10 Euro at the door

Morphine Raum,
Köpenicker Str. 147, 10997 Berlin
Hinterhof 1. Etage

Julius Gabriel is a saxophonist whose work focuses on the exploration of his instruments in all their limits and dimensions. As a solo artist, he searches for the confluence of corporeality and transcendence. He expands his free improvisations through an ancient chapel, creates otherworldly drones through electronic manipulation, or transforms the saxophone into a hypnotic percussion instrument. His creative and genre-bending soloistic approach is manifested in several solo albums.

As a collaborator he founded the trance-inducing duo Paisiel with sound sculptor and percussionist João Pais Filipe, the dark roaming jazz group Ikizukuri with Gustavo Costa and Gonçalo Almeida, most recently reinforced by Susana Santos Silva on trumpet, the agitational avant-garde group Das Behälter fronted by writer and performer Xenia Ende, the psychedelic jazz noise quartet Blutiger Jupiter, and the reeds duo About Angels and Animals with Jan Klare. He is a member of the Barry Guy Blue Shroud Band, which brings together 14 musicians with diverse expertise and backgrounds in baroque music, jazz, folk music, contemporary classical music and free improvisation, and has played with the London Jazz Composers Orchestra under Guy’s direction.