Michael Kaeshammer - LIVE 2025

Singer-songwriter-pianist Michael Kaeshammer is on his way from Vancouver Island in British Columbia to conquer his old homeland after decades of great success around the globe with his naturally powerful live performance and the new album "Turn It Up". This is Germany, in whose southwest corner he amazed and enthralled audiences as a teenage piano prodigy at the age of 16. Countless concert tours across the American continent, other continents and even regularly through China shaped the precocious pianist into a stylistic universalist, composer and vocal artist.

This can be heard on his new album "Turn It Up", which will be released in February 2023. Michael is less concerned with style than ever before. He is the medium. Music flows through his hands into the piano, through his seductive voice into the microphone and inspires his fellow musicians. These are Matt Chamberlain (drums), who has played with John Mayer, Bob Dylan and Elton John, David Piltch, who has supported Solomon Burke, Bonnie Raitt and kd Lang with his bass, as well as Michael's Toronto horn section. In addition to the title track, highlights include the pop-jazz crossover song "Never Knew What Love Was", the rousing rocker "Sweepin' The Floor", the emotional ballad "One More Time" and a surprisingly fresh version of the Queen classic "Crazy Little Thing Called Love".

"When I play," says Michael, "I react to what I hear and then let the music decide where the journey should go." Ultimately, he says, it's the twelve notes on which everything is based. It's impossible to escape the energy that arises with Michael at the center of his music. It comes with a vengeance. He has used the time of the pandemic to concentrate on recording perhaps his most exciting and tightest album with his great band at his home on the edge of the Canadian rainforest. Here comes the British-Columbian Invasion. Turn It Up!