WANJA SLAVIN 

Wanja Slavin is a Berlin based multiple award-winning saxophonist, composer, producer, and arranger. Celebrated as one of Europe’s best jazz saxophonists and co-founder of LIUN + The Science Fiction Band, Slavin has proudly been recording and producing numerous albums and composed for various orchestras and big bands in his studio at his house in the woods around Berlin. The progressive development of artificial intelligence and its increasing influence on music production - which is increasingly standardizing and dehumanizing it - have awakened in him a longing to devote himself once again to the most direct and lively form of musical expression: improvisation.

 

Known for cultivating free playing in various avant-garde constellations, Wanja Slavin is committing with his recent works to song-like melodies. Wanja Slavin is an emblematic figure of a generation that has shaken off the old labels attached to jazz, and strolls sensibly through a maze of various  influences. The music of his new band ‘libelle’ combines everything that Slavin likes in music: twisted grooves, catchy melodies and hints of melancholy, heated solos and spontaneous interaction. Slavin is joined by an impressive line-up of high-profile improvisers, including Bertram Burkert, Johannes Lauer, Lucy Liebe und Maximilian Stadtfeld.

 

LINE-UP​

Wanja Slavin - Saxophone, Synth

Johannes Lauer- Piano, Trombone 

Bertram Burkert - Guitar

Lucy Liebe - Bass, Guitar, Synth

Maximilian Stadtfeld - Drums ​

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BASED IN: Germany

TERRITORIES: Europe