Album MINOR FLAW by trumpeter Maj Kavšek

The first release of this year from the Jazz Cerkno Records label presents recordings by trumpeter Maj Kavšek’s quartet, made during the Jazz Incubator residency at last year’s festival. Following his debut Galaterna (Aut Records, 2024), MINOR FLAW marks the trumpeter’s second album. Despite his young age (born in 2000), Kavšek has already performed at prominent festivals such as Jazz Festival Ljubljana, Zvončki in trobentice, Fête de la Musique Berlin and Skopje Jazz Festival. He has also collaborated with world-renowned musicians including Nate Wooley, Chris Pitsiokos, Philipp Gropper, Ralph Alessi, Greg Cohen, Bram De Looze or Felix Henkelhausen. In 2019, he won first prize at the TEMSIG national competition for young musicians with the band The Mood Lab Quintet. He has performed several times with the RTV Slovenia Big Band, both as a soloist and as a substitute. In 2023, he was invited to collaborate with the Euroradio Jazz Orchestra in Lithuania and the FAME’s Institute Orchestra in North Macedonia.

For his residency in Cerkno, Kavšek assembled a quartet of musicians from Slovenia and Germany and presented his conceptual project L.O.S.T. The project consists of Kavšek’s compositions, through which the musicians explore the limits of sound perception, focusing on everyday environments and subtle sonic deviations within a given sound texture. His compositions encourage reflection on how we perceive the world around us, how information influences our place in society, and how sound can expand our consciousness and enable us to experience moments of complete sonic connection. The album MINOR FLAW features a collection of compositions developed during the Cerkno residency, inspired by the sounds, noises, melodies, and rhythms of everyday environments. The project explores the lower threshold of sonic perception, capturing subtle deviations and textures that emerge within dense soundscapes and momentarily disrupt their continuity. Rather than treating these moments as flaws, the music embraces them as authentic gestures through which it breathes and reveals its human dimension. The album was released on CD and digital streaming platforms.