DELIVE
LUCIA CADOTSCH voice, synths
LUCY LIEBE guitar, synth, voice
EVA SWIDERSKI synth, voice
FABIAN RÖSCH drums

DOES IT MAKE YOU LOVE YOUR LIFE? A dazzling hybrid. An electroacoustic studio album featuring a 13-piece string ensemble, numerous contributors from Berlin’s thriving music scene, and Lucia Cadotsch’s unmistakable vocal style.

The album Does it make you love your life? was created in collaboration with Wanja Slavin – saxophonist, producer, and long-time musical companion – , with whom she has created a multilayered world – a heavily textured and sophisticated form of modern electronica and lush jazz harmonies. The one and only Kurt Rosenwinkel mastered the album, and accompanying it is a series of music videos, created in collaboration with choreographer and dancer Meg Stuart.

Live, Lucia Cadotsch brings this electroacoustic sound world to the stage with an entirely new lineup. At her side are the two exceptional multi-instrumentalists and singers Lucy Liebe and Eva Swiderski.

Excerpt from the liner notes by Francesco Wilking:
„In my imagination I am taken to some far off place where tiny streams form into rivers. The music is like a fairytale, expansive, reversed, washed-out, and filled with dense electroacoustic textures. Then, we move from our natural landscape to a city, maybe New York. The beat kicks in, clear and dry, mixed upfront like in a Madlib track. Lucia Cadotsch sings with disarming clarity: “I am not the one to fight your war.” In that moment, the project’s great strengths converge: seemingly endless musicality, vibe, and a singer who moves effortlessly between grand stages and personal diaries with a sleepwalking confidence.

The songs paint striking scenes, a carpet rolled is out with layers and arpeggios, over which Lucia Cadotsch then steps in a black oversized blazer, dancing with angularity like a world-weary version of David Byrne from ‘Stop Making and shouting statements into the stage sky, or simply asking the question: Does it make you love your life? – Yes, it does, and the beauty of it is that there is space for everything here: euphoria, melancholy, polyrhythms, synthesizer solos that don’t sound like obligatory jazz routines but like exercises in freedom. Speaking of dancing: a series of music videos has been created in collaboration with the master of post-post-modern dance, Meg Stuart.

Here, human energy with all its rough edges, sudden twists and turns, including creative missteps and 4 a.m. ideas—was transformed into music that is independent and grand, yet connected to the world in every way. Music that recalls our earliest childhood memories but knows that genres, like gender, are fluid.“

QUOTES

„For me this is a total masterpiece. One that becomes the soundtrack of your life. It’s full of details, full of life, full of soul, amazing arrangements and deep singing.“
Kurt Rosenwinkel

„I’m kind of addicted to this one right now. It scratches an itch for something I’ve been wanting to hear for a long time but wouldn’t have known how to name…I love it. I’ve been listening to this while walking around various cities on tour.
There’s something broken-hearted but also uplifting in it.“
Aaron Parks

„This album sounds brave, multilayered, and open – like the party after all parties, like the last door in the last room that finally leads outside.“
Francesco Wilking