Our little rough creature sees the light of day.
May I introduce LABOUR, the first single from our album LA PLUME DU DIMANCHE.
There is a music video that tells one of many personal stories of Labour (fieldwork).

Karsten Hochapfel - cello
Fabiana Striffler - violin

Created in Paris, released on the Parisian label Wopela. Composition by Fabiana and Karsten, produced by both of them.
Recorded by Raphaël Allain and François Longo at Studio 12ter Montreuil. Mixed and mastered by Martin Ruch. Artwork by Fabiana.

"La Plume Du Dimanche" is the name of the full album by Berlin violinist Fabiana Striffler with Parisian cellist Karsten Hochapfel. The two musicians share the same weakness for improvisation, psychedelic folk, jazz, experimental music, but also for a simple song and the beauty of a melody. In "La Plume Du Dimanche", the two musicians move outside of classical patterns in an almost carefree and intuitive way, searching for a common form of expression without getting caught up in the maelstrom of the high culture of their respective instruments that has developed over the centuries. They are interested in unconventional approaches to questions of a musical and social nature. The internationally established duo experiences music as an energy of life, as a playground, as a place of new discoveries and as an opportunity to experience and facilitate encounters. The violinist moved to Paris for six months in 2022. The album created at this time documents the beginning of their collaboration and makes us look forward to further releases.

Concerts to celebrate the physical release:
April 30th in Berlin (Intergalaktischer Kulturverein),
May 1st in Berlin (Donau115)
May 21st in Paris (A.E.R.I, 57 Rue Etienne Marcel, 93100 Montreuil).
September 6th Paris (Souffle Continu)

Fabiana Striffler is a German violinist and composer who was nominated in 2022 for the Deutscher Jazzpreis.
In 2021, she released her third album Archiotíc: « More coherent than ever (…) allowing virtuosity and humor to dance around each other (…) in a way rarely heard » Deutschlandfunk Kultur. Radio Bremen Zwei describes her as one of the « most sought-after violinists in German jazz and pop ».

Karsten Hochapfel is an instrumentalist, arranger and composer in the trio The Archetypal Syndicate (trance-rock), Odeia (songs of the world), La Cosmologie de la Poire (music from an imaginary world), Fabiana Striffler & Karsten Hochapfel (chamber duo).
He is also a cellist and/or guitarist in different groups: Le Cri du Caire (Victoire du Jazz 2023), Matthieu Donarier’s Bestiare, the 4tet/5tet/6tet of Louise Jallu, Naissam Jalal & the Rhythms of Resistance.
credits

Compositions by Fabiana (5,7,12), Karsten (1,3,6,8,10) and both of them (2,4,9,13). Oy Rana Rana (11) is a Belarusian folksong.
Recorded by Raphaël Allain and François Longo at Studio 12ter Montreuil in autumn 2022. Mixed and mastered by Martin Ruch.
Produced by Fabiana Striffler and Karsten Hochapfel.
Artwork by Jean-Luc Chamroux. Thanks to Lucien Alfonso, Anne Laurin, Jörg Hochapfel and the Cité Internationale des Arts Paris.