"Remember the name Lucia Cadotsch – you’re going to be hearing a lot of it!“, wrote to the British "Guardian" about the Swiss singer. Together with the Berlin based saxophonist and composer Wanja Slavin - according to SZ an artist "between genius and madness“ - she opens up a whole new chapter with LIUN + The Science Fiction Band: Urban music with dark beats, dazzling synths and pulsating hooks. Wanja Slavin's multilayered orchestral arrangements are contrasted with Lucia’s frank and translucent voice that cuts through the clutter. The result is a phantasmagorical world that mirrors our contemporary state as an absurd, but wonderful combination of natural and virtual elements.“

Lucia Cadotsch (voice), Bernhard Meyer (bass), Mark Pringle (synthesizer), Fabian Rösch (drums), Wanja Slavin (saxophone, keyboards)

After their highly acclaimed debut album "Time Rewind", Lucia Cadotsch and Wanja Slavin come to the stage with arrangements for large ensemble - the LIUN + THE SCIENCE FICTION ORCHESTRA.
Their obsessive exploration of the interplay between musical genres seamlessly merges analog and the digital compositional methods. Slavin’s complex, multilayered arrangements of dark, forceful beats and fragile melodic contours contrast with Lucia’s frank and translucent voice, and make this project a stunningly layered, orchestral and self-reflexive sonic universe, whose debut album Time Rewind Kurt Rosenwinkel called “an instant classic.” In a live setting, they can be spotted as a quintet and a large ensemble. ” In a live setting, they can be spotted as a quintet and a large ensemble, and a piano trio. In 2020 the band collaborated with the EOS Chamber Orchestra, and together they played scaled up arrangements of the LIUN material. Their sophomore record, titled the Lily of the Nile, will be released in the fall of this year on Heartcore records.

LUCIA CADOTSCH voice
WANJA SLAVIN alto saxophone, flute, synths, arrangements
KATI BRIEN alto saxophone, clarinet, flute
PHILLIP DORNBUSCH tenor saxophone, clarinet, flute
MAGNUS SCHRIEFL trumpet
SHANNON BARNETT trombone
JOHANNES LAUER trombone
MARK PRINGLE piano
FELIX HENKELHAUSEN double bass
FABIAN RÖSCH drums

Lucia Cadotsch (voice), Mark Pringle (synthesizer), Fabian Rösch (drums), Wanja Slavin (saxophone, keyboards)

SPEAK LOW II - the acclaimed trio of Swiss vocalist LUCIA CADOTSCH - is back with their long-awaited second long-play!

Through a rare display of musical telepathy and a clockwork of ensemble work Speak Low is demonstrating how the strength of the original concept is providing a platform for further explorations. This time they’re touching a repertoire from such different musical minds as Brian Eno, Rickie Lee Jones, Luciano Berio, and Tony Williams and yet again their unmistakable sonic trio treatment makes these originals vividly alive for a new generation of listeners, as well as for veteran music lovers in search of fresh takes on these beautiful songs. While Cadotsch challenges all common vocal Jazz traditions, Sandsjö creates skeins of feathery-toned notes and Eldh deploys the combination of strength and mobility that makes him one of the most compelling of all current bassists.

Lucia Cadotsch (voice), Frans Petter Eldh (double bass), Otis Sandsjö (tenor saxophone)