Following the internationally acclaimed debut album Lumumba, Intakt Records will release the second CD The Default by Ydivide in 2025. Many important drummers are great band leaders. With their overview, sense of rhythm and form, they provide guidance for the band. During his many years of artistic activity as a drummer in various for-mations, Clemens Kuratle has developed an individual lan-guage as a composer and drummer. He is considered one of the most original drummers of the younger generation, and one of his greatest achievements is the initiation of and con-tinuous work with the band Ydivide, a British-Swiss collab-oration. This quintet brings together the young British jazz scene with saxophonist Dee Byrne, guitarist Chris Guilfoyle, Elliot Galvin on piano, the outstanding Swiss bassist Lukas Traxler and mastermind Clemens Kuratle. Clemens Kuratle and Ydivide have extraordinary musical and technical skills and have developed their very own musical language over the years. Ydivide has something to say: the music is driven by the urgent questions and conflicts that this generation, and the next, have to face. The compositions from the pen of Kuratle reflect political and social issues.

Cover art and graphic design: Jonas Schoder
Liner notes: Christoph Wagner
Photo: Quentin Yorke

All compositions by Clemens Kuratle. Recorded on January 20–21, 2024
at Loft, Köln, Germany by Christian Heck. Mixed on March 26, 2024 in
London by Alex Bonney. Mastered on October 27, 2024 at Control Room,
Berlin by Martin Ruch.
Produced by Clemens Kuratle and Intakt Records. Published by Intakt Records