Sara Decker Quartet · poetryfied · For press & presenters

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Sara Decker with Billy Test, Nicolai Amrehn and Jeroen Truyen

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AMC Records · 2020

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Recording & production

Label / catalogue
AMC Records · AMC 202-2
Recorded
14–15 September 2019 · LOFT Cologne
Recording
Christian Heck
Mix & Mastering
Christian Heck · tonart Studio, Kerpen
Editing
Jeroen Truyen
Artwork
Pierre Hansen
Release
4 September 2020

Poems become songs.

For poetryfied, Sara Decker sets poems by Rainer Maria Rilke, Emily Dickinson, Mascha Kaléko and Jane Tyson Clement to her own music. Her compositions hold the words close while opening them up to jazz improvisation. The album, released by AMC Records in 2020, was recorded with her Cologne-based quartet.

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On the album

Sara Decker · voice, composition / Billy Test · piano / Nicolai Amrehn · double bass / Jeroen Truyen · drums. Guests: Heidi Bayer, Stefan Karl Schmid and Julia Kriegsmann. Editing: Jeroen Truyen. Mixing and mastering: Christian Heck.

On stage

poetryfied is Sara’s music for voice and a jazz quartet. Sara performs the programme live with her quartet. Billy Test played piano on the album; Jonathan Hofmeister may, for example, join live performances on piano. Other personnel configurations are also possible. Please confirm the exact line-up with booking before announcing names or printing posters.

Suggested billing: “Sara Decker Quartet — poetryfied”. List individual musicians only once confirmed.

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Concert announcement · poetryfied

Sara Decker Quartet — poetryfied

Poems become songs in poetryfied, a programme by jazz vocalist and composer Sara Decker. She sets texts by Rainer Maria Rilke, Emily Dickinson, Mascha Kaléko and Jane Tyson Clement to original music that leaves space for the words, improvisation and dialogue. Sara’s voice is joined by a quartet of piano, double bass and drums. The interplay between voice and instruments gives familiar words new colours and makes every performance a fresh encounter with the poems.

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Sara Decker Quartet — poetryfied

What happens when a poem becomes a song? For poetryfied, jazz vocalist and composer Sara Decker wrote original music for poems by Mascha Kaléko, Rainer Maria Rilke, Emily Dickinson and Jane Tyson Clement. The words remain at the centre, while melody, changing rhythms and the quartet’s improvisations open up new ways of hearing them.

The project took shape after Sara’s years in the New York jazz scene. Returning to Germany, she found in Kaléko’s poetry a way back to singing in her own language. The album explores home, freedom and change, moving between intimate, chamber-like passages and the energy of an improvising band. A jazz interpretation of Massive Attack’s “Teardrop” brings a song from popular music into this poetic arc.

Sara sings and composes for a quartet of piano, double bass and drums. The album, released by AMC Records in 2020, was recorded with Billy Test, Nicolai Amrehn and Jeroen Truyen, with guest contributions from Heidi Bayer, Stefan Karl Schmid and Julia Kriegsmann. On stage, the quartet opens these songs to new musical dialogue. Between familiar words and unexpected sounds, poetryfied tells a story of home, freedom and change.

Short listing

Sara Decker Quartet – poetryfied: original music for poems by Rilke, Dickinson, Kaléko and Clement. Sara’s voice meets a flexible jazz quartet with piano, double bass and drums. An intimate concert between poetry, melodic jazz and open improvisation.

Suggested billing: “Sara Decker Quartet — poetryfied”. List individual musicians only once confirmed.

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