Lisa Hoppe's Third Reality - The Mighty Unlikely (2019)

On her first album "The Mighty Unlikely" Lisa Hoppe, an outstanding double bass player, creates trio ambience in chamber music format widening the borders of the so-called acoustic music, of jazz, using elements from free jazz, improvised music as well as sounds and noises, speech and vocal structures. The album's music has been recorded in a loft in Brooklyn trying to catch the very special local chamber musical aura. Lisa Hoppe deliberately does not use percussion instruments, though there are sort of typical drum characteristics in her arrangements, grooves and beats. Thus the tasks of the three instruments within the band change very often: melody, rhythm, soundscape, accompaniment are parameters for all musicians involved avoiding conventional role allocation.