Soap, feat. Magnum Coltrane Price

Since all members of this incredible band had grown sick & tired of playing jazz-music nobody really wants to dance or party to, they had to figure out a way to make improvised music more appealing for a young Berlin audience that wants to be entertained without any challenge. The answer was easy: everyone likes TV (even those who don’t know yet) – and TV is no challenge at all. So they put a few computers on stage along with all these acoustic, electronic and somewhere-in-between instruments and messed up all their childhood heroes’ theme music – and there was only one directive: anything may happen – anytime.

Evolved beyond that, today SOAP comes up with a fine repertoire of very special own songs. You wouldn't call it compositions though – it’s all session-grown material – constantly developing …

“This is wonderfully crazy. It’s an example of what we all should know a bit more about, the incredibly diverse jazz scene in Berlin that’s, er, wonderfully crazy.”
Stuart Nicholson/Jazzwise 09/07

Eva Kruse can also be heard with the Arne Jansen Trio and Firomanum.