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:

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. The CD will be available on the label's and on my own Bandcamp.

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 RELEASES:

Kiebitz & Uhu: Entschuldigung, April 2021

Punkt.Vrt.Plastik: Somit, March 2021

Doek Composes: Guest Edition no.1, December 2020

Doek Composes: Passage by K. Draksler, November 2020

John Butcher, Stale Liavik Solberg, Kaja Draksler: at Kafé Hærverk, November 2020

Feecho: Live at Vancouver International Jazz Festival, September 2020

Christian Lillinger's Open Form For Society: LIVE, August 2020

Czajka & Puchacz: BIVALIŠČA, May 2020

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RECENT VIDEOS:

Kiebitz & Uhu ENTSCHULDIGUNG

Kaja Draksler & Irena Tomažin for Glasbeni cikel JUTRI

Kaja Draksler & Irena Tomažin for City of Asylum Pittsburgh, Jazz Poetry Month

Kaja Draksler Octet: DANAS, JUČER, SUTRA

An interview with Tomaž Grom for Centralala.

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