Kompress – Kaja Draksler

Kaja Draksler (piano), Petter Eldh (bass) and Christian Lillinger (drums) return with Kompress, following two electrifying studio albums and a live recording. Described by Jazzthetik as a supergroup of three of the most exciting and active musicians in the European avant-garde, this trio keeps pushing forward.

Critics have hailed the group as genre-bending and a real avant-garde force within the jazz piano trio format. Kompress opens up a wide range of associative spaces, showing how deep trust and fearlessness can help a working band keep evolving and finding new musical paths.

In the liner notes, Ulrich Stock writes that this music is “totally now,” full of alertness, nervous energy and multiple perspectives, while the past lives within it. He also hears Kompress as both condensed and as a compress: something that cushions a wound and eases present-day damage.