Claudius Reimann

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Claudius Reimann (2012)

Claudius Reimann (born May 21, 1969 in Marl ) is a German saxophonist . His focus is on improvisation , jazz and performance .

Career

Reimann received lessons in accordion , piano , saxophone , improvisation and harmony . In 1986 he received an award from the Berlin Senate at the national competition for meeting young songwriters . In 1990 he founded the artist group ASIMASOGRA . This was followed by comprehensive art activities in the Recklinghausen district and a CD production in which Claudius Reimann set texts by Norbert Kühne to music using improvisation .

In 1997 the jazz duo 2 from Sogra City came into being , which played at the opening of the Ruhr Festival in 2003. The made-up word Sogra appears again and again in his work. In 2005 he founded the performance ensemble Sograett with the dancer Wiebke Harder. Reimann himself describes his increasingly prepared and modified saxophones and clarinets as sografons .

In 2006 he published extracts from his diaries under the title I feel sogra over which the Jazzpodium writes: ". Brilliant laconic ... wonderfully entertaining ... inspiring appetizers Art" 2010 launch of the initiative echtzeitmusik2010 occasion of the European Capital of Culture - The initiative comes on 7th place at the Unprojekte Festival . Concerts and CD production with Klaus Treuheit . 2011 performance with Chrystel Guillebeaud in Wuppertal. With Nils Gerold and Frank Paul Schubert he performed at the MIB Night Jazz Festival in Bremen. Recording and broadcast by Radio Bremen .

In 2012 Reimann had his second guest appearance at ExtraSchicht and also entered into a musical dialogue with the sculptures by Magdalena Abakanowicz and Laura Ford in the Textile Museum Bocholt at the invitation of the LWL-Industriemuseum . He took over the musical direction for two performances with staged readings by and with Michael Molsner . In 2013 Claudius Reimann improvised with gongs and sografon for Heinz Cymontkowski's solo exhibition in the Worpswede artists' colony . He recorded the accordion for the punk band Hass for their 2014 album Kacktus . The concept album 2nd floor was released shortly afterwards in a duo with clarinetist Katharina Bohlen .

In 2015 it became literary again. Reimann's novel "Is this jazz or can it be over?" An original and lovable story about a musician career, which was also produced as a radio play. In 2017 Reimann performed 3 concerts with tenor and soprano saxophone as a soloist with the Essen Vocal Ensemble under the musical direction of Georg Dücker .

In 2018 and 2019 Reimann had other guest performances as part of the Ruhr Festival and was responsible for the musical design of productions by Theater Gegenruck .

Publications (selection)

Discography

Sampler
  • Civil courage - ANAL, Vinyl - Schrachton-Records , 1986
  • Giganten - Milkman One, vinyl / EP on the Bigstore label , 1989
  • 1. Marler Sampler - Müllermasogra, CD - LC 7120, 1995
  • Unique pieces - 10 solos (with Ute Völker , Carl Ludwig Hübsch , Martin Blume and others), TonkunstManufaktur, CD - LC 77691, 2017
Albums
  • The CD - ASIMASOGRA, CD - LC 5458 (Texts: Norbert Kühne ), 1993
  • Different - The It In You, CD - LC 5458, 2001
  • Triptychon - (Duo with Klaus Treuheit , organ) CD - LC 11469, 2010
  • Kacktus - accordion as a guest musician with the punk band Hass , CD and vinyl - LC 24184, 2014
  • 2nd floor - (Duo with Katharina Bohlen, clarinet) CD in the creative sources label . 2014.
  • Long clarinets - short stories? (Trio with Reinald Noisten, Katharina Bohlen, Claudius Reimann), CD, creative sources , 2015
  • SUBSOLSAX Juchum - Reimann - Winter. CD - LC 77691, TonkunstManufaktur, 2018
  • RADIOSOGRA , together with Katharina Bohlen, TonkunstManufaktur, Marl 2020; LC 77691, CD and vinyl
radio play
  • Claudius Reimann - Is this jazz or can it be over? Double CD. TonkunstManufaktur, 2017, ISBN 978-3-940853-51-6 .

Books

  • I feel sogra - glimpses into the diaries of a saxophone player. Engelsdorfer Verlag, Leipzig 2006, ISBN 3-86703-206-8 .
  • Is that jazz or can it be over? - Hugo Buriem's ​​short letters. Novel. Ventura Verlag, Werne 2015, ISBN 978-3-940853-35-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archive of the federal competitions - see 1986.
  2. ↑ Tanzatelier Wi-dance (Recklinghausen)
  3. ↑ Sografonist - film portrait of Claudius Reimann
  4. ^ Review in the jazz newspaper
  5. ↑ Jazzpodium - Edition: April / 2007
  6. ↑ Top 10 at the Unprojekte Festival: 2010
  7. ↑ LWL press release
  8. ^ Review in Twilight Magazine
  9. ↑ CD review in the jazz portal NRW
  10. ↑ Kunstmelder presents Reimann's novel


personal data
SURNAME Reimann, Claudius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German saxophonist
DATE OF BIRTH May 21, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Marl