For her new album Plateaux, Clara Haberkamp chooses to work with infinitely subtle, high-caliber performers from a slightly older generation: bassist Oliver Potratz is one of the most sought-after instrumentalists in Germany; Jarle Vespestad has many years of experience with Farmers Market and Tord Gustavsen's trio. Each of them has released over 100 albums.

Music and life. Art, no matter in which form, is always most authentic when it reflects life. Not only a certain aspect of life, but rather life with its enticing but equally merciless and often quite paradox diversity. The young Berlin based pianist Clara Haberkamp is alive. This sounds so basic and trivial, that it actually shouldn’t be mentioned here at all. But for Clara Haberkamp there is no separation between her life and music. She doesn’t postulate the proverbial “living for her music” and doesn’t play music to live, but life and music are simply one to her, and the new CD makes this very clear.