Lost in Your Garden
With Lost in Your Garden, Ensemble Du Verre delivers a jazz album that’s been a long time coming. The twelve tracks – nearly all instrumental – draw from an archive of sketches and fragments, some dating back to 2015. Sönke Düwer, who operates here as drummer, pianist, producer and sonic architect, works in the space between planning and chance. The music carries that tension: raw yet refined, stripped back yet layered.
Two Basses, Multiple Dimensions
The idea of working with two double basses emerged organically in the studio. Melanie Streitmatter and Giorgi Kiknadze play with entirely different tonal colors – creating a depth of field that gives the album its spatial quality.
Jan-Peter Klöpfel (trumpet/flugelhorn) captured the mood from the first take: intense, flowing, unmediated. Adrian Hanack (tenor saxophone) recorded all his parts in a single session – pointed, expressive, immediate.
Two pieces feature archive recordings of English saxophonist Penrose Feast, over a decade old. Düwer added new piano harmonies – creating a dialogue across time.
The album’s sole vocal contribution comes from Philadelphia spoken-word artist Ursula Rucker. Her voice – known from work with The Roots and King Britt – has an unfiltered presence. Here she’s the lyrical focal point: her poetry merges with the sonic landscapes, grounding the album.
Music as Process
Lost in Your Garden is rooted in jazz, but it doesn’t stay put. It thrives on fractures, on beauty and melancholy, on the search for authenticity. Music as journey: built from sketches, encounters and the courage to start again.