Kiki Manders

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With her widely acclaimed debut album ‘Love is yours is mine’ (2016) Kiki Manders already made a clear statement: She doesn’t fit into any category. Her voice is both powerful and fragile and she uses it in several ways, sometimes singing, sometimes as a recitative.
On her new album ‘Universe In A Shoebox’, Manders presents herself as the creative source of a delicate kaleidoscopic sound world, which brings musical finesse and sophisticated storytelling together. She alternates between improvisation and composition, in search of different soundscapes combining them into one - always in service of the songs.

Photo: Sonja Trabant

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Almost all of the ten compositions on ‘Universe In A Shoebox’ are written by Kiki Manders and are based on questions about our concept of time and space. And also about our different perceptions of reality: "If the universe would fit in a shoebox, how unbelievably small would we human beings be?" Manders wonders, and with absolute confidence she finds the perfect balance between a melodic poetic world and a flow of abstractness.

Kiki Manders - voice;
Philipp Brämswig - guitar;
Jonathan Ihlenfeld Cuñiado - bass;
Jim Black - drums

Kiki Manders

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With her widely acclaimed debut album ‘Love is yours is mine’ (2016) Kiki Manders already made a clear statement: She doesn’t fit into any category. Her voice is both powerful and fragile and she uses it in several ways, sometimes singing, sometimes as a recitative.
On her new album ‘Universe In A Shoebox’, Manders presents herself as the creative source of a delicate kaleidoscopic sound world, which brings musical finesse and sophisticated storytelling together. She alternates between improvisation and composition, in search of different soundscapes combining them into one - always in service of the songs.

Photo: Sonja Trabant

Almost all of the ten compositions on ‘Universe In A Shoebox’ are written by Kiki Manders and are based on questions about our concept of time and space. And also about our different perceptions of reality: "If the universe would fit in a shoebox, how unbelievably small would we human beings be?" Manders wonders, and with absolute confidence she finds the perfect balance between a melodic poetic world and a flow of abstractness.

Kiki Manders - voice;
Philipp Brämswig - guitar;
Jonathan Ihlenfeld Cuñiado - bass;
Jim Black - drums