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.

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News:

October and November are busy. Punkt.Vrt.Plastik, solo, Lillinger’s Open Form for Society, To Pianos, and more. Details are in the agenda.

We have just recorded second album with my octet at De Bijloke, Gent. The repertoire is written on poems of Robert Frost. The record will be out in March 2020 on Clean Feed Records.

Album “Swim” (Terrie Ex/ Kaja Draksler), recorded live at Cafe Oto, will be released coming February on Terp records

Also soon: the release of Czajka & Puchacz’s debut album on Slovenian label Klopotec.

Past April, Christian Lillinger's new large ensemble project Open Form For Society has been released on Lillinger’s own label, Plaist. The project will have a live debut at Donnauschingen in October 2019.

Here is recent interview with Tomaž Grom for Centralala.