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SOMEDAY

by Paul Bernewitz

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johannes-tokyo It's impossible for me to describe my mysterious experience by words. So much, even too much beautiful illusionary scene has appeared in my eyes listening to this track once, and it's not disappeared afterwards. Music, like this, brings me where as if my life reached somewhat perfection like place. Favorite track: Someday My Prince Will Come.
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“I Hear a Rhapsody” – Eight rhapsodic parcours

Can songs from the Great American Songbook that were released 50 to 80 years ago still inspire us today? Listening to Paul Bernewitz's emotional debut album we know: yes, they can!

Paul Bernewitz's arrangements create a new genre. They are not merely "arrangements'' – as so many versions of "Someday My Prince Will Come" and other world-famous songs – but new narratives, continuations, little coal mines, parcours: struggling for free space where the pre-determined is running its course, and yearning for something valid where emptiness and irrelevance are gaining the upper hand.

Paul Bernewitz has assembled a band in Nuremberg in 2020 that brings together up-and-coming individuals from the southern German jazz scene to bring his music to life. With the poetically chiseling drummer Jonas Sorgenfrei, the wide-awake bassist Amelie-Marie Richarz, the agile saxophonists Paul Scheugenpflug and Michael Reiß and the charismatic singer Regina Heiß, he assembles excellent artists by his side. The ensemble grows together musically without it "getting sticky" – hence the transparent, many-limbed sound. They remain, although all part of the grand narrative, on their coordinates to tell about their perspectives. The band demands, compels, but also quickly returns to its orbit, seeking its vibe there: A good storyteller does not impose.

The joy of playing is paired with an astonishing maturity and depth of statement. Everything seems rooted in the insight of wanting to reflect ambivalences in the music. The result is a subtly probing, often urgent, brooding flow – pure anti-kitsch. Contemporary jazz can also sound like this.

Where is this album suddenly coming from? Who is Paul Bernewitz? - People like him do not often exist. His creativity is boundless. The 25-year-old not only arranges for bands, he writes poetry, art songs, chamber music, choral works and even edits a literary magazine. – Coming from a family of musicians, he enjoyed a first-class musical education in the ranks of the St. Thomas Boys Choir of Leipzig, where he also sang as a soloist. Early on, while learning classical piano literature, he felt the desire to write his own music. Inborn in him: the love of improvisation.

Since the age of 18, Paul Bernewitz has written over 60 piano miniatures. In these studies, which are like landmarks for him, his sound ideal is already stored like a broth cube. Many other circumstances and mentors favored the maturing of his unique pianistic sound culture. This sound culture is characterized by harmonic complexity, intense songfulness and a breathtaking intimacy. There is something unconditional, compelling and at the same time immensely vulnerable in it, which touches us in our innermost being. When we hear him play, we never hear just "jazz" – we hear Paul Bernewitz.

SOMEDAY is the remarkable result of a long exploration. This collection of reworked standards, often completely reinterpreted in their character, is an alternating bath of epic through-composition and musical space; a journey on which we need not fear to get lost – the pliable melodies remain our guide. Impressive is the degree of creativity, the variety of details, the pleasure in variation, condensation, as well as the pleasure in reduction, meandering along narrow lanes and stumbling over obstacles, such as the effect of the "hanging record" composed in "Take Seven" or the figure skating-like melodic paradoxes in "Someday My Prince Will Come"...

Nobody knows Paul Bernewitz yet. But all signs are pointing towards it: The jazz scene will have to remember this name.

THE BAND PLANS A TOUR IN 2023.

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released November 8, 2022

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born 1997, german jazz pianist & composer

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