USA: New Release "Malita-Malika" by Carol Liebowitz & Birgitta Flick
Carol Liebowitz
Birgitta Flick
MALITA-MALIKA
New Release
Leo Records
LEO RECORDS LR 838
Carol Liebowitz, piano, voice
Birgitta Flick, tenor saxophone
1. Moon 5:19
2. Portrait 4:30
3. Visions 5:14
4. Malita-Malika (for Johanna) 6:46
(Birgitta Flick, GEMA)
5. Hummingbird 4:25
6. Marionette (Billy Bauer) / September in the Rain* (Harry Warren & Al Dubin) 5:04
7. Jasmine 2:15
8. You Don’t Know What Love Is* 8:15
(Gene de Paul & Don Raye)
9. Sehnsucht 2:45
10. Crossed Lines 4:52
11. Reflections 4:24
Total time 53:49 (*tracks 6, 8 with voice)
All tracks by Carol Liebowitz and Birgitta Flick (GEMA), except where noted.
Published by Alissa Publishing / PRS
Recorded November 4 & 6, 2017 by Ryan Streber at Oktaven Audio, Mount Vernon, NY
Mixed by Brian Montgomery
Mastered by Jim Clouse, Park West Studios, Bklyn, NY
Photography by Kate Koenig
Produced by Birgitta Flick, Carol Liebowitz & Leo Feigin
Supported by the Senate Department for Culture and Europe
Carol Liebowitz and Birgitta Flick originally met at a Berlin jazz club in 2010. When their paths crossed again in New York in 2014 they had the opportunity to play intensively for several months and since then have toured together frequently in Europe and the New York area.
Their playing creates an extraordinary soundscape — where freedom of expression connects with an intense lyricism in original compositions, spontaneous improvisations, and inspiring explorations into the Great American songbook.
Photo © Kate Koenig
Birgitta Flick, tenor saxophone
Birgitta Flick is a saxophonist and composer and lives in Berlin. She studied saxophone and Jazz at the Jazz-Institut Berlin (UdK) and the Royal College of Music, Stockholm. Current projects—besides her Duo with Carol Liebowitz—are her Berlin-based quartet and the German-Swedish-Finnish band Flickstick, with whom she won the 2012 Jazz Baltica Förderpreis and released the 2nd album in January 2018. Ms. Flick’s other work includes playing in the Nico Lohmann Quintet, and in drummer Sebastian Voegler’s Stockholm-based band Fluxmaschine and the German Women’s Jazz Orchestra.
In 2011–12 her research and composition project on traditional Swedish music was sponsored by the Elsa Neumann Scholarship of the state of Berlin. The resulting suite for the Swedish singer Lina Nyberg, Silke Eberhard (bass clarinet), Nico Lohmann (alto saxophone, flute) and the Birgitta Flick Quartet was released in April 2016 by Double Moon Records. The quartet’s debut CD, “Yingying” was released in 2013 by Jazz thing Next Generation. In autumn 2018 the new CD “Color Studies” will be published by Double Moon Records/Challenge, supported by the Initiative Musik gGmbH. Further CD productions include those with the Nico Lohmann quintet, Esther Kaiser and Z’lil schel bet Haskala, amongst others.
Her concert tours have taken her to several European countries, the USA and the Middle East, and in winter 2014–15, to New York for a three month stay including private studies with Connie Crothers. Festival concert appearances include XJazz Berlin, Elbjazz in Hamburg, JazzBaltica, Jazzwoche Burghausen, Jazzahead German Jazz Meeting and Cairo Jazz Festival. Since 2013 Birgitta also contributes to the monthly Psalmton Jazz Pop Services at Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtnis-Kirche in Berlin—both as a performer, composer and coordinator. Since 2015 she also serves as the artistic director of the summer concert series “InSpirit“ at the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtnis- Kirche.
In 2017 she received a scholarship of the City of Berlin to realize a new improvisation project and the CD recording for “Malita-Malika" together with Carol Liebowitz.
“An excellent tenor-saxophonist based in Berlin, Birgitta Flick has an original sound on her horn, not sounding like any of her historical predecessors.” —Scott Yanow
“The large scale of Flick’s music is testimony to her rich orchestral experience, and this album first of all surprises the listener with her outstanding talent as a composer.” —Kayo Fushiya, JazzTokyo
Carol Liebowitz, piano/voice
Pianist Carol Liebowitz brings a uniquely expressive and personal sound to the jazz and free improvisation scene. After focusing on classical repertoire at the High School of Performing Arts and NYU, her musical direction turned to improvisation and she began studying with Connie Crothers. Other influential teachers have included Sal Mosca, Jay Clayton and Sheila Jordan. She has performed in Europe and throughout the New York City metropolitan area in venues such as Roulette, The Stone, Cornelia Street Cafe, IBeam, The Firehouse Space, Arts for Art, Spectrum, and Birdland. In addition to frequent solo concert appearances, Carol has worked in various groups with musicians including Tom Blancarte, Adam Caine, Daniel Carter, Claire de Brunner, Maryanne de Prophetis, Andrew Drury, Ken Filiano, Andy Fite, Birgitta Flick, Ratzo Harris, Ron Horton, Louise D.E. Jensen, Adam Lane, Eva Lindal, Nick Lyons, Ryan Messina, Kevin Norton, Bill Payne, John Pietaro, Lorenzo Sanguedolce, John Wagner, Michael Wimberly, and Andrea Wolper.
