Take a trip into cosmic space with guitarist and composer Veda Bartringer, who presents ‘Deep Space Adventure’. Joined by some of Luxembourg’s most acclaimed young musicians, this is not your usual guitar jazz album; lovers of tradition-rooted contemporary projects, rejoice, and buckle up!

From Saxophonist and European Big Band Contest 2022 Best Soloist winner Julien Cuvelier and Belgian rising star drummer Maxime Magotteaux to bassist Boris Schmidt who previously graced the stage next to Randy Brecker, Eef Albers, and Avi Avital, all of Bartringer’s band members started playing music when their ages were in the single digits, and their musicianship is incontestable.  

Bartringer, in her own right, shows herself to not only be a gifted guitarist, but also a creative and mindful composer and bandleader, leaving lots of space for her band members to shine. From a beautiful bass solo on Search For Light, the album’s first full-length track after opener Lift Off, Bartringer’s own solo work doesn’t come to the fore until the third track on ‘Deep Space Adventure’, No Edge in the Sky. Providing, indeed, lots of space for an atmospheric blend of contemporary jazz that takes the listener from launch into orbit, the group’s sophomore offering is structured the way a dream journey into astral territories would likely go. 

While ‘Deep Space Adventure’ is by no means a typical jazz guitar record, the bandleader has found subtle ways to make her mark and set the tone throughout her compositions. There is a feminine sensitivity previously uncommon to the genre, perhaps best explained by her studies in lyrical singing and classical guitar and piano, encompassing many different directions and aspects of this journey around the cosmos. 

Veda Bartringer took an interest in music at a very early age. At the age of 8, she started learning the piano and only a few years after, she discovered the guitar. At 16, she started lessons in classical singing. These 3 instruments keep inspiring her to this day. At 17, she discovered the world of jazz. In Luxembourg, she took lessons with David Laborier, Jacque Pirotton, Pit Dahm, Pol Belardi and Erik Teuwens.

In 2017, she was accepted to the Royal Conservatory of Brussels to study Jazz Guitar. In 2022 she completed the Bachelor degree and in 2022, she finished the master’s degree in the same conservatory. During her 5 years of study, she had the chance to learn from the guitarists Victor Da Costa and Fabien Degryse and other musicians like Fabrice Alleman, Manu Hermia, Pete Churchill and Arnould Massart. The guitarist was introduced to different music cultures, such as Brazilian music, Indian music, but also fusion and funk music. She participates in various different Luxembourgish and Belgian projects, such as her duo with Joel Rabesolo, the project Lumens but also her own solo project.

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