Actual Mix of my works as a drummer/composer.

Max Andrzejewski - different works

SIDE A of the album "3 Seconds" by TRAINING and John Dieterich
Released on Fun in the Church in November 2021

Johannes Schleiermacher - sax, flute, Buchla Music Easel, composition
Max Andrzejewski - drums, voice, composition, synth
John Dieterich - guitar, piano, voice, composition, mix, master

»Go outside. Stay inside. Look at the closest thing to you. A random, banal event. Ants being busy, grasses being automatically taken care of and electric divinations of every second object-machine companion on your desk. What you see is not what you see. Neither is what you see what you hear. Coming together of multiplicity of multiple affairs. What we hear is the heated-up bodies of uncountable ants crawling on what we call the earth – a composition and decomposition of countless microscopic movements? Or we hear the touch of the wind and the leaves of an ancient tree who has seen and smelled who knows what?« (Işıl Karataş)

Corona-Winter 2020. The great TRAINING are to play a concert at Jazzfest-Berlin together with John Dieterich from Deerhoof. Based on field recordings that they have previously recorded and processed into loops. 3 Seconds Loops. Three seconds. But the concert could not take place as planned due to Corona. John Dieterich was not allowed to travel from the USA to Berlin. The festival could not take place with a live audience anyway.
But an extraordinary performance took place. John sent more audio tracks to Berlin, and TRAINING processed them live in the streaming concert. It resulted in one of the most gripping, intense streaming gigs of last year.
From the described live sessions, but also from the teaser tracks released in advance by Jazzfest Berlin, an album has now been created! The accompanying video work is by Işıl Karataş - she accompanied the whole project with her visual worlds.

We would like to sincerely thank Jazzfest Berlin and rbbKultur for their co-operation, which made this fantastic, space-, time- and pandemic-spanning project possible in the first place. And Goethe Institute for their support.

TRAINING & John Dieterich - "3 Seconds" Side A

'Sister' by Edmund Finnis (2013) Lucy Railton - Cello, Aisha Orazbayeva - Violin

1st single of the new Hütte album - coming in September 2023 on Fun in the Church.

Fließen

Berliner Ensemble and Ersan Mondtag commissioned four ouvertures for "wagner - der ring des nibelungen (a piece like fresh chopped eschenwood)" recomposed by Thomas Köck - with no audible Wagner involved. Premiere on june 3rd 2021.

I wrote music for a stellar 12 piece ensemble of classical musicians and improvisers.

The compositions decontextualize tiny bits of the original Wagner ouvertures. A motive, a tempo, a piece of noise from an original recording... sometimes in the process I just played drums to the original ouvertures and used these drum recordings as a starting point for writing.

The pieces will be released as an album on backlash music on march 4th.

Moritz Ter-Nedden – violin
Grégoire Simon – violin 
Friedemann Slenczka – viola 
Ragnar Jonsson – violoncello 
James Banner - double bass
Laure Mourot - flute
Miguel Perez Inesta - clarinet 
Isaac Shaw – french horn 
Maria Schneider – vibraphone
Arne Braun – guitar 
Jörg Hochapfel - keyboard, piano 
Max Andrzejewski - composition, drumset

MYTHOS III

gyres océaniques
'le 7ème continent'
talking trash

Pascal Niggenkemper - double bass, composition
Joris Rühl - clarinets
Joachim Badenhorst - clarinets
Eve Risser - piano
Philip Zoubek - piano
Julián Elvira - sub-contrabass & pronomos - flute

... "an artificial world, in the midst of the ocean, accidentally created by man" ... 

Reports and images of floating garbage in the ocean, named the "seventh continent or “the Great Pacific garbage patch" called my attention, made me think and at the same time encouraged me to put this absurd reality into music. 

The goal of this musical project is to make this 'seventh continent' sing, hiss, whirr, buzz and scream. Creating a wall of sound and rhythm, from where colors, patterns, melodies, and improvisations arise. 

The sextet, which includes musicians from France, Germany, Austria, Spain and Belgium, consists of two identical instrumented trios or three identical duos, with the exception of the double bass, which has the sub-contrabass flute as it's pendant.

'le 7ème continent', gyres océaniques

My album SUMMEN was released via SN Variations in February 2025. Music for string quartet (Ensemble Resonanz !) and improvised drum set (Max himself). A very personal piece, based on a fragment of a childhood composition by Max. Summen was originally commissioned by Beethovenfest Bonn. Accompanied by second piece Schwarm based on the image and function of swarms.

