Pablo Gīw & Mariel Roberts

Trumpeter Pablo Gīw from Cologne and New York cellist Mariel Roberts present their first duo record „Kryo“ which releases on February 17, 2023.

The duo plays a spacious landscape music, creating huge horizontal lines and tiny sounding mountains, a cosmos that gathers in the corner of a frozen creek. Both musicians extend their instruments sound capabilities with a versatile palette of extended playing techniques as well as effect pedals, to create a calm yet complex improvised music.

Mariel Roberts - cello, fx
Pablo Gīw - trumpet, fx

listen to kryo here

The Cologne trumpeter, improviser & performer Pablo Giw has created his own canon since 2010 with his bands (including DUS-TI, Stellar Banger, Turnbull/Giw), interdisciplinary projects (SUM with Kelvin Kilonzo, theatre music) and above all his concerts and releases as a soloist (debut album »Never is Always«): Complexity and minimalism, chopped up, sharp-edged sound fragments and lyrical excursions, precise rhythm and free interactions combine to create a unique expression.

American cellist and composer Mariel Roberts is widely recognized not just for her “virtuosic” performances, but as a “fearless explorer” (Chicago Reader) in her field. Her passion for collaboration and experimentation as an interpreter, improvisor, and composer have helped create a body of work which bridges avant-garde, contemporary, jazz, classical, and traditional music. Roberts has been hailed as “one of the most adventurous figures on New York’s new music scene—one with a thorough grounding in classical tradition but a ravenous appetite for and tireless discipline in new work.” (Bandcamp).