. . . it would be easy to mistakenly assume that parts of improvisations like “Moon” and “Jasmine” were written out. The title track actually was (it’s one of Flick’s), yet the playing is so in character with the composition that the dividing line between reading and improvising all but disappears. . . .There also are some standards in the mix, two of which are sung by Liebowitz. She does a lovely job with the Harry Warren/Al Dubin chestnut “September In the Rain” (which is introduced by a playful rendition of Billy Bauer’s “Marionette”). But it’s her powerfully emotional rendering of “You Don’t Know What Love Is” that really makes the album.
—J.D. Considine, Editor's Pick, November 2018, Downbeat 

A glorious album, exceptionally fascinating, pensive and reflectively poetic . . .
—Ken Cheetham, jazzviews.net

Here’s a very unusual jazz CD. . . . And they are BRILLIANT. . . . It is both a sensual and an intellectual experience. In a strange way, they almost make you feel as if you were looking into their souls or psyches as they play. . . . Their sense of unity is so complete that you’d think they had been playing together for years rather than sporadically. . . . Overall, this is a marvelous recording, and I urge you to listen to it.
—Lynn René Bailey, artmusiclounge.wordpress.com

MALITA-MALIKA was chosen by Hrayr Attarian in his list as one of Top Ten Jazz Recordings in the 2018 NPR JAZZ CRITICS POLL as well as the JAZZ JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION “Best of Jazz 2018” POLL

BIRGITTA FLICK is a Berlin-based improviser and composer who is particularly interested in the interplay between notation and improvisation and in exploring methods for collaborative creating. Educated at Jazz-Institut Berlin at UdK/HfM “Hanns Eisler”, the Royal College of Music in Stockholm and through private studies with Connie Crothers in New York City, she works internationally with her own groups in Berlin, Stockholm, Vienna and New York City and through composition collaborations with ensembles such as the Stockholm-based vocal ensemble VoNo and the youth choir of Berlin’s Staatsoper. Her work is documented through an extensive discography, a choir edition by Gehrmans Musikförlag in the series #swedishchoralmusic and has amongst others received support by the Berlin senate or the German JazzBaltica Förderpreis. In 2025, she was awarded the German Jazz Prize in the category “Composition/Arrangement of the Year. She holds a doctoral degree in artistic research from the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.

Birgitta Flick—Long Bio

CAROL LIEBOWITZ brings a uniquely expressive and personal sound to the jazz and free improvisation scene. After studying classical repertoire through college, she turned her focus entirely to improvisation, studying with celebrated pianist Connie Crothers. She has been part of New York’s creative music community since the ’90s and has toured Europe frequently over the past decade. She has several highly-regarded albums on Line Art and Leo Records. Her 2024 quartet release Ephemeris—on the Danish Marsken label with Louise Dam Eckardt Jensen, Tom Blancarte and John Bernard Wagner—was called “a blissed-out masterstroke of 21st century improvised music” by The New York City Jazz Record. Another NYCJR review described her trio date with Adam Lane and Andrew Drury, Blue Shift, as “a feast of dynamics and color,” further remarking “Liebowitz’s pianism knows no boundaries.” Carol’s latest album, a duo with Nick Lyons titled The Inner Senses, was released on Steeplechase Records in April 2025. Hrayr Attarian of the Free Jazz Collective calls it "a superb example of synergistic creativity.” Carol lives in NYC.

Carol Liebowitz—Long Bio

CONTACT

Carol Liebowitz
carol@carolliebowitz.com
carolliebowitz.com
+1 (646) 279-4064

Birgitta Flick
mail@birgittaflick.com
birgittaflick.com
+49 178 863 88 87