Prepared

Prepared are a Munich-based, free-spirited modern jazz trio using chamber music aesthetics. Composed of pianist Chris Gall, clarinetist Florian Riedl, and drummer Christoph Holzhauser, their compositions and improvisations -- most often created in multi-part movements -- awaken impulses for movement in trance-like sound spaces. They employ cyclic motifs and intricately layered patterns that merge in highly virtuosic compositions created AS a minimalist, mesmerizing Gesamtkunstwerk (translated: "total work of art"). Their approach combines various influences -- Steve Reich, Jon...