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MAY
Sonore 18/5/2012 Cultural Centre of Novi Sad, club "Tribina Mladih", Novi Sad (Serbia) 19/5/2012 Festival Ring Ring, Culture Centre Rex, Belgrade (Serbia) 20/5/2012 Flottmann-Hallen, Herne (Germany) 21/5/2012 Chaos of the Haunted Spire, Muziekcentrum Trix, Antwerp (Belgium) 22/5/2012 Jazz at Martinschlöss, Vienna (Austria) 23/5/2012 Club der Jazzfreunde, Hofheim (Germany) 24/5/2012 Jazzit Musik Club, Salzburg (Austria) 25/5/2012 Pannonica, Nantes (France) 27/5/2012 Ljud, Aarhus (Denmark)
Dave Douglas "Keystone" 17/5/2012 12 Ciclo de Jazz, Teatro Bretón, Logroño (Spain) 19/5/2012 15 Festival de Jazz de la Universidad de Sevilla, Teatro Alameda, Sevilla (Spain) Atomic 22 and 23/5/2012 Cova del Drac/ Jazzroom (Barcelona) 25/5/2012 Museo Picasso Málaga (Spain)
JUNE Alborada: tribute to Ramón Montoya 2/6/2012 Bozar (Palais des Beaux Arts), Instituto Cervantes Brussels (Belgium)
JULY Eyvind Kang & Jessika Kenney "Sound Actions" 8/7/2012 Spain Made to Break 19/7/2012 A l'Arme! Festival, Berlin (Germany) 20/7/2012 Nickelsdorf (Austria) Marc Ribot y Los Cubanos Postizos 20/7/2012 47 Heineken Jazzaldia, Donostia (Spain)
AUGUST Side A 24/8/2012 Jazzfestival Saalfelden (Austria)
SEPTEMBER Lean Left 18/9/2012 Dublin (Ireland) 19/9/2012 Cafe Oto, London (Great Britain) 20/9/2012 Cerkno (Slovenia) 21/9/2012 Jazzit Musik Club, Salzburg (Austria) 22/9/2012 Area Sismica, Forli (Italy)
OCTOBER Uri Caine with Barbara Walker "Bedrock" 2/10/2012 Spain
Marc Ribot solo 7/10/2012 Spain 10/10/2012 Spain
Platform 1 23/10/2012 Oslo 25/10/2012 Vooruit, Gent (Belgium)
NOVEMBER Chicago Tentet + 1 4/11/2012 Giulianova (Italy) 8/11/2012 Kaunas (Lithuania) 11/11/2012 Strasburg (France) Double Tandem = Vandermark, Baars and Nilssen-Love 14/11/2012 Kongsberg (Norway)
APRIL 2013 Atomic 27/4/2013 Spain
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El Infierno Musical
CHRISTOF KURZMANN, vocals, electronics, alto saxophone, electric guitar. KEN VANDERMARK, tenor saxophone, bass clarinet, clarinet. EVA REITER, viola da gamba, contrabass recorder, dan bao, CLAYTON THOMAS, bass. MARTIN BRANDLMAYR, drums, vibraphone.
Tuesday 15th May 2012 Centro Cultural del Matadero, Huesca (Spain) http://soundcloud.com/mikrotonrecs/sets/el-infierno-musical-el/
"By inevitable coincidence, a street vendor in Buenos Aires became an instrument of providence, when he compelled attention of Christof Kurzmann, sitting outside a coffeehouse. His merchandise were small books of Hispanic writers, and the chosen one that ended up in the buyer's pocket some six years ago was a collection of poems by Argentinean poet Alejandra Pizarnik. Her works abound with music and sounds or absence of it, appreciating silence. For Kurzmann, this served as a sufficient reason to dive into her writings, which resulted in releasing El Infierno Musical: a tribute to Alejandra Pizarnik in the fall of 2011. In accordance with the name of her book, inspired by a painting by Hieronymus Bosch, the eponymous disc uses The Garden of Earthly Delights on its cover. El Infierno Musical as a quintet started back in 2008 thanks to a wild card given to Kurzmann as a birthday present by the organizers of Music Unlimited festival in Wels, Austria, which hosted its official premiere. When Kurzmann was looking for musicians to join his project, the first invited was Martin Brandlmayr, an unmistakeable drummer and percussionist, based in Vienna. Be it in duo with Nicolas Bussmann (Kapital Band 1) or with another drummer Burkhard Beins in the influential international group Polwechsel, or in yet other renowned bands such as Radian, Trapist and Autistic Daughters, you'll recognize him playing at any rate. Inconspicuous, yet amazingly complex repetitive rhythms in rather low dynamics but rich scale belong to his characteristic style of play, which holds also for El Infierno Musical. The next member is saxophonist, clarinettist and composer Ken Vandermark, markedly renowned especially in free jazz circles. He is one of the most active free jazz and free impro players today. Past groups of significance include the Vandermark 5, Powerhouse Sound, DKV Trio, the Territory Band, AALY, the Vandermark Quartet, FME, and School Days. Currently, the majority of his work as a composer and improviser has been developed in Made To Break (in which Kurzmann appears as his sideman), Side A, Platform 1, Free Fall, and the Resonance Ensemble. In addition, he works on a regular basis with the total improvisation units Sonore, the Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet, separate duos with the percussionists Paal Nilssen-Love and Tim Daisy, Lean Left, iTi, and Fire Room. Each year brings additional new projects and collaborations, which expand the range of his work of which El Infierno Musical is an outstanding example. Eva Reiter is without doubt one of the most active and diverse interpreters in Austria. The