kaja draksler

I was born in a small village in Slovenia and grew up in the countryside. My father was a train driver, my mother is an accountant. I have a younger brother who became an engineer.

At the age of 18 I moved to The Netherlands for music, the idea won over my plans to study Latin and old Greek. A few years later, I was immersed into the rich world of Amsterdam’s improvised music scene, which complemented my studies of classical composition in a great way. After 13 years in Holland, I now live between Copenhagen, Denmark, and Trboje, Slovenia, with regular visits to Amsterdam and Berlin.

Welcome to my website.

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News:

My collection of interviews On Innovation and the Future of Music (and art) is out digitally! The printed, 200 copies limited edition will premiere on August 1st (already available for preorder). The zine features drawings by Szymon Gąsiorek and is designed by Maga Ćwieluch.

Hearth's debut album Melt out on Clean Feed!

The renown Polish label Szara Reneta released a limited edition casette + mini casette Amagerbrogade 216B. A project by Michał Biel includes field recordings, musique concrète, noise, hisses, and two house concert recordings (one of them my solo) treated as field recordings.

Kiebitz & Uhu's first single Entschuldigung is now available on Bandcamp, Youtube, and other streaming services.

Punkt.Vrt.Plastik's second album Somit is out on INTAKT Records. Watch the trailer here.

I did my first ever remix as Pani Oko for Pimpono Ensemble x ____ album It's Not About Fun REMIXED. Musicians who also contributed to this very colorful album are: Trakt Abstraktu, Maciej Maciągowski, M8N, Brak Oczu, Solo Gemini, Din Pile, Gianluca Elia, Ogryzek and remo wschód.

My interviews about the future of music and musicians' relationship with the concept of innovation are going to be available in physical form in a couple of months. Working on it!

I started a Bandcamp page. Old and new music available here.

No need to mention that bunch of my concerts in the near future are being canceled due to coronavirus... I am keeping the Agenda updated.

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RECENT VIDEOS:

Punkt.Vrt.Plastik FRAUSTADT

Kiebitz & Uhu ENTSCHULDIGUNG

Kaja Draksler & Irena Tomažin for Glasbeni cikel JUTRI

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