immerweiter is the quartet of German, Berlin-based young pianist and composer Julius Windisch, experimenting with rhythmically complex forms and the possibilities of transforming electronic sound aesthetics to his acoustic jazz quartet, inspired by the 1990s techno and the electronic IDM and ambient music of Aphex Twin (aka Richard David James). Live at Morphine Raum is the sophomore album of immerweiter, recorded at Morphine Raum Berlin in November 2024.
immerweiter features Windisch on piano, synth, and electronics, trumpeter Pascal Klewer, Greek double bass player Sofia Eftychidou, and drummer. Windisch was fascinated by the fact that with electronic music, it is possible to create unlimited sounds without being limited by one’s own instrument. Another surprising, important influence on Windisch’s music for immerweiter was German contemporary composer Wolfgang Rihm and his method of layering musical forms, combining emotional intensity with a conceptual, intellectual framework.
Windisch sees himself as a musical chronicler of his time. His thoughtful compositions for the immerweiter quartet adapt the vocabulary and the syntax and the raw, energetic beats of the early 1990s techno scene and the sonic aesthetics of Aphex Twin into a present-day jazz quartet aesthetic with its complex polyrhythmic dynamics and melodic intensity, opening new possibilities.
But Windisch’s music also reflects the current times. He thinks that the turbulent, fragile 1990s have much in common with the current era, a time that feels equally fragile, shaped by uncertainty and anxiety about the future. in the face of the climate crisis, wars, and social injustice. immerweiter (always moving forward in German), suggests a comforting mantra: life goes on, things continue, they have to. immerweiter functions as a sonic haven, and its clever, layered music suggests a place of longing, a space where fragile emotions can be processed and new perspectives can emerge, a utopian idea or a field of possibilities, and not only a musical one.
Eyal Hareuveni
Julius Windisch (piano, synth, electronics), Pascal Klewer (trumpet), Sofia Eftychidou (double bass), Marius Wankel (drums)
