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MANKAI
Dora Osterloh - Voice
Silvan Schmid - Trumpet
Simon Jermyn - Bass
Max Santner - Drums, Composition
MANKAI is a new project of Berlin-based drummer and composer Max Santner. The collective is comprised of Dora Osterloh (vocals), Silvan Schmid (trumpet), Simon Jermyn (bass) and Max Santner (drums, composition).
On the new album NAME THE COLOR they melt spontaneity, creativity and musical interaction into a unique band-sound. Tightly composed structures, open sound textures, repetitive melodic patterns and intertwined, overlapping rhythms build the framework for collective improvisation. MANKAI’s central aim is to constantly listen to each other and try to develop new sonic worlds by experimenting together.
The album title refers to a Zen proverb: „Name the color, blind the eye“. It describes a tendency in our society to focus too much on single aspects of an increasingly complex world and thereby lose track of the bigger picture. In a sense the need to categorize things and to look at them separately. The compositions on the album strive to be an antithesis to this tendency, inspired by the idea of thinking about music as a holistic and connecting force. An attempt to find one’s own creativity and become collective inventors, free of categories and genres.
DORA OSTERLOH
Die in Berlin lebende Sängerin und Komponistin Dora Osterloh verbindet in ihrem musikalischen Ausdruck die Leichtigkeit der Improvisation mit harmonischer und melodischer Tiefe, sowie abstrakten, emotionalen Texten und rhythmischer Komplexität.
Als fester Teil der Berliner Jazz- und Improvisationsszene ist sie in unterschiedlichsten Konstellationen und Bands zu erleben. Kompositorisch arbeitete sie in den letzten Jahren für ihr Vokalensemble ENSEMBLE O und entwickelte diverse Solokonzepte, zuletzt das Singer-Songwriterprojekt SONGS, sowie ihr neues Bandprojekt PHOENIX LOVE.
SILVAN SCHMID
Trompeter Silvan Schmid, 1986, lebt in Zürich, hört man live und im Studio mit Musiker*innen aus der Schweiz, Frankreich, Deutschland, England, Holland und Slowenien, u.a. Gamut Kollektiv, Solo, Miao Silvan Makossiri, Alex Riva, Félicie Bazelaire, Mraolia (w/ Timothée Quost), Trio w/ Edwin Prévost, Tom Wheatley, ТЕПЛОТА x RIVASCHMID, Lotus Eddé Khouri, Elio Amberg, TZUSSS (w/ Tizia Zimmermann, Urška Savič), Max Santner, Fabian Saul, HUM, Bottom Orchestra, Urs Blöchlinger Revisited, Hans Kennel. 2017 hat er sein Debut Album „Spartituren“ mit dem Silvan Schmid Trio veröffentlicht. 2018 wurde das Album “Silvan Schmid Quintett - At Gamut” auf Hat Hut Records veröffentlicht, wo 2021 auch sein Solo Album „Augmented Space“ herauskam.
SIMON JERMYN
As a sideman and collaborator, Simon has worked with Jim Black, Chris Speed, John Zorn, Gerald Cleaver, Mat Maneri, Anna Webber, Tom Rainey, Chris Lightcap, Ingrid Laubrock, Mark Ferber, Michaël Attias, Tony Malaby, Ben Goldberg, Jeff Davis, Allison Miller, Nate Wood, Simon Nabatov, Loren Stillman, Satoshi Takeishi, Caleb Burhans, and many others. He has performed at the Village Vanguard, The Stone, Winter Jazz Fest, Joe's Pub, and many other clubs, festivals and performance spaces around the world. Simon holds a PhD in Music from the University of Ulster in Northern Ireland. He has given workshops and masterclasses at renowned institutions around the world, including The Jazz and Contemporary Improvisation Department at The Sydney Conservatorium, Australia; The Brisbane Conservatorium, Australia; University of Ghent, Belgium; Ulster University, Northern Ireland; Dublin City University, Ireland; and the Hochschule der Kunste, Bern, Switzerland.
MAX SANTNER
MAX SANTNER, born in Salzburg in 1991, is a Berlin based drummer, improviser and composer. Current projects and collaborations are Keao, Mankai, Beatdenker’s Sinularia, Magnetic Ghost Orchestra, Été Large, Holler My Dear, KIM Collective. He is performing all over Europe and at Festivals like Jazz Fest Berlin, XJAZZ Festival, Überjazz Festival, Moers Festival, Jazzwerkstattfestival Bern, Südtirol Jazzfestival, Leipziger Jazztage, Jazz Kollektiv Nights, Jazz And The City Festival, Mama Jazz Festival Vilnius, BeJazz TransNational. Max Santner studied Drums at the Jazz Institute Berlin from 2010-2014 with John Hollenbeck. In that context he had also lessons with Kurt Rosenwinkel and Greg Cohen. He is a founding member of KIM Collective, which organizes a Festival for improvised music in Berlin once a year. Furthermore KIM is doing art across concerts, performances and installations. In 2008 he received the Austrian Jazz Award Joe Zawinul Price and in 2016 he got the Austrian Scholarship BKA Austria for Art and Culture. In 2018 he won the BeJazz TransNational Price with his band HUM.