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Open in the appAlbum Release Concert Kairos: "An Analysis of Important Things" Nellie Hächler: text and voice Nils Wogram - trombone, melodica Anna Trauffer – double bass, glass harp, vocals Philipp Schaufelberger - guitar Nils Wogram & Nellie Hächler in the space between jazz and poetry A… Album Release Concert Kairos: "An Analysis of Important Things" Nellie Hächler: text and voice Nils Wogram - trombone, melodica Anna Trauffer – double bass, glass harp, vocals Philipp Schaufelberger - guitar Nils Wogram & Nellie Hächler in the space between jazz and poetry A father-daughter project that doesn't want to be one: Nellie Hächler's prose poems and Nils Wogram's music encounter each other with two other distinctive musical personalities in an unusual dialogue of word, sound and time. Jazz lives from temporary alliances, which people like to call projects or workshops, ideally as bands. In very few exceptions does this relationship run much deeper. One of these special cases is the album "Kairos" with trombonist Nils Wogram and actress, word artist and reciter Nellie Hächler, because this is a father-daughter project. Admittedly, this has happened before, though rarely. But what's special is that Nils Wogram and Nellie Hächler don't collaborate because, but rather although they are father and daughter. On "Kairos" two independent artistic personalities find their way to a dialogue to tell something they've never had the chance to tell before. In Greek, Kairos means the right moment for a decision. "Kairos" by Wogram and Hächler is anything but a continuation of the long jazz-prose tradition from German lands, because Nellie Hächler and Nils Wogram appear together with guitarist Philipp Schaufelberger and bassist and vocalist Anna Trauffer as an organic quartet, in which only one member plays with memories and observations instead of an instrument. It's a conversation of generations, in which completely different means are chosen to carry out this dialogue. The profundity of this exchange may not reveal itself on first listen, because Nellie Hächler has the rare gift of fitting great thoughts into small formats to…