My aLBUM "AMANET"

In June 2024, I released my debut album ‘AMANET’ via Royal Street Records . 

It was a dream come true for me in many ways. I was lucky enough to work with great musicians, some of them very good friends. They have brought my vision to life with their talent, experience and musicality. I put a lot of love and passion into the music and the whole process of creating the album. I pushed myself to my limits at times, which I have exceeded with the help of these friends and great colleagues. I am very happy that through the music of the album I can share with you a quintessence of myself and what characterises me musically.

AMANET is now alive and can be passed on! 

Have fun and enjoy listening! I appreciate your feedback and support. Gert

Onlinestore - Royal Street Records:

 https://shop.royalstreetrecords.com/produkt/gert-kapo-amanet/

The album has received very positive feedback in the press, here are a few press comments:

  ‘...a captivating album that inspires with a clever range between Balkan rhythms and piano jazz appeal along with a great sound’

Lowbeats.de 16.06.'24, Claus Dick 

 ‘Gert Kapo's debut album is much more than the debut of a jazz pianist. Sometimes Kapo plays briskly, sometimes cool and relaxed, sometimes extremely elegantly, but he always displays a carefree playfulness. There is nothing hectic here, and it is precisely this casual elegance that is the album's strength’ 

Eclipsed Magazine 07-08/24

What Gert Kapo has recorded on his solo debut album ‘Amanet’ sounds pretty exciting. The pianist and composer comes from Albania, which fortunately can also be heard on this recording. Albanian folk songs, but also a Syrian love song and a lot of self-composed music can be heard on this recording. And also that Kapo loves classical, rock, fusion and Brazilian music. With guitarist Nenad Gajin, percussionist Rhani Krija and alto saxophonist Hayden Chisholm, Kapo has gathered super musicians around him to play his always surprising-sounding jazz. A real discovery, this man. 

Virgin Jazz Face 30.06.'24 Christoph Giese

One song after the other on ‘Amanet’ carefully winds its way through the cautious, yet accurately arranged instrumentation, which also contains moving moments of jazz fusion, and which occasionally even plays and sings the folkloristic idea of Albanian music and culture to the fore. The tempo is more of a carrying and self-contained one, so that with ‘Amanet’ Gert Kapo succeeds in creating an album that is particularly enchanting with its quiet, gentle and organic, yet at the same time quite intense tones, just as a really well thought-out piece of contemporary music should be, regardless of its stylistic colour - a beautiful thing.

Soultrainonline.de 21.06.'24 Holger S. Jansen