Sabine Kühlich & CRISP - Fly Away

She is restless, cosmopolitan and thirsty for knowledge: Only few artists have quite such an impressive CV as this singer and musician, who was born in Gera. Her solid education, which includes voice, piano, saxophone, clarinet and improvisation, took her to conservatories in Cologne, Maastricht and Amsterdam, all the way to New York. The compositions on her album “Fly Away“ were written in Harlem, New York. She is accompanied by a superbly variable and intelligently grooving quartet, which moves to and from bossa and modal, bebop and ballad with amazing surefootedness. The band leader sings in multi-lingually with a powerful voice, sensuous expression and the unmistakable character of an artist who is heartfelt in her desire to let the listener in on her profound musicality. This is an album, which almost miraculously makes the complex playful and innovation pleasantly familiar.