Matria Vol. 2 Tamara Lukasheva & Matthias Schriefl

• 1 Allgäu-Bukowina-Lied 06:02
• 2 Od Morya - Wenn Du Numma Witt 04:15
• 3 Lullaby for Kira 04:40
• 4 Topavan 08:00
• 5 G'schwänzte Küachla 03:07
• 6 Bubi Jodler 02:18
• 7 Kyjiw-Lied 05:24
• 8 So a Mist 06:15
• 9 Home (Vdoma) 06:32
• 10 Mayak 06:35
• 11 Halb 4 Mambo 03:33
• 12 Song for Mama & Papa 04:59
• Total Runtime 01:01:40

Info for Matria Vol. 2

Alpine folklore, Alpine jazz, yodeling funk, or Ukrainian folklore? What exactly are Tamara Lukasheva and Matthias Schriefl serving up on this album? And are they completely serious about it all? Some of it sounds like it’s being played and sung with a wink. Anyone who knows Matthias Schriefl, who was born in Allgäu and has been living in the Rhineland for quite some time now, is also familiar with his sometimes offbeat humor. But he can get away with it. Because he is a jack of all trades, plays the trumpet and flugelhorn divinely, and also cuts a fine figure on the alpenhorn, euphonium, tuba, and accordion. Oh yes, he also sings. And his congenial partner Tamara Lukasheva? The singer and musician from Odessa has also been living on the Rhine for a long time and, thanks to her work as a soprano in the opera houses of her homeland, is so accomplished and vocally confident that she can easily keep up with all of Schriefl’s escapades and spontaneous ideas. So on “Matria” you hear clever music that falls between all chairs. Virtuosic, playful, amusing. Like in “Halb 4 Mambo,” a Cuban mambo garnished with all kinds of rhythmic ideas. You have to think of something like that first. But time and again, Matria also becomes profound, as in the touching piece “Home,” composed by the singer herself, a setting of a poem by her compatriot Vasyl Stus, a poet, publicist, dissident, and human rights activist. The “Kyiv Song,” a musical declaration of love to the Ukrainian capital, also touches the listener with its deep emotionality. Blurred boundaries, big emotions, exuberant fun, combative songs—all of this can be heard here. And you can sense that Tamara Lukasheva and Matthias Schriefl feel at home in each other’s cultural diversity, that they understand each other almost telepathically between these different worlds. And then suddenly the Ukrainian song culture is present again, and an alpine horn penetrates this sound cosmos. And traditional Ukrainian folklore mixes with the Bavarian way of life. “Matria” is a constantly surprising cultural clash in notes that takes the listener on adventurous, colorful, and soulful musical journeys.

Tamara Lukasheva, vocals, piano, melodica
Matthias Schriefl, trumpet, flugelhorn, tuba, euphonium, alphorn, vocals, accordion

Tamara Lukasheva
is a singer and a composer at once. She goes through the world full of curiosity and with alert senses. Music is her mother tongue - and her means to process impressions, encounters and everyday life - and also to create something new, which in turn touches other people; across borders and musical categories.

Tamara Lukasheva was born in 1988 in Odessa, Ukraine. Between 2003 and 2007 she studied at the Odessa Conservatory, between 2010 and 2015 at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz in Cologne, where she lives today.

In her solo project she interprets German poetry musically. For this she takes on the roles of a singer, a pianist and a composer all at once.

While she was studying in Cologne she founded a quartet with Sebastian Scobel (piano), Jakob Kühnemann (bass) and Dominik Mahning (drums). In 2019 Lucas Leidinger replaced Sebastian Scobel on piano.

She is also active in several collaborations: with Marie Theres Hartel (viola) and Susanne Paul (cello) she forms the string trio »Kusimanten«. As a singer she cooperates with Vadim Neselovskyi, Hans Lüdemann, Arkady Shilkloper, Bodek Jahnke, Sebastian Gramss, Jens Düppe, Dominik Mahnig and other important musicians of the European jazz scene.

In collaboration with Johannes Weber (guitar), Malte Viebahn (electric bass) and Antoine Duijkers (drums) she undertakes interstellar excursions to cosmic sound shores under the name »Lukoshko«.

In 2017, Tamara Lukasheva received the New German Jazz Award Mannheim. In 2016, she won the Bujazzo Composition Competition and came second with her quartet at the »Keep an Eye« Jazz Awards in Amsterdam. In 2018 she won the Horst-and-Gretl-Will-Scholarship and thus the Cologne Jazz Award as an »exceptionally variable and imaginative musician«.

Tamara Lukasheva has been awarded the 2021 WDR Jazzpreis (West German Broadcasting Jazz Award) in the category »composition«.

Matthias Schriefl
born 1981 grew up in Maria Rain, located at the edge of the Alps. From 2000 until 2005 he studied in Cologne and Amsterdam. Ever since 2006 he organizes the concert series Jazz-O-Rama at the Art-theater in Cologne. Followed by the tours with his Band Shreefpunk as „Rising Star”, of the European Concert Hall Organization from 2008 until 2010 in Europe’s great concert halls. After this tour, he decided to experience foremost with alpine music. In 2012, ACT released a series of „Young German Jazz“, with the repeatedly awarded album “Six, Alps & Jazz”. From then on, new CD-recordings with various bands in which he, as musician and composer wrote the compositions, fitting his fellow musicians like neoprene suits. Schriefl, is mostly living in Cologne and at times in the German Alpine region. His musical curiosity is leading him time and again to lengthy educational trips through India and various African and South-American countries where he studied their music traditions. In 2016, his versatile engagement was rewarded with the World-Music Award RUTH in Rudolstadt. In 2019 he won the New German Jazz Prize twice in Mannheim, the Band Prize with his band Shreefpunk plus Strings and the Soloist Prize and is thus still the last reigning winner of that competition. In 2023 he was won the German Jazz Prize as the best Brass Instrumentalist. The Jury wrote: "Matthias Schriefl stands out in the German jazz scene for his unconventional musical vision. With his unmistakable originality and his courageous approach in the interpretation of standards, but also in the realization of his own compositions influenced by alpine sounds, he shows himself to be an outstanding instrumentalist with an intoxicating spirit all his own. His improvisational talent and interplay with other musicians are outstanding, which is reflected not least in his recordings. On his current album „Geläut“ Schriefl convinces all along the line as a refreshing, innovative musician who is first and foremost a pleasure to listen to and at the same time makes you marvel at the new garments in which jazz can be wrapped again and again." He knows and loves big venues but values also the regular concert locations in smaller, rural areas where he presents his jazz to the local audiences.

This album contains no booklet.