In their new program MINUIT À SAINT TROPEZ, SUBSYSTEM & DAVIS WEST dive into the world of French Jazz & Swing – from Django Reinhardt to Boris Vian. The resulting music is a surrealistic collage, Faux Latin grooves mixed with noise improvisations and chamber music miniatures, a multicultural melting pot between Paris, New York and Berlin.
A first successful performance of the project took place in June 2023 as part of Berlin’s concert series “Encore!!! Django Reinhardt and French Jazz”, supported by the Berlin Senate.
Davis West is a Japanese-American violinist and songwriter who knows how to bring musical worlds together and is at home in jazz, classical music and bluegrass fiddle styles. Saxophonist Almut Schlichting and double bassist Sven Hinse have been active in Berlin for 25 years in the fields of jazz, contemporary music, performance and theatre music. They have been playing together in various bands for 20 years, including 10 years in the duo Subsystem.
With inventiveness, wit and virtuosity, the three musicians explore the possibilities of this unusual trio.
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Davis West
Davis West is a Japanese-American violinist and songwriter with roots in jazz, classical and bluegrass.
Davis earned his bachelor’s degree in violin performance from the University of Michigan, where he was a member of the jazz and classical music departments. He then completed the master’s program in contemporary performance (production emphasis) at Berklee College of Music in Valencia, Spain.
He has had the privilege of sharing the stage with artists of various styles including: Al Di Meola, Chris Thile, Benny Golson, David Halen, Christian Howes, Philippe Quint, Geri Allen, Byron Stripling, Ben E. King, Audra McDonald, and with his mentors Gary Willis and Casey Driessen.
Today Davis lives in Berlin. In addition to performing and recording, Davis is also an accomplished composer, arranger and producer. He recently released “Bedroom Bluegrass”, a twelve track album that showcases his own ever-changing take on post-modern bluegrass and bedroom-produced pop
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Almut Schlichting
has been working as a saxophonist, composer and curator in Berlin for 25 years in the fields of jazz, contemporary music, performance and theater music.
Currently she is mostly on the road with the duo Subsystem, the quartet Bauhauskapellentraum and the trio Insomnia Brass Band with numerous concerts in jazz clubs and at festivals.
In recent years, Almut Schlichting has received several grants from the Berlin Senate and the Musikfonds for her composition projects, her band work and her audio productions.
“This extremely stimulating music is dazzling, witty and prickly…” (Jazzpodium about Shoot the Moon)
Sven Hinse
studied electric bass and double bass at the Berlin University of the Arts and is also a graduate of the popular music contact course at the Hamburg University of Music and Drama.
Sven Hinse works regularly as a jazz, radio play and theater musician for WDR, RBB and the Deutsches Theater Berlin, among others.
In recent years, he has received various project grants and scholarships, including from the Musikfonds and GEMA.
“Whether plucking, bowing, tapping, scraping or delicately bowing, Sven Hinse elicited completely new sounds and noises from the double bass.” HNA, Kassel