SUPERLUFT are a collective of improvisers from Vienna and Berlin. They play their way through a universe of noises, grooves, silence, funky tunes, air, rhythm, words and Dadaistic fragments of speech.
Trombonist Anke Lucks and baritone saxophonist Almut Schlichting founded the SUPERLUFT trio in 2022 together with speaker and voice artist Christian Reiner. The concept of making experimental improvised music together with the air of breath was obvious and had previously been successfully tested in Reiner’s ensemble LUFT.
The SUPERLUFT cosmos is open to different ensemble sizes. Depending on the occasion and venue, Reiner, Lucks and Schlichting invite other woodwind and brass players, voice performers and singers for one or more concerts. Their common ground is air as the basis for their work, a willingness to experiment with sound and space and an enthusiasm for spontaneous communication.
After concerts at the Jazz&TheCity Festival in Salzburg in 2022 and the SuperGau Festival in Lungau in 2023, the trio expanded into a quartet with drummer Christian Marien for two workshop concerts at the Vekks in Vienna.
Bass clarinettist Susanna Gartmayer will be playing with SUPERLUFT at the Konfrontationen Festival 2025 in Nickelsdorf.
SUPERLUFT Reiner / Lucks / Schlichting
Anke Lucks – trombone
Almut Schlichting – baritone saxophone
Christian Reiner – voice
field recordings at SuperGau-Festival Lungau (May 2023)
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SUPERLUFT Reiner / Lucks / Schlichting / Marien
Anke Lucks – trombone
Almut Schlichting – baritone saxophone
Christian Reiner – voice
Christian Marien – drums
Werkstatt-Konzert listening examples from Vienna (October 2024):
„The Berlin musicians Almut Schlichting (baritone saxophone) and Anke Lucks (trombone) interact as if from a single mould, with Christian Reiner contributing words, snippets of words, babble, Dadaist and improvised texts. At Vekks, the Kost-nix shop in Vienna-Meidling, we are dealing with the trio Superluft – including a Berlin guest on drums, the marvellous Christian Marien. After three quarters of an hour of great verbal and musical impromptu music, Superluft unexpectedly – and incidentally also once part of a Simpsons episode – serves up Word Up!, the big hit from the 80s by Cameo, sung by Christian Reiner in an enchantingly theatrical way. “ (Freistil 02/2024)
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