Rebecca Trescher, Andreas Feith - Changing Perspectives (2025)

“Changing perspectives” is something that the composer and clarinetist Rebecca Trescher has always set out to do, but this is no easy task. On one hand, she has to remain immersed in the musical activity as it happens, while on the other she strives to always remain aware of external perspectives and other ways of hearing, asking herself: Is this actually working the way I imagined? What might still be missing, and what could give it a decisive touch or the necessary kick?

These might at first seem to be the concerns of a control freak. But with growing development and maturity, Trescher, who was born in Tübingen and lives in Nuremburg, has learned to relinquish excessive control and has long since refined the art of letting go. […]

Together, Rebecca Trescher’s troupe created intoxicating soundscapes, plots with striking twists and turns, and scenes that those who follow them will long remember. Take, for example, a piece like “Farn” [fern], which is dedicated to these beautiful plants. The music begins with sounds that seem to harbor a secret, then moves on to a dramatic sequence that somehow heralds impending doom. As she was composing, Trescher was animated by an awareness that nature sometimes takes back what civilization has stolen from it. With slow but inexorable force, plants are then able to entwine buildings that were once inhabited by humans.

Many of the other pieces on “Changing Perspectives” also possess this almost cinematic quality that international critics have repeatedly noted in Rebecca Trescher’s music. Listeners quickly find themselves in an “enchanted garden” – which is also the name of a two-part composition on the album inspired by the music and personality of the Brazilian musical sorcerer Hermeto Pascoal.

Rebecca Trescher, clarinet, bass clarinet, composition
Andreas Feith, piano, composition
Phil Donkin, double bass
Tobias Backhaus, drums
Additional musicians:
Theresia Philipp, alto saxophone (track 3, 4, 6, 9, 10)
Joachim Lenhardt, tenor saxophone, flute (track 3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10)
Philipp Brämswig, guitar, fx (all, except track 7)

Recorded at DLF Cologne by Christian Heck, Michael Morawietz and Lukas Fehling in September 2024
Mixed by Christian Heck
Radio Producer for DLF: Thomas Loewner
Mastering by Christoph Stickel
Produced by Rebecca Trescher

TRACKLIST

1. Rebecca Trescher, Andreas Feith, Theresia Philipps, Joachim Lenhardt, Philipp Brämswig, Phil Donkin, Tobias Backhaus - Mäandern
2. Rebecca Trescher, Andreas Feith, Theresia Philipps, Joachim Lenhardt, Philipp Brämswig, Phil Donkin, Tobias Backhaus - Farn
3. Rebecca Trescher, Andreas Feith, Theresia Philipps, Joachim Lenhardt, Philipp Brämswig, Phil Donkin, Tobias Backhaus - Choral To Zaubergarten
4. Rebecca Trescher, Andreas Feith, Theresia Philipps, Joachim Lenhardt, Philipp Brämswig, Phil Donkin, Tobias Backhaus - Zaubergarten
5. Rebecca Trescher, Andreas Feith, Theresia Philipps, Joachim Lenhardt, Philipp Brämswig, Phil Donkin, Tobias Backhaus - Song for the Night - Dedicated to Carla Bley
6. Rebecca Trescher, Andreas Feith, Theresia Philipps, Joachim Lenhardt, Philipp Brämswig, Phil Donkin, Tobias Backhaus - Nautical Twilight
7. Rebecca Trescher, Andreas Feith, Theresia Philipps, Joachim Lenhardt, Philipp Brämswig, Phil Donkin, Tobias Backhaus - Veils of Fog
8. Rebecca Trescher, Andreas Feith, Theresia Philipps, Joachim Lenhardt, Philipp Brämswig, Phil Donkin, Tobias Backhaus - Changing Perspectives
9. Rebecca Trescher, Andreas Feith, Theresia Philipps, Joachim Lenhardt, Philipp Brämswig, Phil Donkin, Tobias Backhaus - Where We Belong
10. Rebecca Trescher, Andreas Feith, Theresia Philipps, Joachim Lenhardt, Philipp Brämswig, Phil Donkin, Tobias Backhaus - Nachsinnen