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COSMOS (Not Enough)
Fundamental Monodrama Festival - Monolab

DER BESUCH DER ALTEN DAME
Theaer Esch

AXIS MUNDI Ley & Payfert + Boffo & Öztürk
New album on its way

News & Reviews

IN BETWEEN (JHM 292) 

Sascha Ley's sources of inspiration are majestic. She literally feeds the audience with her deep songs, her voice carries, carries away. Her melodies are ethereal and ghostly, her singing is haunting. Lëtzebuerger Vollek

Hard to believe what this woman can do with her voice.  Ley moves between all categories, and stylistically her vocal art can hardly be labeled either - she permanently crosses the borders between jazz, contemporary classical music, free improvisation, stylized folklore, sound experiments, rap or electronic tinkering. When Ley coos, whispers, recites in several languages [..] her "songs", stories and sound collages are like chapters of an emotional diary.  SZ (DE)

Her first solo reveals a unique multi-layered lyrical world interspersed with experimental songs. Hiroki Sugita, Portrait in Jazz JP 

A truly impressive voice. A remarkable CD. Michael  van Gee, Radio Dreyeckland 

Sascha Ley dares and wins all along the line. Ley tries things out, communicating nonverbally, layering different soundtracks of her voice. "In Between" : One indeed lands in an in-between realm. It is an exciting place. Jazz Podium DE

A singular artist. "In Between" is a whole work, a choreography, almost a conductor's score, of an incredible intensity, with different and very rich atmospheres. Her art is impressive. A singer who bewitches you. A voice that fills the space. Radio RCF FR (listen to the show)

The singer has a sense of nuance and narration. She masters her effects. Sascha unsettles and amazes us. The whole concert (like the record) is a journey, an experience and a reflection on life, society, the place of women, and memories. It's class. It is very personal and quite unique. It's a concert (a performance) to be experienced. Jazzques BE

Dazzlingly, the singer, musician and actress Sascha Ley [...] impressed with her singing and vocal artistry... masters the throat singing technique of the Inuit, sometimes reminding of the African world music of "Zap Mama" and in her free spirit of the great old Meredith Monk. But her titles never seem epigonal, she always transforms the material into something of her own. Saarbrücker Zeitung

The experimental album is tailor-made for the stage. Sascha Ley plays her voice like a violin. She cradles her invisible instrument [..] makes easily accessible what is not easily accessible. Mixing crazy bravura pieces and warmer songs, In Between definitely hits the bull's eye.  D’Land LU 

A great storyteller, he explores what can be done with the voice - and that's a lot! She improvises, shouts, trills, growls, pants and sings, holds a dialogue with herself, explores different resonances. MELODIVA DE

With her musical concept, Sascha Ley seems to me to be a personality who stands somewhat apart from the so-called jazz scene and is very interesting not only for that reason.  Jazz-Fun Magazine DE 

An astonishing collage of voices, improvisations and little stories [..]  the singer is radical and singular, juggling with words, language and vocalisms in 17 crazy but catchy songs. Le Quotidien LU

Curious sound structures and little stories in the tone of Hirsch. But with undeniably its own charm and wit, as she juggles there with prose, poetry, glossolalia and droning waves and also whistling, conjuring up a very peculiar mono-musical. Badalchemy DE

Interviews 

“I am and will always be an explorer”
Le Quotidien

You have always navigated between theater, film, dance and music. Which artist are you?
The entire interview

„Sot emol“ Radio 100,7 

Feeling at home in free improvised music 

[...] On her musical way Sascha Ley developed an awareness for the world of sounds. 

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