Cologne Jazzweek: Karen Willems – Terre Sol Four

Karen Williams originally started her "Terre Sol" as a solo project with which the drummer and percussionist, born in Belgium in 1979, wanted to explore and reveal her real and imaginary roots. Her aim was to find music in which she could find herself as a spiritual being as well as a creative artist. She is concerned with the essence of her own work, the perception of her own personality and the further development of jazz as an art of fusing different aesthetics and genres. For the Belgian, jazz is also a communicative form of music that seeks dialog and discourse in order to discover new things and explore the unknown. For this reason, Williams has added a "Four" to her "Terre Sol" in order to set out as a quartet of four in search of the essence of contemporary, improvised music and to move sure-footedly along the borderline between jazz and improvised music, pop and rock, experimental music and musical avant-garde.