Carl Wittigs Aurora Oktett - Perspective Suite (2022)

The European jazz landscape is not only becoming more colorful and innovative, but more than ever reflects the desire of young musicians to push stylistic boundaries. The work of the Aurora Oktett makes an audible essential contribution here.

With his Aurora Oktett, founded in 2016, Wittig has found an ensemble that moves freely both in jazz and in the classical tradition. In a series of diverse compositions, the ensemble shows how fresh the mixture of string quartet and jazz quartet can sound.

"Placed Displaced" is also an example of this, explains Carl Christian Wittig: "This piece tells of the idea of ​​being placed in a world by someone else's hand. This makes you feel insecure, explored, trying to find your way around and somehow to get an overview.” From an improvised soundscape of the strings, reminiscent of the works of György Ligeti as well as Morton Feldman, a lyrical one develops between saxophone, trumpet and double bass Dialog. The searching expression of instability flows elegantly into an ensemble passage.