Her CD “Payne Lindal Liebowitz” on Line Art Records with clarinetist Bill Payne and violinist Eva Lindal was voted one of the Top Ten Jazz CDs in the 2015 NPR Jazz Critics Poll by Art Lange. Also on Line Art Records are “First Set” (a duo with alto saxophonist Nick Lyons), “Poetry from the Future” (To Be Continued, a quartet with Claire de Brunner, Daniel Carter, and Kevin Norton), and most recently in 2018, “Spiderwebmandala,” a duo with Bill Payne, featuring poet Mark Weber. Carol has two releases on the New Artists label: “Waves of Blue Intensities,” a duo with tenor saxophonist Bob Field, and “Time on My Hands,” a voice/guitar duo with Andy Fite.
“...three-dimensional kaleidoscopic displays.” —Mel Minter (musically speaking),melminter.com
“...chords that brim with ardent energy and hypnotic beauty.” — All About Jazz
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Bilderberger-Treffen 2018, Turin – geheime Verschwörung?
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Bilderberger-Treffen 2018, Turin – geheime Verschwörung?
(www.conservo.wordpress.com)
Von Peter Helmes
Heute beginnt das Bilderberger-Treffen 2018 im italienischen Turin, das bis zum 10. Juni fortgesetzt wird. Die Teilnehmer zählen sich zur meinungsführenden Elite aus der oberen Wirtschafts- und Finanzwelt, aus der Politik (z. B. Bundesverteidigungsministerin von der Leyen, die nicht zum ersten Mal dabei ist) und aus führenden Medien(-gruppen).
Folgende Themen stehen u.a. heuer auf der Tagesordnung:
◾Populismus in Europa
◾Die Herausforderung der Ungleichheit
◾Die Zukunft der Arbeit
◾Künstliche Intelligenz
◾Die USA vor den Halbzeitwahlen
◾Der Freihandel
◾Russland
◾Saudi-Arabien und Iran
◾Die Welt in der Ära des „Postfaktischen“
„Too Big to Jail“
Seit ihrem Bestehen werden „die Bilderberger, wie sie kurz genannt werden, kritisch beobachtet – meist höchst massiv. Das Zusammentreffen von Hochfinanz, führenden Politikern, „Grauen Eminenzen“ (wie z. B. Henry Kissinger) und Wirtschaftsführern gibt zu allerlei Bedenken Anlaß – wobei diese nicht immer frei von Verschwörungstheorien sind.Der ehemalige BBC-Journalist Tony Goslin, der seit 20 Jahren zu den größten Kritikern der Konferenzen gehört, bezeichnet die Bilderberger als ein „kriminelles Syndikat, welches mit Krieg Geld verdient“. Aber aufgrund ihres Einflusses und ihrer Machtfülle seien sie „Too Big to Jail“ (Goslin).
Nicht wenige Kritiker meinen, die Bilderberg-Gruppe bildete eine geheime Weltregierung und würde während des Treffens wichtige politische Entscheidungen fällen. Nichts Genaues erfährt man in der Regel nicht, da sich die Teilnehmer zum Schweigen verpflichtet haben – was natürlich die Spekulationen noch mehr anheizt.
Deshalb wird die Gruppe der aktiven Politiker besonders attackiert. Goslin: „Es kann nicht sein, dass aktive Politiker an einem Treffen teilnehmen und Schweigegelübde ablegen, dass sie nichts darüber sagen werden, mit wem sie gesprochen haben, was besprochen wurde und größtenteils die Bilderberg-Konferenz nicht einmal erwähnen…“.
Vielleicht erfahren wir in diesem Jahr etwas mehr aus Turin. Die Auguren vermuten, es werde vor allem über Krieg gesprochen (z.B. gegen Russland und/oder Angriffskrieg gegen den Iran, der dann von Saudi Arabien und Israel geführt würde).
Angekündigt ist die Teilnahme von 140 Persönlichkeiten (siehe nachfolgende Liste) von A wie Paul Achleitner, Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender der Deutschen Bank; über B wie José Barroso (ehem. EU-Kommissionspräsident, jetzt Vorsitzender von Goldman Sachs), zuvor Präsident der Europäischen Kommission; über C wie Bernard Cazeneuve, bis 2017 französischer Premierminister; über D wie Mathias Döpfner, Vorstandsvorsitzender der Axel Springer SE (und Time Warner, Vodafone usw.) usw.
Eine faustdicke Überraschung: Der Vatikan ist zum ersten Mal vertreten
Seit der Wahl von Papst Franziskus 2013 findet eine Annäherung zwischen dem Vatikan und den mächtigen, formellen und informellen internationalen Institutionen statt. Die Anwesenheit des Kardinalstaatssekretärs beim diesjährigen Bilderberger-Treffen schließt diesen Annäherungsprozeß plakativ ab. Parolin bestätigte bereits seine Teilnahme.
Dabei geht es nicht nur darum, daß der Vatikan durch seinen höchsten Regierungsvertreter daran teilnimmt, sondern darum, daß die Bilderberger diese Teilnahme akzeptieren. Wo früher Unvereinbarkeit galt, scheint inzwischen ein so hohes Maß an Übereinstimmung erreicht, daß selbst eine Verschmelzung in gemeinsamen, okkulten Gremien möglich geworden ist.
Anders ausgedrückt: Die katholische Kirche unter Papst Franziskus fügt sich in die weltlichen Machtzentren ein und ordnet sich diesen unter.
Papst Franziskus scheint sich „bei politischen Themen wie Klimawandel, Masseneinwanderung, Fake News, Soziale Netzwerke…“ wohler zu fühlen. „Der Eindruck, den er vermittelt, ist der eines Menschen, dessen wirkliche Berufung mehr die zum Weltführer als zum Steuermann von Petri Schiff zu sein scheint“, so InfoVaticana (Quelle).
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