"This is pregnant-with-portent-themed music full of subtle dramatic tension..""delightfully disorienting""Maluba Orchestra is stimulating and fascinating but also inconsistent and one gets the feeling its makers wouldn’t have it any other way."
- Mark Keresman New York City Jazz Record February 2020
"The music is an absolute brilliant display of what European Orchestral Jazz is all about. It combines perfectly the entire kaleidoscope of Jazz sub-genres, from Swing to Free, and offers complex but coherent compositions, superb arrangements and of course sublime execution by the orchestra members."
"Each and every one of the composition is a true gem, and the entire album offers a diverse, stylistically and more importantly aesthetically perfect equilibrium of sensitivity and good taste, which characterizes European Jazz at its best."
- Adam Baruch The Sound Track of My Life
"colourfully orchestrated, vibrant debut"."Unlike so many attempts at contemporary genre-bridging, Maluba Rochestra's versality enhancesrather than inhibit cohesion and, hence, meaning."
- Selwyn Harris Jazzwise, February 2020
"ett riktigt spännande band som har hittat en egen väg vid sidan av det traditionella storbandsformatet och gör något nytt av jazz i stor ensemble. "
- Rasmus Klockljung Lira
"It’s quite possible that you won’t like everything you hear, at least to begin with, but there’s so much variety, such a range of moods and textures in this music, that it’ll charm you in the end." "..this Danish ensemble has evolved an idiom all of its own, in which improvisation and composition live happily together".
"Not only is it exciting and full of surprises, it also amounts to a technical tour de force by all concerned."
- Dave Gelly The Guardian
★★★★☆
"Ein wirklich gehaltvolles und abwechslungsreiches Album mit spannender Musik. Das Maluba Orchestra hat die Klangfülle einer Big Band und die Frische einer jungen Kleinformation."
- Uwe Braütigam nrwjazz.net (Das Jazzportal für Nordrhein-Westfalen)
“Et magisk ensemble”
[“A magical ensemble”]
-Henrik Palle
❤️❤️❤️❤️ i Politiken
“Der er så meget at glæde sig over med Maluba Orchestra.”
“Maluba Orchestra er meget let at holde af, når man som jazzfan sætter pris på nye originale og udfordrende kompositioner der får musikerne til, at vise deres bedste sider frem. “
“Her fra bloggen får de en kæmpestor anbefaling.”
[“There’s so much to enjoy about Maluba Orchestra”
“Maluba Orchestra is easy to love, when you're the kind of jazz fan, that appreciates new original and challenging compositions that make the musicians really shine”.
“Highly recommended by this blog”]
- Niels Overgård
Jazznytblogspot.com
“das Ergebnis ist sehr abwechslungsreich und frisch im Ausdruck, sehr persönlich geprägt und wert, dass man sich dieses Klangerlebnis gönnt.”
“ein kleines Hörabenteuer ersten Ranges voller schöpferischer Energie”
[“the result is very varied and freshn, very personal and you should really treat yourself to this experience in sound.”
“a listening adventure of the first order full of creative energy,”]
- Wolfgang Giese
Music an sich “17” (=Sehr empfehlenswert)
"man öffnet die ganz große der Postmoderne und freut sich, dass es von allem etwas gibt und das auch noch in ansprechender, wohldurchdachter Ausfertigung." "Dass trotz alledem eine äußerst homogene Klangwelt entsteht, spricht für die Klasse der dreizehn Musikerinnen und Musiker."
- Werner Stiefele, 21.09.2019 ⦁⦁⦁⦁
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