recorder and viola da gamba player is also very active as a composer, focusing especially on the field of contemporary music. Characteristic for Eva Reiter's compositional work of recent years is the exploration of the fine line between acoustic and electronic music. Awarded as a composer with the "publicity prize" of the SKE, promotional prize of the City of Vienna in 2008, the Queen Marie José International Composition Prize 2008 and many other promotions. Selected works for the Rostrum of Composers (IRC) 2009. Eva Reiter's compositions were performed at international festivals such as Transit/Leuven, Ars Musica in Brussels, ISCM World New Music Festival 2006/Stuttgart, generator and Wien Modern/Vienna Konzerthaus and others. She regularly performs at renowned festivals of classical and contemporary music. Currently, numerous concerts as a soloist and performances with various baroque orchestras (including De Nederlandse Bachvereenigung), Ensemble Mikado, Le Badinage, Unidas and ensembles for contemporary music (Ictus, Klangforum Wien, Trio Elastic3, Duo BAND and others). Inspired by the sound, velocity and social movements of jazz, Clayton Thomas has dedicated his musical life to finding a personal truth that links his own cultural life as a white Australian, with the radical, far reaching pursuits found within the creative music. What he can't find as a bass player, he searches for in the organisation of unreasonably large ensembles as 24 bodies Splitter Orchester. Thoughtful and virtuosic prepared double bass playing has taken Europe by storm since moving there from Sydney in 2007 - part groove cannon, part kinetic sculpture. Clayton Thomas plays key role in many other projects like power trio Ames Room or Anthony Pateras's quintet Thymolphtalein. Christof Kurzmann is a musician and composer who expresses himself mainly with a laptop, clarinet and voice, subtly outspread between electro pop and improvisation. His recordings include discs released on his own label Charhizma (e.g. Dafeldecker/Kurzmann/Fennesz) as well as on many other important labels, such as Potlatch (The Big Misunderstanding Between Hertz and Megahertz with John Butcher), Erstwhile Records (Schnee with Burkhard Stangl or Aso with Ami Yoshida), Staubgold (The Magic ID's I'm So Awake / Sleepless I Feel), Mikroton (Hammeriver), Musica Genera, Syntactic, Morr etc. He has already proven how good he is in composing samples instead of notations (e.g. Neuschnee, I'm So Awake / Sleepless I Feel), but this time he shows a breathtaking mastery. Squidco.com |
Sonore
KEN VANDERMARK, tenor/baritone sax, b-flat clarinet. MATS GUSTAFSSON, tenor/baritone sax. PETER BRÖTZMANN, alto/tenor sax, a-clarinet/tarogato.
18/5/2012 Cultural Centre of Novi Sad, club "Tribina Mladih", Novi Sad (Serbia) 19/5/2012 Festival Ring Ring, Culture Centre Rex, Belgrade (Serbia) 20/5/2012 Flottmann-Hallen, Herne (Germany) 21/5/2012 Chaos of the Haunted Spire, Muziekcentrum Trix, Antwerp (Belgium) 22/5/2012 Jazz at Martinschlöss, Vienna (Austria) 23/5/2012 Club der Jazzfreunde, Hofheim (Germany) 24/5/2012 Jazzit Musik Club, Salzburg (Austria) 25/5/2012 Pannonica, Nantes (France) 27/5/2012 Ljud, Aarhus (Denmark)
http://www.peterbroetzmann.com/
Peter Brötzmann, Mats Gustafsson, and Ken Vandermark are three of the leading voices in contemporary improvised music. Together they have formed SONORE, a reed trio organized to investigate the melodic, rhythmic, and textural possibilities of freely improvised music. Working together in the PETER BRÖTZMANN CHICAGO TENTET since 1998, these musicians first performed in a trio formation during the June, 2002 North American tour with the TENTET for a radio broadcast on CKUT in Montreal. It was clear from that first concert that this line-up was musically unique. They worked together again that fall, performing and recording during a festival organized by Gustafsson in Ystad, Sweden. Both of these initial encounters provided a fascinating starting ground for the trio's instrumental combinations and communication, but it was during their first tour of Europe in October 2003 that the group's identity and approach fully developed. Unlike the traditional jazz saxophone quartet, this group doesn't attempt to replicate a classical string ensemble by placing the musicians in hierarchical roles.In SONORE, solos, duos, and trios built from various reed combinations shift and develop through spontaneous musical requirements. The group explores sonic textures, melodies, integrated rhythmic statements, or whatever other musical techniques seem to inspire them and the music during their improvised performances. SONORE's music is intense, beautiful, introspective, cutting-edge, and could be played by no one else.
Press about last cd "Oto" http://dustedmagazine.com/reviews/7067 http://freejazz-stef.blogspot.com.es/2012/02/days-of-vandermark-brotzmann.html |
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