Caroline Kraabel
Photo: Graham Turner
Caroline Kraabel is a London-based improviser, saxophonist and composer. She conducts and plays with the London Improvisers Orchestra (LIO). Sometimes she improvises solo while walking in London and elsewhere (broadcast over several years on Resonance 104.4 FM as Taking a Life for a Walk and Going Outside). She works with many other excellent improvisers, including Robert Wyatt, Maggie Nicols, John Edwards, Louis Moholo, Cleveland Watkiss, Hyelim Kim, Susan Alcorn, Sarah Washington, and Charlotte Hug.
During 2020-21 Kraabel has performed live (off- and on-line) and while walking through London; made and shared many recordings of duo and solo live improvisation; made a number of socially distanced large-group pieces for the LIO; was artist-in-residence at UNCOOL in Poschiavo, Switzerland; and worked on her 40-minute music/film piece about lockdown London (London 26 and 28 March 2020: imitation: inversion), which received its avant-première at London’s Café Oto on 25 February 2021, is available on the Jazzed app, and is a nominee for a 2021 Ivor Award for Sound Art Composer.
She releases ephemeral solo pieces as part of Lonely Impulse Collective.
www.masskraabel.com
carolinekraabel.bandcamp.com
londonimprovisersorchestra.bandcamp.com
lonelyimpulsecollective.bandcamp.com
jazzed.com
