One of the constants in life is „the place to meet“, cafés, bars. La KaffeehausAvantgarde refers to these places where time, space and quotations clash: old wood meets new grains; Mozart has a drink with Chuck Berry; Don Giovanni sings “I Can’t Get No Satisfaction”; a hard disk free environment where experiment and entertainment kiss each other with a smile.
Poetry and energy determine the sound of internationally sought after musicians: Neither 4/4 bar nor barelessity is secure of them. They want as well to please as tease when they make their way through rumbling rumbas and bitchy bounces, Czech ChaCha and coincidences of counterpoint, the power of punk and the charm of chanson, French expressionism and rhythm rests of Latin. There’s always one behind them; here you’re lying the right way funeral worker says.
- Press extracts -
„the most beatutiful music between tango and punk“, Daily Newspaper Hamburger Morgenpost
«a musical homecoming homerun»
German State Radio Deutschlandfunk
“You will believe everything of a band like La KaffeehausAvantgarde which is able to mix in such an undeterred way Bavarian feeling with Latin pepper, Balkans punk, mountain thunderstorms’ rumbling, yodel and farces of the Buena Vista Social Club… The doing of La KaffeehausAvantgarde in a clear conscience can be described as big musical nonsense with a deep seriousness.” German Music Magazine Rondo 9-8
„fun and addicting for listeners as well as musicians; music, which is simply inspiring!“,
German Magazine Jazzzeitung
«entertaining musical madness» German Public Radio Norddeutscher Rundfunk
„Young bands like La KaffeehausAvantgarde with Kalle Kalima … are showing, that there is a lot of positive movement in the German scene“, German Magazine Jazzpodium
„a furious ear-tickle, entertaining avant-garde insanity, German Magazine jazzthetik
„They are difficult to catch, but have little trouble reconciling Juliette Gréco, Chuck Berry und Don Giovanni in one blow “ Magazine Hamburg LIVE
„In the film and sound installation "Flanieren in Gaudí-Stadt" Nathalie David and Henry Altmann visualize in strong athmospherical pictures and sounds Gaudí moulded in city of Barcelone“, National Geographic
“built on extreme contraries, giving rarely a break to the audience and mixing very different styles from free improvisation up to touch-dry latin rhythms with a cement of humour and poetry”
German Jazz Magazine jazzthing
„La KaffeehausAvantgarde are six musicians with an international background, who understand themselves less as a „band“ than as a musical principle, which mixes music and drama, entertainment and concert and wants to keep two things: curiosity and openness“, German Weekly Newspaper Die Zeit
Henry "El Carajillo" Altmann
