Cologne Jazzweek: Vehicle / Passenger

Vehicle/Passenger is a transatlantic trio with Cologne bassist Florian Herzog, New York drummer Lesley Mok and Amsterdam spoken word artist and saxophonist Marc Alberto. The three recently released "Live In Amsterdam" as a vinyl LP. It features six collectively improvised tracks, whose music only takes shape and form in the process of joint improvisation and which is acoustically grounded by the abstract sounds of modular synthesizers operated by Herzog and Alberto and is radical in its intention through personal expression. With the shimmering pulse and buzzing rhythms of Mok's drumming, the music begins to pulsate as if it were a living body. And when Alberto recites his poems to it, the setting of Vehicle/Passenger takes on an urgency and poignancy that one would not have thought possible.