Double Concert: Wooli DUO + Elena Kakaliagou SOLO

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PANDAjazz: Wooli DUO + Elena Kakaliagou SOLO
PANDAjazz: Wooli DUO + Elena Kakaliagou SOLO
17/06/26
Doors 20.00 | Start 20.30
Admission 10 euro

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Knaackstraße 97 (im kleinen Hof der Kulturbrauerei), 10435 Berlin

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Wooli Duo

Fan-Qi Wu — pipa

Michael Lee Sørenmo — drums

Wooli (無理 / 우리) is an avant-garde folk duo formed by Taiwanese pipa player Fan-Qi Wu and Norwegian drummer Michael Lee Sørenmo. Since their debut in Oslo in April 2024, the duo has played across Europe at Vestafor, Aarhus Jazz, Babel Sound and (s)Nodi festivals; their self-titled first album was released on 13 March 2026. Wooli draws on East Asian traditional and folk music and on the openness of free improvisation, approaching tradition not as a fixed object but as something still in motion. The music is built in real time — through listening, dialogue, and a shared curiosity for sound.

Elena Kakaliagou — horn

Elena Kakaliagou (GR/AT) has built her own language on the French horn — lyrical and melancholic, at times fierce, at times nearly still. Classically trained in Athens, Graz and at the Sibelius Academy, she has been based in Berlin since 2010. Her solo work moves between tonality and noise, between song and percussive sound; microtonality is native to her, and she plays with a warm tone and a sense of timing entirely her own. She is a member of Zinc & Copper and zeitkratzer, and co-founder of the Rank Ensemble, the trio Para and the duo Nabelóse. Her listening extends in every direction — contemporary composition, free improvisation, folk, jazz — with no real interest in the borders between them.