profile on the European music scene, they are also a defining part of the way she plays and leads her trio: naturally, totally at ease with herself at the piano and in her role as leader. It allows her to stand out in the crowded field of piano trios as very special, or "souverän" as the Germans say.

"Haberkamp offers a commanding presence in instrumental piano trio mode... a fluid touch as a pianist... with a personal sense of using space and improvisation free of formula or empty showboating. In the crowded field of piano trio venturers, hers is a name to keep ears open for." (Joe Woodard, Downbeat USA)

"Defiant. Sensitive. Lively. Unconventional. Authentic. Courageous. Clever." (Magazine Jazzthing)

"Rapidly rising German star pianist Clara Haberkamp has a daunting musical brain… but then, by stealth, Mehldau-ishly perhaps, she can melt the heart with a ballad [...], played with limpid clarity and unmistakable emotional depth." (The Arts Desk. Salzburg. October 2023)

Clara Haberkamp Trio:
Clara Haberkamp, piano
Oliver Potratz, double bass
Jarle Vespestad, drums

Please Note: We offer this album in its native sampling rate of 48 kHz, 24-bit. The provided 192 kHz version was up-sampled and offers no audible value!

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