B 6 KULTUR // HILDENER JAZZTAGE 2005:
… Matthias Broede has successfully developed a modern language all its own on this instrument (the harmonica), a language that does not wallow in memories but instead points the way to the future …
Barbara Steingiesser


WDR JAZZRADIO // MARCH 2005:
Cologne resident Matthias Broede blows the chromatic harmonica with such virtuosity, and in such a flexible variety of styles, that there is truly no need to worry about the era to come after Toots Thielemans.
Günther Huesmann


BADISCHE NEUESTE NACHRICHTEN KARLSRUHE // FEBRUARY 2004:
… with his performance at the Jazzclub and his new CD, ‘Strange Beauty of The World’, Broede demonstrated that he ranks among the eminent players of this instrument in contemporary European jazz …
Peter Bastian


FONOFORUM // OCTOBER 2003:
… Matthias Broede of Cologne now puts it (the harmonica) in a context that is not exactly everyday. In a drummerless trio, at times it is reminiscent of a soprano saxophone of the David Liebman school. In interplay with guitar and double bass, it takes over folklore-inspired lines and can be relied upon for unconventional sounds …
klm


BERGISCHE ZEIT // FEBRUARY 2003:
… In just a few moments’ time, Matthias Broede, Volker Heinze and Ralph Beerkircher succeed in generating an enormously dense mood, a mood that makes the listener forget time and space.
Frank Becker


RHEINISCHE POST DÜSSELDORF // APRIL 2002:
… and the result is that the three musicians, with a few instruments and several electronic effects, generate an astonishingly wide-ranging assortment of auditory impressions …
Srdan Keko