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Releases

As of March 8:

The Alina Dalsegno Trio plays Jazz: Encounters at the Edge of Time (The Un-Real Book Outtakes Vol. 1)

On this EP, the trio led by Alina Dalsegno on bass explores the similarities between blues and swing. Together with pianist Jan Kosyk and drummer Joachim Jurenz, they jazz up four songs by the Siberian singer-songwriter. The result is a work from the deepest Siberian soul paired with the lightness of 1920s swing in English and Russian. Anyone who loves jazz standards will love this gem.

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The Alina Dalsegno Trio plays Jazz: Of Tenets on the Emceed Guitar (The Un-Real Book Outtakes Vol. 2)

Volume 2 of the Jazz album was released on August 30, 2025 at Blue Note Dresden.

Past concerts

別府（日本）のヒライマサヤ(Vo.Gt.)とドレスデン（ドイツ）のヤン・コシク(Vo.Pf.)が合体して別府パンクキャッツを結成。英語、日本語、ドイツ語で政治的な歌とロマンチックな歌が爆発的に混ざり合った作品。

ギターとピアノの伴奏と表現力豊かな声でアレックスがクマの財産を没収した理由、ナチスを家から追い出す方法、国境よりも人間が大切である理由を表明します。
そして、2人は「私のペン」であなたの耳に奇妙なメロディーを書き綴り、溶けたアイスクリームについて音楽的な会話を交わします。
それはまるで、明け方のコンビニの店先、ビールを飲みながら朝日を浴びて座っているかのようです。

Utopias Tour 2026

This summer, Hirai Masaya is coming to Germany for the first time. Reason enough to go on a short tour of eastern Germany and treat you to some folk-jazz-punk-rock.

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crowdfunding

We need your support to cover our expenses! On the one hand, there are Masaya’s flight costs, mobile internet, the train tickets, and the costs of printing flyers and posters; on the other hand, our wonderful graphics were designed by the Australian artist Boz, which also incurred some costs.

As a thank you, we’ve prepared lots of cool stuff for you: something for good karma or a thank you from the universe. There are postcards by Jan and drawings by Hirai Masaya. There are CDs and cassettes, including our Beppu Punk Cats album, the Klavierpunk album and CDs by Masaya. We have my book *Das Handbuch zur Auswahl* and *Wohnzimmerkonzerte*.

In the form below, you can easily choose a thank-you gift and select your preferred payment method. Thank you very much, see you at the gigs!

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Releases

As of April 11:

Beppu
Punk
Cats

Hirai Masaya (Japan) and Jan Kosyk (Germany) merge together to form the Beppu Punk Cats. An explosive mixture of political content and emotional songs in English, Japanese and German.

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Impressions

Now Toti recently wrote to me – with a soundtrack attached – and the request to “play something to it”. So I did, played several ideas with piano and Wurlitzer on it and sent it all to him. With the addition of a bass track by Philip Omlor, the song Flaschenpfand was rounded off. And because every good song needs a good video, we shot a few takes in Dresden and Toti in Braunschweig. This is how the following video came into being, in full compliance with the corona ordinance, and will now remain forever in the collective memory of posterity.

Interactive music theatre? No, we’re not doing anything digital. It will be an acoustically analogue musical experience in which the audience decides which topics will be worked on. And so that it doesn’t get boring between the choice of topics, you can guess, vote and – of course – sing along.

Recordings

During the online festival Aussitzen Extended in 2022

From the scheune Blechschloss in 2022 – whole programm

Advenster, 2 December 2021

Too much punk for songwriting, too much jazz for punk, and too much songwriting for jazz. It’s always about utopias and a huge dose of political education. Political what?

Well, so that you know what a Nazi in the house has to do with illegal parking, why Alex expropriates the bear, what squatting has to do with the inner punk, and why disaster control dances on the ruins of the German Armed Forces. Finally, we treat ourselves to a Sterni in the late-night shop and talk about the utopias of a realist.

Since 2018, I have been on stage alone with piano and voice. With almost forgotten cover songs and a constantly growing repertoire of my own compositions, I tell you what will make the world a better place.

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Band biography

Martha Laux has been performing as a solo artist for several years, most recently with her programme “Laux und Leise”. She combined her texts with voice, piano and loop station to create an exciting story for the audience.

Jan Kosyk has been playing the piano in various jazz and folk formations for over 15 years and has acquired a wide range of improvisation possibilities and accompaniment techniques.

The duo came together in March 2017 for their first rehearsals in the project “Martha Laux und der bunte Hund” (Martha Laux and the Colourful Dog) and recorded their first CD “Wer will sagen, sie sei von Anfang an gewesen” (Who wants to say she was there from the beginning) just two months later. The two filled the summer with street music, festivals and a first tour through Thuringia, Brandenburg and Saxony. Already at the end of October they started their second tour “Auf die gemütliche Tour” through the living rooms and cafés of Berlin, Magdeburg, Leipzig and Erfurt.

By November 2017, Martha Laux and the colourful dog had shared their view of the world with audiences at a dozen street music performances and twenty concerts and developed their ninety-minute programme “Zwischen Kopf und Bauch” (Between Head and Tummy).

In April 2018, the two decided to go their separate ways musically and stopped actively working on the project. Nevertheless, several performances followed in the summer in Haldensleben, Leipzig, Bad Belzig, at the adriAkustik and in Ústí nad Labem for the Czech-German Culture Days.

Jan Kosyk developed his own solo programme “Utopien eines Realisten” (Utopias of a Realist) in the summer of 2018, linking musically to his political work. Martha Laux is currently in the process of writing a new solo programme. Despite or perhaps because of their own paths, they continue to keep in touch and always find each other on stage.

Songbook

Frischer Aspik (2011)

TIDAL

Deezer

Apple Music

Nachts bei Don Bosco (2012)

Soundcloud

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Aquilibrium (2013)

The album is still unreleased. The instruments and vocals were mostly recorded in 2013, since then the recordings have been remixed in the studio from time to time. The latest status is from 2018. I am currently looking into whether a release is (still) possible.