& Ensemble Resonanz: Das Summen Meiner Teile

& Ensemble Resonanz: Schwarm II

THAT'S LIFE

Rhythm-a-Ning
c. T. Monk

Paul Santner - Guitar
Declan Forde - Piano
James Banner - Bass
Max Andrzejewski - Drums

Recorded live in Berlin November 2016

Rhythm-a-Ning

baloni belleke
Joachim Badenhorst-cl
Frantz Loriot-viola
PN-bass
clean feed records 2014
www.pascalniggenkemper.com/baloni.html

baloni belleke

Audio diary, 11/04/20
All sounds recorded at 51°28'18.9"N 0°02'09.2"W

11th April

“Zauberburg” was commissioned by PODIUM Festival Esslingen. It is the first release from Max Andrzejewski in which his only role is that of composer.

It premiered in October 2020 at PODIUM Festival shortly before Germany went into its second, pandemic lockdown and was presented as a staged concert with multi channel electronics and one actor.

Apropos of our time, Zauberburg deals with the topic of illness and questions the value of the human body. The compositions are based on several sources-- interviews with citizens from Esslingen about their views on illness, inner-growth and death; excerpts from Thomas Mann’s “Magic Mountain”; PDFs of hospital statistics; medical questionnaires filled out by ensemble members; and organic processes such as breathing.
credits
releases April 16, 2021

#1, #2, #4, #5, #6, #8, #10 recorded by Martin Ruch
#3, #7, #9 and the choir recorded by Jonas Hinz
Mixed and mastered by Martin Ruch, Control Room Berlin in fall and winter 2020/2021

Artwork by Ragnar Jonsson

Moritz Ter-Nedden– violin I
Florian Willeitner – violin II, soulfiddle
Nina Kazourian – viola
Ragnar Jonsson – violoncello
Hugo Rodríguez Herrero – clarinet, bass clarinet
Lisa Ströckens – soprano
Isaac Shaw – french horn
Maria Schneider – drums, mallets
Arne Braun – guitars
Esslinger Vocalensemble - choir

Gerrit Netzlaff – musical assistance and effects operator

Max Andrzejewski - composition and electronics

Lyrics of „Röntgen“ by Thomas Mann (Der Zauberberg, Fischer Verlag)
Lyrics of "Lisa" and „Liebe" by Jeffrey Döring
Lyrics of „An dieser Erfahrung auch zu wachsen“ and „Tage mehr Leben geben“ are from interviews with people from the project partners in Esslingen, edited by Max Andrzejewski

Zauberburg was funded by the program »Gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt – Förderung von künstlerischen und kulturellen Projekten«

Thanks to all interview partners, the project partners: Esslinger Klinikum, Sozialstation Esslingen, Hospiz Esslingen, KOMMA Esslingen, Esslinger Vocalensemble.
Steven Walter, Wiebke Rademacher, Pamina Rottok, Gerrit Netzlaff, and the fantastic musicians.

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Max Andrzejewski (*1986) is a drummer and composer, living in Berlin.

His energetic musical work between contemporary composition and improvised music brings him all over the world for concerts and composition commissions. 
The „maverick aesthete“ (Süddeutsche Zeitung) Max  Andrzejewski studied drums at KHM Cologne and JIB Berlin. His own band HÜTTE won one of the biggest German Jazz Prices - Neuer Deutscher Jazzpreis 2013. 
He also plays in and writes music for the experimental Rock duo TRAINING and the chamber musical group „Stemeseder Andrzejewski light/tied“. 
Max played in bands with Julien Desprez (ABACAXI), the experimental Surf band Expressway Sketches, Charles Gayle, Kalle Kalima, and many others.

Max composes contemporary music - commission works include works for Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Beethovenfest Bonn, Podium Festival Esslingen, Acht Brücken Festival, Ensemble Resonanz, Kammermusikfestival Regensburg, Thalia Theater Hamburg, Münchner Kammerspiele, Schauspiel Frankfurt, Maxim Gorki Theater a.o.
Max was on tour in Aserbaijan, Israel, Russia, Cuba, USA, Czech, Portugal, Italy, Netherlands, Egypt, Austria, Serbia, Switzerland, Poland, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Mexiko and appears on numerous albums on Traumton, Act, Pirouet, Wizmar, Unit, Jazzhaus, NWog, Whyplayjazz.

BW2017 (vl, vla, vcl, cl, git, vib, electr)

Max Andrzejewski

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